Creative Commons and Open Textbooks

Creative Commons and Open Textbooks

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  First point: The costof textbooks is rising: 1978 - 2013: 812% (3x inflation)
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  Second point: This affectsstudent debt and educational outcomes
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  Second point: ●65% ofstudents choose not to buy a college textbook because it’s too expensive ●94% report that they suffer academically because of this choice ●48% say they altered which classes they took based on textbook costs, either taking fewer classes or different classes (Source: “Fixing the Broken Textbook Market.” U.S. PIRG Education Fund and the Student PIRGs)
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  Third point: Many textbooksare written & published overseas, for overseas students
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  Fourth point: Most textbooksare protected by ‘All Rights Reserved’ copyright.
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  This means itis illegal for academics to adapt or update textbooks for local students
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  Fifth point: New Zealandtutors and lecturers produce a heap of educational resources, which they generally don’t share
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  Develop, share andadopt Open Educational Resources → free of legal, technical and price restrictions
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  Develop, share andadopt Open Educational Resources… So how will that happen?
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  1: Resources fundedor produced by state sector agencies → open
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  2: Teaching staffassign free, open resources that already exist
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  3: Institution-level Open EducationalResources policy and practice
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  4: Open accesspolicies for publicly funded research outputs
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