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Open Educational Resources

Caroline Hallam

OER & DE Librarian

This work is a derivative of Open Textbooks: Access, Affordability, and Academic Success by David Ernst and Adopt an Open Textbook with Open Education North Carolina by NC LIVE, used under their CC-BY licenses. This work is licensed under a CC-BY license, with exceptions noted for some images.

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How much does one year

of books & supplies cost at

Glendale Community College?

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$1918

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Increase in Textbook Prices

$15

$101

$269

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The cost barrier kept

2.4 million

low and moderate-income college-qualified high school graduates from completing college in the previous decade.

The Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED529499.pdf

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Image: Open Textbooks by Giulia Forsythe is in the Public Domain

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Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University. Used under Fair Use.

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Open Educational Resources (OER)

Retain

Keep the materials in any form

Reuse

Use the content in its unaltered form

Revise

Adapt, adjust, modify, improve or alter

the content

Remix

Combine original or revised content to

create something new

Redistribute

Share copies of reused, revised, or

remixed content with others

Images all CC BY from Noun Project. Read book by throwaway icons, Distributed cloud by Becris, revise by Takao Umehara, Shuffle by b farias, Book by ProSymbols, distributed by monkik

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Available Open Textbooks

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Library Resources

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Open Education Week: March 2-6

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as or more effective

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Open educational resources can narrow achievement gap for

  • non-White students
  • Pell Grant recipients
  • Part-time students

Colvard, N.B., Watson, C. E., & Park, H. (2018). The impact of open educational resources on various student metrics. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 30(2), 262-276.

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=

$175

Open Means . . .

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Open Means . . .

Image is CC BY from Noun Project: Calendar by Lyhn.

Access from day one

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Open Means . . .

First and third images Public Domain. Remaining images all CC BY from Noun Project: Cart by Template, Model T by Alex Valdivia, sportscar by Gatuso.

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Have Questions?

OER @ GCC

campusguides.glendale.edu/oer

Caroline Hallam

GCC Library, LB 314

(818) 240-1000 x5871

challam@glendale.edu