open textbooks - presentation to vancouver school board

Open EducationK-12 Possibilities

Amanda Coolidge, Senior Manager Open EducationMary Burgess, Executive Director

@maryeburgess@acoolidge

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Agenda

• What is BCcampus• What is Open Education?• The BC Open Textbook Project• What’s happening in K-12 Open Education?• Discussion

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What is BCcampus?

6 research universities

5 teaching universities

11 colleges

3 institutes

25 public post-secondaries

To increase access to higher education by reducing student costs To give faculty more control over their instructional resources To improve learning outcomes for students

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The Big Why

What is Open Education? What are 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.”

http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-

program/open-educational-resources

OER: Open Educational Resources

open = free + permissions

Free, unfettered accessperpetual, irrevocable

BC Open Textbook Project

Ministry of Advanced Education

$1 million201240 free & open textbooks for highest enrolled 1st & 2nd year post-secondary subjects in BC

$1 million201320 for skills & training

Hewlett Foundation

$525,000 USD over 3 yearsWorkshops, Grants, Faculty Fellows, Projects

The Project

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Where do they come from?

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Faculty Reviews

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Reviews > Adaptations

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Creating new textbooks

Development sprints

Sprints

2 Days17 Psych Faculty6 Institutions850 Questions

Publish Many

Write Once

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Choices for students (and for adapters)

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BC Open Textbook Repository

http://open.bccampus.ca

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K-12 Current state

WA State and K-12 Districts together spend $130M/year

on textbooks and the results are:

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• Books are (on average) 7-10 years out of date• Paper only / no digital versions.• Students can’t write / highlight in books• Students can’t keep books at end of year• All rights reserved… teachers can’t update• Parents often pay for lost paper books…

K-12 Current state

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But there are alternatives!

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CK-12 Resources

Flexbooks – Middle School Earth Science

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http://k12oercollaborative.org

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What we know is happening already in BC

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In BC College and Universities, Open Textbooks have saved students:

$1.8 million

Fall 2016 projections over $2 million

Results

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Challenges, opportunities, ideas

Who are the key stakeholders?

What are some options for moving forward?

What would the challenges be?

Where are the (relatively) easy wins?

Thank You…Questions?

@acoolidge @maryeburgess