Open Educational Resources: Definition & National Landscape Judith Sebesta, Director of Innovation Presentation to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, October 22, 2015

Textbook costs are rising nationally Percent increase

Open Educational Resources Teaching, learning, and research materials In any medium Public domain No-cost access Use is unrestricted

OER: National Landscape

OER: National Landscape

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OER Opportunities and Challenges Cost of/time for development/ identification Quality Accessibility Opportunities Spur pedagogical innovation Support learning outcomes with usage analytics Increase access to learning materials Decrease the cost of college attendance

OPEN SOURCES. OPEN MINDS.

HISTORY OpenStax College Based at Rice University Launched June 2012 Publisher of free, professional-quality, open source textbooks Supported by Arnold, Gates, Hewlett, Maxfield, and many other foundations.

GOALS Increase access to high-quality open educational content Provide students financial relief Increase academic freedom and flexibility for faculty Improve completion rates and reduce time to graduation by reducing financial barriers presented by high-cost materials “Student indebtedness exceeds $1 trillion” –New York Times, 5/12/13 “Seven in ten college students said they had not purchased a textbook at least once because they had found the price too high.” –Chronicle of Higher Education, 8/23/11

LICENSING Distribute Remix Tweak Build upon Commercial use allowed Only attribution required Open Educational Resources are freely available, and carry an open license such as those available from the Creative Commons. OpenStax uses the Creative Commons Attribution or CC-BY license which allows for…

A GROWING LIBRARY 19 books available and several more in production. These books serve many of the highest enrolled college courses. 11/30/2018

PARTNERS

TEXTBOOK HEROES

TEXTBOOK HEROES

PROGRESS 2,000+ adoptions 544,000 students $53,600,000 savings 2,555,588 downloads 1,031 or 21.9% of US degree granting institutions using at least 1 OpenStax text. August 2015

TEXAS SNAPSHOT 246 adoptions 99,133 students $9,771,539.81 cumulative savings 530,138 downloads 77 or 52% of TX degree granting institutions using at least 1 OpenStax text.* August 2015 * Source: http://www.txhighereddata.org/Interactive/Institutions.cfm

WHAT’S WORKING Tarrant County Community College Strong support of administration. Faculty workshops. System-wide OER committee, including faculty members. $811,033.96 in student savings

WHAT’S WORKING University System of Georgia Affordable Learning Georgia Offers textbook transformation grants $2.2M saved in Round 1 of grants ($303,390)* * Source: http://www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org/documents/ALG_R1_Final_Report.pdf

Open Educational Resources in Texas Judith Sebesta, Director of Innovation Presentation to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, October 22, 2015

OER in Texas