Beyond Free The BC Open Textbook Project Clint Lalonde Manager, Open Education COHERE October 28, 2014 Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License . Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution
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Beyond FreeThe BC Open Textbook Project
Clint LalondeManager, Open EducationCOHERE October 28, 2014
Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution
$9 million invested153 grants awarded100% participation across system83% partnerships47 credentials developed in whole or part355 courses, 12 workshops, 19 web sites/tools and 396 course components (learning objects, labs, textbooks, manuals, videos)
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What are Open Educational Resources?
“Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them.”
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Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual CampusSlide: CC-BY Cable Green, Creative Commons via http://www.project-kaleidoscope.org/
60%+ do not purchase books at some point due to book cost
35% take fewer courses due to book cost
31% choose not to register for a course due to book cost
23% regularly go without textbooks due to book cost
14% have dropped a course due to book cost
10% have withdrawn from a course due to book cost
Students Get Savvier about Textbook Buying, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2013
Emma Anderson, 21Political science, U. of California at Berkeley
“Usually when I don’t buy it, it’s because I’ve found that you actually don’t need it for the class.”
Jennifer Bi, 20Economics, U. of California at Berkeley
“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.”
Marie Efira, 63Anthropology, Foothill College
“I had to take very few classes, because each time the price of the book more than doubles the tuition fee. It took me much longer to get my degree.”
How often do students start the term without the resources they need?
Faculty have:Right to customizeThe textbook
Students have:Day 1 access to that customized textbook+
Beyond Free Benefit #4
Improved Learning
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“Many students attending HCC have difficulty with the cost of college. Some students do not purchase books at all; other students use outdated editions or non-assigned books.
In addition, the cost of textbooks may prevent students from taking an optimal course load. A reduced course load means more years in college and reduces the likelihood of completion.
For these reasons, faculty were concerned that the cost of textbooks was interfering with student success.
A faculty committee, with the support of administration, decided to make cost a primary consideration in the textbook adoption process.”
Source: One college’s use of an open psychology textbook, John Hilton III, Carol Laman, Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning Volume 27, Issue 3, 2012
Source: One college’s use of an open psychology textbook, John Hilton III, Carol Laman, Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning Volume 27, Issue 3, 2012
“A group of six full-time and six adjunct HCC psychology faculty members participated in the adaptation of FWK’s Introduction to Psychology textbook.
The adaptation was necessary in order to lower the reading level to one that the faculty felt was appropriate for HCC students (12th grade) and to incorporate additional learning objectives and key terms that they had identified as being essential to the course.
Additional video links, relevant examples, and cross-cultural information were also added to the text.”
Source: One college’s use of an open psychology textbook, John Hilton III, Carol Laman, Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning Volume 27, Issue 3, 2012
Spring 2011, Traditional Textbook (n = ~370 students)
Fall 2012, open Textbook (n = ~370 students)
GPA 1.6 2.0
Withdrawl Rate 14% 7.1%
Department Final Exam
67.6% 71.1%
Table 1. Aggregated data, spring 2011 (traditional text) versus fall 2011 free text: multiple campuses and instructors.
Opportunities for collegial collaboration to create stronger resources
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Sprints
2 Days17 Psych Faculty6 Institutions850 Questions
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Sprints
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Sprints
Beyond Free Benefit #6
Opportunities for Authentic Learning Activities
5.5 million view per month. The most visited chemistry website in the world.
Delmar Larsen now offers extra credit to students who submit entries. He assigns a rating system to new articles based on the author's expertise and experience, with articles moving up as they are edited and vetted.
Sources: ChemWiki takes on costly textbooks UC Davis News, October 2013 UCD Hyperlink Newsletter October 2014