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Advancing OER in OntarioBrady Yano (@bradyyano)
Assistant Director of Open Education, SPARC
eCampus Ontario Student Engagement Seminar18/10/2016 | Toronto, Ontario
Advanced education is important
Advanced education is expensive
Source: GAO
Average Estimated Undergraduate Budgets, 2014-15
Source: College Board
Books & Supplies = $1,249
DONE READING?
GOOD
Market Failure
Market Failure
5 major publishers hold nearly 90% of the
market
Source: Turning the Page by James Koch
Market Failure
Source: NACS.org
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students are captives, not consumers
2 in 3Students say they decided against buying
a textbook because the cost is too high
Source: Student PIRGs
1 in 2Students say they have at some point taken fewer courses due to the cost of textbooks
Source: Florida Virtual Campus
<1 in 2Students purchase a current
edition of their textbook
Source: Book Industry Study Group
we can do better.
OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES
Hewlett Foundation Definition:“OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or are released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others”
OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCESFree + Reuse Rights
• Retain• Reuse• Revise• Remix• Redistribute
“some rights reserved”www.creativecommons.org
most open
least open
OER
where are the OER?
open.umn.edu
• Higher or equivalent grades• Higher average credit load• Higher or equivalent completion
rates
Putting open into action
I wanted my students to gain hands on experience managing a project… So I asked my students to engage in a very large scale revise / remix project.” - @opencontent
#textbookbrokeBC
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1200
www.sparcopen.org
Source: Bohannon, John. Who’s Downloading Pirated Papers? Everyone. Science. April 2016. URL: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone
www.sparcopen.org
Free, immediate online access to scientific & scholarly articleswith full reuse rightsBudapest Open Access Initiative
www.sparcopen.org
Two paths to Open Access
Self-archiving
Open AccessJournals
www.sparcopen.org
1. Publish in an open-access journal
X 9,000
Source: Directory of Open Access Journals: www.doaj.orgwww.sparcopen.org
X 2,000
2. Publish (most) anywhere, deposit into an open-access repository
www.sparcopen.org
Institutional Policy
Institutional Open Access Policies
270 Institutions in 45 countries Data
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Key to success?
Key to success? open collaboration
