Understanding Your Digital Content Options

Presented by Carrie Watkins, Senior Digital Consultant

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From eBooks to OERs:

What is digital content?

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What is digital content?

1 The traditional, publisher-created textbook

2Selected resources used to supplement the textbook

3Selected resources curated to replace the textbook

4Open course with individual resources used as content

Approaches to content

Publisher Content OERs

The TraditionalTextbook

Supplements Replacements Open Pedagogy

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What is digital content?

Publisher Content OERs

Goals for content

1 2 3 4A high-quality, professional and vetted backbone for my course

Flexible materials that match my course objectives

High-quality, low-cost options that can be customized to match my course objectives

Completely customizable course with materials at no cost to my students.

The TraditionalTextbook

Supplements Replacements Open Pedagogy

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What is digital content?

The traditional textbookThe TraditionalTextbook 2

Flexible materials that match my course objectives.Customizable, low-cost additions that amplify the message from the textbook.

Publisher CreatedAncillary Materials1

The backbone ofthe course. Providesstructure.

1. ECOLOGY GAME ON HMH SCIENCE FUSION PORTAL2. STUDY GUIDE AND LAB MANUAL FROM PUBLISHER

Traditional Textbook

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What is digital content?

Supplemental ResourcesThe TraditionalTextbook 2

Flexible materials that match my course objectives.Customizable, low-cost additions that amplify the message from the textbook.

Supplemental Resources1

The backbone ofthe course. Providesstructure.

1. CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECT FROM ZOONIVERSE.ORG2. YOUTUBE VIDEO ON MITOSIS3. STUDY GUIDE AND LAB MANUAL FROM PUBLISHER

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Supplemental ResourcesGoals identified

1 2The backbone ofthe course. Providesstructure.

Flexible materials that match my course objectives.Customizable, low-cost additions that amplify the message from the textbook.

The TraditionalTextbook

Supplemental Resources

1. CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECT FROM ZOONIVERSE.ORG2. YOUTUBE VIDEO ON MITOSIS3. PROJECT GUTENBERG: THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY CHARLES DARWIN4. ARTICE FROM NATURAL HISTORY (VIA AMNH.ORG)

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Example: College Physics

What is digital content?

Replacing the textbook Textbook-like

Backbone

1. CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECT FROM ZOONIVERSE.ORG2. YOUTUBE VIDEO ON MITOSIS3. PROJECT GUTENBERG: THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY CHARLES DARWIN4. ARTICLE FROM NATURAL HISTORY (VIA AMNH.ORG)

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High-quality, low-cost options that can be customized to match my course objectives. Message is strong enough to stand on its own, in place of a traditional textbook.

3CuratedContent

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Example: Non-traditional Textbooks

Free ePub and PDF downloadLess than $5 for enhanced digital$48.50 for printed version

Subjects include:BiologyPhysicsAnatomy & PhysiologySociologyPsychologyStatisticsEconomics (Micro & Macro)PrecalculusAlgebra & TrigonometryChemistryU.S. History

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Example: Non-traditional Textbooks

PDFs and ePubs for less than $50Printed versions from $69

Subject areas include:Business & EconomicsHumanities & Social SciencesProfessional & Applied SciencesMathematicsSciences

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Example: Course Packs

What is digital content?

Completely Open Pedagogy

1. CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECT FROM ZOONIVERSE.ORG2. MIT OPEN COURSEWARE BIOLOGY LECTURE: BIOCHEMISTRY3. PROJECT GUTENBERG: THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY CHARLES DARWIN4. ARTICLE FROM NATURAL HISTORY (VIA AMNH.ORG)

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Collaboration of ideas and concepts to be refined and reused throughout the course. Available through LMS, wiki, website, etc.

Course content that is flexible and customizable. LMS or course website create the framework. Learning comes as much from experience as it does course content. Assignments require creation, reiteration, distribution and reuse.

OpenPedagogy4

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State of Adoptions

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What are faculty looking for?

Babson Survey Research Group: http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html

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1 2 3 4The TraditionalTextbook

Supplemental Resources

CuratedContent

Open Courses

TRUSTED QUALITY

COMPREHENSIVE RANGE

WORKS WITH LMS

BROAD ADOPTION

EASE OF USE

MAPPED TO LEARNING OBJECTIVES

EASY TO ADAPT

EASY TO FIND

CURRENT

LOW COST

NOT APPLICABLE IN SOME CASES IN MOST CASES

PROVEN EFFICACY

What are faculty looking for?

What are MBS Direct partner schools doing?

2011 2012 2013 2014

Number of Digital Products Adopted

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What are MBS Direct partner schools doing?

2011 2012 2013 2014

Number of Digital Products Adopted

HEK12

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What are MBS Direct partner schools doing?

2011 2012 2013 2014

Number of Digital Products Adopted (HE)

Language & Lit

CS & Technology

Business & Econom-ics

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What are MBS Direct partner schools doing?

2011 2012 2013 2014

Number of Digital Products Adopted (K12)

History & Geog-raphy

Foreign Language

Math & Statistics

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What are MBS Direct partner schools doing?

2011 2012 2013 2014

Sales of Digital Content

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What are MBS Direct partner schools doing?

2011 2012 2013 2014

Sales of Digital Content

HEK12

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What is best for you?

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Ask yourself:

What kind of structure do you

need?

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Ask yourself:

How much time can you dedicate

to curating content?

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Ask yourself:

How integrated is this content into your curriculum?

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Ask yourself:

How will you manage multiple content objects?

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Thank you.

Presented by Carrie Watkins, Senior Digital Consultant

MBS Direct

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