1. OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES in Geology
Shelley Jaye
Northern Virginia Community College

2. Textbook Costs are High

3. Billions per year on textbooks: US Undergraduate
Institutions
2013 Undergrad FTE
Textbook Costs
Public 2Y
1,039
4,583,271
$3,208,289,700
Public 4Y
695
5,957,927
$4,170,548,900
Nonprofit 2Y
167
46,247
$32,372,900
Nonprofit 4Y
1,417
2,679,418
$1,875,592,600
3,318
13,266,863
$9,286,804,100
UG FTE: IPEDS 2013 undergraduate FTE for accredited institutions of higher learning.
Projected Annual Textbook Costs: $700 average annual materials costs per undergraduate FTE.

4. $250M/year on textbooks: VA public/nonprofits
2013
Undergrad FTE
Projected Annual Textbook Costs
26 2Y Institutions
125,228
$87,659,600
54 4Y Institutions
237,691
$166,383,700
362,919
$254,043,300
UG FTE: IPEDS 2013 undergraduate FTE for accredited institutions of higher learning.
Projected Annual Textbook Costs: $700 average annual materials costs per undergraduate FTE.

5. Textbook Pricing in Context
One Month Access to…
Costs…
Netflix: 20k Movies/TV Episodes
$7.99/month
Spotify: 15M Songs
$9.99/month
NVCC B&N Physical Geology Text & Lab
$31.00/month

6. The direct connection between cost & success
Recent research (conducted by the Florida Virtual Campus) quantifies the ways high textbook costs affect student persistence and success.
More than 60% of students report not having purchase textbooks at some point due to the cost
Nearly a quarter (23%) of students regularly go without textbooks due to their cost
Due to the high cost of textbooks:
35% of students report taking fewer courses
31% report not registering for a course
14% have dropped a course
10% have withdrawn from a course
Link to research source:

7. The OER Vision

8. OER: Open Educational Resources are
Open: openly-licensed to support “5 R Benefits” to Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, & Redistribute materials.
Educational: developed for educational use.
Resources: materials of all kinds that support teaching & learning, including textbooks, ancillary materials, assessments, labs, & more.

9. Makes It Easy to Share: 5Rs
At its core, open materials are 5Rs
First three are what impact teaching and learning
Bundling multiple texts is expensive:
Focused on return of investment of textbook
Revise: reduce the amount of materials
Opportunity for students to engage in materials…engaging students to revise and add to the textbook for their course
Free is awesome…but it’s just a part of what this is about

10. Use copyright to enforce sharing
Use copyright to enforce sharing with a Creative Commons license

11. Creative commons licensing
Share alike: You let others copy, distribute, display, perform, and modify your work, as long as they distribute any modified work on the same terms. If they want to distribute modified works under other terms, they must get your permission first.

12. Open Educational Resources in Geology
Lumen Learning open textbook in Physical Geology:
Originally derived from:

14. Open Educational Resources in Geology
Another fully open Physical Geology textbook:

16. Open Educational Resources in Geology
GeoScience Videos by David McConnell & Jennifer Dixon (NC State)
Assessment Resources and Class Outlines:

17. Open Educational Resources in Geology
“Earth Rocks!” Physical Geology and Oceanography videos by Katryn Wiese (City College of San Francisco)
IRIS: Incorporated Research for Seismology
Good animations:
Earthquake Browser: looking at real time earthquake data in 3D

18. Open Educational Resources in Geology
Earth Science videos by Mike Sammartano
***Topographic Map Skills***

19. Open Educational Resources in Geology
Lab Manual in Physical Geology by: Charles Merguerian, Hofstra University
Note:  The material on this page and subpages are protected by copyright statutes and can not be used for any commercial purpose unless you cut me in!  Educators are free to use any and all of these materials for instructional purposes with proper acknowledgement [© 2010]

20. Using OER and Flipping Your Physical Geology Classroom
OER reading posted to Blackboard
OER geoscience videos with pre-class quizzes posted to Blackboard
Students come to class prepared to engage in…
Labs, labs, labs…
Lab basics from Hofstra Physical Geology Lab Manual
Lab exercises developed over my years of teaching with a lot of ideas coming from submissions to the Science Education Resource Center
“Teach the Earth”:

21. Using OER and Flipping Your Physical Geology Classroom
In-work and future plans:

22. Results Began using OER in GOL 105 & GOL 106 in Spring 2016
Sections consistently fill quickly
Student survey on OER and Flipping Classroom
Data and outcomes at next Science Peer Group