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Open Textbooks
David Ernst, PhDUniversity of Minnesota
@dernst
What To Do and Why You?
GWLA 3/9/15
“What are the barriers to faculty adoption of open textbooks?”
open.umn.edu
Adoptions: 0
63.6% Not purchase the required textbook
49.2% Take fewer courses
45.1% Not register for a specific course
33.9% Earn a poor grade
26.7% Drop a course
17.0% Fail a course
In your academic career, has the cost of required textbooks caused you to:
http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf
open = free + 5R permissionsRetainReuseReviseRemixRedistribute
http://opencontent.org/definition/
Adoptions: 0
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Adoptions: 11
3-9 faculty/semesterStudent savings: $380,000+
“What are the barriers to faculty adoption of open textbooks?”
Barriers to Faculty Adoption• Faculty don’t understand the urgency of student financial stress,
and how it can impact students academically• Faculty aren’t aware that open textbooks are an option• Faculty don’t know what open textbooks are• Faculty confuse open textbooks with electronic textbooks• Faculty don’t know where to find open textbooks• Faculty are skeptical of the quality of open textbooks• Faculty have limited time to engage in reviewing open textbooks
Educate
Engage
38%Adoption rate of workshop attendees
(14% - 65%)
“Should I do something at my institution?”
Common Questions
Common Questions“What about the faculty who make a lot of money from textbooks? Are you getting a fight from them?”
Common Questions“What about revenues from the bookstore? Won’t we be cutting our own income if we do this?”
Opening the Curriculum: Open Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education. http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html
Babson Survey Research Group"OER does not suffer from any strong objections or entrenched opposition groups."
"When presented with the concept of OER, most faculty say that they are willing to give it a try.”
“Are they any good?”
“Wikipedia isn’t reliable, so I don’t want a crowd-sourced book.”
“Why would someone write a free book?”
“How can a free textbook be any good?”
Opening the Curriculum: Open Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education. http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html
Babson Survey Research Group"Faculty judge the quality of OER to be roughly equivalent to that of traditional educational resources.”
"The most significant barrier to wider adoption of OER remains a faculty perception of the time and effort required to find and evaluate it."
Opportunities
• Increase number of “nodes” in the network• Provide ongoing support for institutions that
continue their campus open textbook program- Materials- Training- Data collection- Central reporting of metrics
• Build secondary hubs
What you can do:- Get involved in the Open Textbook Network- Become a secondary hub
