Presentation explaining the need to use more open educational resources in the classroom as opposed to traditional textbooks. Includes statistics on the rising cost of higher education and student expenses. Provides resources for open textbooks and other educational resources

Freeman, Amie

Taylor, Tucker

English

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Open Educational Resources: Finding and Utilizing Affordable Course Materials Scholarly Communications Team University Libraries College Costs 2014-2015 ● Tuition   $11,158 in-state $29,440 out-of-state ● Housing   $6,378 ● Meals   $3,042 ● Textbooks  $1,008 USC Student Expenses ● USC Upstate    $800-1,200 ● Coker     $1,000 ● Winthrop     $1,000 ● USC       $1,008 ● Clemson     $1,138 ● Coastal     $1,147 ● Furman     $1,200 ● Piedmont Tech    $1,200 ● College of Charleston   $1,207 ● Charleston Southern   $1,400 ● Denmark Tech    $1,500 ● Voorhees     $1,500 ● Midlands Tech    $1,632  Around the State ● Typical Freshman Semester o English 101  $98 o Biology 101 $367 plus an optional $230 textbook o Math 141  $231 o Spanish 121 $213 o Criminal Justice $238  USC ● $1377  Your first semester  ● 190 hours of minimum wage work  o Chemistry 111  ▪ $174 plus an optional $476 package USC "I have to plan my studying around our library's loan system. You can go in for two hours and borrow it. In one class, I'm behind on my reading because I don't have the textbook yet. You just get a lot more out of a lecture when you have the foundation of understanding from the textbook."  Not purchase the required textbook  64% Not register for a course     45% Take fewer courses      49% Drop a course        27% Withdraw from a course     21% Fail a course        17% Over the course of an academic career, students report that textbook costs have caused them to: Image http://tinyurl.com/prdrmw4 http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/items/10c0c9f5-fa58-2869-4fd9-af67fec26387/1/  Band-Aids:  ● Textbook rentals  ● Online   ● Different editions  ● Library textbook checkout Current Solutions Image www.studentpirgs.org/textbooks Credit Student Pirgs “Open educational resources (OER) means 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.” Free  ● Available at no cost to students 5 “R”s  ● Retain  ● Reuse  ● Revise  ● Remix  ● Redistribute What is “Open”? Using OERs: Benefits to You OER Benefits • Free (or low cost print) • Adaptable/customizable/creatable  • Many are peer reviewed, very high quality • Focused on high enrollment courses • Very little copyright concern • Allowed to make web accessible • Makes our required course materials available to everyone • Students have access first day of class  University of Massachusetts, Amherst ● 2011-Open Education Initiative ● Faculty to convert  classes from traditional textbook   use to OERs ● Students saved an average  $125.98 per course ● Nearly $1 million saved Image www.studentpirgs.org/textbooks Why is Open better? Image http://tinyurl.com/ldx2ous Universities (Rice University, SUNY, Purdue, Oregon State)  Foundations (Hewlett Foundation, Gates Foundation)  Governments (California, British Columbia)   Funding http://www.slideshare.net/djernst (edited) Credit: David Ernst https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/new_nap_commitments_report_092314.pdf ● Online = free ● Everything on the internet is junk ● Publishers add benefit Myths So I can just google these, right? Image http://tinyurl.com/mdhk6ua Attend a library workshop   Investigate LibGuide guides.library.sc.edu/OER  Call/email us/Book A Librarian  Consult Library Resources     Try an advanced Google search  Limit by license type Image www.google.com Merlot ● Large searchable database ● Many types of open educational  content ● Anyone can contribute Image www.merlot.org The Orange Grove Image http://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/access/hierarchy.do?topic=d37c6ed5-3822-84a6-721c-6d9033a88541&sort=rank&page=1&q= BCcampus Open Textbook Project  • Openly licensed • Free of charge • Various formats ● Peer reviewed ● Faculty were paid to create ● Rice University ● Competitive with professional textbooks  OpenStax Image: http://openstaxcollege.org/ Open Textbook Library:  University of Minnesota Image http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks  Faculty reviews Now what? ● Write a review ● Adopt an textbook ● Improve an existing  textbook ● Write your own textbook ● Spread the word   Image http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/2259639880/ Scholarly Communications Team Amie Freeman: dillarda@mailbox.sc.edu Tucker Taylor: tucky@mailbox.sc.edu   

Open Educational Resources: Finding and Utilizing Affordable Course Materials

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Open Educational Resources: Finding and Utilizing Affordable Course Materials

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