oer @ tcc (4-17-09)
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Tacoma Community College PD Day: OER Chat (download file to see all slides)TRANSCRIPT
Developing a Culture of Sharing and Receiving:
Open Source Textbooks and Learning Objects
Cable GreeneLearning Director
http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen
Yes… We Really are Networked…
"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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HarryPotter
Hyper-geometricpartial differentialequations
http://wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/ComingApart
We All Get to Participate
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.
Products available in college stores are sold with a margin, as in any retail operation. Margin is the difference between cost and retail price, reflecting work required to bring products to market.
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!
84 colleges
from AZ, C
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OH, TX, W
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Ontario
CCCOER Membership
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
Does TCC teach: “Introductory Statistics”
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General Physics
600 pages
New $179.00
Used
$125.00
Does TCC teach:
“Introductory Physics”
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Does TCC teach: Elementary Algebra
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Do you want to go through the rest of TCC’s general
education courses?
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Challenges Faculty and student
resistance to change
Limited availability of high quality and comprehensive learning materials in some disciplines
Inadequate access to high-speed Internet by students
Challenges Compliance with accessibility requirements
Printing and computer lab demands on campus by students
Coordination with campus bookstores
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
http://rtnl.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/thinker21.jpg
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?
http://rtnl.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/thinker21.jpg
Are there really Open Educational Resources (e.g., Open Textbooks)
on the web?
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“Lenses” @ Rice Connexions
social software for quality control
cnx.org/lenses/johnDoe
univ.edu/cnxIEEE.org/cnx
Bookstores Future Role?
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Bookstores are perfectly positioned to be the College’s clearinghouse for printed open educational resources. print-on-demand open textbooks & OER course packs Students want printed options (Course Correction)
Have location and are tightly networked into IT and fiscal campus operations. e.g., students can use fin aid @ bookstores
Bookstores Future Role?
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Open Textbook Commercial Affiliates Work with them like you work with existing
commercial Publishers Flat World Knowledge: interested in
bookstores buying print copies of open textbooks at reduced rates.
Your ideas? Let’s chat.
Legislation
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HB 1025 / SB 5778 HB 1946 Federal: HEOA
http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu http://blog.elearning.sbctc.edu
Dr. Cable GreeneLearning [email protected]
(360) 704-4334
Special thanks to: David Wiley (BYU) and Richard Baraniuk (Rice)