leading learning and living in a digital world conference

Open Educational Resources: in 10 min…

Cable GreeneLearning Director

http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen

Yes… We Really are Networked… seamless connection of

people, resources & knowledge

digitization of content mobile, personal global platform for

collaboration outsourcing Anyone notice our

global economy?

"According to an IBM study, by 2010, the amount of digital information in the world will double every 11 hours."

And we can makeall of our “digital stuff”available toall people…and most of itwill get used...by someone.

“Long Tail” of Publishing

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Hyper-geometricpartial differentialequations

http://wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/ComingApart

We All Get to Participate

My Point?

A Digital, Networked World Changes the Rules

of the Game

Definition of OER

Digitized materials, offered freely and openly for educators, students, to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.

The Old Economics

Print, warehouse, and ship a new book for every student

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/2780164461/

The New Economics

Upload one copy, and everyone uses it simultaneously

http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/

Making copies, storage, distribution of digital stuff = “Free”

software

textbooks

music

Textbook 2.0modular

authored by community

continuously updated

personalized on assembly

never out-of-print

published on demand

low costex: 600-page textbook for $32, not $132

Why do we Need Open Textbooks?

2005 GAO report: College textbook prices have risen at twice the rate of annual inflation over the last two decades

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05806.pdf

Why do we Need Open Textbooks?

The College Board reported that for the 2007 through 2008 academic years each student spent an estimated $805 to $1,229 on college books and supplies…

http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/trends/trends_pricing_07.pdf

Why do we Need Open Textbooks?

The gross margin on new college textbooks is currently 22.7 percent according to the National Association of College Stores.

http://www.nacs.org/public/research/margins.asp

May, 2007: Dept of Ed.

http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/course_correction.pdf

Community College Consortiumfor Open Educational Resources

Joint effort to develop and use open educational resources and open textbooks

in community college courses

cccoer.wordpress.com

Community CollegeOpen Textbook Project Goal

Identify, organize, and support the production and use of high quality, accessible and culturally relevant Open

Textbooks for community college students

Reduce the cost of

textbooks!

Comparison of Statistics Textbooks

Publisher: Wiley Open: Connexions & QOOP

Downloadable version:

$77.50

Downloadable & online versions:

FREE

Printed bound version:

$141.95 new

$110.25 used

Printed bound version:

$31.98 new

Click the Green Check if your college teaches

“Introductory Statistics”

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General Physics

600 pages

New $179.00 

Used

$125.00  

Click the Green Check if your school teaches

“Introductory Physics”

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Click the Green Check if your school teaches Elementary Algebra

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Do you want to go through the rest of your general

education courses?

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Open Textbook Adoption

Locate open textbooks for consideration

Evaluate each textbook for selection

Customize, remix, and organize selected textbook

Disseminate in print and digital formats

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Locate Open Textbooksfor Consideration

MERLOT

Connexions

Wikibooks

OER Commons

Global Text Project

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Evaluate Each Textbook Quality Accessibility Cultural relevance Currency Authority of Source Reading level Depth and scope Quality and

Accuracy Articulation

Customize, Remix, and Organize

Disseminate Open Textbooks Digital formats

Printed format

Campus bookstore

Campus print-shop services

Proprietary services

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Why so urgent?

Consider One High Enrollment Course: English Composition I 37,226 enrollments / year X $100 textbook = $3.7 Million + (cost to students)

What if we looked at 100, 200, 300 high enrollment courses?

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Are there really Open Educational Resources on the

web?

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“Lenses” @ Rice Connexions

social software for quality control

cnx.org/lenses/johnDoe

univ.edu/cnxIEEE.org/cnx

What Happens if weDon’t Change?

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How is the fiscal healthof your local newspaper?

So…. People and content are connected globally Digital, online content is growing exponentially Digital Stuff we produce is used by someone Someone else can host our IT, so we can focus People and Colleges are sharing their content Everyone can participate New models are emerging that leverage these trends –

and they will be our direct competition

What are the possibilities? What will students expect from our Colleges?

Think Big Crazy Ideas….

We could share all of our instructional digital resources including: courses, textbooks and library resources with the world… and, more important, use global digital materials.

We could design courses that enable and encourage students to contribute, change, remix course content.

http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu http://blog.elearning.sbctc.edu

Dr. Cable GreeneLearning Directorcgreen@sbctc.edu

(360) 704-4334

Special thanks to: David Wiley (BYU) and Richard Baraniuk (Rice)