{"id":5346,"date":"2018-03-14T06:03:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T10:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/?p=5346"},"modified":"2019-06-11T14:31:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T18:31:21","slug":"skyepack-open-educational-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/skyepack-open-educational-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Skyepack Harnesses Open Educational Resources to Offer College Course Material to Students for Just $35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While traditional textbook publishers have been hiking their costs in recent years, a Purdue-affiliated company is changing that story. Skyepack works with professors to curate their educational material for their course. With the help of open educational resources, they aim to provide it to students for just $35.<\/p>\n<p>It used to be that, when a professor put together the material they will cover in a given course, they had to tango with the publishing industry. They could either assign textbooks, anthologies, or other works outright. Or they could put together a coursepack of material using licensed segments of copyrighted materials for which their students would be charged accordingly. (Or they could use some combination of the two.) But picking and choosing your educational material takes a lot of work and time that could be otherwise spent conducting research. It\u2019s much easier for a professor to simply pick a textbook and go from there.<\/p>\n<p>The main problem with textbooks from the publishing industry is they\u2019re expensive. A recent report from Student PIRGs found that, in the past decade, textbook costs have <a href=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/rising-cost-textbooks-feverish-student-pirgs-say-open-educational-resources-cure\/\">risen four times the rate of inflation<\/a>. It\u2019s not uncommon for a professor to ask students to pay hundreds of dollars for the educational material.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrimarily we are focused on providing students with affordable course content,\u201d said Skyepack CEO Brady Kalb. \u201cWe have a team of instructional designers. When we start working with a faculty, we\u2019ll pair with someone on the instructional design team. The instructional designer\u2019s job is to first understand the learning objectives of that course, the topics that are being taught, the teaching methodologies and pedagogies that the instructor is using, their assessment strategies, and the specific needs of the student population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe then go out and curate content that meets all of those different objectives from various sources. All of that content is then delivered to students on our web and mobile platform. Our target cost for students is around $35 dollars. There are a lot of variables that go into determining what that price is exactly, but that\u2019s where we want to see things end up. The intent is to take a course that has a high-priced $150 to $200 textbook and work with the professor to offer that content at a more reasonable price.\u201d<\/p>\n<h1>How Does that Work with Any Bottom Line?<\/h1>\n<p>Skyepack draws their material from four different sources: materials created by the professor themselves, open educational resources, materials created by the Skyepack team, and some licensed copyrighted material.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery course is unique,\u201d Kalb said. \u201cWe have courses that are all across the spectrum. A good example would be half the content is open source, 25% is content the instructor has already created or wants to create, and 25% is what we create.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also have a content creation team\u2014copyeditors, writers, videographers. We have a green screen studio to produce video, a sound studio to produce audio. So we can create a lot of really good, interactive, and engaging custom content.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5352\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5352\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5352\" src=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/skyepack-content.jpg\" alt=\"Skyepack\" width=\"1000\" height=\"747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/skyepack-content.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/skyepack-content-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/skyepack-content-768x574.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Skyepack content development team in action.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe have courses that are 100% created by us, and 100% created by the instructor and they\u2019ve chosen to work with us instead of a larger publisher. And the reason for that mainly is affordability. We\u2019re not going to charge the same as what a traditional publisher would. The price is going to be much more fair. And we also don\u2019t take ownership for the instructor\u2019s copyright of that content.\u201d<\/p>\n<h1>Skyepack Doesn&#8217;t Want Your Copyright<\/h1>\n<p>For many professors, the putting their course material online is complicated by the fact that many online providers will seek to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/online-courses-still-unpopular-among-professors\/\">claim some portion of their copyright<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost faculty don\u2019t write books,\u201d Kalb said. \u201cBut all faculty to some extent create content. Maybe PowerPoint slides or pdf files. The ones that do write books or portions of books, we\u2019ve some that have published before with traditional publishers and their book has been taken out of print. Because they signed away their copyright, they can\u2019t even access their own educational materials. We\u2019re all about facilitating learning and giving access to students in a fair way. We\u2019re not interested in copyrights.\u201d<\/p>\n<h1>The Pros and Cons of Open Educational Resources<\/h1>\n<p>With the advent of the internet, open educational resources (OER) have become widely available. These freely licensed educational materials can be used at no cost, but tracking them down and modifying them for a course takes even more time and effort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe open source marketplace, if you will, is very fragmented. And a lot of content falls into one of two camps. Camp number one being content that was created by an instructor for their class at their specific university for the specific needs of their student population. That is difficult for a faculty member to pick up and adopt. They\u2019re going to have different teaching methodologies, their students will have different needs. They\u2019re going to give different weight to the various topics included in the course. So it won\u2019t be a 1:1 conversion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second camp is content created with a very general focus. Trying to be all things to all people. And that makes it difficult for faculty to adopt as well. They would then have to go through that content and pick out the pieces that are relevant to their course. That\u2019s where, when we\u2019re using open content, we can add a lot of value because our instructional designers are trained to do that work. They\u2019re trained to match content to specific learning objectives, the topics of interest, and the assessment strategies that professor is using.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skyepack has recently received over $800,000 million in incentives and tax credits from the state of Indiana and other organizations. They currently work with instructors in over 60 campuses around the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While traditional textbook publishers have been hiking their costs in recent years, a Purdue-affiliated company is changing that story. Skyepack works with professors to curate their educational material for their course. 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