reducing the cost of college: new directions for faculty eauthoring
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Poll: What is your campus role? (instructional designer,
librarian, faculty, IT, Dean, etc….)
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Reducing the Costs of College:New Directions for Faculty eAuthoring
Nori Barajas-Murphy • Erin GratzUniversity of La Verne
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A• Define eAuthoring course
content taxonomy
• Identify benefits of collaboration
between instructional designers,
librarians, and faculty in design
and publication
• Analyze cost savings to students
• Review data of student learning
using eAuthored content versus
traditional textbooks
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“Does custom publishing work to improve
attitude* and learning outcomes?”
*Attitude= interest, appreciation of a discipline
-Romine and Banerjee 2013
Poll: To what degree does your institution support eAuthoring?
eAuthored Text - A Taxonomy
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6. eAuthored Responsive
5. eAuthored Interactive
4. e/Authored Textbook
3. Curated Resources
2. Compiled Resources
1. Custom Textbook
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Poll: To what degree does your institution support eAuthoring?
Poll: To what degree does eAuthoring already exist on your campus?
CollaborationFaculty • Instructional Designers • Librarians
Faculty
(SME)
Librarian Instructional
Designer
This person’s expertise
and learning outcomes
lead the project
The project will move
at the rate of the
subject matter expert
This person’s
knowledge of and
accessibility to
resources support
the project
This person’s technical
skill and design
knowledge support
the project
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Faculty
Librarians
Instructional
Designers
TIME
Collaboration between existing
human resources
Poll: Where do you most need to establish collaborations? (ID-Library/Library-Faculty/Faculty-ID)
Human Connection Moment1. Consider what has been presented so far2. Make 3 bullet points of actions you can take
on your campus in the near future3. Select your favorite bullet point4. Text to polleverywhere5. Create groups of 36. Share favorite bullet point
Poll: Where are your strongest collaborations? (ID-Library/Library-Faculty/Faculty-ID)
Cost Savings to Students
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Poll: Increase in textbook prices from 2002-2012?
1. 28%2. 89%3. 82 %4. 51%
Estim
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from
2002 to
20
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Cost Savings in Research Methods = $219 – 94.49
Cost Savings in Music Appreciation = $88.75
Cost Savings in Human A&P = $72.30
Poll: What would impede a student purchase of a faculty authored text at your campus?
Impact on Student Learning
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Poll: To what degree do you believe faculty eAuthored books impact student’s learning and
engagement?
“Reinforcing these findings, students in the baseline study who found their instructors’ annotations, highlights, and added e-text materials useful or whose instructors encouraged use of the e-textbooks were:
● significantly more likely to report that the e-textbooks helped them better understand the course ideas and concepts,
● allowed them to better organize and structure their learning, increased their engagement with course content,
● and made their study time more efficient.”Grajek 2013
Distracti…
Tablet novelty
Publication outputs
Design standards
Significance of Instructor Modeling
Need for Empirical
Research on Impact
of Faculty Authored
Course Content on
Learning
“Three factors have held back instructors’ ability and
willingness to publish custom materials.
The first is the lack of technology;
the second is rethinking of the economic model related
to publishing and technological issues dealing with
security, copyright, and patenting;
and the third is the numerous erroneous assumptions
and myths among instructors that accompany the idea
of customization.”
- Romine (2012)
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GAO-13-368, College Textbooks: Students Have Greater Access to Textbook Information - 655066.pdf. (n.d.).
Retrieved February 25, 2015, from http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/655066.pdf
Grajek, S. (2013). Understanding What Higher Education Needs from E-Textbooks : An EDUCAUSE / Internet2 Pilot
(p. 54). Retrieved from https://www.educause.edu/library/resources/understanding-what-higher-education-
needs-e-textbooks-educauseinternet2-pilot
Martin, C., & Aitken, J. (2012). Evolving definitions of authorship in Ebook. Information Services & Use, 31(2011),
139–146. doi:10.3233/ISU-2012-0643
Romine, W., & Banerjee, T. (2012). Customization of Curriculum Materials in Science: Motives, Challenges, and
Opportunities. Journal of Science Education & Technology, 21(1), 38–45. Retrieved from 10.1007/s10956-010-
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Why textbooks cost so much. (2014, August 16). The Economist. http://www.economist.com/news/united-
states/21612200-its-economics-101-why-textbooks-cost-so-much
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