OER in K-12: Sharing Common Core and Future Directions Dr. Cable Green Director of Global

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Open Educational Resources (OER)

OER are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

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What is the Business / Policy Case for OER?

vs. Rivalrous vs. Non-Rivalrous Resources

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Cost of “Copy” For one 250 page book: Copy by hand - $1,000 Copy by print on demand - $4.90 Copy by computer - $ CC BY: David Wiley, BYU

Cost of “Distribute” For one 250 page book: Distribute by mail - $5.20 $0 with print-on-demand (2000+ copies) Distribute by internet - $ CC BY: David Wiley, BYU

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Movies, TV Shows, Songs, and Textbooks Movies and TV Shows: Amazon Prime – $6.59/month ($79/year) for access to 10,000 movies and TV shows Netflix – $7.99/month for access to 20,000 movies and TV shows Hulu Plus – $7.99/month for access to 45,000 movies and TV shows CC BY: David Wiley:

Movies, TV Shows, Songs, and Textbooks Music: Spotify – $9.99/month for access to 15 million songs Rhapsody – $14.99/month for access to 14 million songs CC BY: David Wiley:

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Online, on demand access to one textbook (~$19/month) costs more than online, on demand access to every major movie, TV show, and song produced in the US in recent memory ($ $9.99 = $17.98/month). One textbook costs more than the entire output of the film, television, and music industries combined. CC BY: David Wiley:

When the Marginal Cost of Sharing is $0… - educators have an ethical obligation to share - governments need to get maximum ROI by requiring publicly funded resources be openly licensed resources - governments and educators need openly licensed content: (a) so you can revise & remix (b) buying and maintaining is cheaper than leasing (w/time bombs)

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Partner with Legislators who care about: (a) efficient use of national / state tax dollars; (b) saving students money; increasing access to publicly funded research and data; (c) increasing access to education

“By developing this library of openly licensed courseware and making it available to school districts free of charge, the state and school districts will be able to provide students with curricula and texts while substantially reducing the expenses that districts would otherwise incur in purchasing these materials. In addition, this library of openly licensed courseware will provide districts and students with a broader selection of materials, and materials that are more up-to-date.”

CC-BY licensed textbooks for 90 university courses

$500 million - Wave 2 ($2 billion over four years)

Publicly funded resources should be openly licensed resources.

Cooperate & share = We all Win –Faculty have new choices when building learning spaces. –…the more eyes on a problem, the greater chance for a solution. Affordability: students can’t afford textbooks Self-interest: good things happen when I share It’s a social justice issue: everyone should have the right to access digital knowledge. Why is “Open” Important?

Building Effective Teams & Shifting the Culture to Open as Default

“We will cultivate the culture and practice of using and contributing to open educational resources.”

But using open educational resources – and contributing to them – requires significant change in the culture of higher education. It requires thinking about content as a common resource that raises all boats when shared. (p.11)

English Composition I 55,000+ enrollments / year x $175 textbook = $9.6 + Million every year

English Composition I 55,000+ enrollments / year x $175 textbook = $9.6 + Million every year

Does it make any sense WA State and K-12 Districts together spend $130M/year on textbooks and the results are: Books are (on average) 7-10 years out of date Paper only / no digital versions. Students can’t write / highlight in books Students can’t keep books at end of year All rights reserved… teachers can’t update

Does it make any sense WA State and K-12 Districts together spend $130M/year on textbooks and the results are: Books are (on average) 7-10 years out of date Paper only / no digital versions. Students can’t write / highlight in books Students can’t keep books at end of year All rights reserved… teachers can’t update

What is the OER opportunity with K-12 & Common Core?

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U.S. House Appropriations Committee draft FY2012 Labor, Health and Human Services funding bill SEC None of the funds made available by this Act for the Department of Labor may be used to develop new courses, modules, learning materials, or projects in carrying out education or career job training grant programs unless the Secretary of Labor certifies, after a comprehensive market-based analysis, that such courses, modules, learning materials, or projects are not otherwise available for purchase or licensing in the marketplace or under development for students who require them to participate in such education or career job training grant programs.

U.S. House Appropriations Committee draft FY2012 Labor, Health and Human Services funding bill SEC None of the funds made available by this Act for the Department of Labor may be used to develop new courses, modules, learning materials, or projects in carrying out education or career job training grant programs unless the Secretary of Labor certifies, after a comprehensive market-based analysis, that such courses, modules, learning materials, or projects are not otherwise available for purchase or licensing in the marketplace or under development for students who require them to participate in such education or career job training grant programs.

H.R "No Federal agency may adopt, implement, maintain, continue, or otherwise engage in any policy, program, or other activity that -- (1) causes, permits, or authorizes network dissemination of any private-sector research work without the prior consent of the publisher of such work; or (2) requires that any actual or prospective author, or the employer of such an actual or prospective author, assent to network dissemination of a private-sector research work."

H.R "No Federal agency may adopt, implement, maintain, continue, or otherwise engage in any policy, program, or other activity that -- (1) causes, permits, or authorizes network dissemination of any private-sector research work without the prior consent of the publisher of such work; or (2) requires that any actual or prospective author, or the employer of such an actual or prospective author, assent to network dissemination of a private-sector research work."

But even better, the bill sponsor said: "As the costs of publishing continue to be driven down by new technology, we will continue to see a growth in open access publishers. This new and innovative model appears to be the wave of the future. The transition must be collaborative, and must respect copyright law and the principles of open access. The American people deserve to have access to research for which they have paid.

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Efficient use of public funds to increase student success and access to quality educational materials. Everything else (including all existing business models) is secondary. Only ONE thing Matters:

What can your District do? Adopt one Open Textbook.

the opposite of open isn’t “closed”

the opposite of open is “broken” Attribution: John Wilbanks

Dr. Cable Green Director of Global Learning twitter: cgreen