Open Textbooks: Tools, Grants and Resources Available

Rosario PassosAdvisor, Open Education

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Open Education encompasses resources, tools and practices that are free of legal, financial and technical barriers and can be fully used, shared and adapted in the digital environment.

What is Open Education?

- SPARC, http://sparcopen.org/open-education/

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• Make and own a copyRetain• Use in a wide range of waysReuse• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise• Combine two or moreRemix• Share with othersRedistribute

The 5Rs

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What are Open Educational Resources?

• Open textbooks• Videos• Course materials• Lesson plans• Software• Games• Simulations• Wikis• Blogs• Adaptive tests

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Textbooks are expensive

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• Tuition and Fees

• Room and Board

• Books and Supplies

• Personal Expenses

• Transportation

How much students in Canada say they spend on textbooks per term

Source: Data on Textbook Costs, Higher Education Strategy Associates, 2015.

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Textbook Costs vs Student Success

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Textbook Costs vs Student Success

64% do not purchase books at some point due to book cost

49% 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

27% have dropped a course due to book cost

21% have withdrawn from a course due to book cost

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

After three years of post-secondary schooling in Nova Scotia, Verge graduated in 2008 with about $25,000 of debt — just about the national average. More than five years later, she has only managed to pay back about $2,000.

For people like Verge, high debt loads are not only a financial stress but can delay the time it takes individuals or couples to reach certain milestones, such as having children, getting married or owning property…

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OER and Student Achievement

11 Peer Reviewed Studies

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48,623 Students

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93% Same or Better Outcomes

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Student Achievement: No Significant Difference

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“In three key measures of student success—course completion, final grade of C- or higher, course grade– students whose faculty chose OER generally performed as well or better

than students whose faculty assigned commercial textbooks.”

A multi-institutional study of the impact of open textbook adoption on the learning outcomes of post-secondary students in Journal of Computing in Higher Education

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9 Peer Reviewed Studies of Perceptions of OER Quality

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OER Quality: Myth or Reality?

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4,510 Professors and Students

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50% as good as35% superior15% inferior

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Benefits of Open Textbooks

Faculty benefits• Increased flexibility of how you use content and ancillaries

supports• Easy access in many formats• No book orders or publishers to deal with• No heavy, bulky text to tote• Possibilities of customization, can modify/edit as needed• Student feedback is positive (students are grateful)• Supporting our students (social justice)

Student benefits• Low cost or free• Increased availability• Opportunity to retain the textbook & resources• No heavy, bulky text to tote• Easy to find and access, even before course begins

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Why Open Textbooks?

Traditional Textbooks Present Challenges• Costly• Inflexible copyright• Information gets stale Open Textbooks are a Potential Solution• Freely available• Permissive copyright: users can retain, reuse, revise,

remix, & redistribute content

Faculty have:Right to customizeThe textbook

Students have:Day 1 access to that customized textbook and CHOICE

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What about Copyright & Intellectual Property (IP)?

Open doesn’t mean there is no protection for the creator of the

resources.

It means that the creator has the ability to apply any level of

usage permission they want.

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The Licenses

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The Spectrum of Open

Source: https://creativecommons.org/examples/

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Guess what? You’ve probably been using Open

Many of us have been using OER protected under Creative Commons licensing without realizing it.

For example, if you’ve ever used a TED talk in a presentation, you were using an open educational resource

What does the TED Creative Commons license allow?Creative Commons license "Attribution - NonCommercial - NonDerivative" in order to allow non-commercial entities (like bloggers, educators and groups of friends) to use them freely and easily.

The BC Open Textbook Project

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BC Open Textbook Project

40 free & open textbooks for highest enrolled 1st & 2nd year post-secondary subjects in BC2013 – 20 for skills & training

First province in Canada2013 – AB & SASK MOU

$1 million2013 - $1 million

Visual notes of John Yap announcement, Giulia Forsythe Used under CC-SA license

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Why are we doing this project?

To increase access to higher education by reducing student costs To give faculty more control over their instructional resources To improve learning outcomes for students

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The Project

Don’t reinvent it by Andrea Hernandez released under CC-BY-NC-SA and based on Wheel by Pauline Mak released under CC-BY license

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Where do they come from?

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Faculty Reviews

291/365 by thebarrowboy used under a CC-BY

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Reviews > Adaptations

My Adventures Adapting a Chemistry Textbook291/365 by thebarrowboy used under a CC-BY

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Publish Many

Write Once

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Choices for students (and for adapters)

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HOW do I adopt an Open Textbook for my course?

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1.Find2.Review3.(Supplement)4.Distribute

4 Easy Steps

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1. Find

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1. Find

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1. Find: RepositoriesCreative Commons Search

HippoCampus

MERLOT

MIT OpenCourseWare

NCLOR: The North Carolina Learning Object Repository

NSDL: National Science Digital Library

OER Commons

Open Course Library

OpenStax

PhET

SOL*R

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2. Review

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3. Supplement

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4. Distribute to Students

Provide the link to the textbook to your students.OR

Download copies of the book and put them on another site, e.g. LMS, Dropbox Google Documents (and share that link)

OR If you have a faculty website put copies of the files

on your faculty site and send students to your website to download the copy.

OR Connect with your bookstore or print to make print

copies available for your students.

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What’s next and how to get involved

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