OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES in Geology Shelley Jaye Northern Virginia Community College

Textbook Costs are High

Billions per year on textbooks: US Undergraduate Institutions 2013 Undergrad FTE Textbook Costs Public 2Y 1,039 4,583,271 $3,208,289,700 Public 4Y 695 5,957,927 $4,170,548,900 Nonprofit 2Y 167 46,247 $32,372,900 Nonprofit 4Y 1,417 2,679,418 $1,875,592,600 3,318 13,266,863 $9,286,804,100 UG FTE: IPEDS 2013 undergraduate FTE for accredited institutions of higher learning. Projected Annual Textbook Costs: $700 average annual materials costs per undergraduate FTE.

$250M/year on textbooks: VA public/nonprofits 2013 Undergrad FTE Projected Annual Textbook Costs 26 2Y Institutions 125,228 $87,659,600 54 4Y Institutions 237,691 $166,383,700 362,919 $254,043,300 UG FTE: IPEDS 2013 undergraduate FTE for accredited institutions of higher learning. Projected Annual Textbook Costs: $700 average annual materials costs per undergraduate FTE.

Textbook Pricing in Context One Month Access to… Costs… Netflix: 20k Movies/TV Episodes $7.99/month Spotify: 15M Songs $9.99/month NVCC B&N Physical Geology Text & Lab $31.00/month

The direct connection between cost & success Recent research (conducted by the Florida Virtual Campus) quantifies the ways high textbook costs affect student persistence and success. More than 60% of students report not having purchase textbooks at some point due to the cost Nearly a quarter (23%) of students regularly go without textbooks due to their cost Due to the high cost of textbooks: 35% of students report taking fewer courses 31% report not registering for a course 14% have dropped a course 10% have withdrawn from a course Link to research source: http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Exec_Sum_Student_Txtbk_Survey.pdf http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Exec_Sum_Student_Txtbk_Survey.pdf

The OER Vision

OER: Open Educational Resources are Open: openly-licensed to support “5 R Benefits” to Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, & Redistribute materials. Educational: developed for educational use. Resources: materials of all kinds that support teaching & learning, including textbooks, ancillary materials, assessments, labs, & more. http://lumenlearning.com/about-oer/

Makes It Easy to Share: 5Rs At its core, open materials are 5Rs First three are what impact teaching and learning Bundling multiple texts is expensive: Focused on return of investment of textbook Revise: reduce the amount of materials Opportunity for students to engage in materials…engaging students to revise and add to the textbook for their course Free is awesome…but it’s just a part of what this is about

Use copyright to enforce sharing Use copyright to enforce sharing with a Creative Commons license

Creative commons licensing Share alike: You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and modify your work, as long as they distribute any modified work on the same terms. If they want to distribute modified works under other terms, they must get your permission first. https://creativecommons.org/

Open Educational Resources in Geology Lumen Learning open textbook in Physical Geology: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/geo/ Originally derived from: https://commons.wvc.edu/rdawes/g101ocl/G101OCLindex.html

Open Educational Resources in Geology Another fully open Physical Geology textbook: https://opentextbc.ca/geology/

Open Educational Resources in Geology GeoScience Videos by David McConnell & Jennifer Dixon (NC State) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtQfVk8PDyHU6e9q_1cEY0Q Assessment Resources and Class Outlines: https://geosciencevideos.wordpress.com/

Open Educational Resources in Geology “Earth Rocks!” Physical Geology and Oceanography videos by Katryn Wiese (City College of San Francisco) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBEwiHo718rNAekZrqjjDjQ/featured IRIS: Incorporated Research for Seismology Good animations: https://www.iris.edu/hq/#_ Earthquake Browser: looking at real time earthquake data in 3D https://ds.iris.edu/ieb/

Open Educational Resources in Geology Earth Science videos by Mike Sammartano https://www.youtube.com/user/mikesammartano/videos?flow=grid&sort=p&view=0 ***Topographic Map Skills***

Open Educational Resources in Geology Lab Manual in Physical Geology by: Charles Merguerian, Hofstra University http://people.hofstra.edu/charles_merguerian/Publications/PubsPdf/CMJBB2010_HUGeol01Manual.pdf Note:  The material on this page and subpages are protected by copyright statutes and can not be used for any commercial purpose unless you cut me in!  Educators are free to use any and all of these materials for instructional purposes with proper acknowledgement [© 2010]

Using OER and Flipping Your Physical Geology Classroom OER reading posted to Blackboard OER geoscience videos with pre-class quizzes posted to Blackboard Students come to class prepared to engage in… Labs, labs, labs… Lab basics from Hofstra Physical Geology Lab Manual Lab exercises developed over my years of teaching with a lot of ideas coming from submissions to the Science Education Resource Center “Teach the Earth”: http://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/index.html

Using OER and Flipping Your Physical Geology Classroom In-work and future plans:

Results Began using OER in GOL 105 & GOL 106 in Spring 2016 Sections consistently fill quickly Student survey on OER and Flipping Classroom Data and outcomes at next Science Peer Group