2014-03-26 libraries & open educational resources (#nercomp14)
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Libraries & Open Educational Resources
Nicole AllenDirector of Open Education,
SPARC
NERCOMP Annual Conference (#NERCOMP14)
March 26, 2014 Providence, RI
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SPARC®, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and
research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.
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Except…
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http://www.springer.com/us/librarians/journal-price-list
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Shouldn’t digital technology solve
this problem?
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Of course there are
workarounds….
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“65% of students said that they had decided against
buying a textbook because it was too expensive… 94% were concerned that doing so would hurt their grade.”
-- 2014 report by U.S. PIRG
http://www.studentpirgs.org/reports/sp/fixing-broken-textbook-market
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We need a better solution.
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OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
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Open Educational Resources (OER) are textbooks and other
academic materials that are published online for everyone to use, adapt
and share freely
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Open LicenseAmends the default “All Rights
Reserved” terms of copyright to “Some Rights Reserved,” granting blanket permission in advance to
everyone to use the material
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Four “R’s” of Open
ReuseReviseRemix
Redistribute(With attribution to the author)
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Open Textbooks
• Free, online, accessible to all students starting day one of the course
• Available in many formats including online, PDF and print ($20-40)
• Openly licensed and adaptable by instructors
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Open Textbook (Example)
• Free online
• Free PDF
• Free ePub
• Print $49.73
• Instructor can adapt and distribute
http://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college-physics
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http://www.bkstr.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&categoryId=9602&langId=-1&productId=4000000000002535744&storeId=216405&productStoreId=216405
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OpenCourseWare
• Teaching and learning materials made available under an open license and presented in a course format
• 200+ institutions
• 30,000 moduleshttp://www.ocwconsortium.org/
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OER Repositories
• Connexions: http://cnx.org • OER Commons:
http://www.oercommons.org • Open Textbook Library:
http://open.umn.edu • Many more…
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Free, immediate
online access to research
articles coupled with
full reuse rights
Open Access Articles
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Barriers for OER
• Awareness of OER as an option• Discovery of appropriate OER• Evaluating the quality of OER• Logistics of adopting OER• Sustainable publishing of OER
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Libraries & OER
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http://guides.library.umass.edu/content.php?pid=87648&sid=4778777
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Open Education Initiative
• Call for applications from faculty for mini-grants
• Two one-hour workshops reviewing OER and other low-cost resources
• Consultation sessions with librarians and library partners
• Adoption of OER & low cost materials
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Open Education Initiative
• 30 faculty participants• 44 courses• $46,000 invested, $700,000+
saved by 5000+ students• Faculty said 4.36 on a scale of 5
“Student performance improved compared to past semesters when a traditional textbook was used”
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Similar Projects
• Temple University• UCLA• Kansas State University• University of Oklahoma• Tacoma Community College• More…
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Digital Coursepack Pilot
• Began to support an iPad project and specific classes/instructors (Fall 2012).
• Expanded to include a variety of campus partners (Copyright Permissions, Bookstore).
• Includes a variety of content types.• Integrated into Moodle (CMS)
environment.• Support services developing around open
content and other alternative course content.
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Digital Coursepack Pilot
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http://open.umn.edu
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http://open.umn.edu
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http://open.umn.edu
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http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2014/feb/osu-open-textbook-initiative-aims-reduce-student-costs-enhance-
learning
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Oregon State University
• Pilot program that facilitates the development of open access textbooks
• Collaboration between OSU Libraries, OSU Press and OSU Extended Campus
• Publication of the first four open textbooks will take place in 2014-2015
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Oregon State University
• Each will be made available in four free digital formats - HTML, PDF, iBooks & ePub
• Print-on-demand through OSU Press
• Authors will receive royalties on print-on-demand sales and a $5,000-$15,000 budget transfer
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Oregon State University
• First open textbook was developed from an existing OSU Press book as part of this project
• “Living with Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest” by Robert S. Yeats
• Available at:http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/oer/Earthquake.pdf
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http://opensuny.org
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Barriers for OER
• Awareness of OER as an option• Discovery of appropriate OER• Evaluating the quality of OER• Logistics of adopting OER• Sustainable publishing of OER
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Libraries transformed the conversation around access to
research, they can do the same for learning
materials
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Open Educational Resources
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Libraries & OER Forum
Public discussion list intended for academic and research librarians interested in OER.
Sign up: http://www.sparc.arl.org/resource/sparc-libraries-oer-forum
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OER Campus Project List
Resource describing library initiatives to advance OER, for release in April.
Add your campus: http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/oer/campus-project-form
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OER Campus Tour
SPARC staff will be traveling across the country to educate librarians, students and others about OER.
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Open Education 2014
• Annual OER conference• Nov 19-21, 2014, Washington,
DC• Track dedicated to Libraries &
OER
Learn more:http://www.openedconference.org
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New England OER Summit
• Wednesday April 23, 2014 10am-3pm
• Shrewsbury, MA• Keynote: Kim Thanos, Lumen
Learning• http://bit.ly/
newenglandoersummit
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Other Resources
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membership
Nicole [email protected]
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