1. The First Zero Textbook Cost
College Degree
Linda Williams, Tidewater Community College
Richard Sebastian, Virginia Community College System

5. In the Fall of 2013, you can earn an
A.S. in Business Administration
from Tidewater Community College
without having to purchase
a single textbook

9. “…students with lower levels of academic preparation
experienced significantly stronger negative coefficients for
online learning compared with their counterparts, in terms of
both course persistence and course grade…These patterns
also suggest that performance gaps between key
demographic groups already observed in face-to-face
classrooms (e.g., gaps between male and female students,
and gaps between White and ethnic minority students) are
exacerbated in online courses. This is troubling from an
equity perspective: If this pattern holds true across other
states and educational sectors, it would imply that the
continued expansion of online learning could
strengthen, rather than ameliorate, educational inequity.”
http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/media/k2/attachments/adaptability-to-online-learning.pdf

10. • Do we really need colleges and
universities anymore?
• What is a course? A semester?
• What is the role of an instructor
• What does the word “community”
in community college mean?

12. Microsoft’s Vision of the
Future: 2019

13. A Domain of One’s Own
University of Mary Washington

18. Over the last decade, the average cost of college
textbooks has risen at four times the rate of inflation1
For the 2011-2012 academic year, college students at
a four year university will spend an average of over
$1000 on books and supplies2.
For the average community college student, the cost
of books can add up to about 72% of their college
tuition3.
As many as seven in ten college students have reported
that they avoided buying at least one textbook for class
as a result of the exorbitant cost4, often as high as
$200 per book.

20. The high cost of
textbooks has limited
students’ access to
higher education.
College Board Report: Trends in College Pricing (2007)

21. The high cost of
textbooks has reduced
students’ success in
higher education.
College Board Report: Trends in College Pricing (2007)

22. COST$
IDEA!

23. Rivalrous
Resources

30. OPEN TEXTBOOKS

31. Digital materials are
Non-rivalrous
Resources

33. One digital copy
can be endlessly copied, stored, and distributed
for FREE*

34. WHAT ARE OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES?

35. ENG111

39. ENG111

40. G111

42. G111

43. G111
OER

44. EXAMPLE 1:
THIS PRESENTATION

45. THIS IS NOT MY
PRESENTATION ©

46. SLIDESHARE http://slideshare.net

47. DAVID WILEY Associate Professor
Brigham Young University

48. CABLE GREEN Director of Global Education,
Creative Commons
www.creativecommons.org

51. Use this to prevent sharing
©copyright

52. Use this to enforce sharing

53. Open Educational Resources
Open educational resources (OER) are
teaching, learning, and research resources that
reside in the public domain or have been
released under an intellectual property license
that permits their free use and repurposing by
others.

54. The 4Rs
Redistribute
Reuse
Revise
Remix

55. OpenStax College
http://cnx.org/content/col11406/1.7/

56. Textbook Costs & Digital
Learning Resources Workgroup

57. Examine VCCS administrative practices and policies that unnecessarily add to the cost of
academic textbooks
Explore how networked digital technology can best be leveraged to lower the overall cost
of textbooks, including using open educational resources
Investigate ways which currently licensed electronic resources can be used in electronic
"course packs," as a substitute for text books, or for the supplementary material often
required for a course of study
Identify opportunities for interested VCCS faculty to explore using openly licensed
resources in their courses
Examine the current relevance of printed textbooks in an age of interactive, web-based
content, digital publishing, and collaborative social networks
Recommend strategies and policies for creating an institutional culture that embraces and
practices openness, transparency, collaboration, and sharing

58. Chancellor’s OER Adoption
Grant

59. OpenVA.org
Open & Digital Learning Resources Conference

60. WHAT

61. WHY?

62. WHY
SHARE?
? WHY
BE “OPEN”?

63. Pushing for Open Education Resources, Lower Textbook Costs
David Wiley, BYU
Mirta Martin, Dean, VSU
Nicole Allen, Student
PIRGs
Jim Groom, UMW
Chancellor’s Planning
Retreat 2012