Adopting an open textbook: It doesn’t need to be all or nothing
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This document discusses adopting open textbooks for college courses. It begins with an overview of open textbooks and their benefits, such as being freely available. It then discusses the history of open educational resources and provides examples of where open textbooks are used. Reasons for adopting open textbooks given by faculty and students include lowering costs and improving access and updating. Survey results from BC show increasing adoption of open textbooks at public post-secondary institutions there, with estimated savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The document concludes by discussing options for faculty considering adopting open textbooks, from full adoption to partial use, and resources for finding open textbooks.
Adopting an open textbook: It doesn’t need to be all or nothing
- 1. Adopting an Open Textbook It doesn’t need to be all or nothing Lauri Aesoph, Manager Open Education BCcampus ETUG 2015 SFU, Burnaby, BC Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution.
- 2. Agenda WHAT Overview of open textbooks WHEN A very short history of OER WHERE Where are open textbooks used WHY Reasons given by faculty and students WHO Adoption numbers in British Columbia HOW Finding your spot between “all” and “nothing”
- 4. What are Open Educational Resources? “Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them.” UNESCO
- 5. The 5 R’s of Open • Make and own copiesRetain • Use in a wide range of waysReuse • Adapt, modify, and improveRevise • Combine two or moreRemix • Share with othersRedistribute Adapted (color change) from Open Education: A “Simple” Introduction by David Wiley released under CC-BY license
- 6. What about Copyright? copyright (1) by Maria Elena released under CC-BY 2.0 license
- 7. Creative Commons logo by Creative Commons used under a CC-BY 3.0 License CC license image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 South Africa license
- 9. Learning Objects 1996 MERLOT 1997 Open Content 1998 Connexions (OpenStax) 1999 Creative Commons 2001 OER coined by UNESCO 2002 Hewlett Foundation 2002 BCcampus 2004 BC Open Textbook project 2012
- 11. Go to oermap.org
- 13. Textbooks are expensive Image credit: Beyond Textbooks by Thomas used under CC-BY license
- 14. Average student debt difficult to pay off, CBC, March 11, 2014 Student Debt in Canada, Canadian Federation of Students, Fall 2013
- 15. Students spend $1200/yr on textbooks 3x rate of inflation in 10 years 2nd biggest educational expense after tuition Source: Fixing the Broken Textbook Market U.S. PIRG Cover image: Center for Public Interest Research used under CC-BY 4.0 license
- 16. Textbook Costs vs Student Success Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus Slide: CC-BY Cable Green, Creative Commons via http://www.project-kaleidoscope.org/ 60%+ do not purchase books at some point due to book cost 35% take fewer courses due to book cost 31% choose not to register for a course due to book cost 23% regularly go without textbooks due to book cost 14% have dropped a course due to book cost 10% have withdrawn from a course due to book cost
- 17. OT Summit – Student Keynotes
- 20. BC Faculty Survey - 2015 http://open.bccampus.ca/2015/05/26/early-findings-from-bc-faculty-survey-on-open-educational-resources
- 22. BC Faculty Survey - 2015
- 23. Time – it actually saved time. Three weeks into the first semester I realized we weren’t receiving 5-10 emails a day from students like we usually did. Previously the students were having problems with the proprietary online companion site provided by the traditional textbook publisher. Access – no issues with the bookstore running out of the textbooks; students had immediate access to the learning materials, and they have that access throughout their degree program. With a traditional model, they only had access for a limited period – three months or so. Continuous evolution of material – When the Modern Language Association changes documentation rules, I can make an immediate change. I can add new OER I find (or that my students find!). Student participation – they can contribute to the resource themselves (see above). Easy linking – I can easily link to specific lessons from the course site. I can link specific lessons in response to individual student needs (eg. If someone is having trouble with run-on sentences but not spelling, she can send them straight to a lesson on that aspect). I could never do that with the publisher’s site. The collateral benefits of adopting
- 25. BC Public Post-secondary Institutions
- 26. Adoption Questions 1. What is the name of course for which this textbook will be used (course name and course code)? 2. When did/will you begin using this textbook (term or semester and year)? 3. How many course sections per term are you/will you be using this textbook? 4. How many students typically enrol in each course section? 5. What is the cost of the textbook which will be replaced by this open textbook?
- 27. Adoptions Faculty Students Savings 172 90 5368 $536,800 - $715,000 201 98 6050 $605,000 - $800,000
- 32. Airport bookstore by rod cuthbert under CC-NC-ND BY 2.0 license
- 33. Shade 1: Why do you want new shoes? Tri tone shoe by Russ under CC-NC-ND BY-SA 2.0 license What are your reasons for using an open textbook?
- 34. Shade 2: Are there any sales? Reviews? Learn more: colleagues, research, reviews, blogs
- 35. Shade 3: There’s already one in your closet Another scramble for something by Mychal Stanley used under CC-BY 2.0 license Babson Survey (2014) 1/3 of faculty aware of open educational resources (OER) ½ of faculty reported using OER How can this be?
- 36. Shade 4: Go shopping BC Open Textbook collection (open.bccampus.ca) OpenStax (openstaxcollege.org) MERLOT (merlot.org) Personal shopper = Librarian
- 37. Shade 5: Browse and window shop . Reading by Pedro Ribeiro Simoes used under CC-BY 2.0. Suggested Reading
- 38. Shade 6: Try it on . Supplementary Reading
- 40. Shade 7: Shop for accessories Chapter, chapter section, image, graph, table….
- 41. Part-time Humanities instructor… “Though my curriculum is chosen by someone else, I use many, many open resources when teaching and only rely on textbooks to the extent that students will learn from them.”
- 42. Shade 8: Time for the fashion show . Student Assignments