1. April 6, 2009 Educating Minds and Hearts to Change the World 1 Open Educational Resources: Arts and Sciences College Council April 2009 Access, Scholarship and Community John Bansavich - Center for Instructional Technology Shawn P. Calhoun - Gleeson Library | Geschke Center

2. April 6, 2009 Educating Minds and Hearts to Change the World 2 Students & Traditional Textbooks Students on average spend $900 on textbooks annually College textbook prices have risen at twice the inflation rate since the 1980s, averaging 6% per year. New editions with minimal alterations are coming out at a faster rate compared to cycles 10 to 20 years ago. [however traditional publishing not as nimble as online] Customized publishing designed for specific classes raises prices & negates student ability to buy & sell used books. Government Accountability Office. College Textbooks: appear to drive the recent price increases. Washington D. C.: United States Government Accountability Office, July, 2005

3. April 6, 2009 Educating Minds and Hearts to Change the World 3 Open Educational Resources Textbooks and similar teaching materials that are open — free for anyone to use, reuse and redistribute + Changes model for faculty and students –Learning/teaching options :: Almost always digital –Content disseminated faster than traditional publishing –Low/No Cost :: Creative Commons (CC) license Flexible –Faculty and students own content –Remix content to meet specific needs Online/hybrid learning communities Personal learning environments

4. April 6, 2009 Educating Minds and Hearts to Change the World 4 Open Educational Resource Example I Dr. McAfee (SPARC) Innovator, January 2009: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (ACRL/ARL) Introduction to Economic Analysis by R. P. McAfee, California Institute of Technology Harvard. U Toronto NYU Verona University. West Chester U. Simon Fraser Claremont McKenna Cal Poly SLO

5. April 6, 2009 Educating Minds and Hearts to Change the World 5 Open Educational Resource Example II Collaborative Statistics by by Dr. Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean, De Anza College Adoptions as of Fall 2008: 14 instructors, teaching 20 sections with approximately 770 total students University of Toledo CSU - Dominguez Hills (grad. bio stats course) SUNY - Purchase De Anza College Mesa College

6. April 6, 2009 Educating Minds and Hearts to Change the World 6 The Quality of Open Educational Resources Materials are not anonymous (e.g. Wikipedia) Pedagogy and Tradition –Faculty decide if an OER resource meets their quality standards –Communities of scholars collaborate In order to help users find the materials they need, we are developing a system that enables anyone (individuals, institutions, professional societies, and so on) to set up their own review process that sifts through the entire repository and directs users to the content judged to be "high quality". It is basically analogous to the "peer review" systems used in academic journals, but more scalable. - Connexions, The Open Textbook portal at Rice University

7. April 6, 2009 Educating Minds and Hearts to Change the World 7 Next Steps & Resources Next Steps –Joint University Library Advisory Committee –Arts & Sciences brownbag 4/8 USF Collaborations –A&S Faculty + CIT + Gleeson –Online OER Resources Site Resources USF Resource Page: http://oer.wiki.usfca.edu/http://oer.wiki.usfca.edu/ –Connexions (Rice University) –Educause Review –William & Flora Hewlett Foundation –More links (http://delicious.com/shawncalhoun/OER)http://delicious.com/shawncalhoun/OER