TRU OLFM workshop presentation

This presentation is a derivative work based upon 3 works: Adopting Open Textbooks Workshop by Clint Lalonde, Adopting Open Textbooks Workshop by Paul Stacey, Open Education: The Business and Policy Case for OER by Dr. Cable Green,

and OER: Relieving the Pressure by Dr. David Wiley, all of which were licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY)

Except where otherwise noted this Adopting Open Textbooks Workshop presentation

is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY)

RAJIV JHANGIANI, Ph.D.!OLFM, Psychology!

OLFM Workshop!Thompson Rivers University!May 31, 2014!

•  In Sept. 2010 Federal student loan debt surpassed $15 billion


•  Average BC student debt in 2011 was ~$29,497



•  The cost of textbooks has increased by 812% over 30 years




•  BC students now work 180% more hours than they did in 1975 to pay for PSE





•  60+% of students have at some point decided against buying a textbook due to cost





•  60+% of students have at some point decided against buying a textbook due to cost

•  E-‐textbooks cost students more $$$, not less

Hriday Thakkar, 19 Interna'onal economics, Foothill College “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.”

Johnny Lazzarini, 21 Biology, Foothill College “When I look at a syllabus and it says, ‘required text,’ I think in my head, ‘Oh, that’s adorable.’ One of the resources that I use before I sign up for class is Rate My Professors. If they say you rarely if ever need the textbook, why am I going to drop a hundred bucks on a textbook? I’m not gonna do it.”

Jus6n Abraham, 21 Economics, U. of California at Berkeley “I’ve never bought a textbook from the bookstore, like in my en_re college. I’m buying textbooks, but the interna_onal version. It’s like way cheaper. 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.”

Sargunjot Kaur, 20 Computer science, U. of California at Berkeley “In the beginning of the semester we’ll be trying to buy books, and you can put it on Facebook, be like, Oh, I’m taking this class. A lot of people will just be like, Oh, I actually have the PDF, let me send it to you. Or I was in lab one day and the guy sibng 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.”

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What are OER?

“Open Educational Resources (OERs) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.” Source: William & Flora Hewlett Foundation http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources

Philosophy of

Openness

Open Textbooks

Open Research

Open Publica_on Prac_ces

Open Pedagogy

Some advantages of going open

•  Significant savings to students •  Greater access & convenience •  Ability to adapt, update, & remix •  Befer student performance & reten_on •  Ins_tu_onal advantages •  Live more closely in concert with values

Research Methods (Fall 2013 & Spring 2014)

•  67 students collec_vely saved $8700

$120 $0 (digital) or $13.06 (print)

“Having the free textbook available to me online was great in so many ways. It allowed me to save $130 and when you’re on a fixed budget like I am, it helped me a lot. Also it being free and online allowed me to download it to all my portable devices without having to pay for more registra_ons like other downloadable books do. So I could take it with me wherever I went.”



“Having the online text book in my Research Methods class was great it saved me and everyone in class from having to spend $130! Now when you’re on a student budget that’s huge! Now if we could only get all my classes to do that I wouldn’t have to spend so much money on just text books!”

BC Campus Open Textbook Project hfp://open.bccampus.ca/ BC Campus Shareable Online Learning Resources hfp://solr.bccampus.ca/wp/ Saylor Academy Library hfps://saylor.longsight.com/ OpenStax College hfp://openstaxcollege.org/books OpenStax CNX hfp://cnx.org/

Open Textbook Library (U of Minnesota) hfp://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ Merlot hfp://www.merlot.org/ NOBA Project hfp://nobaproject.com/ American Ins_tute of Mathema_cs hfp://aimath.org/textbooks/ Crea_ve Commons hfp://search.crea_vecommons.org/

Some Prac_cal Sugges_ons

•  Start with reviews •  Can edit in Word, but Pressbooks is befer •  Delete chapters or add/remove sec_ons •  Embed assignments & pedagogical goals •  Collect data along the way •  Go beyond an open textbook (other OER) •  Collect student feedback

Thank you

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