It is estimated that the average U.S. college student in 2010-2011 will spend $1,137 (College Board) on course materials. The cost of textbooks has risen faster than the cost of tuition and far faster than inflation in recent years. As a result, efforts have been made to create, adopt and sustain open educational resources that will make high quality, openly licensed course materials available to students at significantly lower or no cost. This track invites papers to document and offer new ideas for sustainable efforts to reduce the costs of educational resources and expand access to those resources.
o Proposals submitted to this track might consider such topics as: documenting cost savings for students at an institution, documenting the process of reviewing and accessing open resources; open licensing policies for open courseware, textbooks and/or research, processes for moving from proprietary to open textbooks; projects with Connections, Wikibooks, FlatWorld Knowledge, Merlot, and others; strategies for inter-institutional collaborations in the development of shared original texts; and assessment of learning outcomes using open educational resources.
I’m going to keynote on November 18th 9:40am (local time)… and will talk about OER, open licensing policies and ensuring publicly funded educational materials are freely and openly available to the public that paid for them.
Please submit a proposal. Hope to see many of you there!
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