Reducing College Costs Through Innovative Faculty

eAuthoring

Nori Barajas-Murphy • Erin GratzUniversity of La Verne

“Does custom publishing work to improve

attitude* and learning outcomes?”

*Attitude= interest, appreciation of a discipline

-Romine and Banerjee 2013

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A • Define eAuthoring taxonomy

• Identify benefits of collaboration

between instructional designers,

librarians, and faculty in design

and publication

• Analyze cost savings to students

• Review data of student learning

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CollaborationFaculty • Instructional Designers • Librarians

Faculty

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Librarian Instructional

Designer

This person’s expertise

and learning outcomes

lead the project

The project will move

at the rate of the

subject matter expert

This person’s

knowledge of and

accessibility to

resources support

the project

This person’s technical

skill and design

knowledge support

the project

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Faculty

Librarians

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Collaboration between existing

human resources

Human Connection Moment1. Consider what has been presented so far2. Make 3 bullet points of actions you can take

on your campus in the near future3. Select your favorite bullet point4. Text to polleverywhere5. Create groups of 36. Share favorite bullet point

Cost Savings to Students

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Cost Savings in Research Methods = $219 – 94.49

Cost Savings in Music Appreciation = $88.75

Cost Savings in Human A&P = $72.30

Impact on Student Learning

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“Reinforcing these findings, students in the baseline study who found their instructors’ annotations, highlights, and added e-text materials useful or whose instructors encouraged use of the e-textbooks were:

● significantly more likely to report that the e-textbooks helped them better understand the course ideas and concepts,

● allowed them to better organize and structure their learning, increased their engagement with course content,

● and made their study time more efficient.”Grajek 2013

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Tablet novelty

Publication outputs

Design standards

Significance of Instructor Modeling

Need for Empirical

Research on Impact

of Faculty Authored

Course Content on

Learning

“Three factors have held back instructors’ ability and

willingness to publish custom materials.

The first is the lack of technology;

the second is rethinking of the economic model related

to publishing and technological issues dealing with

security, copyright, and patenting;

and the third is the numerous erroneous assumptions

and myths among instructors that accompany the idea

of customization.”

- Romine (2012)

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GAO-13-368, College Textbooks: Students Have Greater Access to Textbook Information - 655066.pdf. (n.d.).

Retrieved February 25, 2015, from http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/655066.pdf

Grajek, S. (2013). Understanding What Higher Education Needs from E-Textbooks : An EDUCAUSE / Internet2 Pilot

(p. 54). Retrieved from https://www.educause.edu/library/resources/understanding-what-higher-education-

needs-e-textbooks-educauseinternet2-pilot

Martin, C., & Aitken, J. (2012). Evolving definitions of authorship in Ebook. Information Services & Use, 31(2011),

139–146. doi:10.3233/ISU-2012-0643

Romine, W., & Banerjee, T. (2012). Customization of Curriculum Materials in Science: Motives, Challenges, and

Opportunities. Journal of Science Education & Technology, 21(1), 38–45. Retrieved from 10.1007/s10956-010-

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Why textbooks cost so much. (2014, August 16). The Economist. http://www.economist.com/news/united-

states/21612200-its-economics-101-why-textbooks-cost-so-much

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