introducing open: what, why and how
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Introducing Open: What, Why, and How
Illinois Wesleyan UniversityNovember 29, 2016
Course Reserves
Course Reserves• Students looking for textbooks• Faculty meeting that need• The library cultivating relationships
with faculty and students through reserves
• Long lines• Too few copies • Too many copies for the library’s
space• Desk ”traffic patterns”
Operationally, we “fixed” the problem.
Policies
Processes
Communications
Facilities
Feedback
“There’s an open education conference in Vancouver, BC. You should go.”
“There’s an open education conference in Vancouver, BC. You should go.”
“There’s an open education conference in Vancouver, BC. You should go.”
Defining Open Educational Resources
Hewlett Foundation Definition:
“OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or are released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others”
That’s where I met Dave Ernst.
Open Content
OER
Open Textbooks
Why textbooks?
#textbookbroke
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$1,400US Debt
Consumer Revolving Credit Student Loan Debt
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Federal Reserve http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g19/Current/
The average borrower owes more than
$28,950
in student loans (class of 2014).
Institute for College Access and Success http://projectonstudentdebt.org/files/pub/Student_Debt_and_the_Class_of_2012_NR.pdfhttp://ticas.org/posd/map-state-data-2015
Illinois Wesleyan = $32,101
Cost of Attendance• Tuition and Fees
• Room and Board
• Books and Supplies
• Personal Expenses
• Transportation
Cost of Attendance• Tuition and Fees
• Room and Board
• Books and Supplies
• Personal Expenses
• Transportation
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Textbooks CPI
Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/cpi/
The average student budgets
$1,249 - $1,364on textbooks and course materials in 2015-16.
http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-estimated-undergraduate-budgets-2015-16
Coping with the Cost
• Purchase an older edition of the textbook
• Delay purchasing the textbook• Never purchase the textbook• Share a textbook• Pirate a textbook
“I figured French hadn’t changed that much.”- UMN student
2012 2016
63.6% 66.5% Not purchase the required textbook
49.2% 47.6% Take fewer courses
45.1% 45.5% Not register for a specific course
33.9% 37.6% Earn a poor grade
26.7% 26.1% Drop a course
17.0% 19.8% 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
Our focus:
Open Textbooks
Why Open?• Facilitates the free exchange of information.• Allows higher education to take ownership of
its content.• Empowers faculty• Sharing is scalable.
Open = permissions free
• Copy• Mix• Share• Keep• Edit• Use
The 5Rs: 1. Retain2. Reuse3. Revise4. Remix5. Redistribute
Also known as…
How?
Strategies
Adopt
Create
Edit
Pedagogy
Strategies
Adopt
Create
Edit
Pedagogy
They don’t know much about them.
They’re busy:• Prepping for their courses• Responding to students• Grading• Mentoring• Research• Grant writing• Committee Work• The list goes on…
http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthecurriculum2014.pdf
Barriers to Faculty Adoption• Faculty don’t know where to find open textbooks• 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 are skeptical of the quality of open textbooks• Faculty have limited time to engage in reviewing open
textbooks
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Open Textbook Reviews
Ratings
Revi
ews
• 335 books• 615 reviews by faculty at OTN schools• 1 million (!) visits from every country in the
world (except North Korea)• Books produced at Rice University, SUNY,
University of Texas at Austin, NOBA, University of Minnesota, Portland State, Grand Valley State, …
335 Total Books*
8 Accounting & Finance 48 Business, Management & Marketing 34 Computer Science & Information Systems 14 Economics 6 Engineering 8 Foreign Languages 21 General Education 59 Humanities & Language 42 Law 60 Mathematics & Statistics 54 Natural & Physical Sciences 21 Social Sciences
*November 2, 2016
Best PracticesWorkflowsDecision making guidelinesDocumentationCommunity of Practice
Strategies
Adopt
Create
Edit
Pedagogy
Strategies
Adopt
Create
Edit
Pedagogy
OTN Publishing Initiative• Completing a pilot with University of Arizona, University
of Washington, UMASS Amherst and Cleveland State University.
• Providing access to: – Publishing platform– Support for project development and services– Standardized training– Documentation, best practices, guidelines
Strategies
Adopt
Create
Edit
Pedagogy
What will you do?- Join the OTN!- Open Textbook Library: email / meetings / + - Partnership with student government.- Online guides (instructors, students).- OT listserv/learning community.- Webinars/workshops (e.g. using and adapting).- Adopter profiles (articles, videos). - Mini-grants to encourage adoption- What else?
