Dispelling Myths about OER and Open Textbooks Jacky Hood, Coordinator, Open Doors Group 14 September 2011 at 12:50 Eastern Time Photo credits on the last slide Slide 1

Myths are great…both urban and rural… Slide 2 Paul Bunyan and his Blue Ox Lost city of Atlantis

But let’s avoid Myth-Conceptions Open Educational Resources are low quality. My students prefer bound textbooks so I cannot select an open textbook. Slide 3

Poll: Use of OER… Have you used Open Educational resources?  Yes, as an instructor  Yes, as a student  No Slide 4

Myth 1: Demand is High; Supply is Low Slide 5

Poll: Pricing Behavior In a restaurant, do you avoid the  least expensive item  most expensive item  both  neither Slide 6

Myth 2: Commercial Use of OER should be Avoided Slide 7

Myth 3: An open textbook requires only the efforts and generosity of an author. Slide 8 Bookstores Wholesalers Distributors Printers Sales people Marketers Beta trial students Peer Reviewers Fact Checkers Copy Editors Photographers Illustrators Editor Author(s) Project Manager

Poll: Student Media Preferences Do the students you know prefer  Bound textbooks  On-line textbooks  Downloadable textbooks  Printable textbooks Slide 9

Myth 4: All Open textbooks are eBooks Slide 10

More Myths  Open textbooks will destroy college bookstores  Open textbooks are crowd-sourced by anonymous amateurs  Low cost is the only benefit of open textbooks. Slide 11

Contact Us  Open Doors Group Coordinator  College Open Textbooks Una Daly, Director,  Join our community at Slide 12

Photo Credits  Race for the Lost City of Atlantis by Don Dixon tisAerial.jpg tisAerial.jpg  Paul Bunyan from Brainerd  Question mark from puzzle pieces open licensed by Horia Varlan  Supply/Demand/Need open licensed by A Look Askance (MelvinSchlubman)  Le Restaurant at the Gare de Nord open licensed by Fotopedia  Currency symbols on dice by Mad Group:  Publishing the Open Source Way CC BY SA by Open Source Way  Spring Break Projects (Cat computer and books) open licensed By Seth Battis  Atlas from a 1917 public domain book; photo open licensed by perpetualplum Sue Clark Slide 13