oer & open textbooks

Douglas CollegeFaculty of ScienceApril 29, 2013

Clint Lalondeclalonde@bccampus.ca

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•$9 million invested•153 grants awarded•100% participation across PS system•83% partnerships•47 credentials developed in whole or part via OPDF•355 courses, 12 workshops, 19 web sites/tools and 396 course components (learning objects, labs, textbooks, manuals, videos)

100% licensed for open free sharing & reuse by all BC post-secondary

OPDF

Repositories: SOLR

solr.bccampus.ca

Remote Science Labs

BC-Integrated Lab Network (BC-ILN)

bciln.ca

SOLR: http://solr.bccampus.ca:8001/bcc/items/5ab2d290-8f05-8679-251b-b65662f92230/1/

Overview

• What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?• Why open textbooks?• Finding textbooks• BC Open Textbook Project

“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.”

What are OER?

William & Flora Hewlett Foundation http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources

What are OER?

“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.”UNESCOhttp://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/what-are-open-educational-resources-oers/

What are OER?

• Educational resources (text, images, simulations, multimedia, textbooks)

• Accessible by anyone (usually via internet)

• Free• Can be modified & adapted

What are OER?

• Educational resources (text, images, simulations, multimedia, textbooks)

• Accessible by anyone (usually via internet)

• Free• Can be modified & adapted

Technical – can a PDF really be open?

Open Textbooks

“A textbook licensed under an open copyright license, and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers and members of the public.

They are available for free as online versions, and as low-cost printed versions, should students opt for these.”

BCcampus

http://open.bccampus.ca/open-textbooks/open-textbook-faq/#1

BC Open Textbooks

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Goal: 40 free and open textbooks available for the highest enrolled 1st & 2nd year post-secondary subjects in BC.

Don’t reinvent the wheel

Leverage the commons

BC Open Textbooks

• Available in many formats – choice & remix

– HTML, ePub, PDF and print

– Mobile & Accessibility

• Released with open licenses & openly available

– Allow faculty freedom for adaption

– Publicly funded should be open licensed & available

• High quality material

– Peer-review (faculty)

– System wide engagement & collaboration

Why Open Textbooks?

1. Reduce cost for students

2. Improve learning

3. Greater faculty flexibility

Why Open Textbooks?

1. Reduce cost for students

2. Improve learning

3. Greater faculty flexibility

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Reduce student cost

• Students spend $1200/yr on textbooks• 4x rate of inflation over past 20 years• 70% students have not purchased textbook for a

course because of price

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

Reduce student cost - Textbooks

Source: OpenStax College http://openstaxcollege.org/

June 2012160 school adoptions$2.3 million savings

Improve learning

• Virginia State University School of Business

• 1 year pilot (2010/11)

• OTB in 9 courses (Flat World Knowledge FWK)

Sources: Open Textbooks and Increased Student Access and Outcomes, EURODL

“Students in courses that used FWK textbooks tended to have higher grades and lower failing and withdrawal rates than those in courses that did not use FWK texts.”

Improve Learning

Utah Open Textbook Project

1 year pilot

10 high school science teachers adapt CK12 textbooks

2000 students

Cost US $4.99/book printed & delivered (US $80)

Result: 5.9% gain in standardized test scores

Improve Learning

Improve learning

“My textbook is on back-order/in the mail/out of stock”

“I can’t get my textbooks until my student loan arrives”

“I’ve got an old edition”

Does this resonate with you?

Faculty flexibility

“adapt & re-share”

“repurpose”

Faculty flexibility

©

The 4 R’s

Creative Commons

Creative Commons

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I’m sold. Where can I find open textbooks?

Repositories: Merlot

Merlot.org

Peer reviewed & user comments

Repositories: Merlot

taste.merlot.org/opentextbooks

2200+ open textbooks

1074 Science & Technology

326 Math & Stats

Repositories: Connexions

cnx.org

Endorsement Lenses

http://cnx.org/lenses

Repositories: Connexions

Remix & authoring

Open Textbooks

Wikibooks

Wikimedia Foundation project

Human Physiology: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Human_Physiology

Open Textbooks

University of Minnesota

open.umn.edu

•Referatory•Some faculty reviews•User friendly

Natural & Physical Sciences https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/SearchResults.aspx?subjectAreaId=8

Open Textbooks

Open Stax

openstax.org

Open Textbooks

Open Stax

openstax.org

Available nowAlgebra-Based PhysicsIntroduction to SociologyGeneral Biology for MajorsConcepts of Biology

Coming soonHuman Anatomy and Physiology: May 15, 2013Elementary Statistics: September 30, 2013

Pre-Calculus: February 2014Principles of Economics: February 2014Introductory Psychology: October 2014General Chemistry: about July 2014

OpenStax College

Open Textbooks

American Institute of Math

aimath.org/textbooks•Editorial review board•Evaluation criteria

American Institute of Math

Evaluation criteria includes:

•must be able to serve as the primary text in a mainstream mathematics course at the undergraduate level in U.S. colleges and universities.

•They must have exercises.

•Class-tested.

Watch licenses

Open Textbooks

College Open Textbooks

collegeopentextbooks.org

28 educational organizations

200 US colleges

150+ peer reviews of OTB

Faculty success stories: http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/success-stories-

Open Textbooks

College Open Textbooks Community

collegeopentextbooks.ning.com

Adoption: http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com/page/adoptions-of-open-textbooks

Open Textbooks

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER)

Oerconsortium.org

750 open textbooks

Adoption resources & webinars

OTB: What we have been doing

OTB Sub-Committee18 members

Faculty, administrators (Thor Borgford, Douglas College), Teaching & learning centres, Libraries, Bookstores, Students, BCCAT, MAEIT

The sub-committee advises on:•    Identification and prioritization of the 40 subjects•    Selection criteria for candidate texts and supplementary resources•    Call for proposals processes•    Identification of additional consultation and engagement opportunities•    Quality assurance and updating processes for resources

41 applicants from across BC post-sec

OTB: What we have been doing

Top 40 subjects based on course registrations

Source: BC CDW & BC Research Institutions

Full list: bccampus.ca/top-40-courses

OTB: What we have been doing

Open Textbook SummitMarch 2013

BCcampusBC AEITCreative CommonseCampus AlbertaAlberta Enterprise & Advanced EducationThe 20 Million Minds FoundationWashington Open Course LibraryUniversity of Minnesota Open Textbook CatalogueLumen LearningSiyavulaOpen Courseware ConsortiumOpenStax/ConnexionsStudent Public Interest Research GroupsRight to Research CoalitionCanadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA)

OTB Project Update

Phase 1: Call for Reviews of existing (until May 24)

Phase 2: Call for modifications (Fall, 2013)

Phase 3: Call for creation (Spring 2014)

Phase 1: Faculty Reviews

• Seeded 10 open textbooks• $250 faculty review • 4 reviews per textbook• May 24th

bccampus.ca/open-textbooks-phase-1-call-for-reviewers/

BC Open Textbooks

open.bccampus.ca

OTB: Next steps

• BCCAT articulation meetings• Library engagement• Authoring platform evaluation

• Pressbooks• Connexions/OERPub

• Faculty Support• CoP for authors?

• Seed more textbooks• Adoption/Adaption Workshops

You don’t have to wait for us!

Questions?

Thank youopen.bccampus.caClint Lalonde

clalonde@bccampus.ca

BCcampus.ca