Open Educational Resources

TJ Bliss, Ph.D.The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

@tjbliss

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Open Educational Resources can help your students.

$2731 $1,133

Tuition and Fees Books & Supplies

Cost of Community College

Source: College Board, Trends in Higher Education Report, 2011https://trends.collegeboard.org/sites/default/files/trends-2011-community-colleges-ed-enrollment-debt-brief.pdf

Source: Student PIRGs

$112

66.6%of students

DID NOT PURCHASE REQUIRED MATERIALSbecause of textbook costs

Florida Virtual Campus - 2016 Student Textbook and Course Material Survey

47.6%of students

TOOK FEWER COURSES because of textbook costs

Florida Virtual Campus - 2016 Student Textbook and Course Material Survey

20.7%of students

WITHDREW FROM A COURSEbecause of textbook costs

Florida Virtual Campus - 2016 Student Textbook and Course Material Survey

2.6The average number of textbooks

each student purchased BUT WAS NOT ASSIGNED TO USE

Florida Virtual Campus - 2016 Student Textbook and Course Material Survey

High textbook costs

Decrease student access Increase student drop rates

Decrease student success and learning

Open Educational Resources

OER

Open Educational Resources

Any kind of teaching materials –textbooks, syllabi, lesson plans,

videos, readings, exams

Open Educational Resources

(1) Free and unfettered access, and(2) Free copyright permissions to

engage in the 5R activities

• Make and own copiesRetain

• Use in a wide range of waysReuse

• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise

• Combine two or moreRemix

• Share with othersRedistribute

The 5Rs

open = free + permissions

http://www.cool4ed.org/ and AB 798 (2015)

150 peer-reviewed open textbooks

$66M saved in 4 years

https://www.oerconsortium.org/

$2.2 BillionEVERY YEAR.

OER DEGREE Initiative

Open Educational Resources can help you.

6%of all science-related Wikipedia

articles wereEDITED BY STUDENTS

95%of Wikipedians are male

60%of student Wikipedians are

FEMALE

“In the past I only had the official adopted textbook to choose from. Now I have the whole world, using open courseware from people who are worldwide experts in the fields I teach. I’m finding incredibly creative and innovative approaches to concepts that I wouldn’t have come up with myself. That kind of freedom is amazing.” – Linda Williams

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