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History of OER

OER Research

UHD OER Initiatives

Texas OER Initiatives

Agenda

Poll: Rate Yourself

You are an OER pro.

You have used,

reused, or re-mixed

OER content in the

classroom and feel

comfortable relying

exclusively on OER.

Expert

You have some knowledge

of OER. You have used

OER content to

supplement classroom

instruction, but do not feel

comfortable relying on

OER exclusively in the

classroom.

Intermediate

You have never used

OER, but are interested

in finding low cost

supplemental materials

for the classroom.

Novice

Expert

Intermediate

Novice

History of OER

David Wiley’s Definition:

The 5R’s of Openness

Open Educational Resources

are teaching, learning, and

research materials that live in

the public domain or have been

released under an intellectual

property license that permits

their use and adaptation by

others.

Open Education Resources

OER: A Brief History

1997 1998 1999 2001 2002

Backed by a NSF

grant, the CSU

system created

MERLOT, the first

multi-institutional

resource sharing

repository.

MERLOT

An Assistant

Professor at Utah

State proposed a

license for free and

open content as an

alternative to full

copyright.

David Wiley

Lawrence Lessig

and a few others

built off Wiley’s

early ideas to start

the creative

commons

organization.

Creative

Commons

MIT began sharing

the content of many

of their courses

online to the world

for free.

MIT OCW The name OER

was coined and

adopted for this

new type of

educational

resource.

UNESCO

Resource repository for sharing

information and teaching people how

to legally share licensed works within

the global community.

OER Research

Why OER?

OERs have shown to improve

student outcomes and retention

rates.

Student Success

Openly licensed materials

save schools and students

money.

$ave Money

OERs can be adapted to keep

up with new information as it

changes in real time.

Relevant and High Quality

OERs empower teachers to

adapt and customize learning

materials to meet the needs of

their students.

Empower Teachers

Ensure all students have

access to high quality learning

materials.

Increase Equity

OER Statistics

Bureau of Labor

(2015)

National Association

of College Stores

(2015)

Department of

Education

(2018)

Consumer Price Index

shows textbooks rose by

over 1000% from 1977 to

2015. This is over 3x the

national rate of inflation.

It was also reported that

first year students spend

on average 20% more than

upper division students on

textbooks.

It is reported that during

the 2017-2018 year the

average undergraduate

student spent $555 on

course materials for the

academic year.

Hilton et al. Report

(2014)UGA Study (2018) OpenStax (2018)

Across seven institutions

and eight courses, over

2,600 students saved an

average of $90 per course

when faculty adopted OER.

Faculty adopted OER in

2013 and by 2017 almost

36,000 students had been

enrolled in a course that

utilized an OER saving

students over $3m.

This year, over 2.2 million

students are saving an

estimated $177 million by

using free textbooks

from OpenStax.

Cost

Savings

Babson Study 2014

2014 Babson Study of

nationally represented

group of 2,144 faculty form

institutions across the

U.S.

Allen & Seaman, 2014

61.5%Perceived OER to be

of the same quality as

traditional resources.

50%Reported having

never used OER in

the classroom.

12%Reported OER as

being of better quality

than traditional

textbooks .

Negative Perceptions of OER

Babson Study (Allen & Seaman, 2014)

Category N %

Lack of

discoverability36 16.5

Lack of

coverage24 11

Lack of OER

quality20 9.2

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8

16

24

32

40

Discoverability Coverage Quality

Babson Study of 2,144 Faculty. Coded comments of 218

respondents to Babson Study. A Qualitative Analysis of

Faculty Perception – (Belikov & Bodily, 2016)

Positive Perceptions of OER

Babson Study – (Allen & Seaman 2014)

25 23 23 20

General PositivePerceptions

Cost Benefit Equal Standards Pedagogical Benefits# O

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TOP CATEGORIES FOR COMMENT

Faculty Barriers

Barriers to OER Adoption – Belikov & Bodily 2016

Most Common Barriers Description

Lack of Awareness Faculty did not know about OER

Inability to find OER Concerns on where to find appropriate OER

Confusing OER with digital

resourcesConcerns about digital nature of OER

Lack of resources in subject areaConcerns about lack of resources in highly specialized subject

areas

Lack of time to evaluateDid not have the necessary time to evaluate and adapt resources

for the classroom.

Lack of qualityOERs suffered from a lack of peer-review and publisher

accountability.

OER Initiatives @ UHD

UHD InitiativesCampus initiatives to promote and support OER in the classroom.

Research ConsultationsOER Library GuideCTLE Workshops

Exploring Open Educational

Resources(Part One)

This workshop discusses where to find high quality,

openly licensed materials and how to adapt and adopt

them. It also covers information on creative commons

licensing, attribution of open educational resources,

and accessibility considerations.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify open educational

resources and motivations

for using them.

• Describe open licenses

and how they enable re-use

of materials.

• Analyze best practices for

finding and adopting OERs.

Implementing Open Educational

Resources(Part Two)

This workshop shares best practices and strategies

for implementing the use and creation of OER in an

educational setting. The goal of this workshop is to

develop a practical understanding of how to adopt,

adapt, or create an Open Educational Resource for a

course or program.

Learning Objectives:

• Engage teaching faculty in

adopting, adapting, and

creating OER.

• Create an OER

implementation plan for a

course or program.

• Support faculty in adopting

OER.

OER Library Guide

General

Resources

Department

Specific

Resources

College Specific

Resources

Guides for OER

Evaluation &

Adoption

General Resources

College Resources

College of

Business

Department Resources

Accounting &

Finance

OER Evaluation & Adoption

Library Consultations

Professor

Shahnaz Savani

Professor

Angela Goins

Professor

Dr. Heather Goltz

Department of

Social WorkIn the library

you can find…

*OER

*Articles/Readings

*Multimedia

*Books/eBooks

*Gov’t Docs

Curriculum Builder

• Search the library’s content from within Blackboard.

• Simply click “Add to Reading List” to save your

selections.

• Annotate reading list items and copy other reading

lists created within your department.

EBSCO Discovery for Blackboard

Sharable within

Departments

Worry Free

Copyright

No Messing with

Permalinks

Texas OER Initiatives

OER Grants

Institutional Grants

Grants to

encourage faculty

to adapt, modify,

design or develop

courses that only

use OERs.

THECB OER

Grant

$5 million grant to

create new open

textbooks for

teaching and

learning. UHD

applied for this

grant with UTSA

and Rice University.

Open Textbooks

Pilot program

Faculty Grants

Professional Development

Texas OER Summit

*November 15-16, 2018(Registration Deadline – November 1, 2018)

The University of Texas at San Antonio is

inviting librarians, faculty, and administrators

with an interest in OER to attend a strategic

planning summit to consider OER at a

statewide level. The hope is to develop a set

of shared goals and strategies that can be

implemented across the state.

**No registration fee**

Local Initiatives

San Jacinto College has saved students 2.1m in

textbooks costs by encouraging OER adoption.

OpenStax out of Rice University is now being

utilized by 51% of colleges and universities.

Houston Community College is launching their Z-

degree program and giving faculty stipends to adopt

OER in the classroom.

University of Houston has recently hired an OER

librarian to assist faculty in the adoption and

adaption of open sourced materials.

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Questions???

References

Belikov, O.M. & Bodily, R. (2016). Incentives and barriers to OER adoption: A qualitative analysis of faculty perceptions. Open Praxis, 235-246.

Salem, J. (2017). Open Pathways to Student Success: Academic Library Partnerships for Open Educational Resources and Affordable Course Content Creation and Adoption. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 34-38.

Hess, J. & Nann, A. J. (2016). Navigating OER: The Library's Role in Bringing OER to Campus. The Serials Librarian, 128-134.

Mandi, G. B. (2016). Leading campus OER initiatives through library-faculty collaboration. College & Undergraduate Libraries, 335-342.

Colvard, N. & Watson, C. E. (2018). The Impact of Open Educational Resources on Various Student Success Measures. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 262-276.

Seaman, J. E., & Seaman, J. (2017). Opening the Textbook: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education. Manuscript submitted for publication, Babson Survey Research Group.