Opening T&L with OER

Opening Teaching & Learning with
Open Educational Resources
Dr. Richard Sebastian,
Director, OER Degree Initiative
Achieving the Dream

Achieving the Dream | OER Degree Initiative 2Unless otherwise noted, this presentation is licensed CC BY 4.0.
Adapted from OER 101 presentation by David Wiley.
Slides available at
http://www.slideshare.net/oer_degree
Resources available at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xaf8G_cfLASRBwjJ
aIjV4jgQET44DJ2m9YrWlV7wxaw/edit?usp=sharing

Achieving the Dream | OER Degree Initiative 3
What does Motörhead’s Lemmy Killmeister
have to do with the Periodic Table of the
Elements?

 Introduction to open educational resources,
Creative Commons licensing, and the 5Rs
 Why adopt OER?
 How high impact OER adoption can invigorate
teaching and learning through open pedagogy
 Open pedagogy in practice: designing a
renewable assignment
Overview

Activity: Edit a Wikipedia article
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=C7yXx3YbcNI

Introduction

“Open educational resources (OER) are 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 re-purposing by others.
OER include full courses, course materials, modules,
textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any
other tools, materials, or techniques used to support
access to knowledge.”

Creative Commons

OER Degree Initiative
Licensing Guidelines
1 Supplemental Only. Because these
resources are traditionally copyrighted
you cannot make copies of them and can
only link to or embed them.
Consequently, they can disappear at any
time. Any topics covered in these
resources must also be covered in other
“green” or “yellow” resources in your
course.
2 Boutique Licenses. This means any
license other than a Creative Commons
license.
3 Case-by-Case Approval. Talk to your
mentor at Lumen Learning before using
these resources.

Open Licensing Game
http://indstudy1.org/univ/355460515034/Flash/Lesson2/PracticeVersion.html

Activity: Create an openly licensed
work
 Create an original work that
you would like to openly
license and share publicly
 Choose a Creative Commons
license for this work at
https://creativecommons.org/
choose/
 Apply the license to the
chosen work
 Upload to the web to share
publicly

open = free + permissions

Free and unfettered access
Perpetual, irrevocable 5R permissions

The 5Rs

open ≈ free

free is assumed online

Copyright
Forbids
Internet
Enables

retain is fundamental

The 5Rs

openly licensed materials
+ internet

OER
Permits
OER
Permits
Internet
Enables

OER Adoption
Replacing whatever was previously in
the “Required Materials” section of
your course syllabus with OER

High Impact OER Adoption
1. Improves affordability,
2. Improves student success,
3. Invigorates pedagogy, and
4. Does it at scale

Improves
Affordability

Textbook Pricing in Context

One Month Access to… Costs…
Netflix – 20k Movies / TV
Episodes
$7.99 / month
Spotify – 15M Songs $9.99 / month
CourseSmart -- 1 Biology
Textbook
$19.67 / month
Textbook Pricing in Context

Increases Student
Success

There is a direct relationship between
textbook costs and student success
60%+ do not purchase
textbooks at some point due
to cost
35% take fewer courses
due to textbook cost
31% choose not to register
for a course due to textbook
cost
23% regularly go without
textbooks due to cost
14% have dropped a
course due to textbook
cost--2012 Florida Virtual Campus student
survey

Improving Course Throughput
Rates and Open Educational
Resources:
Results from the Z-Degree Program at
Tidewater Community College
Hilton, Fischer, Wiley, and Williams
Accepted, International Review
of Research in Open and
Distance Learning (IRRODL)

Course Throughput Rate
IRRODL (in press)
Drop
Deadline
Withdraw
Deadline
Final
Grade
Students

Commercial vs OER
2.3% | 1.8%
9.9% | 8.1%
68% | 74%
Face to Face
60% | 66%
Drop
Withdraw
C or Better
CTR IRRODL (in press)

Commercial vs OER
4.0% | 1.4%
13.7% | 13.1%
66% | 70%
(Online)
54% | 60%
Drop
Withdraw
C or Better
CTR IRRODL (in press)

openedgroup.org/review

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Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function
Mani, Mullainathan, Shafir, and Zhao
Science (2013)

Study Design
 Participants
Shoppers in a New Jersey mall
Sugarcane farmers in India
 Test cognitive capacity during financial
stress
Thinking through car repairs ($150 / $1500)
Before and after harvest

Results
 Considering a financial decision affects people's
performance on unrelated spatial and reasoning
tasks.
 Lower-income individuals performed poorly if
the repairs were expensive but did fine if the
cost was low.
 Sugarcane farmers performed the same tasks
better after harvest than before.

A Multi-Institutional Study of
the Impact of Open Textbook
Adoption on the Learning
Outcomes of Post-secondary
Students
--Fischer, Hilton, Robinson, and Wiley
Journal of Computing in Higher
Education (2015)

Participants
• 4909 treatment
• 11,818 control
• 50 different undergraduate courses
• 130 teachers
• 10 institutions

Method
Quasi-experimental design with:
Propensity score matched groups
Dependent variables: Completion; C or Better;
Credits Enrolled This Term; Credits Enrolled Next
Term
Independent variable: Textbook condition
3 covariates: age, gender, and race

Journal of Computing in Higher Education (2015)

Credits Taken
Semester OER Users Others Result
Fall 13.29 11.14 t (8101) = 27.81 p < .01
Winter 10.71 9.16 F(1, 6440) = 154.08, p <.01
Journal of Computing in Higher Education (2015)

Invigorates
Pedagogy

Don’t stop at the swap

1. Take advantage of the
additional capabilities (5Rs)

2. Use outcomes as outline

2. Use outcomes as outline
Outcome Assessment Resources License
1. Students will
understand
statistical test…
60 second
explainer video
URL 1
Video 1
2. Students will
analyze data…
Govt data
analysis
URL 1
URL 2
CC BY
3. … … … …

Project Plan Example
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uOCTqN7tVRJCxRWhjuwxztFMGN8VmAeixHjHAgn0Rk
k/edit?usp=sharing

3. Rethink your assessments
“What does open allow me to do?”

Disposable Assignments
 Students hate doing them
 You hate grading them
 Huge wasted opportunity

US undergraduates spend
approximately 40 million hours
doing homework every year.

Renewable Assignments
 Students see value in doing them
 Faculty see value in grading them
 The work is valuable

Achieving the Dream | OER Degree Initiative 59https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsFU3sAlPx4
Blogs vs. Wikis

Murder, Madness, and
Mayhem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_
Mayhem

Project Management for ID

Renewable Assignments
…are enabled by the open nature of OER.

Activity: Design a renewable
assignment
 Divide into groups
 Share focus areas,
subject matter, content
 Group decides on an
content area and a
specific course
objective
 Brainstorm ideas for
creating a renewable
assignment
 Share ideas with group

Do this at scale
OER Degrees

OER-based Degrees
When elective and required
courses adopt OER so a student
can graduate without ever being
asked to buy a textbook

OER-based Degrees

Achieving the Dream’s
 Funded by The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Great Lakes Higher
Education Commission, Speedwell, and Silent Hill

Achieving the Dream’s
 Funding 38 community colleges to create OER
degrees over the next 31 months
 Technical assistance: Lumen Learning
 Research evaluation: SRI Education &
rpkGROUP
 Community of practice: Community College
Consortium for OER (CCCOER)

In summary…

Free and unfettered access
Perpetual, irrevocable 5R
permissions

High Impact OER Adoption:
1. Improves affordability,
2. Improves student success,
3. Invigorates pedagogy, and
4. Does this all at scale

Thank you.
Dr. Richard Sebastian
Director, OER Degree Initiative
Achieving the Dream
rsebastian@achievingthedream.org

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