Still wondering if OER is right for your course(s) and your students? Check out this information adapted from the社区学院OER联盟（CCCOER）on some of the many benefits OER offer students and faculty, and how greater OER adoption can help us begin to close the equity gaps that persist in higher education today.
根据教育改革词汇, equity refers to the principle of fairness. While often used interchangeably with equality, equity refers to a wide variety of educational models, programs, and strategies that may be considered fair, but not necessarily equal.Inequities occur when biased or unfair policies, programs, practices, or situations contribute to a lack of equality in educational performance, results, andoutcomes. OER can help mitigate these equity gaps and create more equitable access to higher education for students from all backgrounds.
学生的好处
Using OER can provide tremendous cost savings for students as well as impact student success and completion rates.
The cost of textbooks can be a financial burden on students, which not only affects student success and equity but could also delay graduation for students who are taking fewer classes per term because of cost, generating additional debt for students over time. OER provide students with day one access to free course materials, and research经太阳城娱乐教育小组shows that most students perform as well or better using OER course materials compared with students using traditional textbooks.
OER allow students to have learning materials right from the start of their courses. This is not a negligible point, as the results of the 佛罗里达虚拟校园’2016年学生教材及教材调查show:66.6 percent of surveyed students did not purchase a required textbook because of the cost, which these students felt resulted in them earning a poor grade (37.6 percent) or earning a failing grade (19.8 percent). Another 47.6 percent of students surveyed also indicated that they have taken fewer courses occasionally or frequently, 45.5 percent did not register for a course, 26.1 percent dropped a course, and 20.7 percent withdrew from a course because of the cost of required textbooks.
2016佛罗里达州虚拟校园学生教科书和课程材料调查 Chart 1: Impact of Textbook Costs on Students
教育工作者的好处
At the heart of the open education movement is the idea that faculty who control their resources control their curriculum. T在这里fore, faculty who use OER enjoy more freedom in selecting course materials in part because they can customize these materials to fit the specific needs of their students. Since OER permit adaptation, educators are free to edit, reorder, delete, or remix OER materials as needed for their courses.OER also provide clearly defined rights to users so educators are not faced with interpreting Fair Use and TEACH Act guidelines.
公平和OER
Additional information and resources about OER and equity can be found on the ASCCC OERI website在这里.
视频:A Review of the Effectiveness & Perceptions of Open Educational 资源 As Compared to Textbooks 通过 Royal Roads University School of Education and Technology
视频:为什么在?通过霍利奥克社区学院OER特遣部队CC-BY
图:2016佛罗里达州虚拟校园学生教科书和课程材料调查图表1：教科书成本对学生的影响佛罗里达虚拟校园是根据Cc 4.0
视频:圣达菲学院太阳城娱乐教育资源通过圣达菲学院教育媒体工作室
视频:太阳城娱乐教育中的公平：挑战与机遇艾比·埃尔德为爱荷华州立大学创作的作品CC的
