OER: Relieving the Pressure

Incredible Financial Pressure

Incredible Financial Pressure

Tuition Changes...

Involve the State Legislature, the State Board of Regents

Tuition Changes...

Involve the State Legislature, the State Board of Regents

Extremely complex politically

$1200

Tuition Textbooks$0

$200$400$600$800

$1,000$1,200$1,400$1,600$1,800

Annual Costs

$1288

$1666

60% Sometimes

23% Regularly

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Textbook Pricing in Context

Provider CostNetflix – 20,000 Movies (and TV) $7.99 / monthHulu Plus – 45,000 TV (and Movies) $7.99 / monthSpotify – 15M Songs $9.99 / month

CourseSmart – 1 Biology Textbook $20.25 / month

Textbook Changes...

Involve individual faculty,sometimes a department

Textbook Changes...

Involve individual faculty,sometimes a department

Relatively straightforward

Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources?

Any kind of teaching materials – textbooks, syllabi, lesson plans,

videos, readings, exams

Open Educational Resources?

1. Free and unfettered access, and2. Free permission to engage in the

“5R activities”

• Make and own copiesRetain• Use in a wide range of

waysReuse• Adapt, modify, and

improveRevise

• Combine two or moreRemix

• Share with othersRedistribute

The 5Rs

http://creativecommons.org/

Over 500M OER in the World

Over half a billion pieces of content use Creative Commons licenses

MOOCs

“You may not take any Online Course offered by Coursera or use any Statement of Accomplishment as part of any tuition-based or for-credit certification or program for any college, university, or other academic institution without the express written permission from Coursera.”

Ok, ok... I admit it!

There’s a bunch of free stuff online

But everybody knows “you get what you pay for”

Two Stories

Developmental Math

From textbook and MyMathLab ($170)

To OER and MyOpenMath ($0 / $3)

% Completing with C or Better

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

48.4%

60.2%

Spring 2011

No OER

Spring2013All OER

“Golden Ratio”

48% / $170 = 0.28% succeeding per dollar

60% / $3 = 20% succeeding per dollar

Associates of Business

“Z Degree”

Graduate without ever buying a textbookWorld’s first “all-OER” degree

% Dropping in Fall 2013

0%

1%

2%

3%

4%

5%

6%

7%

8%

9%

8.2%

2.3%

TraditionalSections

Z DegreeSections

When a student drops, it..

Slows down their graduation

Costs the institution tuition dollars

(Middle and High Schools, Too)

Students using open science textbooks perform the same or better on

state standardized tests

OER Relieves Some of the Pressure

Dramatically improve a range of educational outcomes

Drastically reduce the cost of education

We’re not “on the edge”of this capability.

It’s here now.

can advocate for OER!

If not you, who?

Thank You

http://lumenlearning.com/http://davidwiley.org/

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