Opening the Textbook10There has also been an increase in the proportion of faculty reporting that materials being easy to find is important.It remains the third-most mentioned factor, ahead of two newly included factors.

A convergence of factors is propelling OER. States have started to adopt policies redefining textbook materials and even mandating OER, particularly as the cost of replacing out-of-date textbooks has become more burdensome to America’s nearly 14,000 school districts. It’s hard to overlook the appeal of free, digital alternatives.

improving learning, saving money, and benefiting more students

Open Education Handbook

OER can help achieve Colorado’s Goals.

My Open Textbook: Pedagogy and Practice

OER Policy State-by-State

original material

An open letter to Candace Thille about her new Amazon gig.

Open 101: An Action Plan for Affordable Textbooks

Notably, a movement is growing to provide copyright-free open-access text books.

Publishers, which are increasingly investing in digital products for college classrooms, are making a concerted effort to help faculty members adapt to that change.

Rebus Community Engagement Guide

Transfer degree

Can open educational resources, or OER, truly create more equity and access?

Assessing the Impact of Open Educational Resources

Awareness of open educational resources is slowly increasing,

The community-based model

How to make open educational resources sustainable

Dive in and start learning

embedding local examples

permanent access to their course materials,

do not benefit personally from adopting a given publisher's book

Traditional academic publishing can no longer keep pace with the thing it sells—knowledge—and it is losing ground to OER’s adaptability and continually improving quality.

Mason OER Metafinder Simultaneously search OER repositories

Open Textbook Network Launches The Publishing Cooperative

Mythbusting 101: Reflecting on a Year of Open

Define OER as part of what we do

Maryland’s initiative has led to the switch to open educational resources in 66 new courses at 14 institutions across the state. New York has provided $8 million toward the adoption of OER in public colleges. And in 2016 the California Legislature ponied up $5 million to create zero-textbook-cost degrees at the state’s community colleges.

free online learning materials disproportionately benefit the affluent and highly educated

open online courses,

Open Text Books

Exploring the Use of E-Textbooks in Higher Education: A Multiyear Study

all-inclusive access

The 5R Activities of OER

OER and Affordable-Textbook Labeling Gains Ground

Knewton

Containing the Future of OER

Open Educational Resources Used in Various Colleges and Universities

Open Pedagogy, which for us means working at the intersection of OER, accessibility and access, student empowerment, and connected learning.

The H5P format is open and the tools for creating H5P content are open source. This guarantees that creatives own their own content and are not locked into the fate and licensing regime of a specific tool. Read more about how H5P ensures that the content remains yours in our blog.

If a textbook falls in the forest and nobody reads it…

The Open Faculty Patchbook

Call for Proposals: PSU Library Seeks Faculty to Author Open Textbooks

An institution has implemented a learning management system (LMS). The LMS contains a learning object repository (LOR) that in some aspects is populated by all users across the world  who use the same LMS.  Each user is able to align his/her learning objects to the academic standards appropriate to that jurisdiction. Using CASE 1.0, the LMS is able to present the same learning objects to users in other jurisdictions while displaying the academic standards alignment for the other jurisdictions (associations).

advanced OER Courseware

a strategic partner and collaborator to the 770 stores on campuses nationwide

publish works containing parts covered by different licenses

a Brazilian Portuguese language textbook they’ve written and maintained for more than 50 years

More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

When you think the problem to be solved is the high cost of textbooks, inclusive access programs and OER adoption are just two competing approaches to solving the problem.

By focusing on cost, the article takes a page directly from the publishers’ playbook.

OER You Not Inspired?

And I see no good reason why we should require the production of educators and students to be fair game for resellers who want to pluck it for free out of the commons and charge money for it to those not lucky enough to be a part of our community.

This is certainly how the debate about licensing has played out.

Lumen Learning is in the same business as  Pearson, Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education: selling textbooks (directly or indirectly) to students.

A suite of complex online tools was designed to assist with analyzing student behavior in the LMS and with the development of interactive learning objects at the activity level.

“Including open in the list of examples for educational leadership is important because it brings it to the forefront. When I went up for promotion, I took a risk because engaging in open practice was not listed as an example of educational leadership, but not everyone is going to do that. Whereas if it’s strictly laid out it raises the profile for those who haven’t thought about open education and also shows that it is valued by the university as being a form of educational leadership,”

Excerpt from the UBC Guide to Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure Procedures (RPT): Evidence of educational leadership is required for tenure/promotion in the Educational Leadership stream… It can include, but is not limited to…Contributions to the practice and theory of teaching and learning literature, including publications in peer-reviewed and professional journals, conference publications, book chapters, textbooks and open education repositories / resources.

UH OER Training

How can we minimize the cost of textbooks?

OER: Bigger Than Affordability

I published my own set of core principles for an authoring & publishing tool.

After our talk, Nate Angell from Hypothesis asked me if I’d be willing to write up a blog post describing in more detail what we’re doing with web annotation specifically. And so here we are.

a study by the Connecticut Board of Governors for Higher Education published in 2006 found that only 58 percent of Connecticut state schools’ faculty knew how much the books they selected for their classes cost.

This textbook innovation will save your college student a lot of money

There is only one context in which “open means the 5Rs”

So I’ll go ahead and say I see open as an end product less interesting. Open as a space that can produce open products: I find much more interesting.

All content used in the ATD OER degree pathways must have open license terms allowing unrestricted use, reuse, revision, and redistribution.

Sixty-three percent of instructors said that developing a course with OER takes at least one and a half times as much time as a traditional course.

Forty-two percent of instructors surveyed reported that they are very likely to promote use of OER to colleagues, while only a small percentage would not.

A New Open Ed Experiment

“The notion that adaptive technology is the reason why one school should choose one company’s content over OER (open educational resources) or other options” has become a staple of many publisher’s marketing claims, says Trace Urdan, an education market analyst.

Salient priority areas that policy-makers and practitioners

OpenMed Course

A survey by e-textbook provider VitalSource has found that 50 percent of students who delayed buying textbooks because of high prices saw their grades suffer as a result.

News Release: Rice University-based OpenStax partners with UK Open Textbooks

In Canvas, the goal is clearly to stop anyone from having fun because everything is supposed to look exactly the same in every course everywhere all the time.

LMSs limit the visibility of copyrighted course content to only course participants for the duration that they need it. (Of course, this would become a moot point if using openly licensed OERs.)

textbook prices vs. consumer prices

Library Publications

Can an 'Open' Math Curriculum Compete With Commercial Publishers?

OER and the Course Throughput Rate

Finding Our Footing for OER Training: Information and Digital Literacies

OERu connects learners around the world with defined pathways to education, created by recognised educators and assessed by renowned global institutions. The learning is free and credentialing is very affordable.

We haven’t really trained people to do that

2016 Student Textbookand Course Materials

Report: Students Spending Less on Course Materials

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Pacific Northwest OER Directory

Breaking free: To save students money, colleges are looking to the Open Educational Resources movement

University of Southern New Hampshire's academic steering technology committee

Attributes of Open Pedagogy: A Model for Using Open Educational Resources

one of the central gifts that it brings to faculty is that of agency

Open Pedagogy and Social Justice

as soon as it is a choice between awesome and open, I will choose awesome every time

I continue to believe that every time we use the word “textbook” to describe the work we’re doing with OER we paint ourselves a little further into the corner of traditional thinking about teaching and learning resources.

Designing with OER (DOER) Fellows

Adaptability/editability of content was ranked relatively low on the list of criteria for selecting course content.

2014 Babson survey findings, in which only 2.7 percent of faculty members identified cost as one the top three factors, compared to 70 percent in this survey.

they decided to develop OER horizontally by flipping entire gateway and general education courses open

Students assigned open textbooks perceive these resources to be of generally high quality and value the cost savings, immediate access, portability, and other benefits they confer.

What can you do with a PDF? You can read it! It’s pretty just like the print versions. You can send it to someone else.

Antigonish 2.0

M. M. Coady, Masters of Their Own Destiny: The Story of the Antigonish Movement of Adult Education through Economic Cooperation (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1939).

Open Pedagogy and Social Justice

audiences.” This change in the conception of openness is often described as the difference between open as gratis(free of cost) and open as libre(enabling legal reuse) (Win

1Openness and praxis: Exploring the use of open educational practices in higher education

OER Policy Development Tool

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