open textbooks - presentation to vancouver school board
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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• Books are (on average) 7-10 years out of date• Paper only / no digital versions.• Students can’t write / highlight in books• Students can’t keep books at end of year• All rights reserved… teachers can’t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