May 27, 2010 Daytona State College

 Open Access Textbook Task Force Report, Legislation, and Follow-up ( Report_All_sections[CORRECTED.pdf)  Orange Grove Update  Open Access Textbook Update  FSU College of Medicine Task Force

F.S. TEXTBOOK AFFORDABILITY 277 (c) That a course instructor or the academic department 278 offering the course determines, before a textbook is adopted, 279 the extent to which a new edition differs significantly and 280 substantively from earlier versions and the value of changing to 281 a new edition or the extent to which an open-access textbook may 282 exist and be used. 283 (d) That the establishment of policies shall address the 284 availability of required textbooks to students otherwise unable 285 to afford the cost, including consideration of the extent to 286 which an open-access textbook may be used. 287 (e) That encourages course instructors and academic 288 departments to participate in the development, adaptation, and 289 review of open-access textbooks, in particular, open-access 290 textbooks for high-demand general education courses.

 Analyze digital scholarship as it relates to tenure and promotion  Offer recommendations to evaluate digital scholarship  Developing a recognition system for high quality resources

 New repository features  LMS Integration Update  Blackboard  Sakai  Desire2Learn  Equella (repository software company) purchased by Pearson mid-May 2010

 Open Textbook Development Initiatives: UF, FSU and USF  171 open textbooks available. Many Orange Grove Texts Plus print books available  New Opportunities for Involvement in Open Textbooks  Identify interested faculty  Host workshops to inform faculty  Host hands-on workshops to learn how to search, select and use resources and textbooks  Develop a general education textbook, lab book, work book or auxilliary resources for high enrollment courses  Help identify faculty to review open textbooks and assign any appropriate common course numbers

 Workshops  May, 2010 Information workshops (2)  June, 2010 ▪ Information workshop (1) ▪ Hands on workshop to use OG (1)  Survey  >91% of faculty and administrators indicate that they are likely to use open resources in their teaching  75% faculty would like to know more about open educational resources and how to develop them  Task Force Report due to Dean of FSU-COM in September  OG - effective content distribution system  Statewide COM Task force formed - library directors for FSU (chair), NOVA, FAU, UCF, UF, USF, and U of Miami