open to opportunity: possibilities for libraries in open education
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Sarah Faye Cohen Managing Director / Open Textbook Network open.umn.edu
Possibilities for libraries in open education
Open to Opportunity
This is about a journey.
Course Reserves
Course Reserves• Students looking for textbooks
• Faculty meeting that need
• The library cultivating relationships with faculty and students through reserves
• Long lines
• Too few copies
• Too many copies for the library’s space
• Desk ”traffic patterns”
Operationally, we “fixed” the problem.
Policies
Processes
Communications
Facilities
Feedback
“There’s an open education conference in Vancouver, BC. You should go.”
“There’s an open education conference in Vancouver, BC. You should go.”
“There’s an open education conference in Vancouver, BC. You should go.”
Defining Open Educational ResourcesHewlett Foundation Definition:
“OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or are released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others”
That’s where I met Dave Ernst.
Open Content
OER
Open Textbooks
Why Textbooks?• Hits a major pain point – textbook costs• Faculty understand textbooks• Faculty know how to adopt textbooks• Faculty effort (vs. alternatives) is kept at a minimum• Textbooks can provide content for a complete (or nearly complete)
course
How does open education fit into the libraries’ landscape?
The cost barrier kept2.4 million
low and moderate-income college-qualified high school graduates from
completing college in the previous decade.
The Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED529499.pdf
A Lens Into Libraries
Open is “disruptive” to libraries
open = free + permissions
open = free + permissions
open = free + permissions
copy mixshare keepedit use
Libraries risk their “stamp of approval”
• OER and authority, reliability, sustainability.• Information Literacy & Instruction• Research materials• Relationships• Metrics
Library resources are not “open”, only “available” within your institution.
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Graph 2 Monograph and Serial Costs in ARL Libraries, 1986-2011*
Source: ARL Statistics 2010-11 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.*Includes electronic resources from 1999-2000 onward.
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www.sparcopen.org
How does open fit into what libraries already do?
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
Leverage our expertise
• Organizing information and making it accessible
Leverage our expertise
• Organizing information and making it accessible• Leverage libraries’ work thus far
Leverage our expertise
• Organizing information and making it accessible• Leverage libraries’ work thus far• A trusted resource and bridge to
faculty
Collaborate deeply with faculty.• 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.• Stimulate tangible partnerships with Centers for Teaching and
Learning, Instructional Designers, Distance Education, and more.
Leverage our expertise
• Organizing information and making it accessible• Leverage libraries’ work thus far• A trusted resource and bridge to
faculty• Surface information habits of
users, especially students
Integrate open into current and new instruction• ACRL 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.
Build connections to:• ACRL's strategic direction
for libraries: • expressing the value of libraries,
student learning, and active participation in the research and scholarly environment.
• Intersections in Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy • Other open initiatives (OA,
open data, knowledge commons, etc).
There is still much to be done.• Accessibility• Discovery• Integration• Tools for editing, authoring,
metadata• Metrics• Preservation• Outreach• What else?
Good news.
Open Textbook Network
The Open Textbook Network is an alliance of colleges and universities committed to access, affordability, and student academic success through the use of open textbooks.
Members include 31 individual academic libraries and 7 library consortia (representing 147 libraries).
We’re 44 members representing about 250 campuses.
We’ll see you soon!• Monroe Training: Thursday, Dec. 15
• New Orleans Training: Thursday, Jan. 12
• Space for up to 40 participants at each training .
• An RSVP system to ensure that each institution is able to send at least one representative.
• Includes lunch (yum!)
