1. OER AND BLACKBOARD Improving affordability, access and student success by supporting Open Educational Resources
9/26/2018

2. Quick Overview of OER
OER (Open Educational Resources) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others

3. Why OER? Support students by reducing their costs
Provide equitable access to required content
Stat that supports this: according to the The Chronicle of Higher Education 7 out of 10 students didn’t purchase a textbook due to cost;
Textbook Reserves: an antiquated concept gone awry
Keep up with higher education practices

4. OER and MMC Perfect match for hybrid and fully online courses
For traditional teaching, can be used to improve educational content and excite students
OER and MMC and the immediate future: Goal is to create and promote courses that champion OER and make education more affordable and attainable
OER and MMC and the not so distant future: Establish an OER committee to help foster and implement an MMC OER initiative for courses as well as create an OER Printing Press and an OER Publishing House.

5. TextBooks - OpenStax OpenStax - Benefits
multiple points of access: online version, .pdf version, free Kindle Versions
Order print through secondary market for fraction of the cost of textbook

6. Textbooks - OpenStax Beginning Algebra Biology
Introduction to Business
Precalculus
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
Psychology Complete list of OpenStax textbooks (by subject)

7. Lumen Learning
Lumen Learning a simple, well-supported path for faculty to teach with open educational resources inside Blackboard
Costs $10 for Wayward (readings, $25 or Candela per student enrolled in a course

8. Top Hat
Top Hat – Website platform that enables easy-to-use tools to promote active learning, adopt and author interactive textbooks, create assignments and administer test.
Top Hat Article – Success at Ohio U.

9. The End (for now) Interested in OER for your course?
Should we form an OER committee?
Questions?