1. OER & Open Textbooks on the Access Services Horizon November 13, 2014 Access Services Conference

2. Tucker Taylor Head of Circulation University of South Carolina (Columbia) Jeff Gallant Affordable Learning Georgia Visiting Program Officer for OER Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia

3. Textbook Costs

4. Costs to Students Tuition Housing Food/Clothing/Living Textbooks Textbooks are the one cost you can control

5. Effects on Students 60% do not purchase 35% took fewer classes 31% chose not to register for a class 14% dropped 23% regularly go without Source- student survey by Florida Virtual Campus, 2012 http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/%5Cpdf%5C2012_Florida_Student_Tex tbook_Survey.pdf

6. South Carolina USC Upstate $800-1,200 Coker $1,000 Winthrop $1,000 USC $1,008 Clemson $1,138 Coastal $1,147 Furman $1,200 Piedmont Tech $1,200 College of Charleston $1,207 Charleston Southern $1,400 Denmark Tech $1,500 Voorhees $1,500 Midlands Tech $1,632

7. Cost to USC Freshman Typical Freshman Semester – English 101 $98 – Biology 101 $367 plus an optional $230 textbook – Math 141 $231 – Spanish 121 $213 Criminal Justice $238

8. USC $1377 Your first semester of textbooks 190 hours of minimum wage work – Chemistry 111 $174 plus an optional $476 package

9. What are Libraries Doing? Nothing Lending and ILL-ing textbooks Reserve textbooks

10. University of South Carolina 2008 100 students or more 20,000-25,000 per year 1000+ textbooks

11. Circulation Statistics

12. Problems Meeting the need Perception Cost Lack of e-book availability Fear of Promotion Band-aid Perpetuation of a bad system

13. Jeff Gallant jeff.gallant@usg.edu www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org jeff.gallant@usg.edu www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org No, seriously, send me an email!

14. What is an Open Educational Resource (OER)? First, you must know what we mean by “Open…” What is an OER?

15. A resource is open if you can: Access it at no cost Share it with no restrictions Transform it into something new Adapt it for your particular audience What is “Open?”

16. A resource is not open if: There is no way to access it without cost Sharing is either prohibited or inhibited Transformation and adaptation are not allowed What isn’t “Open?”

17. How do resources become open? Unless a work is in the public domain by law, resources are made open through open licensing. Open licenses give permission to access, share, and adapt a resource. For OER, we typically use Creative Commons open licenses. Open Licensing

18. Image courtesy of foter.com, CC-BY-SA 3.0

19. Therefore: An Open Educational Resource is any educational resource that is accessible, modifiable, adaptable, and shareable: Open Textbooks Open Assessments (tests, quizzes) Open Courseware Open Audiovisual Materials OER Formats

20. + The OER “Wild West”

21. With OER, authority is always shared. OER Evaluation

22. Types of OER review methods: Editorial Review Double-Blind Peer Review Faculty Review (Amazon-esque) Subject Expert Review No Review OER Reviews

23. Affordable Learning Georgia’s OER Evaluation Criteria 1.Clarity, Comprehensibility, and Readability 2.Content Accuracy and Technical Accuracy 3.Adaptability and Modularity 4.Appropriateness of Material 5.Accessibility 6.Quality of Supplementary Resources OER Evaluation

24. What is Affordable Learning Georgia?

25. Affordable Learning Georgia Is… Programs to support more affordable learning materials, including campus advocacy, faculty development, bookstore collaborations, and grants for textbook transformation. A website designed to be a one-stop service to help University System of Georgia (USG) faculty and staff identify lower-cost, electronic, free, and open educational resources (OER), building on the cost-effective subscription resources provided by GALILEO and the USG libraries. www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org An initiative of the University System of Georgia and GALILEO, Georgia’s Virtual Library. www.galileo.usg.eduwww.galileo.usg.edu

26. ACTIVITIES AND STRATEGIES Goals and Programs: OER for Top Fifty Courses OER for eCore USG online core curriculum Partnerships for scale and quality (CSU, OpenStax, eCore) Bookstore program Symposium on the Future of the Textbook Textbook Transformation Grants

27. Why Grants? Adoption, adaptation, and creation take time. Faculty often lack the time to do this alone. Textbook Transformation Grants allow for: Course releases or extra-workload compensation for faculty Assistance from instructional designers Support for training session travel Vector art designed by Freepik: http://www.freepik.com/free-vector/simple- small-icon-vector-material_575034.htm

28. External Project Impact Shared evaluations Sustainability measures Shared creations and adaptations Lessons learned RPG statistics Student savings Why Grants? Vector art designed by Freepik: http://www.freepik.com/free-vector/simple- small-icon-vector-material_575034.htm

29. Round One Textbook Transformation Grants Summary of Round One Grants and Grantees 48 proposals from 19 institutions; 30 awarded 64 participants $314,590 awarded $2,206,138 in potential savings to students annually 19 Top 50 courses addressed Spring 2015: Semester offered to Students

30. RPG = Retention Progression Graduation New formula funding model in FY16 for USG from General Assembly will take this into account. Research on OER and RPG measures are new and ongoing, but recent case studies are promising. Retention, Progression, Graduation

31. Part of an infographic by Babson Survey Research Group and Pearson, CC-BY 4.0: http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/repor ts/openingthecurriculum2014infographic.pdf OER: Awareness Wanted About 66% of instructional faculty surveyed by Babson in 2014 were not aware of OER. This goes to 80% if you include “somewhat aware.”

32. Part of an infographic by Babson Survey Research Group and Pearson, CC-BY 4.0: http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports /openingthecurriculum2014infographic.pdf Red box added by Jeff Gallant. OER: Librarians Wanted

33. Librarians are here to help: As consultants on finding/evaluating resources As instructors on using these resources As designers of openly- accessible LibGuides or other web guides Library Services

34. Online library resources are both licensed and zero-cost to students. Permalinks (permanent links) make off-campus access easy, no matter where the link is located, including freely-available LibGuides. Library Resources

35. For example: Every USG Institution has an Affordable Learning Georgia Library Coordinator. http://www.affordablelearninggeorgia.org/about/champions_coordinators USG Library Coordinators

36. What can Access Services Librarians do about OER and textbook replacement? OER and Access Services

37. 1)Advocate with your specialized knowledge Are textbooks and other required course resources your most-circulated items? How about your reserves? Leverage that data to illustrate the cost burden on your students. – Textbook library checkout is a student sacrifice due to costs – no notes, highlighting, work allowed in the book – Do you get many ILL orders for textbooks? What classes are the “regulars” for this practice? OER and Access Services

38. 2) Make OER visible to your patrons Example: Virginia Tech OpenStax kiosk OER and Access Services

39. 3) Be informed Keep informed on new high-quality OER/open/freely- accessible/no-cost alternatives, especially for subjects where faculty often order or reserve textbooks in the library. Check up on the latest OER news and research – an easy way to do this is following Nicole Allen and/or David Wiley on Twitter OER and Access Services

40. 4) Inform your peers Talk to your teaching faculty about OER, and recommend high-quality alternatives you have seen and evaluated. Are you the library expert on copyright? Help others understand open licensing. Connect your peers with new programs which assist in implementation (such as ALG, UMN Open Textbook Library, etc.) OER and Access Services

41. Thank you! Questions?