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Nicole Allen ([email protected])Director of Open Education, SPARC

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higher ed is important


higher ed is expensive


Average Estimated Undergraduate Budgets, 2014-15

Source: College Board

Books & Supplies =

$1,225


“the straw that broke the camel’s back”


tuition & fees

textbooks

inflation

@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgCalculus: Early Transcendentals (7th edition), James Stewart


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2 in 3Students say they decided against

buying a textbook because the cost is too high

Source: Student PIRGs


1 in 2Students say they have at some point taken fewer courses due to

the cost of textbooks

Source: Florida Virtual Campus


Students can’t learn from materials they can’t afford

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DONE READING?

GOOD


Market Failure

5 major publishers hold nearly 90% of the

market

Source: Turning the Page by James Koch


students are captives, not consumers


textbooks

inflation


Market Failure

Source: NACS.org

???


We can do better.


OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES


Hewlett Foundation Definition:

“OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or are released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others”


Free + 5R Permissions


Free + 5R Permissions• Retain• Reuse• Revise• Remix• Redistribute

opencontent.org


Open Licensinguses copyright to enable free sharing and reuse


(easy-to-use open licenses)www.creativecommons.org


most open

least open

OER


how is OER created?


ocw.mit.edu


oercommons.org


openstaxcollege.org


oli.cmu.edu


skillscommons.org


how is OER being used?


Open Textbook (Example)

• Free online

• Free PDF

• Free ePub

• Print $49.73

• Instructor can adapt and distribute


phet.colorado.edu


pm4id.org


what are the benefits?


“a student saves $128 per course, when their traditionally published textbook is replaced with an open textbook”

“open textbooks have the potential to save more than a billion dollars each year”


$1M student savings, and counting


Supporting Adoption

Source: Lumen Learning


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