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OER in K-12:
Sharing Common Core and
Future Directions
Dr. Cable Green
Director of Global Learning
[email protected]
@cgreen
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“Nearly one-third of the world’s
population (29.3%) is under
15. Today there are 158 million
people enrolled in tertiary
education1. Projections
suggest that that participation
will peak at 263 million2 in
2025. Accommodating the
additional 105 million students
would require more than four
major universities (30,000
students) to open every week
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for the next fifteen years.
1 ISCED levels 5 & 6 UNESCO Institute of Statistics figures
2 British
Council and IDP Australia projections
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Higher Ed
K-12
Open Educational Resources (OER)
OER are teaching, learning,
and research materials in any
medium that reside in the
public domain or have been
released under an open
license that permits their free
use and re-purposing by
others.
Education grant making
Search & Discovery
Translations & Accessibility
Customization & Affordability
What is the
Business / Policy
Case for OER?
Rivalrous vs. Non-Rivalrous
Resources
vs
.
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Cost of “Copy”
For one 250 page book:
• Copy by hand - $1,000
• Copy by print on demand - $4.90
• Copy by computer - $0.00084
CC BY: David Wiley, BYU
Cost of “Distribute”
For one 250 page book:
• Distribute by mail - $5.20
• $0 with print-on-demand (2000+ copies)
• Distribute by internet - $0.00072
CC BY: David Wiley, BYU
Copy and Distribute are “Free”
This changes everything
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Movies, TV Shows, Songs, and
Textbooks
Movies and TV Shows:
• Amazon Prime – $6.59/month
($79/year) for access to 10,000 movies
and TV shows
• Netflix – $7.99/month for access to
20,000 movies and TV shows
• Hulu Plus – $7.99/month for access to
45,000 movies and TV shows
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Movies, TV Shows, Songs, and
Textbooks
Music:
• Spotify – $9.99/month for access to 15
million songs
• Rhapsody – $14.99/month for access
to 14 million songs
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Online, on demand access to one
textbook (~$19/month) costs more than
online, on demand access to every
major movie, TV show, and song
produced in the US in recent memory
($7.99 + $9.99 = $17.98/month).
One textbook costs more than the
entire output of the film, television, and
music industries combined.
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When the Marginal Cost of Sharing is $0…
- educators have an ethical obligation to share
- governments need to get maximum ROI by
requiring publicly funded resources be openly
licensed resources
- governments and educators need openly
licensed content: (a) so you can revise & remix
(b) buying and maintaining is cheaper than
leasing (w/time bombs)
By: Eurostat:
$60 trillion
x 5% =
$ 3 trillion
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Partner with Legislators
who care about:
(a) efficient use of national /
state tax dollars;
(b) saving students money;
increasing access to publicly
funded research and data;
(c) increasing access to
“By developing this library of openly licensed
courseware and making it available to school
districts free of charge, the state and school
districts will be able to provide students with
curricula and texts while substantially reducing
the expenses that districts would otherwise incur
in purchasing these materials. In addition, this
library of openly licensed courseware will
provide districts and students with a broader
selection of materials, and materials that are
more up-to-date.”
CC-BY licensed textbooks
for 90 university courses
$500 million - Wave 2
($2 billion over four years)
Publicly funded
resources should be
openly licensed
resources.
Why is “Open” Important?
• Cooperate & share = We all Win
– Faculty have new choices when building learning
spaces.
– …the more eyes on a problem, the greater
chance for a solution.
• Affordability: students can’t afford textbooks
• Self-interest: good things happen when I
share
• It’s a social justice issue: everyone should
have the right to access digital knowledge.
Building Effective
Teams & Shifting
the Culture to
Open as Default
http://techplan.sbctc.edu
“We will cultivate the culture and
practice of using and contributing to
open educational resources.”
But using open educational
resources – and contributing
to them – requires significant
change in the culture of higher
education. It requires thinking
about content as a common
resource that raises all boats
when shared. (p.11)
English Composition I
• 55,000+ enrollments / year
• x $175 textbook
•=
+
$9.6
Million every year
English Composition I
• 55,000+ enrollments / year
• x $175 textbook
•=
+
$9.6
Million every year
Does it make any sense WA State and
K-12 Districts together spend
$130M/year
on textbooks and the results are:
• Books are (on average) 7-10 years out of
date
• Paper only / no digital versions.
• Students can’t write / highlight in books
• Students can’t keep books at end of
year
• All rights reserved… teachers can’t
Does it make any sense WA State and
K-12 Districts together spend
$130M/year
on textbooks and the results are:
• Books are (on average) 7-10 years out of
date
• Paper only / no digital versions.
• Students can’t write / highlight in books
• Students can’t keep books at end of
year
• All rights reserved… teachers can’t
What is the OER opportunity
with K-12 & Common Core?
You are not alone.
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U.S. House Appropriations Committee draft FY2012
Labor, Health and Human Services funding bill
SEC. 124. None of the funds made available by this Act
for the Department of Labor may be used to develop
new courses, modules, learning materials, or projects in
carrying out education or career job training grant
programs unless the Secretary of Labor certifies,
after a comprehensive market-based analysis, that
such courses, modules, learning materials, or projects
are not otherwise available for purchase or licensing
in the marketplace or under development for
students who require them to participate in such
education or career job training grant programs.
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U.S. House Appropriations Committee draft FY2012
Labor, Health and Human Services funding bill
SEC. 124. None of the funds made available by this Act
for the Department of Labor may be used to develop
new courses, modules, learning materials, or projects in
carrying out education or career job training grant
programs unless the Secretary of Labor certifies,
after a comprehensive market-based analysis, that
such courses, modules, learning materials, or projects
are not otherwise available for purchase or licensing
in the marketplace or under development for
students who require them to participate in such
education or career job training grant programs.
http://appropriations.house.gov/UploadedFiles/FY_2012_Final_LHHSE.pdf
H.R. 3699
"No Federal agency may adopt,
implement, maintain, continue, or
otherwise engage in any policy, program,
or other activity that -- (1) causes,
permits, or authorizes network
dissemination of any private-sector
research work without the prior consent of
the publisher of such work; or (2) requires
that any actual or prospective author, or
the employer of such an actual or
prospective author, assent to network
H.R. 3699
"No Federal agency may adopt,
implement, maintain, continue, or
otherwise engage in any policy, program,
or other activity that -- (1) causes,
permits, or authorizes network
dissemination of any private-sector
research work without the prior consent of
the publisher of such work; or (2) requires
that any actual or prospective author, or
the employer of such an actual or
prospective author, assent to network
But even better, the bill sponsor
said:
• "As the costs of publishing continue to be
driven down by new technology, we will
continue to see a growth in open access
publishers.
• This new and innovative model appears to
be the wave of the future. The transition
must be collaborative, and must respect
copyright law and the principles of open
access.
• The American people deserve to have
access to research for which they have
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“The American
people deserve to
have access to
research for which
they have paid.”
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Only ONE thing Matters:
• Efficient use of public funds to
increase student success and
access to quality educational
materials.
• Everything else (including all
existing business models) is
secondary.
What can your District do?
Adopt one Open Textbook.
the opposite of open isn’t “closed”
the opposite of open is “broken”
Attribution: John Wilbanks
Dr. Cable Green
Director of Global Learning
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