finding, selecting, and adopting open textbooks

Una Daly, OpenCourseWare ConsortiumTerrie McAloney, BCcampus

Nov 21, 2012

Una Daly, OpenCourseWare ConsortiumTerrie McAloney, BCcampus

Nov 21, 2012

Finding, Selecting, and Adopting Open Textbooks

and OER

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• Una Daly, Community College Outreach

OpenCourseWare Consortium

• Terrie McAloney, BCcampus

Special thanks to Sylvia Currie and BCcampus!!

Agenda

• Myths of OER & Open Textbooks

• Origins of OER

• Motivation for using it

• Open Licensing

• Finding OER

• Open Textbook Repositories

• Adopting OER

Myth or Fact?

• All open textbooks are peer-reviewed

• OER is free

• OER is in the public domain

• Publisher produced material is better than OER

• Open textbooks hurt bookstores

• eBooks are open textbooks

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Origin of OERcirca 2002

• Open Educational Resources (OER) – free access globally

“The open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication

technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial

purposes”

“Digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and

reuse for teaching, learning and research”

6adapted from Judy Baker’s ELI 2011 OER Workshop cc-by license

“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 …”

Definition of OER by William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

cc-by-nc-nd Texas T’s/flickr

7adapted from Judy Baker’s ELI 2011 OER Workshop cc-by license

Examples

Includes –

• Course materials• Lesson Plans• Modules or lessons• OpenCourseWare (OCW)• Open textbooks• Videos• Images• Tests• Software• Any other tools, materials, or techniques used

to support ready access to knowledge

8adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license

Motivations to use OER

• Save students $$$• Empower faculty

– Promote scholarship and collaboration

– Eliminate unneeded updates

• Avoid copyright violations

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Characteristics of OER

• Digital– Easily modified – free distribution

• Open License– Reuse, Revise, Remix, Redistribute

• Low cost– Lowers barriers to education

Photo labeled for reuse by MrKCoolsPhotostream

What is an Open License?

• Free: Free to access online, free to print

• Open: Shared, usable and re-usable: licensing that is less restrictive than standard copyright

11adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license

Creative Commons LicensesCreative Commons Licenses

• Works with existing copyright law

• Promotes sharing

• Internationally recognized

• Author/creator can specify re-uses

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Finding Images, Videos, Music

search.creativecommons.org

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Open Textbook MotivationsTraditional Textbook

Open Textbook by

Adrienne Watt, Instructor

New From $171.90Hardback

Free: online, pdf, ePubPrint out yourself

Open Textbook by Adrienne Watt, BCIT Instructor

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Discover Open TextbooksRepositories & Listing Sites

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College Open Textbooks

• Open textbook list by subject (750+)

• Peer reviews (150)• Accessibility reviews (100)• Online community of college

faculty (1000+)

OpenStax CollegeFoundational Support

Ultimate Goal – High-quality books for top 20+ courses.

All books in CNX, all CC-BY

Spring 2012 Spring 2012 Spring 2013 Spring 2013 Spring 2013

Adapted from David Harrison CCCOER webinar cc-by

Adopting OER & Open Textbooks

• Selection and Evaluation

• Adding other materials

• Curriculum Approvals

• Student Access/Bookstore Role

Adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license

FRE PUPPIESWIREDSTEVE CC-BY-NC-SA

Evaluating OER

• MERLOT Peer Reviews• Achieve OER Rubric• College Open Textbooks Ratings

Collegeopentextbooks.

Best Uses of OER• Enhance existing materials with OER

• Enhance existing Open Textbook– E.g. Translations, Images, etc.

• Replace existing materials with an Open Textbook

• Invite students to generate OER 

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cc-by-nc-nd eslenkphoto

adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license

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Student Access to Textbooks

• Classroom/Lab usage– Print, PDF, online, mobile

• Repository access– Learning Management System– Internet-only access

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Making Open Sustainable

•Support open policies

•Promote use of open resources

•Openly license your work

•Build an open education community

adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license

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Contact Information

Una Daly unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org

Terrie McAloney terrie.mcaloney@bccampus.ca

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