2. Open Everywhere
The What, Why, Who and How of
Finding & Adopting High Quality
Open Educational Resources
Presentation: adapted from Jean Runyon & James Glapa-Grossklage cc-by license
Photo: Derivative work of photo by Dominic Alves cc-by license
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3. Welcome
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Dr. Donna Gaudet
Math Chair/Faculty Member
Scottsdale Community College
Dr. Lisa Young
Director – Center for Teaching/Learning
Scottsdale Community College
8. Impact on Students
• 65% choose NOT to buy
college textbook due to cost
• 94% report concern that
grades affected due to this
choice
• 48% take fewer classes or
different classes based on
cost of textbooks.
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“Fixing the Broken Textbook Market: How Students Respond to High Textbook Costs and Demand
Alternatives.” Student PIRGS, January 2014
9. Solution:
Open Educational Resources
• Online access to materials on first
day of class
• Free online, low-cost
print options
• Faculty can adapt for students
Licensed for re-use by
OpenSourceWay
10. Test your OER Knowledge (2)
What are OERs?
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12. Open Educational Resources
(OER)
Hewlett Foundation
– “Teaching, learning, and research resources
that reside in the public domain or have been
released under an intellectual property
license that permits their free use and
repurposing by others.”
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Source: http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education/open-educational-resources
13. The 4R’s of OER
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This material is based on original writing by David Wiley, which was published freely under a Creative Commons
Attribution license at: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1123
14. Reuse
Depictions of individual species of gastropods – referenced on over 7000 Wikimedia pages
Source: http://blogs.plos.org/blog/2012/10/23/reusing-revising-remixing-and-redistributing-research/ cc-by
15. Revise
Revision of number of
frog species from 4 – 6
Source: http://blogs.plos.org/blog/2012/10/23/reusing-revising-remixing-and-redistributing-research/ cc-by
16. Revise
Part A has been converted
to SVG and from there
adapted to
Czech, German, Spanish, I
ndonesian, Polish, Portug
uese, Romanian, and
Ukrainian.
Source: http://blogs.plos.org/blog/2012/10/23/reusing-revising-remixing-and-redistributing-research/ cc-by
19. Redistribute
Photo by A. Diez Herrero - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License http://www.flickr.com/photos/21572939@N03
20. OERs Include:
• “Full courses
• Course Materials
• Modules
• Textbooks
• Streaming Videos
• Tests
• Software
• Any other tools, materials or techniques used to
support access to knowledge.”
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Source: http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education/open-educational-resources
21. Characteristics of OER
• Digital
– Easily modified
– free distribution
• Open License
– Re-usable & Customizable
• Low cost
– Lowers barriers to education
Labeled for reuse by MrKCoolsPhotostream
22. Test your OER Knowledge (3)
OER Quality
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24. OER & Quality
• Copyright status does not guarantee
quality
• There are good/bad OER and good/bad
publisher copyright materials
• Interested parties should verify quality of
adopted resources
• OERs can be as accurate or more (Nature)
• Pretty does not mean quality
• Only quality metric that counts is student
learning
This material is based on original writing by David Wiley, which was published freely under a Creative Commons
Attribution license at: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/2947
Image: Mark A. Philbrick – CC BY
26. Test your OER Knowledge (4)
Reasons for using OER
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27. Why do Faculty use OER?
The huge royalties and kickbacks they receive
for their work including name recognition and
fame
A passion to make a financial difference in the
lives of their students and potentially impact
student success
