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Open Textbooks and Solving the
Textbook Cost CrisisNicole Allen
OER Program Director, SPARC
Joint Mathematics MeetingsJanuary 17, 2014 Baltimore, MD
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Open Educational Resources Program [email protected] @txtbks
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Open Educational Resources Program [email protected] @txtbks
7 in 10Graduating seniors had
student debt (class of 2012)
http://projectonstudentdebt.org
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$29,400Average undergraduate
student debt at graduation (class of 2012)
http://projectonstudentdebt.org
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$1,207Average student budget
for books and supplies for 2013-2014 year
http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-estimated-undergraduate-budgets-2013-14
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82%Increase of textbook
prices 2002-2012
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-368
(3x the rate of inflation)
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$8.8 billionAnnual size of the US
higher education textbook market
http://info.xplana.com/report/pdf/Xplana_Whitepaper_2011.pdf
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“Broken Market”
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How Students Save
Used Books
Rentals
E-Books
E-Readers
25%
61%
52%
39%
http://www.studentpirgs.org/reports/cover-cover-solution
% Student Savings Over New Print Text
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2 in 5Students report they have
shared books with classmates to reduce
costs
http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2010_fsts_report_01sep2011.pdf
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1 in 3Students report
downloading course material from an
unauthorized website
http://www.bisg.org/news-5-847-press-release-now-available-student-attitudes-toward-content-in-higher-education-volume-3.php
(up from 1 in 5 in 2010)
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7 in 10Undergraduates skipped buying one or more texts
due to cost
http://www.studentpirgs.org/news/ap/high-prices-prevent-college-students-buying-assigned-textbooks
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1 in 3Students say at some
point they earned a poor grade because they could
not afford to buy the textbook
http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf
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1 in 3Students say at some
point they earned a poor grade because they could
not afford to buy the textbook
http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf
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1 in 2Students say they have at some point taken fewer
courses due to the cost of textbooks
http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf
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Students can’t learn from
textbooks if they can’t afford them
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OPEN TEXTBOOKS Free (usually online)Open (open license)
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OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
(OER)Academic materials that everyone can use, adapt and share freely.
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80% / ~$100Students savings per
course when open textbooks used in place of
traditional
http://www.studentpirgs.org/reports/cover-cover-solution
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Studies show that the use of open textbooks is correlated with higher grades and retention rates
http://www.eurodl.org/?p=current&article=533http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02680513.2012.716657http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1523
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~$100MStudents savings
worldwide to date from the use of OER instead of
traditional materials
http://openeducation2013.sched.org/event/90d9e1c479a944181f771f720ef967db
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~100-200”Professional grade”
open textbooks available for common college
courses
http://openeducation2013.sched.org/event/90d9e1c479a944181f771f720ef967db
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Open Textbook Catalog
In an effort to reduce costs for students, the College of Education and Human Development has created this catalog of open textbooks to be
reviewed by faculty members. Read full press release
Open textbooks are complete textbooks released under a Creative Commons, or similar, license.
Instructors can customize open textbooks to fit their course needs by remixing, editing, and adding their own content. Students can access
free digital versions or purchase low-cost print copies of open textbooks.
http://open.umn.edu/
In an effort to reduce costs for students, the College of Education and Human Development has created this catalog of open textbooks to be reviewed by faculty members.
Open Textbook Catalog
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What Needs to Happen
• More “turn key” open textbooks: create new and improve existing
• More support for adoption: professional development, time buyouts…
• More awareness: most people don’t know what open textbooks are, we need to change that
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What You Can Do
• Faculty: the lynchpin, as both authors and assigners of textbooks
• Students: the most effective advocates to raise awareness of the problem
• Libraries: support for curation, creation and adoption
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What You Can Do
• Publishers: transition to open models and avoid bad practices
• Institutions: leveraging OER to increase outcomes, competitiveness
• Lawmakers: policies that support (but never mandate) the creation and use of OER
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Open textbooks can happen, but we need to make
them happen
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Nicole Allen [email protected]
Twitter: @txtbkshttp://sparc.arl.org/issues/oer