OER AND BLACKBOARD Improving affordability access and student

OER AND BLACKBOARD Improving affordability, access and student success by supporting Open Educational Resources 9/26/2018

Quick Overview of OER • OER (Open Educational Resources) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others

Why OER? • Support students by reducing their costs • Provide equitable access to required content • Stat that supports this: according to the The Chronicle of Higher Education 7 out of 10 students didn’t purchase a textbook due to cost; • Textbook Reserves: an antiquated concept gone awry • Keep up with higher education practices

OER and MMC • Perfect match for hybrid and fully online courses • For traditional teaching, can be used to improve educational content and excite students • OER and MMC and the immediate future: Goal is to create and promote courses that champion OER and make education more affordable and attainable • OER and MMC and the not so distant future: Establish an OER committee to help foster and implement an MMC OER initiative for courses as well as create an OER Printing Press and an OER Publishing House.

Text. Books - Open. Stax - Benefits • multiple points of access: online version, . pdf version, free Kindle Versions • Order print through secondary market for fraction of the cost of textbook

Textbooks - Open. Stax • • Beginning Algebra Biology Introduction to Business Precalculus Macroeconomics Microeconomics Psychology Complete list of Open. Stax textbooks (by subject)

Lumen Learning • Lumen Learning a simple, well-supported path for faculty to teach with open educational resources inside Blackboard • Costs $10 for Wayward (readings, $25 or Candela per student enrolled in a course

Top Hat • Top Hat – Website platform that enables easyto-use tools to promote active learning, adopt and author interactive textbooks, create assignments and administer test. • Top Hat Article – Success at Ohio U.

The End (for now) • Interested in OER for your course? • Should we form an OER committee? • Questions?