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Open Textbook Network

David Ernst, PhD

University of Minnesota

@dernst

Unizin | October 9, 2015

–United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

“…higher education shall be equally accessible to all…”

The cost barrier kept

2.4 million

low and moderate-income college-qualified high school graduates from completing college in the

previous decade.

The Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED529499.pdf

63.6% Not purchase the required textbook

49.2% Take fewer courses

45.1% Not register for a specific course

33.9% Earn a poor grade

26.7% Drop a course

17.0% Fail a course

In your academic career, has the cost of required textbooks caused you to:

http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf

Student Learning

Perceptions of Quality

Barriers to Faculty Adoption• Faculty don’t understand the urgency of student financial

stress, and how it can impact students academically• Faculty aren’t aware that open textbooks are an option• Faculty don’t know what open textbooks are• Faculty confuse open textbooks with electronic textbooks• Faculty don’t know where to find open textbooks• Faculty are skeptical of the quality of open textbooks• Faculty have limited time to engage in reviewing open

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Open Textbook Reviews

Cal Poly San Luis ObispoCleveland State UniversityColorado State UniversityHarold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young UniversityMacalester CollegeMinnesota State College and Universities (34)North Dakota University System (11)The Ohio State UniversityOregon Community Colleges (17)Oregon State UniversityPurdue University

Temple UniversityUniversity of ArizonaUniversity of IowaUniversity of KansasUniversity of Massachusetts AmherstUniversity of MinnesotaUniversity of Northwestern St. PaulUniversity of OklahomaUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Wisconsin – MilwaukeeVirginia TechWest Virginia University

Open Textbook Network

• On-campus workshops (faculty, librarians, staff, …)

• OTN Summer Institute

• Data collection

• Network of peers

Membership fees matched by

Results to Date

• 257 faculty workshop participants

• 160 reviews written

• 101 adoptions

– 39% of participants adopted

– 63% of reviewers adopted

Open Textbook Library open.umn.edu

Open Textbook Network z.umn.edu/otnetwork

These slides slideshare.net/djernst

David Ernst

[email protected] | @dernst