oer: equity and effectiveness in education

OER: Equity and Effectivenessin Education

David Wiley, PhDChief Academic Officer, Lumen Learning

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How do we fully leverage ICTin education?

Share and Collaborate, Freely

Share and Collaborate, Freely

Copyright law prevents us from fully leveraging the power of ICT

Copyright restricts our ability to share with each other and collaborate

price = 1 / supply

with digital, supply is infinite

price => $0

© keeps prices of digital educational materials

artificially high

WhatICT Makes Possible

© Makes Illegal and Expensive

use copyright licenses to enable sharing

Open Educational Resources

Which “open”?

open ≈ free

free is assumed online

Free

Open

open = free + permissions

Open

1. Free and unfettered access

2. Perpetual, irrevocable 5R permissions

• Make and own a copyRetain• Use in a wide range of waysReuse• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise• Combine two or moreRemix• Share with othersRedistribute

The 5Rs

What ICT Makes

Possible

OER Makes Legal and

Free

OER give us permission to fully leverage ICT in education

“beautiful”

“delicious”

“quality”

quality

effective

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

• 4,909 treatment• 11,818 control• 50 different undergraduate courses • 130 teachers• 10 institutions

Methodology

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 TakenSemester 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)

OER Degrees

When all courses adopt OER so a student can graduate without ever being asked to buy a textbook

Over 50 US colleges have launched OER Degree programs

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

Course Throughput Rate

IRRODL (in press)

Drop Deadline

WithdrawDeadline

FinalGrade

35,000Students

2.3% 1.8%

9.9% 8.1%

68% 74%

Face to Face Courses

60% | 66%

Drop

Withdraw

C or Better

CTRIRRODL (in press)

OERTraditional

4.0% 1.4%

13.7% 13.1%

66% 70%

54% | 60%

Drop

Withdraw

C or Better

CTRIRRODL (in press)

Online Courses

OERTraditional

openedgroup.org/review

Sustainability of OER

Sustainable models for:

1. Creating OER 2. Continuously improving OER3. Translating and localizing OER

Disposable Assignments

Students do the homeworkFaculty grade the homeworkStudents throw away the homework

120,000,000 postsecondary students worldwidespend 14,000,000,000 hours doing homework

every year

120,000,000 postsecondary students worldwidespend 14,000,000,000 hours doing homework

every year

If faculty spend 5 minutes grading for every hour students spend on homework, that’s 1.2B hours

every year

Renewable Assignments

Students create and improve OERFaculty edit students’ workStudents share their work as OER

PM4ID

Everyone wants to make a difference

OER give us permission to fully leverage ICT in education to:

1. Improve affordability, 2. Improve student success, 3. Invigorate pedagogy, and4. Impact at scale

david@lumenlearning.com

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