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eCampus Alberta Operational RetreatOctober 27, 2015Clint Lalonde, BCcampus

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Spark, CBC Radio, October 15, 2015

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BC Open Textbook Project

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Connect the expertise, programs, and resources of all BC post-secondary institutions under a collaborative service delivery framework

• Promote & support the development & use of Open Educational Resources• System wide initiatives to facilitate the enhancement of a high quality teaching & learning

culture.

Open Education & Professional Learning

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Online Program Development Fund (OPDF)

2003-2012

$9 million invested153 grants awarded100% participation across system83% partnerships47 credentials developed in whole or part355 courses, 12 workshops, 19 web sites/tools and 396 course components (learning objects, labs, textbooks, manuals, videos)

The Problem

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

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Course Textbook Bookstore AmazonCHEM 1105 Chemistry: The Central Science (lab manual) $215.00 $214.20MATH 1501 Basic Technical Mathematics with Calculus $186.50 $140

MINE 1101 Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology $118.95 $155COMM 1135 Writing for Success $45.95 $36.20COMP 1620 New Perspectives on Computer Concepts $183.95 $165.25

New Perspectives on Microsoft Excel $137.95 $151.40MINE 1100 Mineral Exploration and Mining Essentials $73.95 $89.95MINE 1107 None - -PHYS 1147 Custom book & Lab Manual $37 n/aSURV 1145 None - -

Total $999.25 $952

2 Year Mining Exploration ProgramTerm 1 (of 4)

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39%

29%

19%

8%5%

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

$200 or less$200-$400$400-$600$600-$800$800+

Data on Textbook Costs, Higher Education Strategy Association, published February 2015Data gathered Fall 2012 n=1350

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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…

There are pedagogical implications to high textbook costs

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65% students have not purchased a textbook for a course during their academic career because of price

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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Students Get Savvier about Textbook Buying, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2013

Emma Anderson, 21Political science, U. of California at Berkeley

“Usually when I don’t buy it, it’s because I’ve found that you actually don’t need it for the class.”

Jennifer Bi, 20Economics, U. of California at Berkeley

“My most expensive class was clinical psych, because she writes the textbook herself, and it has a new edition every semester or something ridiculous. So it was like almost $200. And the thing is that you can’t use the previous edition, because she changes it herself because she knows the textbooks sell well. It’s like so manipulative.”

Marie Efira, 63Anthropology, Foothill College

“I had to take very few classes, because each time the price of the book more than doubles the tuition fee. It took me much longer to get my degree.”

“Learning is a very human activity. The more people feel they are being treated as human beings – that their human needs are being taken into account – the more they are likely to learn, and learn to learn”

Malcom Knowles

A textbook licensed under an open copyright license, and made available for free as online and electronic versions, or as low-cost printed versions, to be freely used by students, teachers and members of the public.

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BC Open Textbook Project

40 open textbooks for highest enrolled 1st & 2nd year post-secondary subjects in BC

20 for skills & training

$2 million

AB & SASK MOU

Manitoba Review Project

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

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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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New Creations

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Faculty Reviews ($250)

291/365 by thebarrowboy used under a CC-BY

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Reviews > Adaptations

My Adventures Adapting a Chemistry Textbook

291/365 by thebarrowboy used under a CC-BY

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BCOER Librarians

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Sprints

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Sprints

2 Days17 Psych Faculty6 Institutions850 Questions

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Results

# of textbooks in collection 118 (79/39)

Creations 58

Adaptations 10

Ancillary projects 7

Reviews 112 (56 books)

Institutions 18

Faculty 86

Sections 285

Downloads 49,322

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Results

Year Sections Students Savings

2013 19 593 $59,300 - $87,960

2014 88 2998 $299,800 - $430,672.50

2015 178 5561 $556,100 - $678,029.65

Total 285 9,152 $915,200 - $1.196 mil

Thank You

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