savings are nice, but learning is nicer: libraries linking open textbooks with instruction, pedagogy...
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Savings are nice, but learning is nicer.Libraries linking open textbooks with instruction, pedagogy and assessmentMarilyn Billings, UMASS AmherstSarah Faye Cohen, Open Textbook Network
“This presentation will make the case for how open textbooks and OER can
foster collaboration between instruction librarians, scholarly communication librarians, and
faculty in order to advance access to course content, improve student
learning, and continue the crusade for saving students money on course
content.
“Open education is about increasing student achievement, inspiring passion among faculty, and building better connections between students and the materials that they use to meet their educational goals.”
– Quill West
A brief reminder of why we’ve been
focused on savings.
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$9,000US Higher Education Funding - $/FTE
State Funding Tuition Revenuehttp://www.sheeo.org
The average borrower owes more than
$28,950in student loans (class of 2014).
Institute for College Access and Success http://projectonstudentdebt.org/files/pub/Student_Debt_and_the_Class_of_2012_NR.pdf
Cost of Attendance
• Tuition and Fees• Room and Board• Books and Supplies• Personal Expenses• Transportation
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Textbooks CPI
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Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/cpi/
TheAcademic Impact:
Purchase an older edition of the textbook
Delay purchasing the textbook
Never purchase the textbook
Share a textbookPirate a textbook
“I figured French hadn’t changed that much.”- UMN student
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Not purchase the required textbook
49.2% Take fewer courses
45.1% Not register for a specific course
33.9% Earn a poor grade
26.7% Drop a course
17.0% Fail a course
http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf
In your academic career, has the cost of required textbooks caused you to:
Open textbooks are a solution.
Do they impact learning?
Student Learning
Babson Report
• Faculty not aware of OERs
• Faculty appreciate OER concepts
• Perceived quality of OERs
• Lack of time to find and evaluate OERs
• Faculty are key decision makers for OER adoption
http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthecurriculum2014.pdf
Libraries have an important role to play in driving awareness
and pedagogical innovation and support student learning in this
space.
Libraries have an important role to play in driving pedagogical
innovation and supporting student learning in this space.
Here are four ways we can do that:
Way 1: Integration into current and new instructionACRL Framework: Threshold Concepts
Open’s potential to address many of the TCs: Format as process Authority as Constructed and Contextual Information as commodity
Assessment opportunities: Creation and modification with students using
open content would allow libraries to provide direct assessment /artifacts of student learning and achievement in these TCs.
Way 2: A focus on rights issues
Instruction focused on: What if we started asking students to identify how
content fits on the spectrum of open? Fair use of others' content, Creative Commons
licenses, applying CC licenses when creating our own (faculty, students, librarians) new content.
Way 3: Collaborate deeply with faculty and across all areas in the library.
Actualize librarians’ deep interest in creative and innovative pedagogy.
Realize the potential of the 5Rs.
Use OERs in the flipped classrooms, as well as inquiry based learning, problem based learning, active learning.
The “Outernet”
https://www.flickr.com/photos/littledebbie11/5028737162
Way 4: Contributing our unique skill set to the problem and the solution Improve discovery, access, and distribution of
this “new” OER content.A new era and opportunity for libraries to offer
our mind set and skill set—curation, categorization, metadata, archiving.
Use our IRs as "homes" for OER content as an additional way to exploit that relatively new library service / infrastructure.
How does Open fit into what libraries already do? Scholarly Communication Institutional Repositories Information Literacy Curriculum Instruction and Outreach Access Services Interlibrary Loan Reserves Collection Development and Collections Management Electronic Resources Management Cataloging, Indexing, Metadata
“Actually” build connections to be made to:
ACRL's strategic direction for libraries: expressing the value of
libraries, student learning, and active participation in the research and scholarly environment.
ACRL Framework CritLib movement Other open initiatives (OA,
open data, knowledge commons, etc).
https://www.flickr.com/photos/chuckthephotographer/3614450900
More needs to be done.How might we further engage our libraries focus in
pedagogy and assessment to advance the use of open educational content?The crowd says….
OER as knowledge management document collaborationLibrarians as instructional designers Weaving together research and teaching (not mutually
exclusive)Hardlinked to globalization strategiesBringing OA into the scholarly comm familyBringing together IL and digital literacyRethink our role in course materialsPotential in supporting student inquirities
“Administrators and faculty members overwhelmingly say textbooks and other course materials are too expensive, and that instructors should seriously consider costs when assigning readings.”
Key finding :
Libraries aren’t strangers to change
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vblibrary/4993073773/
The signs are there….
https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrec/148052094
Let’s go.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thelastminute/2466059398
Thank you.
Marilyn Billings: [email protected]; @BillingsMarilyn
Sarah Faye Cohen: [email protected]; @thesheck