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Supporting Student Success with Open Educational Resources
Michelle Barron-Lutzross, MLIS
bepress Consulting Services
Introduction
• What are Open Educational Resources (OER), and how
can they serve your institution’s needs?
• Engaging faculty in conversations about Open
Educational Resources
• Open Educational Resources in the institutional
repository: multimedia teaching tools, textbooks, and
more
Open Educational Resources are...
“teaching, learning, and research resources released under an open license that permits their free use and
repurposing by others.”
SPARC Open Education Factsheet
Sources: https://sparcopen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/SPARC-
Open-Education-Fact-Sheet.pdf
Value and Benefits of OER
Rising Cost of Textbooks
Sources: https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2016/college-tuition-and-fees-increase-63-percent-since-january-2006.htm
OER Cost Savings
Institution Years Student Cost Savings
University of
Massachusetts
Amherst
2011-2015 over $1,000,000
Portland State
University
Spring 2015-Fall 2016 $85,000
George Fox University Fall 2016-Spring 2017 $118,855
Sources: http://works.bepress.com/marilyn_billings/69/,
http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/ulib_fac/210/,
http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/libraries_fac/21/
Recognizing OER for Campus Needs
• Diverse campus groups are connecting open education initiatives to strategic goals.
• Grant-making organizations are funding OER materials or degrees.
• Legislation encouraging OER development has been passed in several states in recent years.
Broadening Your Institutional Appeal
• The library is a natural partner for OER publishing.
• OER in the repository are permanently associated with your institution, giving demonstrated value from your community’s teaching.
• OER can be a recruitment tool for prospective students.
Engaging Faculty
Faculty Awareness of OER
● 2016 Babson report found that
many faculty are still not aware
of several aspects of OER, but
awareness has increased since
2014.
● Awareness varies by discipline
and age group.
Source: http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html
Library Support for OER
• Part of your library’s suite of services.
• The library can help with licensing, print on demand, etc.
• Making resources already in the Learning Management System truly open.
Bringing Faculty Aboard
• Start small, with existing materials such as slides.
• Remind faculty: You have already created content that can be used as OER.
• Work up to bigger fish: lectures, textbooks, worksheets, handouts, specimens.
What OER Look Like Now
• Wide variety of institutions are posting OER
• Course materials and multimedia teaching tools
• Textbooks and lectures
• Syllabi
Multimedia Teaching Tools
http://spark.parkland.edu/sim_teach/
http://scholarexchange.furman.edu/fca/
“The David E. Shi Center for Sustainability at Furman University has created this easy to use, easy to modify learning module…”
Textbooks
http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/books/
http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/oer/1/
http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pdxopen/
Course Materials
http://repository.upenn.edu/vp3d_scans/
http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/lemb/
http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cssp/
Lectures
Lectures
“Hello, anyone who might be interested in watching my free organic chemistry lecture videos!”
http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/ub_biochem/
http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/lectures_pre_arch_lectures_house/
Syllabi
http://commons.colgate.edu/syllabi/
http://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabi/
OER on Digital Commons are collected into the Teaching Commons for centralized discovery. http://teachingcommons.us/
Thank you!
For more OER resources:
https://www.bepress.com/library_categories_dc/open-educational-resources/
Questions:
info@bepress.com