dispelling myths about oer and open textbooks jacky hood, coordinator, open doors group 14 september...

Dispelling Myths about OER and Open Textbooks

Jacky Hood, Coordinator, Open Doors Group14 September 2011 at 12:50 Eastern Time

Photo credits on the last slide

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Myths are great…both urban and rural…

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Paul Bunyan and his Blue Ox

Lost city of Atlantis

But let’s avoid Myth-Conceptions

Open Educational

Resources are low quality.

Open Educational

Resources are low quality.My students

prefer bound textbooks so I

cannot select an open textbook.

My students prefer bound textbooks so I

cannot select an open textbook.

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Poll: Use of OER…

Have you used Open Educational resources?

Yes, as an instructor Yes, as a student No

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Myth 1: Demand is High; Supply is Low

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Poll: Pricing Behavior

In a restaurant, do you avoid the least expensive item most expensive item both neither

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Myth 2: Commercial Use of OER should be Avoided

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Myth 3: An open textbook requires only the efforts and generosity of an author.

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BookstoresBookstoresWholesalersWholesalers

DistributorsDistributorsPrintersPrintersSales peopleSales people

MarketersMarketersBeta trial studentsBeta trial students

Peer ReviewersPeer ReviewersFact CheckersFact Checkers

Copy EditorsCopy Editors

PhotographersPhotographersIllustratorsIllustrators

EditorEditorAuthor(s)Author(s)

Project ManagerProject Manager

Poll: Student Media Preferences

Do the students you know prefer

Bound textbooks On-line textbooks Downloadable

textbooks Printable textbooks

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Myth 4: All Open textbooks are eBooks

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More Myths

Open textbooks will destroy college bookstores

Open textbooks are crowd-sourced by anonymous amateurs

Low cost is the only benefit of open textbooks.

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Contact Us

Open Doors Group http://opendoorsgroup.org Coordinator jacky.hood@opendoorsgroup.org

College Open Textbooks http://collegeopentextbooks.org Una Daly, Director, unatdaly@gmail.com

Join our community at http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com

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Photo Credits Race for the Lost City of Atlantis by Don Dixon

http://www.cosmographica.com/gallery/portfolio2007/content/bin/images/large/374_AtlantisAerial.jpg

Paul Bunyan from Brainerd http://www.brainerd.com/images/pbcover.jpg Question mark from puzzle pieces open licensed by Horia Varlan

http://www.flickr.com/photos/horiavarlan/4273168957/ Supply/Demand/Need open licensed by A Look Askance (MelvinSchlubman)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alookaskance/253465353/ Le Restaurant at the Gare de Nord open licensed by Fotopedia

http://www.fotopedia.com/items/flickr-2567349994 Currency symbols on dice by Mad Group:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/m4dgroup/6001102681/ Publishing the Open Source Way CC BY SA by Open Source Way

http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5041738449/sizes/z/in/photostream/ Spring Break Projects (Cat computer and books) open licensed By Seth Battis

http://www.flickr.com/photos/battis/2332470390/ Atlas from a 1917 public domain book; photo open licensed by perpetualplum Sue Clark

http://www.flickr.com/photos/perpetualplum/4526748750/

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