[LIBRARYDIR] FW: OER & Low-Cost Labelling + the third party bookstore products

[Boyoung Chae]

Hi Colleen,

Thank you so much for the insightful question & bringing this to my attention!

A short answer to your inquiry is that a course provided through the third party bookstore products, such as BNC OER+ (formerly known as Barnes & Noble Education LoudCloud Courseware), cannot be marked with the OER label per our state labeling policy. Such course may, however, be labeled as Low-Cost if the course fee for each student is $50 or less.

WA CTC's labeling policy guideline<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FDMutJccGdEZ1mtB-4eoAbvCmkS7t-tvqGoBrAIopO0/edit?usp=sharing> states that to be designated as an OER course, a course should use Open Educational Resources (OER) as the primary, required instructional materials for the course. In the policy, OER are defined as resources released either under an open license or in the public domain permitting their free use, repurposing and sharing (See the Definition and criteria & Qualified cases in page 2).

In other words, unless the content of BNC OER+ program is publicly available with a clear terms of use that allows free public access, it cannot be considered for OER labeling. I have updated the labeling guideline and FAQ<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uebgWfcUL7NOwywZktaju0-5JS7uzkfXu3BwV-0090s/edit?usp=sharing> to reflect this. Please do let me know anytime with any comments, especially for these new items that need further clarification.

Thanks again,
Boyoung


[sbctc logo]Boyoung Chae, Ph.D.
Policy Associate, Educational Technology & Open Education
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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From: Colleen Sanders <Colleen.Sanders at skagit.edu<mailto:Colleen.Sanders at skagit.edu>>
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To: Boyoung Chae <bchae at sbctc.edu<mailto:bchae at sbctc.edu>>; hmayer at everettcc.edu<mailto:hmayer at everettcc.edu>; Claver Hategekimana <Claver.Hategekimana at skagit.edu<mailto:Claver.Hategekimana at skagit.edu>>; Mindy Coslor <Mindy.Coslor at skagit.edu<mailto:Mindy.Coslor at skagit.edu>>; Elena Bianco <Elena.Bianco at skagit.edu<mailto:Elena.Bianco at skagit.edu>>
Subject: RE: OER & Low-Cost Labelling + ctcLink + inclusive access

Hi Boyoung,

Thank you for including inclusive access models in the coding guidelines, as well as critically addressing them on the listserv.

I can't believe I didn't ask this before, but where on the OER/Low Cost Labelling schema will third-party bookstore products such as Barnes & Noble's LoudCloud OER Courseware<https://www.bncoerplus.com/>? LoudCloud is marketed as OER but 1) come at a cost to students and 2) do not allow faculty the full 5 R permissions, such as editing and remixing text? Barnes & Noble markets these as OER to colleges with whom it wants to sign bookstore contracts, and markets them as OER to faculty, despite not meeting the criteria for being OER. Often, B&N takes CC-BY resources, puts them behind a paywall on LoudCloud, adds learning analytics, then sells them back to the colleges (they re-license the completed OER-based products, ironically, as CC-BY-NC). B&N allows you to search for OER materials on their bookstore websites<https://scc.bncollege.com/shop/scc-falls/page/find-oer>, although the results aren't intelligible to me (both a copyrighted text ISBN 9781503606715; and an OpenStax text are labelled as OER).

To what extent will the move to ctcLink and the SBCTC's work on OER/Low Cost Labelling hold third-party bookstore publishers accountable for labelling texts as true OER, versus OER-based products or copyrighted texts? Who will be fact-checking third party bookstore reports of OER adoption, especially considering these companies often sell OER-based products that are *not* OER?

FYI, B&N has contracts at about ½ the CTCs in the state right now.

Thanks,
Colleen

Colleen Sanders, MLS, she/her
Faculty Librarian
360-416-7607
colleen.sanders at skagit.edu<mailto:colleen.sanders at skagit.edu>

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