The document outlines an agenda for a webinar on open educational resources (OER) and open textbooks, including introductions from representatives from the California State University system, Florida Virtual Campus, and BCcampus, who will discuss their respective open education initiatives and projects focused on adoption and sustainability of OER.
1. OER and Open Textbook
Adoption & Sustainability
Gerry Hanley, California State University
Robin Donaldson, Florida Virtual Campus
Clint Lalonde, BCcampus
October 30, 2013
12:00 pm Pacific, 3:00 pm Eastern
3. Welcome
Please introduce yourself in the chat
window.
Gerry Hanley, CSU
Clint Lalonde, BCcampus
Robin Donaldson, FLVC
Moderator: Una Daly
Community College Outreach Director
OpenCourseWare Consortium
4. Agenda
• CCCOER introduction
• OER Adoption & Sustainability
• CSU Open and Affordable Learning
Solutions
• Florida’s Open Education Initiatives
• British Columbia Open Textbook Project
• Q&A
5. CCCOER
• Promote adoption of OER to enhance
teaching and learning
– Expanding access to education
– Supporting professional development
– Advancing the community college
mission
Funded by the William & Flora
Hewlett Foundation
8. Open & Affordable Learning
Solutions
Gerry Hanley, PhD
Senior Director of Academic Technology
California State University Chancellor’s Office
Executive Director, MERLOT
9. Open and Affordable
Learning Solutions
Gerry Hanley, Ph.D.
California State University Office of the Chancellor
Academic Technology Services and MERLOT
Open Courseware Consortium Webinar
October 30, 2013
10. California State University -CSU
• 23 campuses; 427,000
students; about 80%
undergraduate
• During the 2011-2012
college year, the CSU
conferred almost 100,000
degrees.
• 1/3 of our students get
enough financial aid to cover
the cost of tuition and
books/supplies
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11. The CSU: Our Dreadful Situation
• 30% cut of our state funding over 3 years
• Tuition Fees more than doubled over 3 years
• Our Mission: Provide access to an excellent
education
• High priority: Reduce the cost of education for
our students because affordability is a significant
barrier to access
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13. AL$ Initiative Strategy
Enabling
Ecosystems
with policies,
leadership, business
Developing
models
Demand
with communications,
training, professional
development
Creating Capabilities
with convenient & affordable access to
content (CSU Digital Marketplace)
Leveraging Content Providers
Publishers--Libraries-- Academic Authors-Open Education Resources (CSU-MERLOT)
14. Leveraging Content Providers:
Organizing No & Low Cost Textbook Alternatives
1. Open Educational Resources: Find over 1,000,000 FREE online
instructional materials, including over 2,500 FREE online
textbooks
2. CSU Library Resources: CSU’s digital library collections provide
students FREE access to about 1 billion resources
3. Faculty Customized and Authored Materials: Free and
commercial tools and services to create alternatives
4. Lower Cost Publisher Content in both digital and
print formats.
36. Choice: Faculty have a wide choice of publishers and
students can choose a digital rental or not
Price: 60% off new print textbook prices and publishers
choose the titles they will offer
Marketing: CSU and vendors collaborating to raise
awareness, comfort, and competencies in using digital
textbooks
Accessibility: Vendors will provide the CSU a roadmap
for improving the accessibility of their eReaders
38. Developing Demand: I Want My AL$
• “If you build it, they will come”…Assumes
people know how to “play ball”
• Professional development and training
– Create the human capabilities to use OER and
digital media with confidence and success
• Recognize exemplary people and practices
– Be part of a campus priority
– Add to a tenure/promotion portfolio
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39. CSU STUDENTS SAVED $$$$!
• 2012-2013 ROLLOUT OF RENT DIGITAL:
– More than $3.5 million saved by students
• NATURE INTRO TO BIOLOGY FOR MAJORS:
– $570,000 saved with Nature Born Digital program
– 3,087 students used the $39 ebook instead of the
previously used $220 text
• SAGE CRIMINAL JUSTICE:
– Over $30,000 saved on a few early-adopting campuses for
fall 2013 adoptions up for spring 2014
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41. Enabling Ecosystems:
MD= Market Driver and CD=Compliance Driver
• Affordability - Access to higher ed dependent on “Total
Cost of Education“ (MD)
• Improve Graduation Rates – student retention and
learning outcomes dependent upon affordability (CD
• Higher Education Opportunity Act – Cost transparency
that requires changes in campus business practices (CD)
• Section 508 of Rehabilitation Act – timely delivery of
accessible content to students with disabilities (CD)
• Consumer demands for online education, digital services
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& products (MD)
42. What’s Next In California?
• Senate Bill 1052 & 1053 – State $ + External $
• CA Academic Senates choose 50 lower division
courses and recommend OER
• Promote strategies for adoption through California
Open Source Digital Library
• Consult with Associated Students on format,
accessibility, and usability;
• Write a progress report within six months and a
final report January 1, 2016.
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44. Florida’s Open Education Initiatives
Robin Donaldson, PhD
Assistant Director
Instructional Resources & Support
Distance Learning & Student Services
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Promoting and Supporting OER and Open
Textbooks in Florida
Robin Donaldson
Presented at: CCCOER
Finding, Adopting, and Sustaining Open Textbook Projects
October 30, 2013
46. The Orange Grove
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Promoting open and affordable learning materials through The
Orange Grove repository and Open Access Textbook project.
2004 – Present
Online digital repository of teaching learning, and
administrative resources
Faculty and staff members may contribute and use resources,
including open textbooks, based on specified permissions
Institution collections and open collections
Federate and harvest providers of open textbooks and OER
47. Legislation
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1004.085 Textbook affordability
Institution policies address the extent to which an open-access
textbook may be used
Instructors and academic departments encouraged to develop,
adapt, and review open-access textbooks
1006.73 Florida Virtual Campus
Promote and provide recommendations on use and distribution of
open-access textbooks and education resources
Work with institutions in developing a standardized process for the
review and approval of open-access textbooks
48. 2012-2013: Open Textbook Project
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3-Year Initiative
2012 Promise of Open Access Textbooks: A Model for Success
(Revised Edition).
Student textbook, digital resources, and OER survey report
Faculty and administrator OER survey report
Combining Openly Licensed Resources-A Primer
A copyright tool for combining openly licensed textbook and resources
Combining Openly Licensed Resources (video)
OER License Generator
50. Faculty Survey Results
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Rewards and Recognition:
Learning Objects and Modules:
Few institutions or departments consider authoring OER in promotion and tenure
decisions.
Use patterns suggest that breaking OER into small units may increase their usefulness
Familiarity and Usage:
Only 6% of those surveyed reported having used all or a part of an open textbook.
Almost three-quarters had heard of open textbooks and 80% open courseware.
Quality and Currency:
The most important factors in evaluating textbooks are how well they address course
objectives, accuracy, currency, and consistency.
51. TOG and University Press of Florida Partnership
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2009-2012 –Open Access Textbook grant partner
Develop, market and inform on open textbooks
Official publisher of Florida’s postsecondary system
New Orange Grove Texts open textbooks
Timothy Lentz, American Government 978-1-61610-163-3 (UF)
Jeffrey Buller, Distinction Through Discovery: A Research Oriented
Frist-year Experience 978-1-61610-164-0 . (FAU)
J. Firk, Essential Physics Part 1 - updated PDF
Forthcoming – Theatrical Worlds (Beta version, Spring 2014)
52. Continued Support and Promotion
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Social networks for promotion and awareness
Collaboration with OER organizations
Broward – Creating MOOCs
Use TOG to distribute MOOC content
Ten FSCJ courses developed
No commercial textbooks or, alternatively, use OER textbooks and
resources
Taskforce on Postsecondary Online Education in Florida Recommendations to
be submitted to legislature will include OER
55. The British Columbia
Open Textbook Project
Clint Lalonde
Manager, Curriculum Services & Applied Research
CCCOER Oct 30, 2013
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56. “Connect the expertise, programs, and
resources of all BC post-secondary
institutions under a collaborative service
delivery framework”
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Curriculum Services & Applied Research
Collaborative Programs & Shared Services
Student Services & Data Exchange
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57. “Connect the expertise, programs, and
resources of all BC post-secondary
institutions under a collaborative service
delivery framework”
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Curriculum Services & Applied Research
Support & promote the development & use of Open Educational Resources
Support instructors who want to use technology in their teaching practice
OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License
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58. Online Program Development Fund (OPDF)
2003-2012
$9 million invested
153 grants awarded
100% participation across system
83% partnerships
47 credentials developed in whole or part via OPDF
355 courses, 12 workshops, 19 web sites/tools and 396
course components (learning objects, labs, textbooks,
manuals, videos)
100% open license for free & open sharing & reuse by all
BC post-secondary
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60. 40 free and open textbooks
available for the highest
enrolled 1st & 2nd year postsecondary subjects in BC
First province in Canada
Visual notes of John Yap announcement, Giulia Forsythe http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8094691691/
Used under Creative Commons attribution share-alike license
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61. We have a problem (2, actually)
Images: http://www.openeducation.net/2009/09/17/beyond-textbooks-andy-chlup-discusses-digital-learning-models/ used under CC-BY license
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62. Students spend $1200/yr on textbooks
4x rate of inflation over past 20 years
70% students have not purchased textbook for a
course because of price
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64. There is a direct relationship between textbook
costs and student success
60%+ do not purchase textbooks at
some point due to cost
35% take fewer courses due to
textbook cost
31% choose not to register for a
course due to textbook cost
23% regularly go without textbooks
due to cost
14% have dropped a course due
to textbook cost
10% have withdrawn from a course
due to textbook cost
Source: 2012 student survey by Florida
Virtual Campus
Slide: CC-BY Cable Green, Creative
Commons via http://www.projectkaleidoscope.org/
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66. What are OER?
“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
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educationalresources/what-are-open-educational-resources-oers/
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67. 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
Images from Oxfam.org CC-BY and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/World_Open_Educational_Resources_Congress_2012
/How_Open_Access_and_Open_Science_can_mutually_fertilize_with_Open_Educational_Resources CC-BY
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Phase One: Launch (March -August 2013)
Example of BC reviews of
Collaborative Stats book
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Phase One: Launch (March -August 2013)
Early Adopter: Dr. Takashi Sato Physics KPU
Students: 60
Previous Textbook: $187
OpenStax Textbook: $0
Student savings: $11,200
College Physics textbook cover image by OpenStax College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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Phase One: Launch (March -August 2013)
Early Adopter: Dr. Takashi Sato Physics KPU
Students: 60
Previous Textbook: $187
OpenStax Textbook: $0
Student savings: $11,200
1 class 1 institution 1 term
College Physics textbook cover image by OpenStax College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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Phase Two: Adapt (Sept 2013-Sept 2014 underway)
Adaptation Call for Proposal – 2 types: Existing & New
More textbooks (13 new)
More reviews
More outreach: Libraries & Bookstores
Technology (PoD, PressBooks, Connexions)
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Phase Two: Adapt (Sept 2013-Sept 2014 underway)
Type 1: New
Suggest a textbook & modifications for a subject area
we have not found existing textbooks.
Anthropology
Applied Science
Commerce
Criminology
Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Geography
History
Kinetics/Kinesiology
Political Science
Visual Arts, Media & Design
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Phase Two: Adapt (Sept 2013-Sept 2014 underway)
Type 2: Existing
Introduction to Psychology
The faculty who reviewed this text felt that it needed to be adapted to reflect a Canadian context, that it
required the addition of a chapter on stress, health, and coping, and an overview of all the major
psychological perspectives in the first chapter of the text. The BC Open Textbook project will fund a
subject matter expert $7500 to complete this work. Technical support and editing services will be
provided.
Introduction to Sociology
This book received a good overall rating, however the faculty who reviewed it felt that it required
adaptation to reflect a Canadian context and the insertion of content about Feminist Theory. The BC
Open Textbook project will fund a subject matter expert $7500 to complete this work. Technical support
and editing services will be provided.
Introduction to Chemistry
Reviewers of this text found it was missing content about Kinetic-Molecular Theory and
Thermodynamics. In addition it is lacking a glossary. The BC Open Textbook project will fund a subject
matter expert $5000 to add the additional content and create a glossary.
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Phase Three: Create (January 2014-Sept 2014)
Produce as few textbooks as possible from scratch
Create 1 exemplar e-textbook
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82. Next Webinar
Nov 13, 12:00 pm (Pacific)
Fostering Open Policy On
Campus & Beyond
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83. Thank you for attending!
Please type your question in the chat window or
click on the talk button.
Contact Information
Una Daly unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org
Gerry Hanley ghanley@calstate.edu
Robin Donaldson RDonaldson@flvc.org
Clint Lalonde clalonde@bccampus.ca
Editor's Notes
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Robin Donaldson, Assistant Director, Instructional Resources & Support, Distance Learning & Student Services, Florida Virtual Campus will share the Florida’s efforts to promote open and affordable learning materials through their Orange Grove repository and Open Access Textbook project.
The Orange Groveis supported by the Florida Distance Learning Consortium (FDLC). The FDLC is a legislatively funded entity that supports all public post secondary institutions in Florida in their delivery of technology mediated learning. The Orange Groveis an online digital repository of instructional resources.Florida Institutions may choose to have their own collections to store and share resources.Faculty and staff members may choose to add, link to or download resources for, including textbooks, based on specified permissions. The repository also federates and harvests resources from other OER provides in order broaden the availability of resources that can be easily access through either the repository or through integration with their Learning Management System such as Blackboard.
http://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2013/1004.085Florida has legislation which mandates FLVC promote and support faculty in finding and using open textbooks and OER. In addition, we have created a draft of a process for the review of open access textbooks. Institutions and faculty use and consideration of open textbooks is also addressed in legislation. 1004.085 Textbook affordability(d) That the establishment of policies address the consideration of the extent to which an open-access textbook may be used.(e) That course instructors and academic departments are encouraged to participate in the development, adaptation, and review of open-access textbooks and, in particular, open-access textbooks for high-demand general education courses 1006.73 Florida Virtual Campus(f) Promote and provide recommendations concerning the use and distribution of open-access textbooks and education resources as a method for reducing costs and work with public postsecondary education institutions in developing a standardized process for the review and approval of open-access textbooks.
We have received FIPSE grants in the past with the most resent one being the the Open Access Textbooks Grant Project. During the execution of the grant, we worked with other organizations involved in open content in order to This model can be found on our website, openaceesstextbooks.orgThis three-year initiative was funded by a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). The project built on efforts in Florida and across the U.S. to create a sustainable open textbook model and a collaborative community to support the efforts of Florida and other states to discover, produce, and disseminate open textbooks. An updated edition of the model, student and faculty surveys, as well as a licensing primer, were completed during the 2012/2013 academic year as part of this project. The licensing primer includes both a video and license generator to assist faculty in combining openly licensed textbooks and resources.Student Digital Instructional Materials and OER SurveyOER use and perceptions, assess amount spent on textbooks, affect of cost, formats preference, digital reader functions students find important, number of textbooks that are not used, perceptions of the availability of textbooks in their institutions’ libraries, and identify study aids students perceive to be the most beneficial to their learning…Faculty and Staff OER Survey Assess perceptions of textbook quality, awareness of OER, open textbooks, open courseware, and respondents’ experience with OER.These surveys were previously conducted in 2010 and 2012. Surveys are open to any interested institutions. Results available at The Orange Grove , Florida’s repository, and Open Access Textbooks.
Key Finding 1: Students are generally unaware of open textbooks and their potential for use as supplementary text or for saving them money
Very few of respondents indicated creating open textbooks (7%), open courseware (6%), and OER (8%) would be considered as a criterion for promotion and tenure. This could potentially leave a deficiency of incentives for authoring. Incentives for authors are important because faculty have very busy schedules and have to concentrate on their careers to succeed. Use patterns suggest that breaking OER into small units may increase their usefulness. A much larger percentage of respondents reported using portions rather than entire open textbooks (22% vs. 8%, respectively) and open courseware (28% vs. 7% respectively).
During the time of the grant, UPF developed a range of openly licensed textbooks within the repository. The UPF, grant staff, and CCCOER worked in conjunction to provide numerous webinars and presentations to inform faculty about open textbooks and authoring opportunities.Textbooks in which UPF provided editorial services include:Bona & Shabanov, Concepts in Calculus IBona & Shabanov, Concepts in Calculus IIShabanov, Advanced Concepts in CalculusDavid Chalmers, "Further Notes on "Hooded America: the Ku Klux Klan in the USA"Lenz, American GovernmentBuller, Distinction Through Discovery: A First year Research ExperienceBlake, Land Into Water; Water Into Land: A History of Water Management in FloridaEvans & Wright-Austin, Diaries of a Prolific professor: Undergraduate Research from the James Haskins Manuscript CollectionBrogan, Wort Hunter's Identification Guideforthcoming: Mitchell: theatrical Worlds ( due Beta version, spring 2014)
Our efforts in promoting and supporting open textbooks and OER haven’t ended with the grant. We will continue to work with our institutions on identifying how we can assist them in their efforts to develop, tag and disseminate OER resources that are aligned to the Florida Common Core Numbering system. FSCJ - College President's goal is to have 10 courses developed that do not require the use of commercial textbooks or, alternatively, use OER textbooks and resources. Development will begin in the Spring.Broward – Creating a number of MOOCs and courses using all OER resources. Broward’s plans include using TOG to distribute MOOC content.Taskforce on Postsecondary Online Education in Florida Report final will be published in November and recommendations will outlined for both commercial eTextbooks and OER. Draft - Primary recommendation is that OER development and support, as well as OER repository needs to be funded by the state. In addition, some kind of framework needs to be put in place at the state level for institutions to use in the evaluation of Learning Objects and eTextbooks in general. This recognizes that there is a place for both OER and commercial resources. [Do not cover in presentation unless questions are asBroward College is offering “College Foundations: Reading, Writing, Math” — Florida’s first free, open online course in basic reading, writing and math.The self-paced, college-level course is open to anyone, anywhere and provide learners with the fundamental skills needed to begin college, or prepare for college placement tests such as the Postsecondary Education Readiness Test (PERT) — Florida’s placement test for colleges and universities. The course also offers lifelong learners an opportunity to improve their basic reading, writing and mathematics skills.The Broward College MOOCs are competency-based, allowing students time to focus on areas in which they need the most instruction. To promote engagement and learning, courses include rich multimedia elements, including videos, demonstrations and interactive self-help quizzes. Additionally, Broward College faculty members are available to advise or tutor any student requesting assistance. Although no college credit is granted, a certificate will be awarded upon completion.