1. Open Educational Resources: What does the research say?
Tiffani Reardon
CHSS Instructional Designer

2. Financial Considerations
Textbook prices have gone up by 82% in the last decade
Average annual cost of course materials per student is $1,298
Average cost of 1 year of in-state attendance (tuition, fees, and housing) at a 4-year public college is $24,061
(Affordable)

3. Copyright Considerations
License
Description
Attribution
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.
Attribution-ShareAlike
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
Attribution-NoDerivs
This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
Attribution-NonCommercial
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
This license lets other remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
This license is the most restrictive of their six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.
Most OER use Creative Commons licensing
Many OER are open to edit as well as use
OER help faculty get out of the infinite loop of textbook revision cycles
(Creative)

4. Relevant Student Statistics
30% of students did not purchase the required textbook for a course in 2013 (Affordable)
34% of students downloaded textbooks from unauthorized sites in 2013 (Affordable)
48% of students said that the cost of textbooks influenced their decisions on which and how many classes to take in 2013 (Perez-Hernandez)

5. OER at KSU GALILEO – Reading List Tool in D2L (Kennesaw)
OpenStax College (OpenStax)
Affordable Learning Georgia Textbook Transformation Grants (Affordable)
ALG Round 9:

6. References
Affordable Learning Georgia. (2017) About: ALG by-the-numbers.
Creative Commons. (n.d.) About the Licenses.
Kennesaw State University Library System. (2017) Ask-A-Librarian: How do I add library resources to my D2L course using Reading List?
OpenStax. (2016).
Perez-Hernandez, D. (2014) Open Textbooks Could Help Students Financially and Academically. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Reardon, T. (2016) Open Educational Resources: A Cost and Copyright Analysis. Distance Learning Administration Conference Proceedings.