Slides from Lumen Learning webinar on April 18, 2013, featuring Dr. David Wiley and Kim Thanos discussing how to get started using open educational resources effectively.

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Getting Started with OER?
Lumen Can Help!
Lumen Learning Webinar
18 April 2013

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Agenda
• Introductions
• Overview: Open Educational Resources (OER) and the
promise of open education
• Successful OER projects and Lumen Learning origins
• How Lumen Helps: Services, approach, lessons learned
• Q&A

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Today’s presenters
Dr. David Wiley
Longtime open education advocate and
innovator; university professor; co-founder of
Lumen Learning
Kim Thanos
Education technology strategist and entrepreneur;
co-founder of Lumen Learning

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What is OER?
Open educational resources (OER) are materials like
courses, textbooks, videos, and tests that:
• May be freely accessed by anyone
• Reside in the public domain or have been released
under an open copyright license

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OER: The 4R Permissions
Sharing and creativity are inherent in OER:
• Use the content in its unaltered formReuse
• Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter
the contentRevise
• Combine the original or revised content
with other OER to create something newRemix
• Share copies of the original content,
revisions or remixes with othersRedistribute

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Where do OER come from?
• Foundations
• Sponsored grant
projects
• Educational institutions
• Individual educators
and experts
In the past decade,
foundations alone have
invested more than
$100 million to create
high quality OER.

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The promise of OER
Reduce
textbook
costs
Improve
student
success
Lumen’s initial results:
Cut costs by more than 95%
Lumen’s initial results:
Double-digit improvement

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Fact: There is a direct relationship between
textbook costs and student success
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60%+ do not purchase textbooks
at some point due to cost
35% take fewer courses due to
textbook cost
31% choose not to register for a
course due to textbook cost
23% regularly go without
textbooks due to cost
14% have dropped a course
due to textbook cost
10% have withdrawn from a
course due to textbook cost
Source: 2012 student survey by
Florida Virtual Campus

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Lumen Learning’s vision for the relationship
between textbook costs and student success
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100% of students have
100% free, digital access to all materials on day 1
• Increase affordability
• Broaden access
• Apply continuous quality improvement

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The Lumen team’s successful projects
demonstrate OER can make a radical difference
Project Year Results
Kaleidoscope
Open Course
Initiative
2012-2013 • Textbook costs reduced to zero
• Double-digit improvements in student
success
• Lumen managing Phase 2, expanding pilot
from 8 to 20 more institutions
Textbook Zero 2013 • Tidewater Community College announced
world’s first Associates Degree using only
OER
• Estimate 30% lower cost-to-degree
Open High School
of Utah
2010-2013 • Zero textbook costs for high school serving
~500 students
• Adding grades 7-8 in 2013
• Numerous awards for best practices and
best curriculum in online learning and
teaching

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Lumen’s growing client community

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A proven path for using OER effectively
Lumen Learning provides an
evidence-based approach to guide
institutions in using OER to reduce
textbook costs and improve
student success.
Photo: heiwa4126 / Flickr

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Who we serve
We work with higher education institutions
and K-12 districts to develop sustainable,
effective OER-based alternatives for
general education courses.
“OER is a great
idea.”
“I know how to
get started with
OER.”
“We’re achieving
great things with
OER.”

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Lumen Learning Services
Sustaining
Services
Training
&
Transition
Services
One-Time Fee:
• Leadership Training & Strategy
• Faculty Training
• Pre-launch Training &
Coordination
• Textbook Zero Program
Development
• New Participant Training Annual Subscription:
• Open Content Curation
• Analytics & Continuous Quality Improvement
• Hosting (MyOpenMath, OAAI)

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What is our approach?
1. Align OER with institutional strategy
2. Facilitate faculty-led, collaborative development of
OER-based courses and programs
3. Provide training and support to empower instructors
and make OER easy to use
4. Measure results
5. Apply continuous improvement process
6. Cultivate an active community around OER to
capture and build on successes over time

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Lessons Learned:
Leadership Training and Strategy
1. Plan for scale
2. Work with real economic data
 36 sections of Dev Math @
$170/student = $183,600 per year
 What % would return to institution?
PURPOSE:
Guide leaders
through process to
identify impact and
plan for success:
• Faculty support
• Student support
• Economic model
• Implementation
process
3. Planning and communication
up-front reduce support needs
after the fact

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Lessons Learned:
Faculty Training
1. Start with a small, excited
team
2. Be pragmatic
3. Emphasize the mindset
shift
 MVP
 Iterative
 Collaborative
4. Require a $0 student cost
PURPOSE:
Guide faculty members
to review, align,
discover and customize
open materials:
• “Packaging” for ease
of use
• Full courses
• Complete programs

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Lessons Learned:
Sustaining Services
1. The devil is in the details
2. We must truly own the
open path
3. The power to improve is
of little value without data
to inform improvements
4. Connect personally into
the open community
PURPOSE:
Ensure appropriate use,
curate and improve
content over time:
• Licensing
• Attribution
• Analysis of
effectiveness
• Recommendations
for improvement

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Q&A
David Wiley: david.wiley@lumenlearning.com
Kim Thanos: kim.thanos@lumenlearning.com
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