Reducing the Costs of College: New Directions for 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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eAuthored Text - A Taxonomy

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6. eAuthored Responsive

5. eAuthored Interactive

4. e/Authored Textbook

3. Curated Resources

2. Compiled Resources

1. Custom Textbook

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Custom

Textbook

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Com

piled R

esources

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Curated

Resources

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e/Authored

Textbook

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eAuthored

Interactive

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eAuthored

Responsive

Collaboration Faculty • Instructional Designers • Librarians

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Faculty(SME)

Librarian Instructional Designer

This person’s expertise and learning outcomes lead the projectThe 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

Faculty

Librarians

Instructional Designers

TIME

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

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Cost Savings to Students

Estim

ated Increases from

2002 to 2012

Cost Savings in Research Methods = $219 – 94.49

Cost Savings in Music Appreciation = $88.75

Cost Savings in Human A&P = $72.30

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Impact on Student Learning

“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

Distracti…

Tablet novelty

Publication outputs

Design standards

Significance of Instructor Modeling

Need for Empirical Research on Impact of Faculty Authored Course Content on

Learning

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“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)

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/s10956-010-9278-8

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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