A slide deck from a system meeting at the Community College System of New Hampshire

1. The Possibilities Are
OPEN
CCSNH & Open Education
Robin DeRosa
@actualham

2. • A generation ago, public colleges/unis got an average
of 75% of budget from state. Today, it's about 50%.
• 23% of low-income sophomores worked a job
between the hours of 10pm-8am.
• Survey at 10 community colleges (4312 students
responding): 1 in 5 students was hungry, 13% were
homeless.
• 50-80% of sticker price comes from non-tuition costs.
• More than 3 in 4 students attend colleges within 50
miles of their homes. Esp. true for low-income and
minority students.
• The average net price for a year at community college
equals 40% of a low-income family's annual income.
• A year at public university ranges from 16-25% of a
middle-class family's annual income.
• 60% of Americans ages 25-64 don't have a college
credential, but 22% of them earned credits trying to
get one.

3. Image: The Economist

4. 2016

5. • 56% of students pay
more than
$300 per semester &
20% of students pay
more than
$500 per semester
(FL Virtual Campus 2016)
• Students worry more about
paying for books
than they worry about
paying for college. (NEEBO)

6. OER
OpenStax Books

7. Access to Knowledge

8. “students who use
OER perform
significantly better
on the course
throughput rate
than their peers
who use traditional
textbooks, in both
face-to-face and
online courses that
use OER.” (2016)
Throughput Rate
an aggregate of: drops,
withdrawals, C or better rates.

9. “There was a
one-third reduction
in the DFW rate
among minority
and Pell-eligible
students in courses
which switched to
OER.”
Eddie Watson, 2018
U of Georgia
(Publication Pending)

10. Houston CC
• 690 students
• Psychology
• increase in class
grade average
• increase of
average score on
dep’t final exam
• lower course
withdrawal rate

11. Mercy College
• Basic math
• pass rate increased
from 63.6% to 68.9%
with OER
• Reading
• better performance
than peers who
enrolled in same
course using non-OER

12. Northern Virginia CC
• History (online)
• OER adoption was
associated with higher
student performance

13. K12 Science (Suburban)
• propensity score matched groups
• controlled for teacher effect,
socioeconomic status, 8 other potentially
confounding variables
• 1,274 students in each condition
(treatment and control)
In results of the end-of-year
state standardized test there
was a small but statistically
significant difference
between the two groups,
favoring those who utilized
OER.

14. Tidewater CC
54.2% of students who
started in non-z courses
successfully made it
through the course with
a C or better, compared
with 59.8% of students
in the Z courses, for a
difference of 5.6%.

15. Almost all perception studies
show that faculty and
students rate OER as the
same or better quality
as commercial textbooks.

16. Maricopa Community College District
• Spent $160,000 in grants over 5 years
• goal of $5 million in savings for the district's 11
institutions over that time period
$11.5 million saved

17. Salt Lake Community
College
• $5 million + in 4 years of OER in
Gen Ed courses
• students are now saving a little
more than $1 million per semester
• 1,000+ open sections slated for Fall

18. Portland Community College
• more than $1 million saved since starting
OER project in 2015
• faculty organizers are targeting $3 million
more in savings during next 2 years as
project grows

19. Montgomery College
• 3,400 students in 200 zero-cost sections
saved about $340,000 during one
semester
• 96% percent of the learners enrolled on
the first day of classes were still enrolled
at the end of the semester

20. USNH Estimates (by DeRosa)
• UNH: $300K since 2015
• USNH: $1 million + is likely

21. Open Educational Resources Degree Initiative
Achieving the Dream
• 3 year grants to support the creation
of new OER Degree programs
• 38 community colleges in 13 states
• Funding by Hewlett, Gates, Great
Lakes Higher Education Guaranty
Corp., Shelter Hill Foundation,
Speedwell Foundation

22. State of NY
$8 million to cut the
high cost of textbooks
for students at
SUNY and CUNY.

23. U.S. Federal
Government
$5 million for a new program to
support OER in higher education

24. Creative
Commons

25. The 5 R’s of OER
• Retain
• Reuse
• Remix
• Revise
• Redistribute
Gratis/Libre
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License.

26. Access to Knowledge Creation

27. Cost of Books
OER
Access to Knowledge
Access to Knowledge
Creation
Open Pedagogy

28. Higher Ed Innovation
That Works For…
Administrators & Institutions
Faculty & Staff
Parents & Students
Legislators & Public

29. Outcomes data mostly collected from http://openedgroup.org/review.