open educational resources & open access

srutter@hawaii.edu

Open Educational Resources & Open Access

Sara Rutter | OER Librarian

Outreach College

University of Hawaii Manoa

Words associated with OER & OA

Educational Web Create

Shared Free Revisable Reusable

Open Social JusticeAffordability

OER is...

"The open provision of educational resources,

enabled by information and communication

technologies, for consultation, use and

adaptation by a community of users for non-

commercial purposes." UNESCO, 2002

OER is...

"The idea behind Open Educational Resources

(OER) is simple but powerful—educational

materials made freely and legally available on the

Internet for anyone to reuse, revise, remix and

redistribute." William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2013

David Wiley: Defining the "Open" in Open Content

The term "open content" describes any

copyrightable work ... that is licensed in a manner

that provides users with free and perpetual

permission to engage in the 5R activities.

5 R ActivitiesRetain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the content

Reuse - the right to use the content in a wide range of ways

Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself

Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new

Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others

Rights granted in Creative Commons Licensing

Students struggle to complete degrees

uh oh!

Student Public Interest Research Groups

--65% of students have decided against

purchasing or renting a required textbook

--94% of these students believed this choice

would hurt their grade

Financing a college education

American College Health Association (2014),

finances are the second-largest stressor for

students after academics—more than a third of

students described finances as “traumatic” or

“very difficult” to handle.

Financing a college education

About one in four first-year students and one in

three seniors frequently did not purchase required

academic materials due to their cost, and a third of

students believed that financial concerns interfered

with their academic performance. NSSE Annual Report 2012

OER implementation in higher education

OER at the University of Hawaii

❏Honolulu Community College❏ Leeward Community College ❏ Kapiolani Community College ❏UH Manoa

Outreach CollegeUH Manoa Library

oer.hawaii.edu

Is it worth the effort?

Yes! Committing to OA and OER

--Students have access to required/needed materials on the first day of class

--Instructors can tailor the materials to their students and to their instructional needs

--An opportunity to redesign courses for today’s learners.

Recommendations

-Start applying Creative Commons licensing and

practice licensing your creative works.

-Add your course materials to the UH OER

Repository oer.hawaii.edu/admin

-Check out the OER Guides,

guides.oer.hawaii.edu

Attribution

"Open Content" by David Wiley is licensed under CC BY 4.0

"National Survey of Student Engagement Annual Results 2012" by Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research

"ACHA National College Health Assessment Spring 2014" by American College Health Association

"How College Students Battled Textbook Publishers To A Draw, In 3 Graphs" by David Kestnebaum

Ethan Senack, Open Textbooks: the billion dollar solution Student PIRGS is licensed under CC BY 4.0

The era of the textbook cartel and $300 textbooks is ending, as the ‘college textbook bubble’ shows signs of deflating" by Mark J. Perry, American Enterprise Institute. (Carpe Diem)

Images

"Delivery-Scooter" by Luis Prado, Noun Project is licensed under CC BY 4.0 / A derivative from the original work

"Drowning" by OCHA Visual Information Unit, Noun Project is in the Public Domain, CC0