Open Textbooks: Opening the doors to education Mary Burgess, Executive Director BCcampus

Agenda What is an Open Educational Resource? What is an Open Textbook? BC Open Textbook Project Books image source CC-BY-NC-SAhttps://

What is an OER?

Headline “OER 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.” William & Flora Hewlett Foundation What are Open Educational Resources?

Thank You The 5 Rs of Opennessdoes open enable? Source: David Wiley, March 5, 2014, CC-BYhttp://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221

6 Let’s get even more specific now, and talk about Open Textbooks. Open Textbooks Image source:

We have a problem… 7 Images from CC-BY and CC-BY-NC

What students think of textbooks “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.” “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.” “I was in lab one day and the guy sitting 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.” “I have a friend who actually didn’t spend any money last year for books because he went to the library at the beginning of the quarter, borrowed books, scanned everything, and had the PDF file.” “My most expensive class was clinical psych, because she writes the textbook herself, and it has a new edition every semester or something ridiculous. So it was like almost $200. And the thing is that you can’t use the previous edition, because she changes it herself because she knows the textbooks sell well. It’s like so manipulative.” Students Get Savvier about Textbook Buying, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January

There is a direct relationship between textbook costs and student success       60%+ do not purchase textbooks at some point due to cost 35% take fewer courses due to textbook cost 31% choose not to register for a course due to textbook cost 23% regularly go without textbooks due to cost 14% have dropped a course due to textbook cost 10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook cost Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus

Fortunately, there are solutions… 11 Images from CC-BY and CC-BY-SA

What is an Open Textbook? An instructional resource An ebook A printed book Usually uses a Creative Commons license to enable others to further share and modify 12 Images from Bccampus.ca and CreativeCommons.org. CC-BY

The BC Open Textbook Project 13 Image from Bccampus.ca +20 more for vocational programs First province in Canada 60 Texts + ancillaries

Project Phases Phase One – Harvest and Review Phase Two – Adapt Phase Three - Create

Phase One: Harvest and Review Image source: CC-BYhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest

Phase Two: Adapt Make use of what exists Improve what exists No, not that kind of proposal… No, it isn’t always easy Provide funding Provide support Image source: CC-BYhttps:// Image source: CC-BYhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1815-regency-proposal-woodcut.gif

Phase Three: Create What are some ways of doing this? Faculty collaboratively authoring Book sprint

Results Known student savings = 433K + # of books in collection = 64 # of reviews = 67 reviews of 32 texts Adaptations = 8 Sociology Psychology Social psych Research methods in psych Database design Project management (completed) Strategic management (completed) Chemistry Creations = 4 Canadian History Canadian Geography (completed) Criminology English Lit $ $

Students: 240 Previous Textbook: $187 OpenStax Textbook: $0 Student savings: $60,000 1 course 1 institution 4 terms Early Adopter and Adapter: Dr. Takashi Sato Physics KPU

Want to adopt an open textbook? You just need to give a link to your students to get started. Want to get your feet wet? Start with a review, we have 64 texts to choose from! Want to adapt one of the texts in our collection or create a new one for one of our 2 areas of focus ? Send us an application! Next steps… If you’ve already started, we’d love to hear from you! image from public domainhttps://openclipart.org/detail/181693/woman-on-telephone-by-liftarn Image from public domain

Questions?