1. Affordable Options: Textbooks, OERs, & The Library Presentation to the Faculty Senate 2-13-2018
Gitta Rausch-Montoto, Director, Faculty & Global Affairs, Office of the Provost
Valerie Boulos, Head, Collection Development & Resource Access, FIU Libraries
Gus Roque, Educational Technology Manager, FIU Online

2. 2016 FLVC Survey Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey
March-April 2016
22,000 students across Florida participated
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3. Key Findings
Textbook costs for Florida university and college students continue to trend higher.
53.2% of students spent more than $300 on textbooks during the spring 2016 term
17.9% spent more than $500 on textbooks during the spring 2016 term
56.3% of the college students surveyed spent $301 or more on textbooks
50.5% by university students $301 or more on textbooks
12% of college students reported having spent $301 or more on course materials, compared to only 9.8% of university students.
An average of 2.6 textbooks were purchased by students that were not used during their academic career.

4. Key Findings
The high cost of textbooks is negatively impacting student access, success, and completion.
66.6% did not purchase a required textbook
37.6% earned a poor grade
19.8% failed a course
Students reported that they:
occasionally or frequently take fewer courses (47.6%)
do not register for a course (45.5%)
drop a course (26.1%)
withdraw from courses (20.7%).
Impacts graduation time =
Impact to performance metrics!

5. Why doesn’t the library just purchase all the required textbooks?
Trivia Question: how many required textbooks are registered on Faculty Enlight per semester?

6. How many textbooks does it take…
Number of Course Adoptions (Required Textbooks) for Fall 2017
2,985
Number of Recommended Textbooks for Fall 2017
345

7. Textbook Adoption
“In preparation for Spring 2018, please declare the soonest possible via FacultyEnlight if you will require or recommend any textbooks or other instructional materials for a lecture or lab in the upcoming semester. If you will not require any materials to be purchased by students, please also declare that via FacultyEnlight. All other course types, including directed individual study, graduate dissertation/thesis, individual performance instruction, internships, supervised research/teaching and other, will default to “no materials required” and you do not have to take any action. “
“The latest legislation on Textbook and Instructional Material Affordability (HB 7019), in effect since July 1, 2016, stipulates that we must post at least 95% of all required and recommended textbooks and course materials via the official system, FacultyEnlight, 45 days prior to each term’s first day of class. ”

8. The problem with counting/reporting…
… if a faculty member claims “no required textbook” in Faculty Enlight it could mean:
They aren’t using any textbook
They are using OER
They are using Library Materials
They placed books on Course Reserves
System default

9. Library Resources Course Reserves E-Books Curriculum Builder LibGuides
Check with your Library Liaison before assigning! Some e-books have limited user access!
Curriculum Builder
Curriculum Builder searches a subset of the library’s online holdings, which incorporates a variety of Open Educational Resources. You can search the FIU Libraries’ Discovery Portal for pertinent reading material and assign it to your class without leaving the Blackboard or Canvas environment.
LibGuides
a large, growing collection of subject-, assignment-, and course-specific guides that can live inside your Canvas or Blackboard course shell.

10. OpenStax Institutional Partnership
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11. OpenStax Partnership
June 2017: FIU was 1 of 11 schools selected for the OpenStax Institutional Partnership Program
OpenStax is a nonprofit organization based at Rice University that publishes openly-licensed books
Over 30 titles, completely free to use, remix, redistribute
FIU will receive consulting services to assess and improve our OER efforts, tech support for adoption of OpenStax content, webinars, and more.
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12. Open Educational Resources
"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. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.“
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

13. OER – advantage over library materials
Creative Commons licensing
Often CC-NC-SA
Ability to edit, move or recombine content
Ability to host content in LMS or (often) university/library server

14. Barriers to Adoption Understanding the options Finding content
Nearly one-half of all faculty report that “there are not enough resources for my subject” (47%), and it is “too hard to find what I need” (50%).
Time needed to redesign the course
Fear that free access to the materials is temporary
Supplemental resources
Quizzes, homework software
Opening the Textbook: Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2017

15. FIU OpenStax Adoptions, 2017-18
Book Name
Yearly Students
Yearly Savings
Algebra and Trigonometry
244
$24,051.08
Anatomy & Physiology 91
$8,969.87
Astronomy
624
$61,507.68
Biology
420
$41,399.40
252
$24,839.64
Biology w Courseware
280
$27,599.60
College Physics (Algebra)
Introduction to Sociology
150
$14,785.50
Macro Economics
160
$15,771.20 50
$4,928.50
Micro Economics
100
$9,857.00
480
$47,313.60
Psychology
136
$13,405.52
Across all 40 FCS/SUS insitutions: 425 adoptions
In FIU: 15 adoptions
$336,616.55
Savings!

16. Open Textbook-based Models
Uses free, open textbooks but curates other content such as videos, powerpoints, quizzes, and/or homework
Cost is usually $30-$70
Barnes & Noble Courseware

17. Faculty have earned medallions ($500k in textbook savings)
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Help make college education more affordable by encouraging the adoption of low-cost course materials.
Recognize faculty who have proactively made changes in their courses to make course materials more affordable for our students.
Faculty have earned medallions ($500k in textbook savings)
Learn more at
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18. DAY WORKSHOP March 7, 2018: GL280, 10am - 2pm
Meet with a librarian who will help find resources for your course
Understand the impact open access materials have on students
Discover what open education resources are
Learn about Affordability Counts and how to apply
March 7, 2018: GL280, 10am - 2pm

19. OpenStax Creator Fest – April 5, Houston
Join us April 5-6, 2018 in Houston for OpenStax’s first Creator Fest. We’re inviting instructors to collaborate with other educators and subject experts to develop additional resources to use with OpenStax textbooks. Join us as we put our knowledge into practice and create the resources that your classroom needs – together.