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

2. Textbook costs are rising nationally
Percent increase

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

4. OER: National Landscape

5. OER: National Landscape

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7. 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

8. OPEN SOURCES. OPEN MINDS.

9. 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.

10. 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

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…

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

13. PARTNERS

14. TEXTBOOK HEROES

15. TEXTBOOK HEROES

16. 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

17. TEXAS SNAPSHOT 246 adoptions 99,133 students
$9,771, cumulative savings
530,138 downloads
77 or 52% of TX degree granting institutions using at least 1 OpenStax text.*
August 2015
* Source:

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

19. 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:

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

21. OER in Texas