unbc cnc annual teaching and learning conference 2014
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Open Textbooks: Opening the doors to education
Mary Burgess, Director, Open Education, BCcampus
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Agenda
• What is an Open Educational Resource?
• What is an Open Textbook?
• BC Open Textbook Project
• Food for thought
• Case Studies
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What is an OER?
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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?
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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
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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
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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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Images from Bccampus.ca and CreativeCommons.org. CC-BY
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The BC Open Textbook Project
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Image from Bccampus.ca
+20 more for vocational programs
First province in Canada
60 Texts + ancillaries
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Why are we doing this?Yhy are we doing this project?
• To increase access to higher education by reducing student costs
• To enable faculty more control over their instructional resources
• To move the open agenda forward in a meaningful, measurable way
Images from Oxfam.org CC-BY and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/World_Open_Educational_Resources_Congress_2012/How_Open_Access_and_Open_Science_can_mutually_fertilize_with_Open_Educational_Resources CC-BY
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The project:
• 40 Texts, aligned with the 40 most highly enrolled 1st and 2nd year subjects in BC, plus 20 more for skills based programs
• Not just for online delivery
• Ebook (multiple formats) or print on demand
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Project Phases
Phase One – Harvest and Review
Phase Two – Adapt
Phase Three - Create
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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 really, really isn’t easy• Provide funding
• Provide support
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Phase Three: Create
What are some ways of doing this?
Faculty collaboratively authoring
Buy the rights from publishers
Book sprint
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• Reviews – we’re relying on faculty
• Faculty Fellows Program
• Collaborations – peer support, idea generation, subject matter expertise
• Supporting players: Instructional Designers, Professional Editors
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What about quality?
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Results
Known student savings = 262K +
# of books in collection = 62
# of reviews = 50 reviews of 21 texts
Adaptations = 8SociologyPsychologySocial psychResearch methods in psychDatabase designProject managementStrategic managementChemistry
Creations = 4Canadian HistoryCanadian GeographyCriminologyEnglish Lit
$ $
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Consider the following…
What would need to be in place for you to adopt an open textbook?
• What do you need from your peers, your institution, your discipline?
• What does the content of the text need to be?
• What does the textbook need to look like?
• What else?
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• What is the culture of your discipline? Would OER work be accepted by your peers?
• Is collaboration valued at your institution?
• Is the creation of new work more highly valued at your institution than the reuse or revision of existing work?
• To what extent do current institutional policies motivate educators to invest at least a portion of their time in ongoing curriculum design, creation of effective learning environments and the development of high quality instructional materials?
Talk amongst yourselves…
1st just you, then with a partner, then with your whole table…
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Case Studies
University of Massachusetts Amherst OER initiative
• 8 faculty members• 10 grants • $1,000 each
2011-2012 academic year 700 studentsSaved more than $72,000
20 more grants this year beingworked on.
Image from: http://www.library.umass.edu/about-the-libraries/news/press-releases-2011/taking-a-bite-out-of-textbook-costs
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Case Studies
Tacoma Community College Liberate 250K
Image from: http://www.tacomacc.edu
• Save students 250k on textbooks over 2 years
• Hired an OER librarian to help faculty
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Case Studies
Oregon State University Open Textbook Initiative
• 50k
• Published in 2014/15
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Students: 60Previous Textbook: $187OpenStax Textbook: $0
Student savings: $11,200
1 class 1 institution 1 term
Early Adopter and Adapter: Dr. Takashi Sato Physics KPU
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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 62 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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