getting started with open textbooks - beth burns

Welcome to the

Open Textbook/OER Adop6on Workshop Introductory Session

Facilitated by Beth Burns SUNY SOL Summit March 7th , 2012

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The typical college scene:

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S@cker Shock


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The Instructor’s Dilemmas Break Free of Tradi@onal Textbooks

•  No textbook fits exactly •  It’s usually all or nothing •  Students complain about paying high prices •  They complain even more

if only a few chapters are used in a high-‐priced book

•  They complain even louder when sent hither and yon for materials

•  Too many resources, too liQle @me to decide what’s fair to use and what’s illegal….


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An open textbook is… •  Commonly modifiable by

the instructor –  Digital, Modular –  Adaptable

•  Low cost to the students –  Usually free for those with

computers and internet access

–  Printable for free or a small fee (costs for ink and paper)

–  Some@mes available in bound copies for $10-‐$40


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Benefits of Open Textbooks •  High efficiency in use of modules

Resources can be created once and widely used rather than locked up / All Rights Reserved in a 300-‐page $200 textbook

•  Adaptable to learning styles, cultures, geographies, and more

•  Use only what is needed: saves

paper, toner, and weight, and avoids confusion

•  Free for those with computers or readers and Internet access

•  Much lower cost for printed and bound

Even classes without open textbooks benefit because students can afford to take more classes

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An open textbook has been…

Changed by the creators from

•  Copyright All Rights Reserved to

•  Copyright Some Rights Reserved under an open license e.g., Crea@ve Commons License


From the Creative Commons store

hQp://[email protected]/about/licenses/ •  Authors retain the copyrights to their crea@ons. •  Those rights include the profits from commercial use and distribu@on of their crea@ons and the right to deny other to make modifica@ons to their crea@ons.

•  However, some creators are willing to share some of their rights with others…


The Twelve Members of the College Open

Textbook Collaborative

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•  Open educa@onal resources are here, there, and everywhere…

•  One person’s ideal repository is another’s dead end.

•  Many lists, not so many repositories….

Repository or List?


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What is an OER Repository?

•  Repositories are searchable databases that typically contain authorita@ve content.

•  Textbooks are typically available in one, consistent format (i.e. .pdf, .odt, .doc, etc.)

•  They typically contain a limited number of textbooks, but the materials within a repository are more likely to have been peer-‐reviewed.

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What is an OER list?

•  An OER list is simply a searchable collec@on of all types of OER’s.

•  There is no uniformity •  There is a lower likelihood of finding peer reviewed materials, though this does not mean that finding peer-‐reviewed materials in a list is impossible.

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•  Type •  Licensing •  Disciplines •  Quality •  Format •  Print Op@ons •  Ease of Use

Some criteria for choosing OER Repositories:

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A sampling of the hundreds of OER

repositories and lists…

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Type Textbooks, Resources, Courses, Ancillaries

Licensing Mul@ple

Disciplines Academic

Quality Very High due to UPF; some reviewed

Format Mostly PDF

Print op@ons PDF, bound

Ease of use High for users; limited for modifiers

•  Unique rela@onship with University Press of Florida

•  Founder of OnCoReBluePrint inter-‐state sharing and model

•  100 collec@ons •  165 textbooks hQp://www.theorangegrove.org/open_textbooks.asp

www.upf.com

Orange Grove Texts Plus


Type Textbooks,

Licensing CC BY 3.0

Disciplines Business, Compu@ng, Educa@on, Health, Humani@es, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences

Quality High

Format Created in Open Office; converted to PDF

Print op@ons Paper and CD or DVD

Ease of use High but limited flexibility

•  Affiliated with the University of Georgia

•  Grant funded by Jacobs Founda@on

hQp://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/books

Global Text Project


Type Textbooks

Licensing CC , PD, other open

Disciplines Most community college academic

Quality Highly varied

Format Highly varied

Print op@ons Varied and improving

Ease of use Good

•  450 open textbooks listed by discipline

•  80 reviewed; 50 on the schedule

•  Very detailed reviews; named peer reviewers

•  Accessibility ra@ngs •  Grant funded (HewleQ)

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College Open Textbooks : a list site, not a repository


Type Courses

Licensing Custom* (cc by nc)

Disciplines All academic and most voca@onal

Quality Generally excellent

Format Varied; eduCommons

Print op@ons Very limited

Ease of use Excellent; outstanding assistance to members

•  Courses stored on a usually dedicated member site

•  Grants and memberships * Use, reproduce, distribute,

translate and modify the Materials for educa@onal, non-‐commercial, and non-‐monetary gain. Some trails lead to fees…. [email protected]

OCW Consor@um: a list site


“Make it work” •  Read the peer reviews; talk

to other adopters or users •  Compare your selec@ons on

quality, fit, interoperability, accessibility, printability, cost for prin@ng, cost for bound copies

•  Select the best fit, remembering that you can make it fit beQer!


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Navigate to one of these sites

[email protected] collegeopentextbooks.org


http://www.theorangegrove.org/open_textbooks.asp

http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/books

Instruc@onal Design Scenarios

•  Team 1: Recommend the two repository sites to a faculty member

•  Team 2: Recommend two list sites to a faculty member


Adopt and Use •  Plan the class •  Choose the parts of the textbook that fit

•  Solidify access type (online, print, or both?)

•  Add other open resources

•  Announce to the stakeholders – See next slide


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Stakeholders •  Curriculum CommiQee, Department, Dean or other group

that approves textbook adop@ons •  Check restric@ons on requiring computer/internet access •  Colleagues •  College bookstore •  College library •  Media center •  Print Shop •  Teaching assistants •  Students well in advance •  Others as needed

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Other Possibili@es…

Become an advocate; join our community J: hQp://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com/

Create, license, and share your own OER’s: •  hQps://open.umich.edu/wiki/DScribe •  hQp://www.web2rights.com/OERIPRSupport/starter.html

•  hQp://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Composing_free_and_open_online_educa@onal_resources_2011

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Final Thoughts


getting started with open textbooks - beth burns

Education

creaons

ocwconsorum

open textbook

oer list

rights reserved

textbooks

resources

repository