OER at UH Mānoa

Open Access Week 2014

William G. ChismarDean of Outreach College

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

October 21, 2014

How much do our students spend on textbooks?

1. Identified 50 highest enrolled courses

2. Identified required textbooks & prices

3. Did the math for the cost for 50 courses

4. Estimated the total cost of textbooks for all courses

UH Mānoa total cost of textbooks:

$25M-$30M per semester!

At UH Mānoa, textbooks in summer cost $2M-$3M!

Subject Number Title Crds Enrollment Cost of Books/Student Total Cost of Books

CHEM 162 & Lab General Chemistry II 4 174 $286.75 $49,894.50

ENG 100 Composition I 3 130 $64.50 $8,385.00

PHYS 151 & Lab College Physics 4 120 $167.25 $20,070.00

CHEM 161 & Lab General Chemistry I 4 116 $287.95 $33,402.20

CHEM 273 & Lab Organic Chemistry II 4 113 $259.25 $29,295.25

BUS 313 Econ & Fin Envir of Global Bus 3 99 $115.15 $11,399.85

BUS 312 Principles of Marketing 3 97 $155.10 $15,044.70

HWST 107 Hawaii: Center of the Pacific 3 97 $0.00 $0.00

PHYS 170 & Lab General Physics I 4 88 $109.75 $9,658.00

BIOL 275 & Lab Cell and Molecular Biology 4 83 $193.85 $16,089.55

CHEM 272 & Lab Organic Chemistry I 5 75 $151.35 $11,351.25

BUS 314 Business Finance 3 74 $265.15 $19,621.10

MATH 241 Calculus I 4 74 $131.45 $9,727.30

FAMR 340 Intimacy, Marriages & Families 3 71 $167.80 $11,913.80

FSHN 185 The Science of Human Nutrition 3 69 $109.25 $7,538.25

ANTH 151 Emerging Humanity 3 69 $199.70 $13,779.30

MATH 140 Precalculus 3 69 $138.20 $9,535.80

Where does this money come from?

Where does it go?

Textbook costs negatively impact student success

65% of students said they did not buy a textbook because of cost

94% of students who did not buy a textbook were concerned that it would hurt their grade

48% of students said the cost of textbooks impacted how many and which classes they took each semester

Source: U.S. PIRG Education Fund & The Student PIRGS, January 2014

OER entails both financialand academic issues

1. Cost of textbooks2. Improved student success

• Every students has materials on day one

• Choice of courses not a function of cost

3. Academic innovation• Greater variety of course materials• Students participate in evaluating &

developing OER

OER is more than just free textbooks

Free +

Retain

Redistribute

Remix

Revise

Reuse

Legal Rights to:

Attribution

ShareAlike

NonCommercial

NoDerivatives

Creative CommonsLicensing

Most Free

Least Free

UH Mānoa is approaching OER in stages

Two targeted semester

s

Summer 2015 Fall 2016

Building set of faculty leaders

Identification

Providing needed

resources

Linking to college

priorities

Pedagogic innovation

Faculty reward

structure

Why are we promoting OER for Summer Session?

Now with

Free

Textbooks!

Great, so what else can OER do for Summer Session?

Academic Leadership

Caring for

StudentsAcademic Innovation

Build summer

session’s reputation

for…

Sounds good, but how ambitious should we be?

Randall Munroe

UH Mānoa’s OER effort has be broadened

Information Technology Services

Outreach CollegeUHM Library

Institutional Commitment

Faculty Leaders

OER Repository

OER & Course Development

Quality Control & Assessment

Public Relations

Institutional Commitment

• Support from IT Services

• OER librarian within Outreach College

• Cooperation of UH Press

• OER Website• ID of target

courses & faculty

• Invitations to participate

• Faculty retreats

• Engagement with OER community

Faculty Leaders

OER Repository

UH OER Architecture

UH OER Repository

OER Website

Laulima

Google DocsPrivate

Workspaces

Faculty

OthersStudents

Institutional Commitment

Faculty Leaders

OER Repository

OER & Course Development

Adopt

Similar in scope to

using a new textbook

Adapt

Similar in scope to creating online course

materials

Build

Similar in scope to

writing a new textbook with

many collaborators

SUMMER 201

4

• Hire OER librarian• Design OER repository & website• Begin faculty discussions

Fall/Spring

2014-15

• Implement OER repository & website

• ID courses for Summer 2015• Conduct faculty retreats/training

Summer

2015

• UHM Goal: 25+ OER courses offered

• Assessment process in place• Faculty projects for Fall 2016

Big challenge: the view of teaching as presenting content

Chronicle of Higher Education, May 19, 2014

The strategic value is in the teaching,

not in the content.

Institutional Commitment

Faculty Leaders

OER Repository

OER & Course Development

Quality Control & Assessment

Public Relations

GOOD NEWS

Adopting OER may not be easy, but it can have some

big payoffs!

Randall Munroe

Mahalo!

Bill Chismar

chismar@hawaii.edu