dispelling myths about oer and open textbooks jacky hood, coordinator, open doors group 14 september...
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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 [email protected]
College Open Textbooks http://collegeopentextbooks.org Una Daly, Director, [email protected]
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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