1. Library Strategies
For sustainable open education adoption and publishing
By Kate Pitcher, Marilyn Billings, Shane Nackerud, Cyril Oberlander
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2. Kate Pitcher
Open SUNY Textbooks
Services & initiatives
 Staffing:
 Digital Publishing Services Manager
 Digital Resources & Systems Librarian
 Publishing/Web Services Developer
 Student internships:
 Editorial assistants
 Production technicians
 Marketing and promotions
 Volunteer network:
 Copy editors
 Proof readers
 Peer review
 Instructional design + librarians + faculty
content + multimedia developer = Course
supports model

3. Measuring impact
 Download statistics
 Author adoption surveys
 Feedback and interviews with students and adopters

5. Sustainability
 SUNY OER Scale-Up
 Course Supports:
 Librarian
 Instructional Designer
 Faculty Member
 Multimedia Developer

6. Faculty Survey Results
Marilyn Billings
• My teaching needs were met by the Open Educational Resources
implemented in the course. (4.27)
• Student performance improved compared to past semesters when a
traditional textbook was used. (4.36)
• Student engagement increased compared to past semesters when a
traditional textbook was used. (4.09)
On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being the highest

7. Faculty Comments
• The students are much more satisfied with the new materials; they are more
engaged and more prepared than I have ever seen them.
• Grades have improved drastically since using [Open Educational Resources] in
my course … the support from the Libraries was outstanding.
• My students are reading more, they are much more organized, and they are
happy that they no longer need to spend so much money on materials.
• I was highly satisfied with the resources provided by the Libraries, as are my
students.
• I received excellent technical support from the Libraries.

8. Outcomes
• Intended Outcomes
• 50 faculty + over 85 classes taught = over $1 million saved for students
• Course evaluations show same quality of student satisfaction, or better
• Service points on campus are partnering for student success
• Unexpected Outcomes
• Instructors using new teaching styles and flipping their classrooms
• Increased awareness on campus and queries from instructors about OERs
• Professors report students better prepared for class and more engaged
• Created resources add to available open education resources for everyone
• Relationships between service point partners are stronger
• Student involvement and passion are stimulating change

9. Lessons Learned: What Worked
• Value of mini grants and peer review
• Meet faculty where they are – create cohorts
• Capitalize on library strengths and value of
existing services
• Leverage complementary strengths of the
partners for new initiatives

10. And What Didn’t, or “Challenges”
• Lack of knowledge by faculty
• Time consuming to find or develop OE content
• Lack of search tool or comprehensive catalog
• May lack prepared quizzes and other content
• Students may prefer print
• Time commitment from partners
• Getting beyond the “pilot” phase

11. U of M Libraries eLearning
Support Initiative
Shane Nackerud
• Provost focus on “eLearning” in Fall 2012
• Libraries response
• Student affordability – Student success
• Support and advocacy for open education
• 3 library staff dedicated to eLearning
initiative
• 1 program lead and 2 IT staff

13. Importing

14. Thanks to Hugh McGuire
and Brad Payne!!!

15. Importing Flatworld content
 Currently working on ~20 Flatworld books
 Based on hit counts in the Open Textbook Library
 Faculty need and request
 7 have recently been released
 Benefits
 Gave us experience creating open textbooks
 Taught us how to work with Pressbooks
 Seed our repository with multiple titles
 Increased trust in titles
 Give these titles new life

16. ● Provided faculty with a small grant ($500 to $1500) to explore more affordable
alternative content for their course.
● Call for proposals – Spring 2015 and Spring 2016
● Brings together all of our library eLearning efforts to date – Digital Course
Packs, reserves, open textbooks, Coordinated Service Model, content creation
● Showcase success stories to leverage future work with faculty in these areas.
● http://z.umn.edu/pfac

17. Partnership project stats
 16 grants awarded for Fall 2015 and Spring 2016
 ~9 courses are adopting/using open content
 3 adopting open textbooks
 8 are creating open content
 Including 3 new open textbooks
 Information Strategies for Communicators
 Book and chapters viewed over 30,000 times since September 1

18. Measuring Impact
 Download stats
 Including activity from OTL to textbooks
 Surveys
 Faculty and student
 Cost savings estimates
 Potential Partnership savings for Fall 2015 is over $54,000 for the 9
courses (563 students)
 Altmetrics
 Tracking usage beyond hit counts

19. Sustainability
 Dedicated staffing for eLearning/affordability programs
 Partnership for Affordable Content project will continue
 Will we get to the point where they aren’t necessary?
 Operationalize with subject librarians
 Strengthen campus partnerships
 Grant to produce and enhance more open content
 BC Campus model
 Focus on measuring student outcomes

20. Humboldt State University Sustainable Learning
thanks to CSU’s Affordable Learning Solutions Grant
Cyril Oberlander
Collaborative
• Library
• College of eLearning
• Bookstore
• 19 Faculty (call for
participation) joined a
learning community:
• Evaluating &
adopted OERs
• Student survey
• 9 authoring OERs
• Faculty evaluation
• Sharing with other
faculty

21. Humboldt State University Press
Humboldt State University Press publishes a broad scope of print and electronic publications,
including books, journals, conference proceedings, and open textbooks. The mission of
Humboldt State University Press is to publish high-quality scholarly, intellectual, and creative
works of regional interest, or that support lowering the cost of a college education, or foster the
development of a sustainable academic friendly publishing model.
The initial scope of publications is designed to showcase research, scholarship, learning
resources, and other works created or edited by HSU faculty, staff, and students. HSU Press
will expand its submission guidelines by January 2017.

22. Humboldt State University Press

23. Humboldt State University Press
http://teachingcommons.us/

24. Open Textbook Publishing Underway
Current Status
Peer Review

25. Humboldt State University Press
Author Service Model
• Peer review, copy editing, text layout, ISBN, PDF production,
hosting, & marketing
• Developing distributed selection review – adapted from the 2nd
Call for Authors, Open SUNY Textbooks.
• Refer authors to print-on-demand services if interested in
royalties.

26. Humboldt State University Press
Support Model
Staff and Librarians assisting with hours while we search for a
Scholarly Communications & Digital Scholarship Librarian
Look for the announcement soon…
Additionally… to support digitization, proof-reading, etc.
• Library Student Scholar Intern – paid internship program with
lesson plans, pre-test & post-test student learning assessment. (4
in fall, 10 in spring)
• Library Student Employees
Also, developing shared Associate Editor roles for OER publishing,
Instructional Designers from College of eLearning and Librarians will
support this service.

27. Thank you… now a few questions…
We would like to hear from you…
1. Do you have a program for adopting OERs?
2. Do you have a program for creating OERs?
3. Do you see your library moving to publishing roles?
4. Do you support Peer Review Process? Please identify
roles/methods.

28. Thank you