open textbook project: a presentation for the canadian association of research librarians
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The history of the British Columbia Open Textbook Project to date.TRANSCRIPT
The British Columbia Open Textbook ProjectClint Lalonde & Leva LeeCanadian Association of Research Librarians (CARL)October 22, 2014
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Connect the expertise, programs, and resources of all BC post-secondary institutions under a collaborative service delivery framework
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Open Education & Professional Learning
Student Services & Data Exchange
Collaborative Programs & Shared Services
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1Connect the expertise, programs, and resources of all BC post-secondary institutions under a collaborative service delivery framework
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 practices
Open Education & Professional Learning
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Online Program Development Fund (OPDF)
2003-2012
$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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BC Open Textbook Project
Visual notes of John Yap announcement, Giulia Forsythe Used under CC-SA license
40 free & open textbooks for highest enrolled 1st & 2nd year post-secondary subjects in BC
First province in Canada
$1 million
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BC Open Textbook Project
40 free & open textbooks for highest enrolled 1st & 2nd year post-secondary subjects in BC2013 – 20 for skills & training
First province in Canada2013 – AB & SASK MOU
$1 million2013 - $1 million
Visual notes of John Yap announcement, Giulia Forsythe Used under CC-SA license
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What are Open Textbooks?
A textbook licensed with an open copyright license, and made available to be freely used, adapted and shared by students, teachers and members of the public.
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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.”
UNESCO
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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 othersRedistribute
Adapted (color change) from Open Education: A “Simple” Introduction by David Wiley released under CC-BY license
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We have a few problems
Image credit: Beyond Textbooks by Thomas used under CC-BY license
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We have a few problems
Students spend $1200/yr on textbooks
3x rate of inflation in 10 years
65% students have not purchased textbook for a course because of price
Source: Fixing the Broken Textbook Market U.S. PIRGCover image: Center for Public Interest Research used under CC-BY 4.0 icense
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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/
60%+ do not purchase books at some point due to 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
“My textbook is……back-ordered
…in the mail
…out of stock
…the wrong edition
…on hold until my student loan arrives
…unnecessary until I decide I want this course”
How often do students start the term without the resources they need?
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iPod DRM by *n3wjack's world in pixels used under CC-BY-SA license
eBook on eBook by DWRL at U Texas used under CC-BY-SA-NC license©
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Why are we doing this project?
To increase access to higher education by reducing student costs
To give faculty more control over their instructional resources
To move the open agenda forward in a meaningful, measurable way
Annie Lennox campaigns with Oxfam at the AIDS Conference by Oxfam used under CC-BY-NC-ND license
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The Project
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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Choice for students (and adaptors)
Old Leather books, by Wyoming_Jackrabbit used under a CC-BY-NC-SA
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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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BCOER
Agenda
• What is the BCOER?
• Mission & goals
• Spring Startup
• BCOER Hackfest
• Thinking on OER Challenges
• Connecting with the OER Community
• Future projects and more
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What is BCOER?
BCOER is a group of BC postsecondary
librarians working together to support the use
of quality Open Educational Resources
(OER).
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What is BCOER?
• Informal and grassroots group - began December 2013
• Began as a conversation with fellow librarians on how to address
adoption of open textbooks and use of quality OER
• Small group of librarians met to explore ideas
• Identified need and desire to co-develop OER guides & tools
• We are a working group of librarians from 14 BC public
postsecondary institutions
• Coordination & support provided by BCcampus
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Goals of BCOER
• Share Information & existing resources with each other
• Work collaboratively on new guides and tools to support
use of quality OER by faculty
• Focus on projects with immediate and mid-term benefits
• Advocate for longer term: ongoing professional
development for librarians
• Share out to wider librarian community & networks
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Spring Startup
Established working space & group mode of communication
• Wikispace: http://Bcoerguides.wikispaces.com
• Monthly meeting teleconference
• Discussion list: project updates and meetings
Drafted a Frame of Reference
Identified a few key, high priority projects
OER Assessment Rubric & Subject guides
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OER Assessment Rubric
http://bcoerguides.wikispaces.com/OER+Assessment+Rubric
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BCOER Hackfest
• An intense day of collaboration and work on selected
projects on May 9th, 2014
• Secured sponsorship of a working space and catering
for the event
• BCOER group identified OER projects of choice and
posted in a shared Google document
• 14 participants: BCOER & UBC Library School students
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BCOER Hackfest
On the day of the hackfest two projects and teams emerged:
• Group one: focused on testing the OER Assessment
rubric. They reviewed 40 Science OER repositories
• Group two: focused on developing an OER Poster as a
tool to engage faculty and on ideas for professional
development for librarians
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http://open.bccampus.ca/2014/10/16/a-harvest-of-good-things-from-bcoer/
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• Facilitated a thinking session on OER challenges http
://etug.ca/2014/05/08/spring-workshop-2014-keynote-and-facilita
tors-2
/
• Opportunity to do a check-in to see if we are on the right track
• Here some notes from our June session: http
://bcoerguides.wikispaces.com/ETUG+Spring+Workshop+
Session
Thinking on OER Challenges
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Connecting with the OER Community
• SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Research Coalition) http://www.sparc.arl.org/ and Librarians & OER Forum https://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/forum/#!forum/sparc-liboer (Nicole Allen)
• OER Consortium http://oerconsortium.org and OER & Libraries subcommittee and CCCOER List (Una Daly)
• Quill West, OER Project Leader, Tacoma, Washington http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com/profile/QuillWest
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Future Projects
Short term
• Create a public-facing web space to share out our work
• Continue to develop more subject discipline OER
guides
• Participate in upcoming workshops & conferences
• Engage with the larger OER community to celebrate
Open Access Week!
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More Project Ideas
• Develop more pro-d opportunities in variety of modes (e.g. f2f, webinar, podcast, self-serve resource)
• Host a Course sprint: librarians creating an OER for librarians (Topic: TBA)
• Facilitate a OER & librarians community of practice (as the need arises)
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Thank YouQuestions?
[email protected]@bccampus.ca open.bccampus.ca bcoerguides.wikispaces.com@levalee @clintlalonde @bccampus#bcoer