TEXTBOOK AFFORDABILITY WORKGROUP: Final Report ... · Final Report & Recommendations Presented by:...
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TEXTBOOK AFFORDABILITY
WORKGROUP:
Final Report &
Recommendations
Presented by:
Lee Ayers-Preboski, HECC Commissioner;
Jeffrey Dense, President, Interinstitutional Faculty Senate (IFS)
Donna Lewelling, HECC Academic and Student Affairs Policy Specialist
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There isn’t ONE SIMPLE Answer!!
See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/04/college-textbook-prices-increase_n_2409153.html
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Overview
• Build on the first HECC textbook report
• Students Have Spoken: Student Survey Results
• Series of Regional Convenings
• The Statewide Convening and SWOT Analysis
• Recommendations
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In response to HB 4058 (2012) 2012 Workgroup Recommendations:
1. Alter the tuition and fee schedule at OUS schools to include instructional materials.
2. Create an Open Education Resource website archive, wiki or portal.
3. Promote use with Creative Commons and traditional copyright/licensing rights.
4. Negotiate statewide licenses for full access to a publisher’s library.
5. Investigate the possible use of “custom editions” by faculty and publishers.
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The Workgroup conducted a statewide student
survey with over 9,000 responses:
Several promising textbook affordability promising
practices were identified, including:
1. Book Buying Consortiums
2. Used Books/Rental Programs
3. Student Book Exchange
4. Fixed Fees
5. Open Educational Resources (OERs)
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Statewide Convening and SWOT Analysis
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Identified Strategies:
• Faculty Engagement
• Student Education
• Accessibility: Financial Aid
• Textbook Rentals
• Textbook Exchange Programs
• Library Checkout
• Open Educational Resources (OERs)
• Institution Specific Measures
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Faculty Engagement
• Faculty’s crucial role in textbook affordability
• Statewide calendar for textbook requests
• Professional development opportunities
• Annual workshops for new faculty
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Student Education
• Students are savvy consumers
• “One Stop Shopping”
• Bookstores provide comparative price info
• Institution provides annual narrative to HECC
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Accessibility: Financial Aid
• Late disbursement and student success
• Proposed solutions:
• Faculty provide 1st week readings
• Textbook vouchers
• Textbooks on reserve
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Textbook Rentals
• No student should have to choose between
buying a textbook and eating!
• Bookstores institute comprehensive textbook
rental programs
• Faculty commitment to using same textbook over
time
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Textbook Exchange Programs
• Creating a web-based textbook exchange portal
on each campus.
• Facilitate the exchange/purchase/trade of
textbooks between students.
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Library Check Out
• Expansion of existing best practice.
Faculty make required textbooks available
for loan at resource desk of libraries
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Open Educational Resources (OERs)
• Staunch advocacy by some stakeholders for OERs
• OERs are not a “Silver Bullet”
• Potential approaches include :
• Increase percentage of courses utilizing OERs
• Increase number of faculty participating in
creation of OERs
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Institution Specific Measures
• A ‘one size fits all’ is not appropriate
• Provide opportunities for institutional flexibility
• HECC staff consultation
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Winning the Textbook Battle
• Shared responsibility and awareness among
stakeholders
• Institutional ownership of the issue
• Faculty engagement at all levels.
• A wide set of ‘tools’ to meet student needs.
• Providing ‘seed money’ to institutions to facilitate
short term progress
• Incentivizing best practices to maximize long term
results.
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