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Open Educational Resources<\/strong>, as defined by the\u00a0Hewlett Foundation<\/a>, are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their\u00a0free use and repurposing<\/u>\u00a0by others.<\/p>\n Students<\/strong>\u00a0can access OERs for zero cost, download and keep a digital copy, and print or purchase a low-cost hardcopy.\u00a0Educators<\/strong>\u00a0can curate, tailor, and share OERs to perfectly suit their curriculum and share their innovations freely.\u00a0Authors<\/strong>\u00a0can disseminate their work to a worldwide audience while still receiving attribution.\u00a0Creative Commons Licensing<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0facilitates flexibility in usage of OER. \u00a0David Wiley created a framework (5Rs) that allows authors to retain copyright while encouraging\/allowing\u00a0reuse, revision, remixing, or redistribution<\/a>.<\/p>\n There is significant financial benefit to students and university. According to the\u00a0US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS),<\/a>\u00a0from January 2006 to July 2016 the Consumer Price Index for college tuition and fees increased 63 percent, compared with an increase of 21 percent for all items. Over that period, consumer prices for college textbooks increased 88 percent. The\u00a0US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)<\/a>\u00a0reported that students spend average of about $1200 annual for textbooks, about 65% of students said that they had decided against buying a textbook because it was too expensive, and 48% of students said that the cost of textbooks impacted how many\/which classes they took each semester. Research shows open textbooks, compared to traditional texts, have equal or better student performance\/learning outcomes and equal or improved student retention rates\/graduation rates.<\/p>\n An\u00a0Open Ed Group<\/a>\u00a0summary of 25 studies focused on efficacy, perceptions, or both efficacy and perception stated that \u201ca general finding seems to be that roughly half of teachers and students find OER to be comparable to traditional resources, a sizeable minority believe they are superior, and a smaller minority find them inferior.\u201d Studies conducted at\u00a0Virginia State University<\/a>\u00a0(Business) and\u00a0Houston Community College<\/a>\u00a0(Psychology) found that students who used open textbooks tended to have higher grades and lower withdrawal rates than their peers who used traditional textbooks<\/p>\n Open textbook collections have peer reviewed text books freely available for use in a class. The\u00a0University of Minnesota Open Textbook Library<\/a>\u00a0has over 300 open texts.\u00a0OpenStax,<\/a>\u00a0a non-profit publisher of open textbooks, offers a collection of about 30 online texts with option to acquire print copies at low cost. These are customizable to institutional preferences in collaboration with OpenStax. Over 840 institutions worldwide are using OpenStax.<\/p>\n For more information, visit the WCSU Libraries\u2019\u00a0Open Education Resources Guide<\/a>\u00a0or contact your\u00a0WCSU librarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n UNESCO Image<\/a>\u00a0used under\u00a0Creative Commons License<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Open Educational Resources, as defined by the\u00a0Hewlett Foundation, are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their\u00a0free use and repurposing\u00a0by others. 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