THE CASE FOR

OER

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the status quo is broken

Consumer Prices 2006 – 2016U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Textbooks

Tuition & Fees

All Items

Average Estimated Undergraduate Budgets, 2016-17

Source: College Board

Books & Supplies = $1,200+

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“the straw that broke the camel’s back”

6 months

DONE READING?

GOOD

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Captive Market

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5 major publishers hold nearly 90% of the

market

Source: Turning the Page by James Koch

Near-Monopoly

Data Source: NACS

Mixed MessagesStudent Spending on Textbooks

Prices

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2 in 3Students say they decided against buying a textbook

because the cost is too high

Source: Student PIRGs

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

to the cost of textbooks

Source: Florida Virtual Campus

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<1 in 2Students purchase a current

edition of their textbook

Source: Book Industry Study Group

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students cannot learn from books they can’t afford

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we can do better

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what isopen?

OPEN EDUCATION

OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES

OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES

Sound Bite:“Open educational resources are freely available materials that can be downloaded, edited, and shared to better serve all students.”

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OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES

OPEN Free + Permissions

RetainReuseReviseRemixRedistribute

5Rs

technologyenables

copyright forbids

open licensing systemwww.creativecommons.org

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most open

All Rights Reserved©

most closed

OER5R permissionsretain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute

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why does it matter?

tcc.edu/academics/degrees/textbook-free

Open resources in every single course,

reduces cost of degree 20%, increases

completion

“Thanks to the Z-Degree program I didn’t have to choose between continuing my education or getting braces for my daughter”

- Melissa Koch, TCC Student

12 percentage point increase in student success measure

"This launched us in to a new direction, allowing us to be creative and unfettered in developing course materials that would meet the needs of the students at our respective colleges and that could also be…freely and widely distributed.”

Prof. Howard Miller Mercy College

$1.3 million in student savings by working with faculty to adopt free &

open resources

I wanted my students to gain hands on experience managing a project… So I asked my students to engage in a very large scale revise / remix project.” - @opencontent

Award winning statistics text

open isfree + 5Rs

open isa means

open isa process

open ischanging lives

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