Open it!
What Open Educational Resources means for Higher Ed and You
David Wiley• Ethan Senack• Bruce Maas
Diane Graves Open It! What Open Educational Resources Means for Higher Ed and You
by
David Wiley, Ethan Senack, Bruce Maas, and Diane Graves
is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
International License.
What is the issue?
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HOW LEARNING HAPPENS
In the media:
College Textbooks:
Do You Get What You
Pay For?
--Huffington Post, Oct. 8, 2015
Open
1. Free and unfettered access
2. Perpetual, irrevocable 5R permissions
The 5Rs
• Retain - make and own a copy
• Reuse - in a broad range of ways
• Revise - adapt, improve, personalize
• Remix - combine two or more together
• Redistribute - share with others
Why should we care??
Today’s speakers
•
Ethan Senack, Higher Education Advocate, U.S. Public Interest
Research Group
•
Dr. David Wiley, CoFounder & Chief Academic Officer, Lumen
Learning
•
Bruce Maas, Vice Provost for Information Technology and CIO,
University of Wisconsin—Madison
•
…and you, asking questions
U.S. Public Interest Research Group
Ethan Senack
@higheredpirg
Textbook Pricing in Context
One Month Access to…
Netflix – 10k Movies / TV Episodes
Spotify – 15M Songs
Costs…
$7.99 / month
$9.99 / month
CourseSmart – 1 Biology Textbook
$19.67 / month
A Multi-Institutional Study of the Impact
of Open Textbook Adoption on the
Learning Outcomes of Post-secondary
Students
Fischer, Hilton, Robinson, and Wiley
Published in the Journal of Computing in Higher
Education
Participants
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4909 treatment
11,818 control
15 different undergraduate courses
130 teachers
10 institutions
Method
Quasi-experimental design with:
• Propensity Score Matching
• Post Test Only
• Dependent variables: Completion; C or
Better; Credits Enrolled This Term; Next
Term
• Independent variable: Textbook condition
• 3 covariates: including age, gender, and
race
Propensity Score Matching
Credits Taken
Semester Treatment Control
Result
Fall
13.29
11.14
t (8101) = 27.81 p < .01
Winter
10.71
9.16
F(1, 6440) = 154.08, p
<.01)
Mad, Glad, Sad, Rad: A Framework for Evaluating the
Academic Return on Investment in
Textbooks and Other Educational
Materials Wiley, Hilton, Fischer, and Puente
Under Review
Student Success per Dollar
$200
“Glad”
“Sad”
“Rad”
Cost
“Mad”
0
Completing with C or Better 100%
Student Success per Dollar
$200
Commercial
“Glad”
“Sad”
“Rad”
Cost
“Mad”
0
Completing with C or Better 100%
Student Success per Dollar
$200
Commercial
“Glad”
“Sad”
“Rad”
Cost
“Mad”
OER
0
Completing with C or Better 100%
Student Success per Dollar
$250
300
Cost
225
150
75
0
$0
0
0
25
50
75
Completing with C or Better 100%
100
openedgroup.org/review
11 Peer Reviewed Studies
http://openedgroup.org/
48,623 Students
http://openedgroup.org/
93% Same or Better Outcomes
http://openedgroup.org/
9 Peer Reviewed Studies of
Perceptions of OER Quality
http://openedgroup.org/
4,510 Professors and Students
http://openedgroup.org/
15%
Worse
35%
Better
50%
Same
http://openedgroup.org/
impact.lumenlearning.com
OER-based Degrees
• Tidewater Community College
• Northern Virginia Community College (2)
• VCCS Zx23
• Washington SBCTC
• Several others in planning stages
University of Wisconsin
• Educational
Innovation: year 5
• Faculty use of OER is
not new
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Accessed October
15, 2015.
What Wisconsin students want
"Reactable / Sergi Jordà, Günter Geiger, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Marcos Alonso / Music Technology Group." Flickr. Accessed
October 15, 2015.
The process at Wisconsin
• Student/Faculty/staff governance process
• Faculty-led
• Cost control
The process, continued: analytics
Lawson, James Royal. "Web Analytics Framework." Flickr. July 26, 2012. Accessed October 15,
2015.
Unizin
Infrastructure at Wisconsin
Johnson, Scott. “Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. (1).” Flickr. January 26, 2013. Accessed October 19, 2015.
Who owns it? Who controls it?
Woodward, Tom. "Data Slide." Flickr. October 6, 2008. Accessed October 19, 2015.
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