Cccoer Webinar Find and Adopt Open Textbooks

Finding Open Textbooks and

Fostering Faculty Adoptions

Amanda Coolidge, BCcampus Open Textbooks

Nicole Finkbeiner, OpenStax CollegeKatherine D. Harris, California OER Council

Sept 10, 2014, 10:00 am PST

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Moderators: Lisa Close, FLVC and Una Daly, CCCOER

Agenda

• Introductions• CCCOER Overview• BCcampus Open Textbooks• OpenStax College Open Textbooks• California OER Council Open Textbooks• Questions & Answers

WelcomePlease introduce yourself in the chat window

Amanda CoolidgeOpen Education Manager

BCcampus British Columbia, Canada

Katherine D. HarrisCalifornia OER Council

ChairAssociate Professor

San Jose State University

Moderator: Una DalyDirector of Community College Consortium

Open Education Consortium

Nicole FinkbeinerAssociate Director

Institutional RelationsOpenStax College

• Promote adoption of OER to enhance teaching and learning

– Expanding access to education– Supporting professional development– Advancing the community college

mission

CCCOER

Funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

250+ Colleges in 18 States & Provinces

Open Textbooks & Adoption

• Student Access & Success

• Faculty Awareness

• Faculty Adoption

• Save Students Money

Cover the Cost Student Contest

Enter a video or written essay answering:

How do you cover the cost of textbooks

each semester?

Three $2,500 book scholarships will be awarded

www.thebooklessmovement.org

BCcampus Open Textbooks

Amanda CoolidgeOpen Education Manager

BCcampus Open Textbook Project

Amanda Coolidge, Manager Open EducationBCcampusCCCOER PresentationSeptember 10, 2014

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So where is “BCcampus”?

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

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Curriculum Services & Applied Research

Student Services & Data Exchange

Collaborative Programs & Shared Services

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

OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License

1Curriculum Services & Applied ResearchSupport & promote the development & use of Open Educational Resources

Support instructors who want to use technology in their teaching practice

http://www.jonathasmello.com/

http://www.jonathasmello.com/

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/



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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 part via OPDF355 courses, 12 workshops, 19 web sites/tools and 396 course components (learning objects, labs, textbooks, manuals, videos)

100% open license for free & open sharing & reuse by all BC post-secondary

solr.bccampus.ca

We have a problem…

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Images fromhttp://www.openeducation.net/2009/09/17/beyond-textbooks-andy-chlup-discusses-digital-learning-models/ CC-BY andhttp://markmcguire.net/2011/01/01/r-i-p-department-of-design-studies/ CC-BY-NC

http://www.openeducation.net/2009/09/17/beyond-textbooks-andy-chlup-discusses-digital-learning-models/

http://markmcguire.net/2011/01/01/r-i-p-department-of-design-studies/

What students think of textbooks

•“The price of textbooks has influenced my decision to take classes. When the same class is offered by three different instructors, I check which book is the cheapest, and even though the professor might not be good, I’m forced to take that class because the textbook is the cheapest.”•“For my ‘Intro to Stats’ class, the usual cost of the textbook is like $120. But then I got a copy from India for like $29. And it’s the exact same copy.”•“I was in lab one day and the guy sitting next to me had the PDF version of the book opened on his computer. And I was like, Oh, can I have a copy? And he sent it over to me.”•“I have a friend who actually didn’t spend any money last year for books because he went to the library at the beginning of the quarter, borrowed books, scanned everything, and had the PDF file.”•“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.”

Students Get Savvier about Textbook Buying, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2013http://chronicle.com/article/Students-Get-Savvier-About/136827

http://chronicle.com/article/Students-Get-Savvier-About/136827

There is a direct relationship between textbook costs and student success

60%+ do not purchase textbooks at some point due to cost

35% take fewer courses due to textbook cost

31% choose not to register for a course due to textbook cost

23% regularly go without textbooks due to cost

14% have dropped a course due to textbook cost

10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook cost

Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus

What is an Open Textbook?

• An instructional resource • An ebook• A printed book • Usually uses a Creative Commons license to enable others

to further share and modify

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Images from Bccampus.ca and CreativeCommons.org. CC-BY

The BC Open Textbook Project

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Image from Bccampus.ca

+20 more for vocational programs

First province in Canada

60 Texts + ancillaries

Thank You

The 5 Rs of Opennessdoes open enable?

Source: David Wiley, http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221 March 5, 2014, CC-BY

http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221

http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221

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Why are we doing this?Yhy are we doing this project?

• To increase access to higher education by reducing student costs

• To enable faculty more control over their instructional resources

• To move the open agenda forward in a meaningful, measurable way

Images from Oxfam.org CC-BY and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/World_Open_Educational_Resources_Congress_2012/How_Open_Access_and_Open_Science_can_mutually_fertilize_with_Open_Educational_Resources CC-BY

The project:

• 40 Texts, aligned with the 40 most highly enrolled 1st and 2nd year subjects in BC, plus 20 more for skills based programs

• Not just for online delivery

• Ebook (multiple formats) or print on demand

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Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecture_hall CC-BY

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecture_hall

Project Phases

Phase One – Harvest and Review

Phase Two – Adapt

Phase Three - Create

Phase One: Harvest and Review

Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest CC-BY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest

Students: 60Previous Textbook: $187OpenStax Textbook: $0

Student savings: $11,200

1 class 1 institution 1 term

Early Adopter and Adapter: Dr. Takashi Sato Physics KPU

Phase Two: Adapt

• Make use of what exists

• Improve what exists

No, not that kind of proposal…

No, it really, really isn’t easy• Provide funding

• Provide support

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaxed/285108485/ CC-BY

Image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1815-regency-proposal-woodcut.gif CC-BY

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaxed/285108485/

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Phase Three: Create

What are some ways of doing this?

Faculty collaboratively authoring

Buy the rights from publishers

Book sprint

• Reviews – we’re relying on faculty

• Faculty Fellows Program

• Collaborations – peer support, idea generation, subject matter expertise

• Supporting players: Instructional Designers, Professional Editors

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Images from http://fundermental.blogspot.ca/2011_09_01_archive.htmlhttp://thevarguy.com/blog/visual-collaboration-next-var-opportunity-arriveshttp://quotesweliveby.blogspot.ca/2010/08/quality-begins-on-inside-quality-quotes.html

What about quality?

http://fundermental.blogspot.ca/2011_09_01_archive.html

http://thevarguy.com/blog/visual-collaboration-next-var-opportunity-arrives

Results

Known student savings =$305K +

# of books in collection = 62# of reviews = 50 reviews of 21 texts

# of Adaptations = 8• Sociology• Psychology• Social psych• Research methods in psych• Database design• Project management• Strategic management• Chemistry

# of Creations = 4• Canadian History• Canadian Geography• Criminology• English Lit

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# of Institutions adopting: 8• Camosun College• Langara College• JIBC• Kwantlen Polytechnic University• Douglas College• Capilano University• NWCC• Thompson Rivers University

open.bccampus.ca

Thanks!

[email protected]

@acoolidge

open.bccampus.ca

mailto:[email protected]

OpenStax College

Nicole FinkbeinerAssociate Director, Institutional Relations

una daly

Peer-reviewed, quality OER

Nicole FinkbeinerAssociate DirectorInstitutional Relations

$1,200

Fixing the Broken Textbook Market report by U.S. PIRG Education Fund

January 2014

Average per year cost for

textbooks and supplies

48%

Fixing the Broken Textbook Market report by U.S. PIRG Education Fund

January 2014

of all students surveyed said that

the cost of textbooks impacted

how many/which classes they

took each semester

Foundation Support

Meeting the OER Challenge

Ease of Use • Make it EASY to find and use the materials

Free is not Enough• Establish development models to ensure quality

Scope and Sequence• Develop resources to support existing curricula

Essential Learning Resources• Partner with groups that can enhance content

Our books thus far

Schools using our resources

Examples:• Austin Community College• University of Oklahoma• Houston Community College• University of Georgia• Lone Star College• Princeton University• Central New Mexico Community College• State University of New York• Maricopa Community Colleges• Penn State University

800+ schools worldwide using OpenStax books

233% Increase in adoptions in one

year (300 adoptions to

1,000 adoptions)

OER Enhances Academic Freedom

• OER provides faculty with more choices for their courses

• OER allows for permission free editing and adaptation

• OER prevents faculty from being locked into a particular platform or system

At the course level:

In the market place:

• OER should not be legislated or mandated• OER needs to stand on it’s own vis a vis

publisher material

No Passwords, No Registrations, Available in Many Formats

Knowledge Ecosystem.

Only_point_five (CC-BY-NC bit.ly/HpxBgx)

Learning requires more than a book

Additional Resources

• Online homework (from partners)• Online labs (from partners)• Online practice (from partners)• PowerPoint slides• Pronunciation guides• Solution Manuals• Test banks

Adopt/Recommend

• Adopt an OpenStax book as the main textbook

• Recommend an OpenStax book as an option for studying/affordability

Instituitional Initiatives

How to implement OER as an institution• Textbook Heroes• Faculty support

• Instructional Design/IT• Library• Incentives (not mandates)

• Institutional grants• Student organization grants

• Expressed support from administration• OER training days/webinars

FAQs

1. What’s the catch or obligation?

2. Do you plan on switching to a fee model?

3. “I don’t like X or you don’t have Y”

4. Do you have SSO?

5. May I adapt and distribute without permission?

6. Do you have comp copies?

7. With no sales reps how do I get service?

[email protected]

8. What about revisions?

9. Who do I call if I find an error?

10.Can my bookstore order physical copies?

$10.5 MILLION SAVED!

Nicole FinkbeinerAssociate Director,

Institutional [email protected]

713-348-2972

California OER Council

Katherine D. Harris, Ph.DCalifornia OER Council ChairAssociate Professor, San Jose State University

una daly

COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council

Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator

Leaping Toward OER in California Higher Education

CCCOER Webinar:Open Textbook Collections and Adoptions

Sept. 10, 2014, 10am

Katherine D. HarrisAssociate Professor, English, SJSU

Project Coordinator/Chairhttp://icas-ca.org/coerc

[email protected]

http://icas-ca.org/coerc




THE GOAL - to increase faculty adoption of high quality,

affordable or free course materials to save students money.

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COERC will significantly improve the affordability of a

quality higher education experience for students

in the state of California and across the nation

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The California State Legislature passed and the Governor signed SB 1052 and SB 1053 for the California public

higher education systems to create an online library of open educational resources and open textbooks (2012)

SB 1052 CA Senate Bill authorizing creation of COERC

SB 1053CA Senate Bill authorizing CA Open Source Digital

Library

The CSU was designated as the leadership organization to manage the project



To establish this project, the California State University,

Office of the Chancellor was awarded grants from the:

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation ($500,000)

and Gates Foundation ($500,000) to match the State of

California’s funding, mandated by SB 1052 and SB 1053.

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Select 50 courses

Create & administer rigorous review

process

Promote production,

access & use

Solicit input from student associations

RFP to create OER

materials

Identifying available free

and open etextbooks

From the Legislation

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From ICAS – a hefty set of tasks

1. Meet goals of SB 1052 legislation.2. Work collegially under the direction of the COERC Project Coordinator to

produce the deliverables specified in the Hewlett grant proposal timeline.3. Submit policies and processes to ICAS for review and approval;

document and archive policies and processes approved by ICAS.4. Develop policies for building the collection of open textbooks in the

California Open Source Digital Library (CDOSL). The COOL4Ed (California Open Online Library for Education, www.cool4ed.org) is the first library service of the CDOSL.

5. Develop a process for review teams which will include: composition, timelines, rubrics for evaluating texts, minimum standard for text to be included in COOL, appeal process for authors, training necessary for review and normalizing, process for communicating names of texts approved for inclusion in COOL by discipline (or alternate way to categorize the texts).

[contd.]

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From ICAS (contd.)

6. Send regular reports to ICAS about disciplines, texts, challenges, etc.7. Prepare content for the COSDL website and ICAS webpage.8. Prepare and administer (or delegate) professional development

opportunities by or across segments.9. Develop policies for defining data that will need to be collected and

analyzed to track the success of the project.10.Develop process for outsourcing work to "complete" a text.11.Support review teams (COERC members may not participate on review

teams).

(available on COERC web pages)

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Funding

Oversight

COERC Project Coordinator

ICAS: All CSU, CCC, UC Academic

Senates

The State of

California

Principal Investigation (Gerard

Hanley, CSU Chancellor’s Office)

The Hewlett Foundation &

The Gates Foundation

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CCC UC CSU

Dianna Chiabotti,Child & Family Studies & Education, Napa Valley

Bob Jacobsen,Physics, Berkeley

Diego Bonilla, Communication, Sacramento

Cheryl Stewart,Library & Information Science, Coastline

Peter Krapp,Film, Media/Visual Studies, Informatics, Irvine

Ruth A. Guthrie,Pomona, begins Fall 2014

Kevin Yokoyama, Mathematics,Redwoods

Randy Siverson, Political Science, Davis

Larry Hanley,English, San Francisco

Katherine D. Harris, English, San Jose State (CSU)Project Coordinator/Chair (non-voting)

COERC Membership (formed Jan 2014)

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Hewlett Foundation Grant - Deliverables

March

• ICAS establishes scope and schedule for the development of policies and procedures for open textbook initiative

• ICAS establishes policy on shared governance and management of initiative• COERC completes selection of Phase 1 courses, and approves evaluation

criteria• Phase I communication plans developed by COERC and COSDL

April

• Survey of faculty, administrators, and students received by late April/early May (COERC)

• Faculty review panels needed for first five courses established; COERC approves evaluation criteria and review/recommendation processes

May-AugFaculty Review Panels:

Establish infrastructure, review apparatus, review panels, textbook access for Phase I Reviews due on Aug 25, 2014.



Criteria for Selecting Five CoursesCOERC was able to identify more than 50 courses to evaluate OER textbooks using the following criteria:

Works for as many campuses as possible following the designation for general education courses:

Highly enrolled according to Course Identification Number System:

http://www.c-id.net/degreereview.html

Generates significant textbook savings

Relatively consistent across textbook products

Provides opportunities for faculty to augment open textbooks

Conducive to discipline-based pedagogies

Critical Thinking Oral Communication Quantitative Reasoning Written Communication

Access to multiple OER textbooks for any given course



Five Courses Selected

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Public Speaking

Microeconomics

U.S. HistoryIntroduction to

Chemistry

Introduction to Statistics



from COERC Glossary: http://icas-ca.org/oer-glossary

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Defining Criteria, Protocols & Boundaries

Textbook(for our purposes)

A manual of instruction in any branch of study. Online and digital materials are making it increasingly easy for students to access materials other than the traditional print textbook. Students now have access to electronic and PDF books, online tutoring systems and video lectures.

Creative Commons Licensing

Creative Commons Licenses are applied to published work online and offer simple and clear information about what other people can and can’t do with that work.



Surveying the Faculty1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14

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Dykes, Theresa

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Distribution of disciplines for faculty survey participants

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Request for Reviewers314 Self-indentified reviewers as of 5/12/14

Distribution of disciplines (remove “science” & “studies”)

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Surveying Students100 Responses as of 5/12/14Distributed to student government leaders on 4/1/14

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Next Steps

• Identify and invite Faculty Reviewers

• Complete protocols and infrastructure for reviews

• Manage review panels over Summer 2014

• Integrate reviews into the COSDL website for Phase I

• Evaluate textbook selection, proof of concept for reviewing, course selection

• Resolve student involvement issues

• Report to California State Senate

• Re-Convene COERC in the Fall



www.icas-ca.org/coerc

[email protected]

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Next CCCOER WebinarWed, Oct 8

Open Course Design & Development

OEC Quarterly MeetingSept 18 @ 9:00 am PT

• Promoting OER at your Institutions

• OER State of the Field Report

• Demo of Open Education Professional Directory

• Open MOOC Update

Register at oeconsortium.org

Una Daly: [email protected]

Amanda Coolidge: [email protected]

Nicole Finkbeiner: [email protected]

Katherine D. Harris: [email protected]

Thank you for coming!!

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