1. Getting Started… Open Educational Resources

2. Some Quick Facts 7 in 10 students have chosen not to purchase a textbook because of cost. 78 percent of the students expected to perform worse without that textbook, but chose to not purchase regardless. http://chronicle.com/article/7-in-10- Students-Have-Skipped/128785/ http://chronicle.com/article/7-in-10- Students-Have-Skipped/128785/ College textbook prices have risen 1,041 percent since 1977. During that same period of time overall inflation rose only 308 percent. http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/fre shman-year/college-textbook-prices- have-risen-812-percent-1978-n399926 http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/fre shman-year/college-textbook-prices- have-risen-812-percent-1978-n399926

3. Open Education and OER “Open education is a philosophy about the way people should produce, share, and build on knowledge. Proponents of open education believe everyone in the world should have access to high-quality educational experiences and resources, and they work to eliminate barriers to this goal. Such barriers might include high monetary costs, outdated or obsolete materials, and legal mechanisms that prevent collaboration among scholars and educators. Promoting collaboration is central to open education. As the Open Education Consortium says: “sharing is probably the most basic characteristic of education: education is sharing knowledge, insights and information with others, upon which new knowledge, skills, ideas and understanding can be built.” https://opensource.com/resources/what-open- education https://opensource.com/resources/what-open- education “Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources released under an open license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OER can be full courses, course materials, lesson plans, open textbooks, learning objects, videos, games, tests, software, or any other tool, material, or technique that supports access to knowledge.” http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open-education

4. 5Rs and OER Progression Open Educational Resources are broadly considered to meet the “5Rs Framework,” meaning that users are free to: Retain Reuse Revise Remix Redistribute http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open- education http://www.sparc.arl.org/issues/open- education ADOPT (for some courses materials are already completed and ready for you) ADAPT (for other courses you might want to change the order or add to existing OER materials at your own leisure) CREATE (when you are ready, you can make the perfect course material just for you, and then share it with the world)

5. Two Places To Start OPEN TEXTBOOK LIBRARY http://open.umn.edu/opentextboo ks/ http://open.umn.edu/opentextboo ks/ “The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly- licensed textbooks.” UTAH OER http://oerutah.org/ Brings together eleven of the most useful sources for open textbooks and materials. http://oerutah.org/index.php/find -oer/ (textbook page) http://oerutah.org/index.php/find -oer/

6. For More Information Dustin Fife dustin.fife@uvu.edu (801) 863-8751 The Library will research some options to help get you started.