Back to the Features: questioning the impact of ancillary resources on open textbook adoption BCcampus Faculty Fellows Jennifer Kirkey, Arthur Gill Green, Rod Lidstone Festival of Learning 2016 Burnaby, British Columbia

Ancillary as a core component Wow, it’s a real textbook Animating ancillary It’s virtually done Best 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 or know 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…”

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

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

It’s Virtually Done

Google Cardboard ($12)

Expanding the classroom: Virtual Reality in Education Tuesday, June 7 1:55pm - 2:40pm OER for GIScience (QGIS workshop) Tuesday, June 7 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Best Practices

Open Licensing

Modularity

Hosting Consumption 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 adaptation all 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 licensing 2. Modularity 3. Hosting 4. Editable 5. 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 Grants Ancillary Resources Grant Open Educational Resource Grants ● Adaptation of Open Textbooks or Open Educational Resources ● Creation of Open Educational Resources ● Course Redesign using Open Educational Resources

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References Green, K. C. (2016). Going digital: faculty perspectives on digital and OER course materials. In 2016 ICBA Meeting. Orlando: ICBA. Retrieved from 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 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.Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.