cccoer webinar find and adopt open textbooks
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Finding Open Textbooks and
Fostering Faculty Adoptions
Amanda Coolidge, BCcampus Open Textbooks
Nicole Finkbeiner, OpenStax CollegeKatherine D. Harris, California OER Council
Sept 10, 2014, 10:00 am PST
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Moderators: Lisa Close, FLVC and Una Daly, CCCOER
Agenda
• Introductions• CCCOER Overview• BCcampus Open Textbooks• OpenStax College Open Textbooks• California OER Council Open Textbooks• Questions & Answers
WelcomePlease introduce yourself in the chat window
Amanda CoolidgeOpen Education Manager
BCcampus British Columbia, Canada
Katherine D. HarrisCalifornia OER Council
ChairAssociate Professor
San Jose State University
Moderator: Una DalyDirector of Community College Consortium
Open Education Consortium
Nicole FinkbeinerAssociate Director
Institutional RelationsOpenStax College
• Promote adoption of OER to enhance teaching and learning
– Expanding access to education– Supporting professional development– Advancing the community college
mission
CCCOER
Funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
250+ Colleges in 18 States & Provinces
Open Textbooks & Adoption
• Student Access & Success
• Faculty Awareness
• Faculty Adoption
• Save Students Money
Cover the Cost Student Contest
Enter a video or written essay answering:
How do you cover the cost of textbooks
each semester?
Three $2,500 book scholarships will be awarded
www.thebooklessmovement.org
BCcampus Open Textbooks
Amanda CoolidgeOpen Education Manager
BCcampus Open Textbook Project
Amanda Coolidge, Manager Open EducationBCcampusCCCOER PresentationSeptember 10, 2014
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So where is “BCcampus”?
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“Connect the expertise, programs, and resources of all BC post-secondary institutions under a collaborative service delivery framework”
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Curriculum Services & Applied Research
Student Services & Data Exchange
Collaborative Programs & Shared Services
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“Connect the expertise, programs, and resources of all BC post-secondary institutions under a collaborative service delivery framework”
OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License
1Curriculum Services & Applied ResearchSupport & promote the development & use of Open Educational Resources
Support instructors who want to use technology in their teaching practice
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Online Program Development Fund (OPDF)
2003-2012
$9 million invested153 grants awarded100% participation across system83% partnerships47 credentials developed in whole or part via OPDF355 courses, 12 workshops, 19 web sites/tools and 396 course components (learning objects, labs, textbooks, manuals, videos)
100% open license for free & open sharing & reuse by all BC post-secondary
solr.bccampus.ca
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
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
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
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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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
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
Phase One: Harvest and Review
Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest CC-BY
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
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
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaxed/285108485/ CC-BY
Image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1815-regency-proposal-woodcut.gif CC-BY
Phase Three: Create
What are some ways of doing this?
Faculty collaboratively authoring
Buy the rights from publishers
Book sprint
• 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?
Results
Known student savings =$305K +
# of books in collection = 62# of reviews = 50 reviews of 21 texts
# of Adaptations = 8• Sociology• Psychology• Social psych• Research methods in psych• Database design• Project management• Strategic management• Chemistry
# of Creations = 4• Canadian History• Canadian Geography• Criminology• English Lit
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# of Institutions adopting: 8• Camosun College• Langara College• JIBC• Kwantlen Polytechnic University• Douglas College• Capilano University• NWCC• Thompson Rivers University
open.bccampus.ca
OpenStax College
Nicole FinkbeinerAssociate Director, Institutional Relations
Peer-reviewed, quality OER
Nicole FinkbeinerAssociate DirectorInstitutional Relations
$1,200
Fixing the Broken Textbook Market report by U.S. PIRG Education Fund
January 2014
Average per year cost for
textbooks and supplies
48%
Fixing the Broken Textbook Market report by U.S. PIRG Education Fund
January 2014
of all students surveyed said that
the cost of textbooks impacted
how many/which classes they
took each semester
Foundation Support
Meeting the OER Challenge
Ease of Use • Make it EASY to find and use the materials
Free is not Enough• Establish development models to ensure quality
Scope and Sequence• Develop resources to support existing curricula
Essential Learning Resources• Partner with groups that can enhance content
Our books thus far
Schools using our resources
Examples:• Austin Community College• University of Oklahoma• Houston Community College• University of Georgia• Lone Star College• Princeton University• Central New Mexico Community College• State University of New York• Maricopa Community Colleges• Penn State University
800+ schools worldwide using OpenStax books
233% Increase in adoptions in one
year (300 adoptions to
1,000 adoptions)
OER Enhances Academic Freedom
• OER provides faculty with more choices for their courses
• OER allows for permission free editing and adaptation
• OER prevents faculty from being locked into a particular platform or system
At the course level:
In the market place:
• OER should not be legislated or mandated• OER needs to stand on it’s own vis a vis
publisher material
No Passwords, No Registrations, Available in Many Formats
Knowledge Ecosystem.
Only_point_five (CC-BY-NC bit.ly/HpxBgx)
Learning requires more than a book
Additional Resources
• Online homework (from partners)• Online labs (from partners)• Online practice (from partners)• PowerPoint slides• Pronunciation guides• Solution Manuals• Test banks
Adopt/Recommend
• Adopt an OpenStax book as the main textbook
• Recommend an OpenStax book as an option for studying/affordability
Instituitional Initiatives
How to implement OER as an institution• Textbook Heroes• Faculty support
• Instructional Design/IT• Library• Incentives (not mandates)
• Institutional grants• Student organization grants
• Expressed support from administration• OER training days/webinars
FAQs
1. What’s the catch or obligation?
2. Do you plan on switching to a fee model?
3. “I don’t like X or you don’t have Y”
4. Do you have SSO?
5. May I adapt and distribute without permission?
6. Do you have comp copies?
7. With no sales reps how do I get service?
8. What about revisions?
9. Who do I call if I find an error?
10.Can my bookstore order physical copies?
$10.5 MILLION SAVED!
California OER Council
Katherine D. Harris, Ph.DCalifornia OER Council ChairAssociate Professor, San Jose State University
COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Leaping Toward OER in California Higher Education
CCCOER Webinar:Open Textbook Collections and Adoptions
Sept. 10, 2014, 10am
Katherine D. HarrisAssociate Professor, English, SJSU
Project Coordinator/Chairhttp://icas-ca.org/coerc
COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
THE GOAL - to increase faculty adoption of high quality,
affordable or free course materials to save students money.
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Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
COERC will significantly improve the affordability of a
quality higher education experience for students
in the state of California and across the nation
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The California State Legislature passed and the Governor signed SB 1052 and SB 1053 for the California public
higher education systems to create an online library of open educational resources and open textbooks (2012)
SB 1052 CA Senate Bill authorizing creation of COERC
SB 1053CA Senate Bill authorizing CA Open Source Digital
Library
The CSU was designated as the leadership organization to manage the project
COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
To establish this project, the California State University,
Office of the Chancellor was awarded grants from the:
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation ($500,000)
and Gates Foundation ($500,000) to match the State of
California’s funding, mandated by SB 1052 and SB 1053.
CCCOER Webinar
COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Select 50 courses
Create & administer rigorous review
process
Promote production,
access & use
Solicit input from student associations
RFP to create OER
materials
Identifying available free
and open etextbooks
From the Legislation
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Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
From ICAS – a hefty set of tasks
1. Meet goals of SB 1052 legislation.2. Work collegially under the direction of the COERC Project Coordinator to
produce the deliverables specified in the Hewlett grant proposal timeline.3. Submit policies and processes to ICAS for review and approval;
document and archive policies and processes approved by ICAS.4. Develop policies for building the collection of open textbooks in the
California Open Source Digital Library (CDOSL). The COOL4Ed (California Open Online Library for Education, www.cool4ed.org) is the first library service of the CDOSL.
5. Develop a process for review teams which will include: composition, timelines, rubrics for evaluating texts, minimum standard for text to be included in COOL, appeal process for authors, training necessary for review and normalizing, process for communicating names of texts approved for inclusion in COOL by discipline (or alternate way to categorize the texts).
[contd.]
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From ICAS (contd.)
6. Send regular reports to ICAS about disciplines, texts, challenges, etc.7. Prepare content for the COSDL website and ICAS webpage.8. Prepare and administer (or delegate) professional development
opportunities by or across segments.9. Develop policies for defining data that will need to be collected and
analyzed to track the success of the project.10.Develop process for outsourcing work to "complete" a text.11.Support review teams (COERC members may not participate on review
teams).
(available on COERC web pages)
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Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Funding
Oversight
COERC Project Coordinator
ICAS: All CSU, CCC, UC Academic
Senates
The State of
California
Principal Investigation (Gerard
Hanley, CSU Chancellor’s Office)
The Hewlett Foundation &
The Gates Foundation
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Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
CCC UC CSU
Dianna Chiabotti,Child & Family Studies & Education, Napa Valley
Bob Jacobsen,Physics, Berkeley
Diego Bonilla, Communication, Sacramento
Cheryl Stewart,Library & Information Science, Coastline
Peter Krapp,Film, Media/Visual Studies, Informatics, Irvine
Ruth A. Guthrie,Pomona, begins Fall 2014
Kevin Yokoyama, Mathematics,Redwoods
Randy Siverson, Political Science, Davis
Larry Hanley,English, San Francisco
Katherine D. Harris, English, San Jose State (CSU)Project Coordinator/Chair (non-voting)
COERC Membership (formed Jan 2014)
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Hewlett Foundation Grant - Deliverables
March
• ICAS establishes scope and schedule for the development of policies and procedures for open textbook initiative
• ICAS establishes policy on shared governance and management of initiative• COERC completes selection of Phase 1 courses, and approves evaluation
criteria• Phase I communication plans developed by COERC and COSDL
April
• Survey of faculty, administrators, and students received by late April/early May (COERC)
• Faculty review panels needed for first five courses established; COERC approves evaluation criteria and review/recommendation processes
May-AugFaculty Review Panels:
Establish infrastructure, review apparatus, review panels, textbook access for Phase I Reviews due on Aug 25, 2014.
COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project CoordinatorCCCOER Webinar
Criteria for Selecting Five CoursesCOERC was able to identify more than 50 courses to evaluate OER textbooks using the following criteria:
Works for as many campuses as possible following the designation for general education courses:
Highly enrolled according to Course Identification Number System:
http://www.c-id.net/degreereview.html
Generates significant textbook savings
Relatively consistent across textbook products
Provides opportunities for faculty to augment open textbooks
Conducive to discipline-based pedagogies
Critical Thinking Oral Communication Quantitative Reasoning Written Communication
Access to multiple OER textbooks for any given course
COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Five Courses Selected
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Public Speaking
Microeconomics
U.S. HistoryIntroduction to
Chemistry
Introduction to Statistics
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from COERC Glossary: http://icas-ca.org/oer-glossary
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Defining Criteria, Protocols & Boundaries
Textbook(for our purposes)
A manual of instruction in any branch of study. Online and digital materials are making it increasingly easy for students to access materials other than the traditional print textbook. Students now have access to electronic and PDF books, online tutoring systems and video lectures.
Creative Commons Licensing
Creative Commons Licenses are applied to published work online and offer simple and clear information about what other people can and can’t do with that work.
COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Surveying the Faculty1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
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COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Surveying the Faculty1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
CCCOER Webinar
COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Surveying the Faculty1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
CCCOER Webinar
COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Surveying the Faculty1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
CCCOER Webinar
COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Surveying the Faculty1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
CCCOER Webinar
COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Surveying the Faculty1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
Distribution of disciplines for faculty survey participants
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Request for Reviewers314 Self-indentified reviewers as of 5/12/14
Distribution of disciplines (remove “science” & “studies”)
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Surveying Students100 Responses as of 5/12/14Distributed to student government leaders on 4/1/14
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Next Steps
• Identify and invite Faculty Reviewers
• Complete protocols and infrastructure for reviews
• Manage review panels over Summer 2014
• Integrate reviews into the COSDL website for Phase I
• Evaluate textbook selection, proof of concept for reviewing, course selection
• Resolve student involvement issues
• Report to California State Senate
• Re-Convene COERC in the Fall
COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
www.icas-ca.org/coerc
CCCOER Webinar
Next CCCOER WebinarWed, Oct 8
Open Course Design & Development
OEC Quarterly MeetingSept 18 @ 9:00 am PT
• Promoting OER at your Institutions
• OER State of the Field Report
• Demo of Open Education Professional Directory
• Open MOOC Update
Register at oeconsortium.org
Una Daly: [email protected]
Amanda Coolidge: [email protected]
Nicole Finkbeiner: [email protected]
Katherine D. Harris: [email protected]
Thank you for coming!!
Questions?