open textbooks: opening the doors to education mary burgess, executive director bccampus
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Open Textbooks: Opening the doors to education
Mary Burgess, Executive DirectorBCcampus
Agenda
• What is an Open Educational Resource?
• What is an Open Textbook?
• BC Open Textbook Project
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What is an OER?
Headline
“OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.”William & Flora Hewlett Foundation http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources
What are Open Educational Resources?
Thank You
The 5 Rs of Opennessdoes open enable?
Source: David Wiley, http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221 March 5, 2014, CC-BY
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Let’s get even more specific now, and talk aboutOpen Textbooks.
Open Textbooks
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We have a problem…
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What students think of textbooks
•“The price of textbooks has influenced my decision to take classes. When the same class is offered by three different instructors, I check which book is the cheapest, and even though the professor might not be good, I’m forced to take that class because the textbook is the cheapest.”•“For my ‘Intro to Stats’ class, the usual cost of the textbook is like $120. But then I got a copy from India for like $29. And it’s the exact same copy.”•“I was in lab one day and the guy sitting next to me had the PDF version of the book opened on his computer. And I was like, Oh, can I have a copy? And he sent it over to me.”•“I have a friend who actually didn’t spend any money last year for books because he went to the library at the beginning of the quarter, borrowed books, scanned everything, and had the PDF file.”•“My most expensive class was clinical psych, because she writes the textbook herself, and it has a new edition every semester or something ridiculous. So it was like almost $200. And the thing is that you can’t use the previous edition, because she changes it herself because she knows the textbooks sell well. It’s like so manipulative.”
Students Get Savvier about Textbook Buying, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2013http://chronicle.com/article/Students-Get-Savvier-About/136827
There is a direct relationship between textbook costs and student success
60%+ do not purchase textbooks at some point due to cost
35% take fewer courses due to textbook cost
31% choose not to register for a course due to textbook cost
23% regularly go without textbooks due to cost
14% have dropped a course due to textbook cost
10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook cost
Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus
Fortunately, there are solutions…
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What is an Open Textbook?
• An instructional resource • An ebook• A printed book • Usually uses a Creative Commons license to enable others
to further share and modify
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The BC Open Textbook Project
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+20 more for vocational programs
First province in Canada
60 Texts + ancillaries
Project Phases
Phase One – Harvest and Review
Phase Two – Adapt
Phase Three - Create
Phase One: Harvest and Review
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Phase Two: Adapt
• Make use of what exists
• Improve what exists
No, not that kind of proposal…
No, it isn’t always easy• Provide funding
• Provide support
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Phase Three: Create
What are some ways of doing this?
Faculty collaboratively authoring
Book sprint
Results
Known student savings = 433K +
# of books in collection = 64
# of reviews = 67 reviews of 32 texts
Adaptations = 8SociologyPsychologySocial psychResearch methods in psychDatabase designProject management (completed)Strategic management (completed)Chemistry
Creations = 4Canadian HistoryCanadian Geography (completed)CriminologyEnglish Lit
$ $
Students: 240Previous Textbook: $187OpenStax Textbook: $0
Student savings: $60,000
1 course1 institution 4 terms
Early Adopter and Adapter: Dr. Takashi Sato Physics KPU
Want to adopt an open textbook? You just need to give a link to your students to get started.
Want to get your feet wet? Start with a review, we have 64 texts to choose from!
Want to adapt one of the texts in our collection or create a new one for one of our 2 areas of focus ? Send us an application!
Next steps…
If you’ve already started, we’d love to hear from you!
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