oer & open textbooks
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Presentation to Douglas College science faculty on OER and the BC Open Textbook initiative.TRANSCRIPT
Douglas CollegeFaculty of ScienceApril 29, 2013
Clint [email protected]
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BCcampus
Mission:
Connect the expertise, programs, and resources of all BC post-secondary institutions under a collaborative service delivery framework
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BCcampus Role
Innovate
BCcampus
Lines of business:
Student Services and Data Exchange
Collaborative Programs and Shared Services
Curriculum Development and Academic Growth
2003-2012
•$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
Visual notes of John Yap announcement, Giulia Forsythe http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8094691691/Used under Creative Commons attribution share-alike license
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
Image: Frustration by Bev Sykes used under Creative Commons Attribution licensehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/basykes/490907537/
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
Image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Lawhttp://education-copyright.org/creative-commons/Used under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa license
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!
