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Open Textbooks and OER in BC How You
Can Get Involved
Lauri Aesoph, Manager, Open Education, BCcampusJessie Key, PhD, Chemistry, Vancouver Island UniversityBEAC-TEC 2016, May 5, 2016
Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution.
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Overview of the BC Open Textbook Project
Open Textbook Collection
How to Get Involved
Agenda
Open Education & Professional Learning
OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a CC-BY 30 License
Support & promote the development & use of Open Educational ResourcesSupport the development of effective teaching & learning practices1
Connect the expertise, programs, and resources of all BC post-secondary institutions under a collaborative service delivery framework
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BC Open Textbook Project
2012: 40 open textbooks for the highest enrolled 1st & 2nd year post-secondary subjects in BC
2013: 20 open textbooks for technical and skills training, trades
Visual notes of John Yap announcement, Giulia Forsythe Used under CC-SA license
Phase 1
Phase 2
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Open Education
Cape Town Declaration on Open Education
“This emerging open education movement combines the established tradition of sharing good ideas with fellow educators and the collaborative, interactive culture of the Internet. It is built on the belief that everyone should have the freedom to use, customize, improve and redistribute educational resources without constraint.”
http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration
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Open Education is part of an Open Ecosystem
The Open Ecosystem by Clobridge Consulting is licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 License.
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Teaching, learning, research materials textbooks readings multi-media files – videos, audio clips software assessment tools – exams, test banks entire courses – online syllabi and lesson plans
Open Educational Resources
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Getting Started
Don’t reinvent it by Andrea Hernandez released under CC-BY-NC-SA and based on Wheel by Pauline Mak released under CC-BY license
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Faculty Reviews
291/365 by thebarrowboy used under a CC-BY
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Reviews > Adaptations
My Adventures Adapting a Chemistry Textbook291/365 by thebarrowboy used under a CC-BY
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New Creations
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BCOER Librarians
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Faculty Fellows Program
• Dr. Jessie Key, VIU (chemistry)• Dr. Christina Hendricks, UBC (philosophy)• Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani, KPU (psychology)
• Rod Lidstone, Camosun (trades / piping)• Dr. Arthur “Gill” Green, UBC/Okanagan (geography)• Dr. Jennifer Kirkey, Douglas (physics / astronomy)
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Provincial Partnerships
2013 – MOU Alberta and Saskatchewan
2015 – Campus Manitoba
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The BC Open Textbook Collection
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Chemistry
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Davis
Merlot Chemistry
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Our Numbers (as of May 5, 2016)
143 Open Textbooks489 Adoptions28 Institutions
(22 Public; 6 Private)
14,311 Students
$1,431,100-$1,801,806
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1. Build institutional capacity to enable support for faculty adoption of open textbooks.
2. Produce 50 additional OER resources over the next 3 years, through ancillary resources, open textbooks, openly licensed guides and materials.
3. Engage with the BC post-secondary system to increase commitment to adopt and adapt open textbooks.
4. Facilitate provincial, national, and international leadership and collaboration in OER.
5. Ensure the sustainability of the collection.
The Project in 2016
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Opportunities
Ancillary Materials Development Grant
Open Educational Resource Grant
Review an Open Textbook
Festival of Learning
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Ancillary Materials Development Grant
This call for proposals is to create ancillary support material for existing open textbooks that could assist faculty in adopting the open textbook. This material can include:
• Testbanks of questions based on an existing open textbook• Presentations (PowerPoint, Open Office, Prezi, etc)• Multimedia content, such as audio or video, that could further • enhance the textbook• Simulations• Instructor and student manuals• Additional learning activities.
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Open Educational Resources Grant
This call for proposals is for institutions (e.g. Teaching and Learning Centre, Library, OER Working Group) in British Columbia to provide small open educational resource grants, funded by BCcampus and matched by the Institution. Open Educational Resource grants may be used for, but not limited to:
• Adaptation of open textbooks or open educational resources• Creation of open educational resources• Course redesign using open educational resources.
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Resources on open.bccampus.ca
http://opentextbc.ca/opentextbook
http://opentextbc.ca/accessibilitytoolkit
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Review an Open Textbook
291/365 by thebarrowboy used under a CC-BY
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festival.bccampus.ca
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Why Adopt Open?
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Textbook Costs vs Student Success
Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual CampusSlide: CC-BY Cable Green, Creative Commons via http://www.project-kaleidoscope.org (modified)/
Textbook Costs vs Student Success
64% do not purchase books at some point due to book cost
49% 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
27% have dropped a course due to book cost
21% have withdrawn from a course due to book cost
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CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128983
Total Control of Course Content
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Creative Commons logo by Creative Commons used under a CC-BY 3.0 LicenseCC license image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 South Africa license
Open Licenses
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The 5 R’s of Open
• Make and own copiesRetain• Use in a wide range of
waysReuse• Adapt, modify, and
improveRevise• Combine two or moreRemix• Share with othersRedistribut
eAdapted (color change) from Open Education: A “Simple” Introduction by David Wiley released under CC-BY license
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VIU Chemistry – CHEM 140/141/142/150
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51sCarEcCUL._SX388_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
https://www.amazon.ca/Chemistry-Central-Science-13th-Edition/dp/0321910419
• We supplement organic chemistry section already (does not meet needs)
• Some faculty feel end of chapter problems are don’t offer enough opportunity for challenge
~150 Students /year x $150 = $22,500
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VIU Chemistry – CHEM 140/141/142/150
Challenges:
• 3 to 5 instructors teach lecture sections of these courses
• Textbook decision made by department committee
• Changing textbooks requires significant amounts of time/effort
• Little to no time/money to seek, adapt or generate open alternatives
• Not many good open resources in general chemistry until recently
• Some faculty potentially uncomfortable with using new technology
Create a New TextbookEvaluate an
Existing Open Text
Use “As Is” Adapt/Modify
Assess Course Learning Objectives
Deliver Content to Students
Assessing Course Learning Objectives
Collaboration amongst department members using google docs:
Assessing Course Learning Objectives
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https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/
https://openstaxcollege.org/
Finding Open Texts
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Adapting Open Textbooks• Can be as simple as only choosing certain chapters/sections, or combining different
sources
• You can supplement with extra examples, problems etc:
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• Timeframe: May – August 2014
• Goal: Bring the text to a level where it could be used at a B.C. post-secondary environment
• Actions Required:
Complete Chapters to Write:- Glossary, TOC and Appendix- Thermodynamics- Kinetics
Partial Chapters to Write:- 3 sections in Gas Chapter- 2-3 sections in Chemical
Bonding Chapter- Redraw figures in Organic
Chapter
Introduction to Chemistry Adaptation
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Adapting Using Pressbooks
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/pressbooks-textbook/screenshots/
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Publish Many
Write Once
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Getting your own Pressbooks Account
If you are a BC post-secondary instructor…
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All others …
pressbooks.com
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