Speed04-Free Gatsby: OERs and The Public Domain

Free Gatsby: OERs and The Public Domain

Julia Remsik Larson & Jeff Kosse Author

06/11/2021 Added

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On the heels of The Great Gatsby entering the public domain, this session will be a space to discuss how to find and utilize open education resources. While the co-presenters will provide information about leading resources and possible strategies to incorporate these in the classroom, attendees are invited to offer their own experiences, concerns, failures, and successes in utilizing content intended to reduce costs and increase accessibility for students.

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[00:00:05.141]All right, Good morning, everyone.
[00:00:06.580]I'm Julia Remsik Larsen
[00:00:08.590]and I'm here with my, my partner in anti-crime.
[00:00:12.440]Cause we're going to be talking about OER this morning
[00:00:15.274]Jeff Kosse and we're both over at UNL.
[00:00:17.806]I'm gonna go ahead and launch a quick poll this morning.
[00:00:20.570]And there are just a couple of, a couple of questions.
[00:00:25.170]I want to know, you know
[00:00:26.210]what institution are you affiliated with in particular
[00:00:28.630]which campus from NU, or if you're coming to us virtually
[00:00:32.670]from another campus or from another institution
[00:00:34.730]I would like to know that as well.
[00:00:37.280]And I want to know how familiar you are
[00:00:39.360]with open educational resources.
[00:00:41.270]So I have a few slides prepared, but your responses
[00:00:44.550]to these questions will kind of help guide how
[00:00:47.450]how long I spend on each slide, for example
[00:00:49.960]and kind of how I move through the presentation.
[00:00:53.240]So it looks like,
[00:00:56.160]all right I'll give you about 15 more seconds
[00:01:00.220]to go ahead and respond.
[00:01:01.490]And it looks like we've gotten most
[00:01:04.450]everyone who's voted
[00:01:05.745]everyone who's voted
[00:01:09.240]and there we go.
[00:01:10.073]and there we go.
[00:01:11.048]Okay.
[00:01:13.680]So it looks like we have the majority
[00:01:15.720]of our participants here right at this moment are from UNL.
[00:01:19.090]And most everybody has at least some familiarity
[00:01:19.923]And most everybody has at least some familiarity
[00:01:23.290]with open educational resources.
[00:01:25.570]So I'm going to talk a little bit about some of those
[00:01:29.260]and- and what
[00:01:30.340]what OERs are I'm going to probably just shorten it
[00:01:33.240]to OERs because it's easier to say it's faster, right?
[00:01:37.100]Oh, let me go ahead and share these results with you.
[00:01:38.730]Sorry. So that way you can see
[00:01:40.560]this is kind of our breakdown of what we have right now
[00:01:43.500]63% from UNL, but we also have UNO
[00:01:46.210]and I see that we have two folks from other institutions.
[00:01:48.460]So if you want to go ahead and
[00:01:49.310]put where you are from in the chat,
[00:01:51.450]I would love to see that.
[00:01:55.310]All right, I'm going to go ahead and go to our next slide.
[00:01:59.780]So in this session, we've got 25 minutes.
[00:02:02.972]If you do have any questions, go ahead and please put them
[00:02:05.190]in the chat and we will get to those at the end
[00:02:08.330]of the presentation.
[00:02:09.645]I'm going to talk about what OERs are
[00:02:12.950]why we should use them, where we can find them.
[00:02:15.890]And Jeff is going to go through a tutorial
[00:02:17.590]about how to use it in canvas, in particular
[00:02:19.590]how you can get something incorporated
[00:02:21.440]into canvas for your students to use
[00:02:23.370]and then we'll have time for questions at the end.
[00:02:27.220]All right.
[00:02:28.053]So first thing is what are OERs
[00:02:28.886]So first thing is what are OERs
[00:02:31.070]for those of you who aren't familiar at all?
[00:02:32.580]Those are open educational resources.
[00:02:35.570]Typically we think of them as being basically free textbooks
[00:02:38.300]and it's much more broad
[00:02:39.133]and it's much more broad
[00:02:40.280]than textbooks and they're not always free
[00:02:42.120]but I'm going to come back to that in a second.
[00:02:44.450]So there are open textbooks.
[00:02:47.870]There are open access journals, for example
[00:02:49.730]so you don't have to pay to access those
[00:02:51.410]but you can also that they're they're open, right?
[00:02:54.790]They're freely available.
[00:02:55.623]So you don't have to go through a lot of hoops
[00:02:59.010]to get to those, but there are also a lot
[00:03:01.900]of other educational resources that are open
[00:03:04.100]things like media,
[00:03:04.933]things like media,
[00:03:05.766]so videos and images and things like that.
[00:03:08.960]And all sorts of other multimedia music, for example
[00:03:11.400]might be available as an open educational resource.
[00:03:15.230]And we don't tend to think about things like
[00:03:17.140]software or other ancillary materials, like test banks
[00:03:20.040]and workbooks as being,
[00:03:22.780]as being open educational resources
[00:03:25.160]because there's not a lot of that out there.
[00:03:27.380]But when you talk about publisher materials
[00:03:29.130]things that students are paying for
[00:03:30.960]a lot of times those kinds of test banks, or, you know
[00:03:33.710]PowerPoint slides or something come from the publisher
[00:03:36.659]or some instructors use those materials directly
[00:03:39.760]from the publisher.
[00:03:40.760]But again, students are paying for those.
[00:03:42.580]So you can create OERs that are
[00:03:45.130]or find OERs that are also things like ancillary materials.
[00:03:49.980]The key part about OERs is that they are open.
[00:03:52.530]They are freely available.
[00:03:54.200]Doesn't mean that they're free necessarily.
[00:03:56.600]There's, there's one caveat to that, basically.
[00:03:59.350]So for something like maybe an OER workbook
[00:04:01.760]if a student needs to have that printed
[00:04:03.350]there might be a cost associated with printing.
[00:04:06.790]You know, so there, there might be a small minimal cost
[00:04:09.610]to the OER for a student,
[00:04:11.300]but for the most part they are free,
[00:04:15.520]but especially that they're freely available.
[00:04:17.190]So you can usually get them
[00:04:19.000]in OER databases and collections.
[00:04:21.270]A lot of our libraries have resources to get us there,
[00:04:26.170]things that are in the public domain
[00:04:27.620]which is what we're going to really focus on today
[00:04:29.360]and create anything that's creative commons licensed
[00:04:32.480]is considered an open educational resource.
[00:04:35.420]It doesn't mean it's not in copyright.
[00:04:36.930]It just means that it's an open license
[00:04:39.450]so that you can use it
[00:04:40.300]without having to get copyright in order to use it.
[00:04:43.680]Public domain is the one that we want to focus on
[00:04:45.390]today though, because a lot of OERs are really focused on
[00:04:52.380]sciences and,
[00:04:54.230]and mathematics and things like that that have it's
[00:04:57.921]it's really easy to make a textbook
[00:04:59.470]of that because that information doesn't change a whole lot
[00:05:01.690]but anything in the public domain could be anything that's
[00:05:03.630]out of copyright.
[00:05:04.500]So the humanities oftentimes, you know
[00:05:06.020]we're having students buy, you know
[00:05:08.820]copies of plays or,
[00:05:11.340]you know, novels
[00:05:12.550]and things like that, especially in literature classes.
[00:05:15.410]So anything that comes out of copyright and goes
[00:05:17.960]into the public domain is also something that can be used
[00:05:21.190]as an open educational resource.
[00:05:22.490]So you can get it to students for free.
[00:05:23.870]They don't have to pay for it.
[00:05:26.000]Government documents also count for this.
[00:05:29.490]I'm actually working with a faculty member who is interested
[00:05:33.910]in doing a meteorology course
[00:05:35.800]with open educational resources.
[00:05:37.240]So it's really exciting
[00:05:38.330]because this person wants to go ahead and use things
[00:05:40.410]like government databases
[00:05:42.160]and websites with recent data.
[00:05:45.850]So, OERs can really span a very large,
[00:05:47.737]So, OERs can really span a very large,
[00:05:52.040]there are a lot of different kinds of OERs.
[00:05:55.590]The main benefits is that they really foster equity.
[00:05:57.740]There are a lot of benefits
[00:05:58.740]but the one I really want to talk about today
[00:06:00.080]is fostering equity for students in particular.
[00:06:03.090]So the main thing of course
[00:06:04.940]is that they reduce costs for students.
[00:06:08.649]At UNL we have been in the last couple of years
[00:06:11.410]working on the STAR initiative, which is
[00:06:13.960]stands for successful teaching with affordable resources.
[00:06:16.930]So this includes inclusive access materials
[00:06:19.210]which are basically online materials directly
[00:06:21.710]from a publisher and open educational resources.
[00:06:25.720]Through our OER seed grants,
[00:06:27.990]we have been able to save students $3.5 million
[00:06:30.343]we have been able to save students $3.5 million
[00:06:32.530]in the last two years alone with OER projects.
[00:06:33.703]in the last two years alone with OER projects.
[00:06:38.190]I know that UNK has done a similar process
[00:06:40.960]or similar project kind of
[00:06:42.970]with OER grants and between 2015 and 2020.
[00:06:44.372]with OER grants and between 2015 and 2020.
[00:06:47.940]So those of you who are at UNK, you know this already
[00:06:49.910]but the average student savings was $193 per student
[00:06:51.173]but the average student savings was $193 per student
[00:06:55.220]but I think that's per year or maybe per semester, even.
[00:06:59.080]So you can see that it really would
[00:07:01.000]definitely add up for students.
[00:07:02.600]So there's a significant savings for students.
[00:07:07.150]Another thing that it's available
[00:07:08.620]for students the first day of class
[00:07:09.920]so students who have to wait to get paid to get there
[00:07:12.700]you know, for what it
[00:07:13.533]from whatever jobs they're working to get their textbooks
[00:07:16.400]don't have to wait for that
[00:07:17.540]because all of these materials are available
[00:07:19.530]to them on the first day of class.
[00:07:22.080]And another thing is that there's a variety
[00:07:23.500]of formats for access.
[00:07:24.490]So this kind of gets into equity as far as accessibility
[00:07:28.640]a little bit, you know, students who,
[00:07:32.190]you know if you require a physical book
[00:07:34.290]then students who need a screen reader
[00:07:36.750]or assisted viewing technology might not be able to
[00:07:39.230]access that quite as well.
[00:07:41.530]But with, with an OER, you can get it and
[00:07:42.487]But with, with an OER, you can get it and
[00:07:45.830]a lot of times in an EPUB format
[00:07:47.510]so that students can load it onto a kindle
[00:07:49.360]or onto their phones with a, with a reader app, they can use
[00:07:54.560]they can get it in a PDF that can be read
[00:07:56.550]with a screen reader or something like that.
[00:07:58.340]So there are a lot of different varieties of
[00:08:01.670]of ways for them to access it.
[00:08:06.200]All right, how am I doing on time?
[00:08:08.360]Okay, I need to hurry.
[00:08:09.340]So your friendly neighborhood campus librarian
[00:08:12.070]is probably your best bet for where to find them.
[00:08:15.410]And I've included links
[00:08:16.570]to the live guides for each of the NU campuses.
[00:08:18.810]So UNK, UNL, UNMC and UNO.
[00:08:20.874]And if you're at a different campus or if you're, you know
[00:08:24.500]not in the NU system
[00:08:25.580]I really encourage you to go take a look at these anyway
[00:08:27.690]because each one has a little bit of different information
[00:08:31.110]but they're really fantastic.
[00:08:33.010]And so I highly encourage you to go check them all out.
[00:08:38.850]We're let's see the public domain review is
[00:08:41.570]a website that talks about, and I'll let Jeff talk
[00:08:44.610]about this a little bit more, but it, it kind
[00:08:46.050]of lists things that are coming into the public domain
[00:08:49.520]and project Gutenberg is especially for
[00:08:51.650]I believe it's, especially for literature.
[00:08:54.840]And one other option is
[00:08:56.430]that you can create your own as well.
[00:08:58.500]So I mentioned the OER seed grants
[00:09:01.140]at UNL
[00:09:02.789]through the STAR initiative.
[00:09:04.370]And we just awarded, I think that we, you know, we, we voted
[00:09:08.370]on proposals yesterday for the, this coming school year
[00:09:10.810]but I do know that we are going to be offering another set.
[00:09:12.950]So if you're at UNL, you know
[00:09:15.810]at Lincoln and you are interested
[00:09:18.380]in participating in OER or developing an OER project
[00:09:22.340]keep an eye out for information
[00:09:24.360]that's going to be coming out a little later this summer
[00:09:26.030]about those OER seed grants.
[00:09:28.680]You can also get in touch with me.
[00:09:31.440]We have a couple of links here for
[00:09:34.700]creating your own OERs.
[00:09:36.005]creating your own OERs.
[00:09:37.540]There's the affordable content faculty guide
[00:09:39.530]and a guide to making open textbooks with students.
[00:09:42.030]So if you have, if you want to
[00:09:43.930]co-author something with students, you can do that.
[00:09:45.710]These are both
[00:09:48.330]in Pressbooks.
[00:09:49.540]So I'm going to make sure that you all have access
[00:09:52.620]to these slides, and then you can go ahead
[00:09:55.327]and just click on these links and visit those.
[00:09:58.640]All right.
[00:09:59.473]I am going to go ahead and stop sharing my screen now
[00:10:01.870]and transfer this over to Jeff.
[00:10:04.450]I'm going to hand it off so that he can show you
[00:10:05.890]how to get these incorporated into.
[00:10:09.380]That's the wrong button.
[00:10:10.213]There we go.
[00:10:11.320]Into your canvas course.
[00:10:16.020]Okay. Thank you.
[00:10:18.000]My name is Jeff Kosse.
[00:10:18.833]My name is Jeff Kosse.
[00:10:19.860]I'm an instructional designer
[00:10:21.170]in the center for transformative teaching.
[00:10:22.970]I am completing my first academic year here
[00:10:26.300]at UNL and I come here by way of being a
[00:10:27.133]at UNL and I come here by way of being a
[00:10:29.615]a long time composition and American lit instructor
[00:10:30.448]a long time composition and American lit instructor
[00:10:34.470]at Iowa Western Community College in Council Bluffs.
[00:10:38.560]I was teaching African-American lit.
[00:10:41.830]I developed the course there
[00:10:44.337]some 20 years ago.
[00:10:45.170]some 20 years ago.
[00:10:46.720]And in 2014, I was teaching the course.
[00:10:49.960]And for years I had been using the Norton Anthology
[00:10:52.840]of African-American lit is the nice, really big one volume.
[00:10:53.673]of African-American lit is the nice, really big one volume.
[00:10:58.785]A rather exhaustive book that
[00:10:59.618]A rather exhaustive book that
[00:11:01.553]that we had been using for years.
[00:11:05.430]In 2014 they switched to a two volume edition
[00:11:06.263]In 2014 they switched to a two volume edition
[00:11:09.130]covering the beginning through
[00:11:10.700]the Harlem Renaissance in the twenties
[00:11:12.450]and then the 1920s up until now.
[00:11:14.744]And I realized
[00:11:15.577]And I realized
[00:11:16.410]that that was going to cost the students a lot.
[00:11:19.190]And those students tended to be often underserved
[00:11:20.529]And those students tended to be often underserved
[00:11:24.380]and we're not coming in
[00:11:25.213]and we're not coming in
[00:11:26.270]with really strong financial resources
[00:11:28.760]even with access to grants and loans.
[00:11:31.210]And that was where I began to think
[00:11:32.043]And that was where I began to think
[00:11:34.361]about a website that had been a kind of amusement for me
[00:11:35.519]about a website that had been a kind of amusement for me
[00:11:40.104]but for the first time became an actual tool
[00:11:43.170]that I could use to benefit students.
[00:11:45.100]And you're probably all familiar with this already
[00:11:48.080]the project Gutenberg website,
[00:11:49.440]the project Gutenberg website,
[00:11:53.580]and so much of the history,
[00:11:56.300]the African-American lit that appeared in that volume
[00:11:57.133]the African-American lit that appeared in that volume
[00:12:01.510]one was in the public domain at that time.
[00:12:02.343]one was in the public domain at that time.
[00:12:05.550]So what I was able to do that semester was put together
[00:12:08.764]a course in which all the content for the first half
[00:12:12.340]of the class was available to students for free.
[00:12:16.230]And I can actually access more content
[00:12:18.290]than what that new Norton edition provided for me.
[00:12:22.150]And that really
[00:12:24.580]began this
[00:12:26.620]journey for me to discover what kind of access we could give
[00:12:30.840]to students in late courses using OERs.
[00:12:34.040]And I was really excited at the beginning of this year
[00:12:38.020]because The Great Gatsby, one of my favorite novels
[00:12:41.510]of all time was entering the public domain
[00:12:44.720]for the first time, which meant that students, teachers,
[00:12:47.990]everybody had totally free access to it,
[00:12:54.980]including a friend of mine
[00:12:57.000]who made the comment after I posted something
[00:12:58.970]about this on Facebook, that nobody writes
[00:13:01.350]about an Ash heat, ashy, blight light like Fitzgerald
[00:13:04.960]despite that we're still friends
[00:13:06.560]but
[00:13:09.650]this is a tool that you can use
[00:13:11.760]since I've had some benefit with.
[00:13:13.330]And there is lit on here.
[00:13:15.290]There's a lot of foreign language books
[00:13:17.380]a lot of ancient texts.
[00:13:19.080]The complete Plato is on here
[00:13:20.960]just about any ancient work that
[00:13:21.930]just about any ancient work that
[00:13:25.220]pre- for the most part, 1920 is accessible.
[00:13:29.230]So I opted to use the, The Great Gatsby.
[00:13:33.750]And so if you use this, you do a search
[00:13:41.770]and now my internet chooses to slow down a bit
[00:13:42.820]and now my internet chooses to slow down a bit
[00:13:45.710]but The Great Gatsby will come up.
[00:13:48.020]And once that is found, what you'll get is access to
[00:13:48.879]And once that is found, what you'll get is access to
[00:13:54.050]different versions of it,
[00:13:55.330]student or you could read it online.
[00:13:58.030]You could download a version of it, which would go to the
[00:14:02.100]you could use the overdrive app
[00:14:03.560]on a Kindle, iPad, cell-
[00:14:05.304]on a Kindle, iPad, cell-
[00:14:07.023]cell phone to read it.
[00:14:08.664]Or you could use Kindle as well.
[00:14:11.460]When you go to the HTML,
[00:14:14.070]you get this.
[00:14:14.903]And what I found as a useful tool
[00:14:16.450]because nobody wants to read an entire novel like this,
[00:14:21.470]is if you go right click,
[00:14:24.220]go to print.
[00:14:25.860]One option you have here is to save it
[00:14:28.630]as a PDF, because this is fairly long,
[00:14:29.463]as a PDF, because this is fairly long,
[00:14:32.130]it takes a moment to load, but then you can save it
[00:14:37.440]and it will download to your computer as a PDF, as a file.
[00:14:39.057]and it will download to your computer as a PDF, as a file.
[00:14:43.467]And then you can basically do what you want with that.
[00:14:48.890]Adjust this just a bit here so I can access my tabs.
[00:14:54.310]So once I had that in, in place,
[00:14:58.200]I was able to insert it into my courses
[00:15:03.297]and using canvas here
[00:15:04.255]and using canvas here
[00:15:06.050]I'll show you a little bit of what that can look like.
[00:15:10.030]Spread this out just a little bit here.
[00:15:14.650]And I found a few different ways to approach this.
[00:15:19.780]One is with our transition to OneDrive,
[00:15:21.456]One is with our transition to OneDrive,
[00:15:24.850]you can provide a link directly, via the share option
[00:15:27.524]you can provide a link directly, via the share option
[00:15:31.230]and you can import the link
[00:15:34.136]which will give you and your students a
[00:15:35.752]which will give you and your students a
[00:15:38.440]a document that looks like this, which they can print.
[00:15:40.870]If they want to
[00:15:41.703]they can download it themselves and save it.
[00:15:43.717]And it becomes a much more re- re- readable version
[00:15:46.870]of the book.
[00:15:47.703]of the book.
[00:15:49.200]A couple other options I discovered are the
[00:15:52.450]if you keep a OneDrive personal account
[00:15:56.300]one thing that's kind of interesting there
[00:15:57.820]which are security settings don't allow for.
[00:16:00.390]If you use the SharePoint version is that
[00:16:03.540]you can provide that link
[00:16:05.680]but you can also embed a copy of it as well.
[00:16:13.491]If you go to,
[00:16:16.320]sorry,
[00:16:21.870]I think I just shopped stop sharing didn't I?
[00:16:27.290]This is what it looks like here
[00:16:28.560]and on my personal one,
[00:16:29.838]and on my personal one,
[00:16:32.870]OneDrive, you can share the link that you can also
[00:16:36.050]get an embed code as well, which you can copy and paste
[00:16:39.650]into canvas, which is quite nice
[00:16:42.080]or there is the traditional way to do it
[00:16:43.897]or there is the traditional way to do it
[00:16:45.950]which is that to download that PDF file.
[00:16:49.524]Upload it as a file into canvas.
[00:16:51.032]Upload it as a file into canvas.
[00:16:52.860]and then in the editing mode here, you can link to that
[00:16:57.270]that file that goes right here.
[00:17:00.000]But then you can also embed the image right here.
[00:17:03.440]And one thing about online courses
[00:17:06.750]is that the aesthetics matter,
[00:17:09.199]is that the aesthetics matter,
[00:17:10.410]the content is important
[00:17:11.890]but you also want it to have a clear kind of
[00:17:14.860]appealing look first for students.
[00:17:15.760]appealing look first for students.
[00:17:17.893]And in either
[00:17:18.934]And in either
[00:17:20.330]of these students can make it full screen here, or in this
[00:17:24.860]you have the full book already embedded right here.
[00:17:28.240]So students can then get much easier access to it,
[00:17:30.890]maybe without having to download a file.
[00:17:34.289]So,
[00:17:37.000]when I taught that African American lit course
[00:17:40.620]I probably had 20 some books that I was able to
[00:17:44.030]get gen- generally from that one website.
[00:17:44.877]get gen- generally from that one website.
[00:17:47.860]And that saved the students an $80 textbook
[00:17:51.250]that they otherwise may have had to buy.
[00:17:54.160]And I've since expanded that to
[00:17:56.440]another intro to lit course that I- I've taught
[00:18:00.230]in which all of the material is available
[00:18:02.980]entirely online for for students.
[00:18:06.120]So that's one of the success stories that I had.
[00:18:09.830]I encourage you to just play around with some
[00:18:12.650]of these resources that are available to you and see
[00:18:16.190]how you might be able to incorporate them
[00:18:18.250]into your own work.
[00:18:19.083]into your own work.
[00:18:19.916]And it does actually benefit the students
[00:18:21.570]cost-wise a great deal.
[00:18:24.090]So with that,
[00:18:26.640]I can,
[00:18:27.720]actually Julia and I can answer any questions you may have.
[00:18:41.415]And you can put your questions in the chat
[00:18:42.820]or feel free to unmute
[00:18:44.140]and just go ahead and ask them out loud.
[00:18:50.890]Or if you've found OER options that have worked
[00:18:54.430]and been successful in your classes,
[00:18:56.310]we'd love to hear that too.
[00:19:12.010]Well, that's a fantastic question.
[00:19:13.360]Are there any OER sites that list OER sites?
[00:19:17.600]In the slides that I will make sure
[00:19:19.560]that you all have access to?
[00:19:22.501]I have,
[00:19:23.334]I have,
[00:19:26.110]oh gosh. You know, I found a, I found a list.
[00:19:28.060]It was actually the University of Nevada I think
[00:19:31.090]that listed a bunch of different places
[00:19:32.870]that you could find OERs
[00:19:36.100]and it was on their library website,
[00:19:39.480]but they actually broke it down by subject,
[00:19:41.910]but then also by like, if you're looking for images
[00:19:44.060]or if you're looking for music or things like that
[00:19:45.305]they actually broke it down a little bit further.
[00:19:47.410]I will see if I can find that
[00:19:48.630]and post that in the chat as well.
[00:19:56.720]Also just a quick search online
[00:19:58.990]we'll review quite a few re- resources as well.
[00:20:03.720]Just by way of an example,
[00:20:06.360]I just typed in a Google search here for OER sites
[00:20:09.690]and got a lot of them that started to come up.
[00:20:10.523]and got a lot of them that started to come up.
[00:20:14.190]So if you just spend a little bit of time on- online, you
[00:20:17.310]you can find a ton of content.
[00:20:25.900]But yeah, some, sometimes the biggest challenge
[00:20:27.740]with using OERs is knowing that they're out there.
[00:20:30.340]It's just a matter of finding them
[00:20:32.820]and spending some time combing through the resources.
[00:20:36.250]Okay. So now I'll ask a question.
[00:20:39.270]Please.
[00:20:40.200]Okay.
[00:20:43.250]So you guys are sort of on top
[00:20:44.810]of this looking forward
[00:20:47.210]for the next year or so,
[00:20:48.834]for the next year or so,
[00:20:51.630]you know w- w-
[00:20:53.360]project Gutenberg is, is really nice.
[00:20:55.510]And since there are others
[00:20:56.490]by running into issues sometimes where if you
[00:20:59.081]if you want to do more contemporary things,
[00:21:02.610]it becomes a little bit more difficult
[00:21:04.890]but do you see, I mean, how do you see the availability
[00:21:09.290]and the offerings of what we are,
[00:21:12.070]you know, moving forward?
[00:21:17.510]Well,
[00:21:21.069]I think that
[00:21:22.052]I think that
[00:21:23.590]increasingly schools
[00:21:26.070]are going to be examined much more closely in terms
[00:21:29.130]of what they expect students to spend on textbooks.
[00:21:33.610]And there's also an expectation that's growing
[00:21:35.980]of content being available entirely on- online.
[00:21:37.748]of content being available entirely on- online.
[00:21:41.600]I think students are,
[00:21:44.480]I- I've taught courses online
[00:21:46.410]before where textbooks have been assigned
[00:21:48.540]that they have to go to the bookstore and get
[00:21:50.310]and students are reaching the point now where
[00:21:53.400]they're often so used to
[00:21:54.890]just having all the content available
[00:21:56.510]embedded within the course that the idea
[00:21:59.050]of getting a physical book or having it shipped
[00:22:02.120]to them or going to the bookstore to get it is
[00:22:03.910]a increasingly a foreign concept.
[00:22:06.510]So I think OERs are just going to grow and
[00:22:11.070]in terms of what's available online now,
[00:22:12.930]it's just, there's so much
[00:22:15.950]sometimes you have to search for the
[00:22:17.560]the really good content co- contemporary materials.
[00:22:22.210]And I think really solid up-to-date science
[00:22:24.720]content might be more of a challenge at this point
[00:22:28.326]but like our keynote speaker talked about to- today
[00:22:32.820]we're entering an age in which there's so much more
[00:22:35.050]available online and free and accessible for everyone.
[00:22:37.139]available online and free and accessible for everyone.
[00:22:40.130]That, that seems to be the trend.
[00:22:41.540]And I, I don't see it slowing down.
[00:22:48.610]Yeah, I would agree.
[00:22:49.603]I think that in general, I'm seeing a lot more being done
[00:22:52.840]with OER and there's definitely, you know
[00:22:55.750]the more that instructors are using it, the more
[00:22:58.960]the more instructors start using it as well.
[00:23:01.870]I think it's, there's definitely a lot
[00:23:03.470]of word of mouth that's happening
[00:23:04.480]between students and instructors and things like that.
[00:23:07.070]And we're seeing a real shift.
[00:23:09.300]At least I'm seeing a real shift
[00:23:10.400]with a lot of my instructors toward OER.
[00:23:12.250]So I'm hoping that that's going to kind of
[00:23:15.130]continue to do so or to do that.
[00:23:17.440]I did see one more chat from
[00:23:19.250]or one more question in the chat from David.
[00:23:21.230]And I think Jeff
[00:23:22.070]you're going to be better suited to answer this.
[00:23:24.500]Do any of the eBooks on project Gutenberg expire?
[00:23:27.480]Are they ever removed
[00:23:28.313]from the site or are they available permanently?
[00:23:30.370]And that's not something I'm totally sure on.
[00:23:34.110]I've never heard of one, e- e- expiring
[00:23:37.430]the site just continues to grow.
[00:23:40.731]And so, I don't think they ever leave.
[00:23:43.070]And also it's in the public domain
[00:23:44.863]it's completely accessible to you.
[00:23:46.610]So if you find something you like and you want to keep it
[00:23:49.170]and just because the internet is never guaranteed
[00:23:53.360]to always have content there for you.
[00:23:56.380]So this is completely open
[00:23:58.590]for anyone to use, however they want.
[00:24:00.280]So you can download it as a file
[00:24:02.760]and keep it and use it
[00:24:06.510]another time.
[00:24:08.360]And then would there be, would it be possible
[00:24:10.230]if you download it, say as a PDF and to re-print that
[00:24:14.150]in your published lessons that you're going to design,
[00:24:16.977]can you reproduce it?
[00:24:18.580]According to the website
[00:24:20.300]you can basically do anything you want.
[00:24:24.830]It's completely, o- o- o- open.
[00:24:25.663]It's completely, o- o- o- open.
[00:24:28.180]I know this website says, well if you use us a lot,
[00:24:30.670]feel free to send us, you know
[00:24:32.750]a little bit to help with the financing for it,
[00:24:36.060]donations are accepted.
[00:24:37.350]But yeah, this is completely
[00:24:39.570]open to use in any way that users want.
[00:24:43.180]So it really is just, you know, open public domain
[00:24:45.590]Completely
[00:24:46.423]Which is great.
[00:24:47.256]Very encouraging.
[00:24:48.089]So thank you.
[00:24:48.922]Yep, absolutely.
[00:24:50.550]Yeah. But play around with this, this website.
[00:24:52.780]One thing that's also kind of cool is they, there's a point
[00:24:56.468]on the website where they list the newest things that are
[00:24:59.140]are, are, are added.
[00:25:00.420]And they do, you know,
[00:25:02.840]dozens of new items per week.
[00:25:04.344]dozens of new items per week.
[00:25:06.790]And they're getting into some pretty obscure
[00:25:08.380]like 1950 science fiction ma- ma- magazines and things
[00:25:12.880]like that now.
[00:25:13.759]And also music and films are available in the public domain
[00:25:14.592]And also music and films are available in the public domain
[00:25:19.610]as well.
[00:25:20.443]And you can incorporate those into your classes as well.
[00:25:24.290]So there's a lot of really cool content out there now.
[00:25:26.660]It definitely, I mean, I can see that stuff
[00:25:28.770]and American literature, you know, 20th century,
[00:25:31.740]US literature or whatever.
[00:25:33.870]Or if you teach an American lit survey course,
[00:25:36.560]there's no reason for a student to have to buy
[00:25:40.170]books that are, or, you know,
[00:25:41.820]buy content that covers things prior
[00:25:43.460]to about 1920,
[00:25:45.890]because it's all out there.

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