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Open Educational Resources and Text Affordability at Oregon Tech

Dawn Lowe-Wincentsen

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Prediction of Exam Scores by Text Type�(Preliminary)

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Averaged Exam Scores by Type of Textbook – Linear Regression
	Coefficient	β	95% CI	Sig
Traditional Text (Reference)	-	-	-	-
Open Text	4.7	3.1	3.2, 6.3	.02
Frequency of Usage (Linear)	2.9	2.6	1.5, 4.3	.04
Controlled for: final assignment Score, class size, class section, student college, gender (more controls to come)

Prediction of Exam Scores by Text Type�(Preliminary)

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Florida Virtual Campus. (2018). 2016 student textbook and course materials survey. Tallahassee, FL: Author.

https://dlss.flvc.org/documents/210036/1314923/2018+Student+Textbook+and+Course+Materials+Survey+Report+--+FINAL+VERSION+--+20190308.pdf/07478d85-89c2-3742-209a-9cc5df8cd7ea

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Textbook Affordability�Goals

Adjust the institutional culture of text adoption and syllabus publishing to make materials available in order to inform student curriculum choices and planning.

$2 million in student course materials savings by 2025

Support Oregon Tech created materials through creation of an institutional repository

Provide professional development and faculty support in affordable and open text options.

Develop a toolkit for textbook adoption and changing textbooks accessible to all faculty

Textbook affordability Plan 2021-2025.docx

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Satisfaction with Text

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The definition of open is usually defined by these 5 Rs.

You can Reuse what you found

You can Retain a copy of it – this is important to address version control and issues with permanence on the internet

You can Remix the materials, found two or three, want to enter your own content with someone else's? It is all good here. – When adding your own content watch for the CC- share alike, stating that if you took someone else's work with this license, you too have to share it in the same way.

You can Revise the material. Not exactly what you wanted? Don’t like the problem sets or examples they use? Want to localize content to make it more relevant? You can do that.

This last one is pretty big, Redistribute means that you can take that material you retained and give it to your students. You can have it printed, you can create an interpretive readings of it. No matter the mode, you can redistribute it.

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https://iastate.pressbooks.pub/oerstarterkit/

https://www.oercommons.org/courses/ryerson-open-textbook-authoring-guide-a-guide-to-authoring-adapting-open-textbooks/view

https://oit.instructure.com/courses/2903

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What the Oregon Tech Library is doing

23 Faculty have received internal grants since the program started in 2018.
4 Grants received from Open Oregon by Oregon Tech Faculty since 2015
$29,000 internal grants given by the Oregon Tech Library
38 classes converted to low or no cost course materials
$10,000 available for internal grants in 2021
Canvas course for Faculty
MS Team for Open education information
Open education days

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Overall Savings �To Date�$586,999.52�

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Questions?

Dawn.lowewincentsen@oit.edu

Website: https://subjectguides.library.oit.edu/sp4/subjects/guide.php?subject=OER