What are open educational resources, and what benefits do they offer students, faculty and educational institutions? This presentation outlines key impacts substantiated in empirical research about how OER provide tremendous benefits including improving student success, saving money for students, increasing revenue for institutions, and enhancing academic freedom for faculty members.

1. lumen Why Open Education?
Julie Curtis, VP Strategy & Communication
June 2016

2. Unless otherwise noted
these slides are licensed CC BY 4.0

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Lumen Learning
What We Do
Our purpose:
Make the best education available to all students,
regardless of socioeconomic background.
Facts
• formed in 2012
• based in Portland, OR
• 70+ institutional clients
• $5 million+ in textbook
savings in AY 2015-16
Our solution:
Effective use of open educational
resources

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Textbook cost impacts student success
Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus
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10% have withdrawn from a course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
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6. Open Educational Resources

7. Which “open”?

8. open ≈ free

9. free is assumed online

10. open = free + permissions

11. • Make and own a copyRetain
• Use in a wide range of waysReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute
The 5Rs

13. Open
1. Free and unfettered access
2. Perpetual, irrevocable 5R permissions

14. “Faux-pen”
1. Free (possibly gated) access
2. All rights reserved (or stronger)

15. Cost to
Students
Permissions
to Faculty
and Students
Commercial
Textbooks
Expensive Restrictive
Library
Resources
Free Restrictive
Open Educational
Resources
Free 5Rs

16. Open Educational Resources
1. Free and unfettered access
2. Perpetual, irrevocable 5R permissions

17. Open Educational Resources
1. Any kind of teaching materials
(textbooks, syllabi, lesson plans, images, videos, readings, quiz
items, assignments, grading rubrics, etc.)
2. Licensed to allow perpetual,
irrevocable 5R permissions

18. OER-based Course
A course designed using OER instead
of commercial textbooks. Students
have access to all materials they
need to succeed from the first day
of class.

19. OER-based Degree
When elective and required courses
adopt OER instead of commercial
textbooks, so that a student can
graduate without ever being asked
to buy a textbook

20. 1. Improve student success
while saving students money
Numerous studies show that
students whose faculty assign OER
outperform students assigned
commercial textbooks on a range of
measures.

21. 11 Peer Reviewed Studies
http://openedgroup.org/

22. 48,623 Students
http://openedgroup.org/

23. 93% Same or Better Outcomes
http://openedgroup.org/

24. 9 Peer Reviewed Studies of
Perceptions of OER Quality
http://openedgroup.org/

25. 4,510 Professors and Students
http://openedgroup.org/

26. 50%
Same35%
Better
15%
Worse
http://openedgroup.org/

27. impact.lumenlearning.com

28. 2. Improve student success
while saving students money
Estimates of a student’s per class
savings when faculty replace
traditional textbooks with OER
range from $90 to $128.

29. 3. Create reliable savings
students can count on
When an individual faculty member
chooses OER, it’s a nice surprise.
When a degree program chooses
OER, students receive a predictable
decrease in their cost to graduate
they can plan for.

30. 4. Increase academic freedom
for faculty
OER give faculty the 5R permissions,
opening doors to a wide array of
teaching and learning activities that
are simply not possible with
commercial curriculum.

31. PM4ID

32. 5. Speed students toward
graduation
Students whose faculty choose OER
drop classes at a lower rate.
Students whose faculty choose OER
reinvest that savings in taking
additional classes.

33. 6. Increase institutional revenue
When students drop at lower rates,
institutions refund less tuition.
When students reinvest textbook
savings in additional classes, the
institution realizes net new revenue.

34. Why Open?
1. Improve student success
2. Save students money
3. Create reliable savings students
can count on
4. Increase academic freedom
5. Speed students toward graduation
6. Increase institutional revenue

35. Why not Open?

36. Source: Allen, E. & Seaman, J. “Opening the Curriculum: Open Educational Resources in US Curriculum, 2014”
http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthecurriculum2014.pdf
Faculty Perspectives: Why not use OER?

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Lumen Learning: What we do
Focus: Improve student success using OER
• Guide institutions in effective use of
open educational resources (OER)
• Make OER adoption easy and
powerful for faculty
• Provide customizable OER courses
with user-friendly technology in your
LMS
• Measure and improve efficacy and
learning design
• Sustain and support OER use
OER Textbook
Replacement
Personalized Learning
with OER
OER Degree Programs

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Availability of OER for
Texas Core Curriculum Courses
# Courses Required
# Available as OER

39. $-
$1,000
$2,000
$3,000
$4,000
$5,000
$6,000
$7,000
$8,000
In District Current In District Lumen ECHS Current ECHS Lumen
$7,212
$5,042
$2,367
$286
30% reduction in
cost of degree
87% reduction in
cost of degree
Tuition and Fees
Textbooks
A.S. Business
Austin Community College

40. A.S. Business Degree Textbook Cost OER (Lumen)
English Comp I $64.50 $10
English Comp II $129.85 $10
US History I $47.00 $10
US History II $115.00 $10
College Success $0.00 $10
Biology I $249.35 $10
Biology II $198.00 $10
American Lit $63.00 $10
British Lit $58.00 $10
Microeconomics $137.75 $10
Macroeconomics $184.65 $10
US Government $79.85 $10
Texas Government $106.45 $106.45
Art History $165.00 $10
Business Principles $73.50 $10
Bus. Computer Apps $187.65 $10
Business Calculus $158.65 $10
Financial Accounting $165.00 $10
Managerial Accounting $183.65 $10
$2,366.85 $286.45

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OER Courses from Lumen Learning
Support Features Freely
Available
Candela Waymaker
Curate, align, organize OER into course structure ✔ ✔ ✔
Use, supplement and enrich OER ✔ ✔ ✔
Seamless delivery in LMS ✔ ✔
Provide day one access for all students via LMS ✔ ✔
Course editability and customization ✔ ✔
Ongoing faculty training and support ✔ ✔
Maintain attributions, updates, improvements ✔ ✔
Support and maintain technology, integration ✔ ✔
Personalized study plan to guide student learning ✔
Mastery learning assessment approach ✔
Automated, individualized messaging ✔
Time-saving tools to identify and help struggling
students
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Standard Pricing: per student enrollment fee $0 $10 $25

42. Questions, comments, discussion
Thank you
Julie Curtis, julie@lumenlearning.com
Gary Abernethy, gary@lumenlearning.com
www.lumenlearning.com