Adopting an Open TextbookIt doesn’t need to be

all or nothing

Lauri Aesoph, Manager Open Education BCcampus

ETUG 2015SFU, Burnaby, BC

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Agenda

WHAT Overview of open textbooks

WHEN A very short history of OER

WHERE Where are open textbooks used

WHY Reasons given by faculty and students

WHO Adoption numbers in British Columbia

HOW Finding your spot between “all” and “nothing”

An Overview of Open Textbooks

WHAT

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What are Open Educational Resources?

“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.”

UNESCO

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The 5 R’s of Open

• Make and own copiesRetain• Use in a wide range of

waysReuse• Adapt, modify, and

improveRevise

• Combine two or moreRemix

• Share with othersRedistribute

Adapted (color change) from Open Education: A “Simple” Introduction by David Wiley released under CC-BY license

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What about Copyright?

copyright (1) by Maria Elena released under CC-BY 2.0 license

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Creative Commons logo by Creative Commons used under a CC-BY 3.0 LicenseCC license image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 South Africa license

A Very Short History of OER

WHEN

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Learning Objects

1996

MERLOT 1997

Open Content

1998

Connexions (OpenStax)

1999

Creative Commons

2001

OER coined by UNESCO

2002

Hewlett Foundation

2002

BCcampus 2004

BC Open Textbook

project 2012

Where are Open Textbooks Used

WHERE

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Go to oermap.org

Reasons from Students

WHY #1

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Textbooks are expensive

Image credit: Beyond Textbooks by Thomas used under CC-BY license

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Average student debt difficult to pay off, CBC, March 11, 2014Student Debt in Canada, Canadian Federation of Students, Fall 2013

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Students spend $1200/yr on textbooks

3x rate of inflation in 10 years

2nd biggest educational expense after tuition

Source: Fixing the Broken Textbook Market U.S. PIRGCover image: Center for Public Interest Research used under CC-BY 4.0 license

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Textbook Costs vs Student Success

Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual CampusSlide: CC-BY Cable Green, Creative Commons via http://www.project-kaleidoscope.org/

60%+ do not purchase books at some point due to book cost

35% take fewer courses due to book cost

31% choose not to register for a course due to book cost

23% regularly go without textbooks due to book cost

14% have dropped a course due to book cost

10% have withdrawn from a course due to book cost

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OT Summit – Student Keynotes

Reasons from Faculty

WHY #2

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BC Faculty Survey - 2015

http://open.bccampus.ca/2015/05/26/early-findings-from-bc-faculty-survey-on-open-educational-resources

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BC Faculty Survey - 2015

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Time – it actually saved time. Three weeks into the first semester I realized we weren’t receiving 5-10 emails a day from students like we usually did. Previously the students were having problems with the proprietary online companion site provided by the traditional textbook publisher.

Access – no issues with the bookstore running out of the textbooks; students had immediate access to the learning materials, and they have that access throughout their degree program. With a traditional model, they only had access for a limited period – three months or so.

Continuous evolution of material – When the Modern Language Association changes documentation rules, I can make an immediate change. I can add new OER I find (or that my students find!).

Student participation – they can contribute to the resource themselves (see above).Easy linking – I can easily link to specific lessons from the course site. I can link specific lessons in response to individual student needs (eg. If someone is having trouble with run-on sentences but not spelling, she can send them straight to a lesson on that aspect). I could never do that with the publisher’s site.

The collateral benefits of adopting

Adoption Statistics in British Columbia

WHO

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BC Public Post-secondary Institutions

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Adoption Questions

1. What is the name of course for which this textbook will be used (course name and course code)?

2. When did/will you begin using this textbook (term or semester and year)?

3. How many course sections per term are you/will you be using this textbook?

4. How many students typically enrol in each course section?

5. What is the cost of the textbook which will be replaced by this open textbook?

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Adoptions Faculty Students Savings172 90 5368 $536,800 - $715,000201 98 6050 $605,000 - $800,000

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Adoptions on open.bccampus.ca

Finding the spot between “all” and “nothing”

HOW

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FIFTY SHADES OF ADOPTION

Airport bookstore by rod cuthbert under CC-NC-ND BY 2.0 license

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Shade 1: Why do you want new shoes?

Tri tone shoe by Russ under CC-NC-ND BY-SA 2.0 license

What are your reasons for using an open textbook?

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Shade 2: Are there any sales? Reviews?

Learn more: colleagues, research, reviews, blogs

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Shade 3: There’s already one in your closet

Another scramble for something by Mychal Stanley used under CC-BY 2.0 license

Babson Survey (2014)

1/3 of faculty aware of open educational resources (OER)

½ of faculty reported using OER

How can this be?

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Shade 4: Go shopping

BC Open Textbook collection (open.bccampus.ca) OpenStax (openstaxcollege.org) MERLOT (merlot.org)

Personal shopper = Librarian

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Shade 5: Browse and window shop

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Reading by Pedro Ribeiro Simoes used under CC-BY 2.0.

Suggested Reading

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Shade 6: Try it on

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Supplementary Reading

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Shade 7: Shop for accessories

Chapter, chapter section, image, graph, table….

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Part-time Humanities instructor…

“Though my curriculum is chosen by someone else, I use many, many open resources when teaching and only rely on textbooks to the extent that students will learn from them.”

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Shade 8: Time for the fashion show

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Student Assignments

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Resources on open.bccampus.ca

http://opentextbc.ca/opentextbook

http://opentextbc.ca/accessibilitytoolkit

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What do you think? (the other 42 shades of adoption)

HOW

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Thank You

Lauri Aesoph laesoph@bccampus.ca

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