OER and Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis (LCC OER Summit 9/18/15)

@txtbks | sparc.arl.org

textbookcost crisis

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

Lansing Community College OER Summit | 9/18/15

Except where otherwise noted...

theOER and solving


@txtbks www.slideshare.com/txtbks


higher ed is important


higher ed is expensive

@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgSource: CNN Money


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US Public Higher Education Funding - $/Undergrad FTE

Data source: State Higher Education Officers AssociationSlide source: @dernst, adapted under CCBY


Cost Factors:Tuition and FeesRoom and BoardTransportationBooks and Supplies


Average Estimated Undergraduate Budgets, 2014-15

Source: College Board

Books & Supplies = $1,328




Books & Supplies = $1,225


“the straw that broke the camel’s back”

@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgSource: Student PIRGs

@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgPhysics: Principles With Applications, 7th Edition by Douglas C. Giancoli

@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgImage © from http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/28/showbiz/heat-director-buddy-cop/

DONE READING?

GOOD


Market Failure


Market Failure

5 major publishers hold nearly 90% of the

market

Source: Turning the Page by James Koch


“less than one third of students believed that using e-textbooks significantly improved their learning or engagement in a course”

Market Failure

Source: EDUCAUSE


Market Failure

Source: NACS.org

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students are captives, not consumers


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


<1 in 2Students purchase a current

edition of their textbook

Source: Book Industry Study Group


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


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


open licensing systemwww.creativecommons.org


use © to enable free & open use


most open

least open

OER


how is OER created?

@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgocw.mit.edu


oercommons.org

@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgopenstaxcollege.org

@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgoli.cmu.edu

@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgskillscommons.org


how is OER being used?


Open Textbook (Example)

• Free online

• Free PDF

• Free ePub

• Print $49.73

• Instructor can adapt and distribute

@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgopen.umn.edu

@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgphet.colorado.edu

@txtbks | sparc.arl.orgpm4id.org


what are the impacts?


“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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how can you get involved?


(1) Make sure facultywho want

to share can share


(2) Make sure facultywho want

to useOER have

thesupport

they need


(3) Involve students in everything you do


use the internet to do what it was meant for

to benefit society


textbookcost crisis

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

Except where otherwise noted...

theOER and solving


www.opentextbooknetwork.org


Libraries & OER Forumwww.sparc.arl.org/liboer

#LibOER


www.opencon2015.org | @open_con

OER and Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis (LCC OER Summit 9/18/15)

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