Back to the Features:questioning the impact of ancillary resources on open textbook adoptionBCcampus Faculty FellowsJennifer Kirkey, Arthur Gill Green, Rod Lidstone

Festival of Learning 2016Burnaby, British Columbiahttps://goo.gl/ckKah6

arthur.green@mail.mcgill.cakirkeyj@douglascollege.calidstone@camosun.bc.ca

Ancillary as a core componentWow, it’s a real textbookAnimating ancillaryIt’s virtually doneBest practices

Open Textbooks

(Thank you BCcampus)

What do a plumber, a geographer, and a physicist have

in common?

So, what are ancillary resources?

Question banks

Solution manuals

Slides

Multimedia

Why are OER ancillary resources important? They can tip the scales...

Show of hands please…

Anyone here hesitated to adopt an open resource orknow someone who hesitated to adopt due to the lack of ancillary resources?

Over 40% of the respondents to a 2016 survey of 2,902 faculty members at 29 higher education institutions….

...ranked supplements as important or very important factors in textbook adoption (Green 2016).

The lack of ancillary resources for open textbooks negatively impacts faculty perceptions and adoption rates (Jhangiani et al. 2016).

“Wow it is a real textbook with real resources. There are lots of textbook problems and both a student instructor’s solutions manual? Let me look at that...I might adopt it…”https://openstax.org/details/college-physics

Trades Common Core ancillary resources in the works●Procedural videos●Tool animations●Bringing all of the

resources together into Open LMS courses

Procedural videos where should I put them?● Youtube link● Embedded into open

textbook● Standalone files

http://youtube.com/v/7xssMo97Gqs

Maybe these elements are best located within content pages of an open LMS courses?

This gives us an opportunity to incorporate other universal design elements

http://youtube.com/v/3WIS6N_9gjA

It’s Virtually Done

Google Cardboard ($12)

Expanding the classroom: Virtual Reality in Education

Tuesday, June 7 • 1:55pm - 2:40pmhttp://sched.co/6kgK

OER for GIScience (QGIS workshop)

Tuesday, June 7 • 3:00pm - 5:00pmhttp://sched.co/6AM8

Best Practices

Open Licensing

Modularity

HostingConsumption or collaboration?Can it allow modularity, flexible consumption choices, no limits to access, possibility to contribute to and edit the resources…Should it be institutional (UBC, Camosun, Douglas, etc.) or independent?

Editable

Can the content be edited with free or open source software?

Benefits of making it easy to edit:better adoption rates

quicker adaptationall around better quality resources

Analysis of 248 edits to English language Wikipedia articles from 04:43 to 04:46 UTC on 18 Feb 2007

Collaborative

Best Practices

1.Open licensing2.Modularity3.Hosting4.Editable5.Collaborative

Opportunities… With the help of BCcampus, you can make ancillary resources that your students will use and that you need to assist with teaching and learning.

BCcampus Call for OER GrantsAncillary Resources Granthttps://goo.gl/dT9PA2

Open Educational Resource Grants● Adaptation of Open Textbooks or Open

Educational Resources● Creation of Open Educational Resources● Course Redesign using Open Educational

Resourceshttps://goo.gl/h0rgar

Thank Youkirkeyj@douglascollege.ca

lidstone@camosun.bc.caarthur.green@mail.mcgill.ca

This presentation can be accessed at:

https://goo.gl/ckKah6

ReferencesGreen, K. C. (2016). Going digital: faculty perspectives on digital and OER course materials. In 2016 ICBA Meeting. Orlando: ICBA. Retrieved from http://www.campuscomputing.net/goingdigital2016

Jhangiani, R., R. Pitt, C. Hendricks, J. Key, and C. Lalonde. (2016). Exploring faculty use of open educational resources at British Columbia post-secondary institutions. Victoria: BCcampus. Retrieved from http://viuspace.viu.ca/handle/10613/2705

Image sources are noted in the slide notes.

Back to the Features: questioning the impact of ancillary resources on open textbook adoption by A.G. Green, J.Kirkey and R.Lidstone is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.