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Open Textbooks and Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis

Open Textbooks and Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis. Nicole Allen OER Program Director, SPARC Joint Mathematics Meetings January 17, 2014 Baltimore, MD. 7 in 10 Graduating seniors had student debt (class of 2012). http:/ /projectonstudentdebt.org.

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Open Textbooks and Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis

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  1. Open Textbooks and Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis Nicole Allen OER Program Director, SPARC Joint Mathematics Meetings January 17, 2014 Baltimore, MD

  2. 7 in 10Graduating seniors had student debt (class of 2012) http://projectonstudentdebt.org

  3. $29,400Average undergraduate student debt at graduation (class of 2012) http://projectonstudentdebt.org

  4. $1,207Average student budget for books and supplies for 2013-2014 year http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-estimated-undergraduate-budgets-2013-14

  5. 82%Increase of textbook prices 2002-2012 (3x the rate of inflation) http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-368

  6. $8.8 billionAnnual size of the US higher education textbook market http://info.xplana.com/report/pdf/Xplana_Whitepaper_2011.pdf

  7. “Broken Market”

  8. How Students Save % Student Savings Over New Print Text http://www.studentpirgs.org/reports/cover-cover-solution

  9. 2 in 5Students report they have shared books with classmates to reduce costs http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2010_fsts_report_01sep2011.pdf

  10. 1 in 3Students report downloading course material from an unauthorized website (up from 1 in 5 in 2010) http://www.bisg.org/news-5-847-press-release-now-available-student-attitudes-toward-content-in-higher-education-volume-3.php

  11. 7 in 10Undergraduates skipped buying one or more texts due to cost http://www.studentpirgs.org/news/ap/high-prices-prevent-college-students-buying-assigned-textbooks

  12. 1 in 3Students say at some point they earned a poor grade because they could not afford to buy the textbook http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf

  13. 1 in 3Students say at some point they earned a poor grade because they could not afford to buy the textbook http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf

  14. 1 in 2Students say they have at some point taken fewer courses due to the cost of textbooks http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf

  15. Students can’t learn from textbooks if they can’t afford them

  16. OPEN TEXTBOOKS Free (usually online) Open (open license)

  17. OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER) Academic materials that everyone can use, adapt and share freely.

  18. 80% / ~$100Students savings per course when open textbooks used in place of traditional http://www.studentpirgs.org/reports/cover-cover-solution

  19. http://www.eurodl.org/?p=current&article=533 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02680513.2012.716657 http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1523 Studies show that the use of open textbooks is correlated with higher grades and retention rates

  20. ~$100MStudents savings worldwide to date from the use of OER instead of traditional materials http://openeducation2013.sched.org/event/90d9e1c479a944181f771f720ef967db

  21. ~100-200”Professional grade” open textbooks available for common college courses http://openeducation2013.sched.org/event/90d9e1c479a944181f771f720ef967db

  22. Open Textbook Catalog Open Textbook Catalog In an effort to reduce costs for students, the College of Education and Human Development has created this catalog of open textbooks to be reviewed by faculty members. Read full press release Open textbooks are complete textbooks released under a Creative Commons, or similar, license. Instructors can customize open textbooks to fit their course needs by remixing, editing, and adding their own content. Students can access free digital versions or purchase low-cost print copies of open textbooks. In an effort to reduce costs for students, the College of Education and Human Development has created this catalog of open textbooks to be reviewed by faculty members. http://open.umn.edu/

  23. What Needs to Happen More “turn key” open textbooks: create new and improve existing More support for adoption: professional development, time buyouts… More awareness: most people don’t know what open textbooks are, we need to change that

  24. What You Can Do Faculty: the lynchpin, as both authors and assigners of textbooks Students: the most effective advocates to raise awareness of the problem Libraries: support for curation, creation and adoption

  25. What You Can Do Publishers: transition to open models and avoid bad practices Institutions: leveraging OER to increase outcomes, competitiveness Lawmakers: policies that support (but never mandate) the creation and use of OER

  26. Open textbooks can happen, but we need to make them happen

  27. Nicole Allennicole@sparc.arl.orgTwitter: @txtbkshttp://sparc.arl.org/issues/oer

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