1. Open Access Textbooks Are You Ready?
Dr. Joan Wagner
June 10, 2019

2. Taking Stock Who has used Open Access Textbooks?
What did you like about them?
What would you like to see done differently?
Have you thought about writing your own Open Access textbook?

3. What is Open Access or OER?
"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.“
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

4. Why OER?
“In the past three decades, the costs of textbooks have risen some 834%; that is more than double the rate of increase in house prices and triple the cost increases in the Consumer Price Index.” CBC. (2014). “Textbook Prices That Break the Bank.”
University textbooks/course materials estimates:
U Regina: $1000-$3000
U Sask: $1000-$2000
U Alberta: $1750
UBC: $1700
Queens: $1100
York: $1000-$1500

5. What’s a student to do? Pay for the textbook
Purchase an older edition of the textbook
Delay purchasing the textbook
Never purchase the textbook
Share textbook costs with a group of students (“part- time” access)
Borrow the textbook through the URSU-Library Textbook Program
Elsa

6. Online Courses CNUR 301: Leadership and Advancing Change
Initial content developed by a team of instructors from University of Regina and Saskatchewan Polytechnic
Adapted to the online environment
University of Regina Instructional Designer
Essential Readings
Textbook readings
Links to additional course readings and resources

7. Online Courses Enriching the online environment Online activities
Discussion groups
Online assignments
Instructor Podcasts
Enrichment material
Weekly checkups
Powerpoints

8. Why an Open Access Textbook?
Original Canadian Leadership textbook became outdated
Unable to find an equivalent Canadian textbook that met the needs of our curriculum
Collection of relevant material within the existing online course.

9. University of Regina Open Textbook Publishing Program
Developed in 2016 to:
adapt, adopt and create open textbooks for large first and second year courses in order to benefit the greatest number of students
save students money
enable instructors to customize content
increase accessibility
peer reviewed

10. It takes a village to create a textbook
Creating a support system to support open access
Senior administration
Program management
Copyright
Editorial support (peer review, copy editing, etc.)
Production support (graphics design, technical platform, hosting website)
Bookstore
Students Union

11. The Process Call for proposals
Review committee to assess applications and accept projects
Author contracts and Creative Commons license
Editorial Functions and Author writing
Contact experts in the field to co-author
Inform them of Creative Commons license
Co-authors contract

12. The Process Peer review process Rewriting/editing if necessary
Editorial process
Production (development of videos, sourcing of images, creating tables, placement into Pressbooks platform etc.)
Presentations to faculty and instructors in the department where textbook is being used
Promotion

13. Creative Commons What is a Creative Commons (CC) license?
One of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted "work".
Used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that he or she (that author) has created.
remix/extras/videos/creative-commons-kiwi

14. Open Licenses – Creative Commons
Open licensing provides users with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities:
Retain – download, duplicate, store, and manage
Reuse - in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video
Revise - adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself
Remix - combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new
Redistribute - share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others

15. Promoting the Textbook
Promotion, promotion, promotion
Informal review during creation of materials
Presentation to faculty and instructors to raise awareness near end of production
CNUR 301—345 students /year--$29,325/year
Fall 2018 use of Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing
Instructor & Institution
Course
Student #
Textbook Use
Joan Wagner, U of R
CNUR 301 45
$3,835 (main textbk)
SK Poly
Adopted as supple. textbk
U of R
CNUR 102 90
Adopted as supple. Textbk
CNUR 402 20
U of S
NURS 422.3
100

16. Open Educational Resources Explained
Why Open Education Matters
A Research Short by Degreed.

17. Developing Resources Hypothesis (or Hypothes.is)
open source web annotation tool
students and instructors can use to highlight and annotate online text,
they can share publicly or privately (for group discussion) or use for individual study.
Encourages deeper engagement with academic text and other Internet resources.

18. Developing Resources
Exam questions
Powerpoints

19. Introductory Video
textbooks/titles/nursing.html

20. Doing It Over Again? If I had to do it over again, what
would I do differently?

21. Getting started using oer
How do I find an open textbook?
open.bccampus.ca;
Cara

22. Cara
open.bccampus.ca

23. Thank you
Elsa Johnston Cara Bradley
Dr. Bettina Schneider