CALMing the High Cost of Educational Resources: How CSUSM is Creating Alternatives to Expensive Textbooks

How
CSUSM
is
crea/ng
alterna/ves
to
expensive
textbooks.

CALMING
THE
HIGH
COST
OF

EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES:

• Total
enrollment:
10,364.
Undergraduate
students:

9,929;
graduate
students:
435.

• A
diverse
popula/on
of
students.
Our
ethnicity:
0.3

percent
Na/ve
American/American
Indian,
3.0
percent

African
American,
8.4
percent
Asian/Paciﬁc
Islander,

35.8
percent
Hispanic,
36.5
percent
Caucasian,
5.7

percent
Two
or
more
races
and
2.7
percent
Non-‐
Resident.

CSUSM
BY
THE
NUMBERS

• 67
percent
of
our
students
receive

ﬁnancial
assistance.

• 39
percent
of
our
student

popula/on
is
male
and
61
percent
is

female.

• 28
percent
are
the
ﬁrst
members
of

their
families
to
seek
a
college

degree.

• Oﬃcially
designated
as
a
Hispanic

Serving
Ins/tu/on
(HSI)
and
Asian

American
Na/ve
American
Paciﬁc

Islander
Serving
Ins/tu/on

(AANAPSI)

•  ACE
Scholars
–
working
with
former
foster

youth.

•  AB
540
Students
–
the
DREAM
Act.

•  Native
Advisory
Council
and
CSUSM
Tribal

Initiative:
relationships
with
more
than
25
tribal

communities
across
San
Diego,
Riverside,
and

San
Bernardino
Counties.

UNDERSERVED
POPULATIONS

•  Conﬂicting
experiences
of
librarian
faculty
when

talking
with
others
about
Open
Access/Open

Education
Resources.

•  Survey:
determine
existing
faculty
awareness
of

library
services
and
to
assess
the
willingness
of

the
community
to
support
free
online
scholarly

materials.

Campus
survey
of
faculty

STILL
SOME
RESISTANCE…

Cougars
Affordable
Learning
Materials

CALM – Affordable Learning $olutions
2/21/2014 Instructional Development Services - CSUSM 14
•  Started in Spring 2013
•  Our Team
•  Sponsor - Bill Ward, Associate Dean, IITS
•  Natalie Wilson, Faculty Fellow
•  3 Instructional Designers: Susan, Barbara, Cherie
•  Summer 2013
•  Researched other CSUs efforts
•  Developed branding –logo, posters
•  Built website – lots of resources
•  Developed a communications plan
•  Pilot -CALMed Natalie’s courses

CALM – Communications & Kickoff
•  Fall 2013
•  Bill Ward met with Deans and Department Chairs
•  Sept/October –Developers introduce CALM & Faculty call at
department meetings
•  Customized presentations -examples of OER/library sources
•  Increased awareness and comfort level
•  Started a conversation amongst the faculty
•  Left flyers and emailed to lecturers
•  Two informational meetings before led by Natalie, FF
•  Personal contact
•  Proposed resolution to Academic Senate
•  Student Posters

DEPARTMENT
PRESENTATION
Resources and Examples

CALM down your textbook costs!
Why
•  4x the rate of inflation = increase in textbook prices
•  $1,655 = what CSUSM students will spend this year for
books and supplies.
•  $1,342 = The average annual Cal Grant B student award
for textbooks and living expenses.
•  $20,200 = The average student debt for students
graduating from a 4 year public university in 2010.
What You Can Do
•  10 simple ideas

CALMed course example – WMST 303
WMST 303: Education, Race and
Gender, Dr. Natalie Wilson
•  Reconstructing Gender $90.26
•  Troubling Education $49.95
•  Teaching to Transgress $21.36
•  Total: $161.50
CALMED course
•  Breaking Bad Habits of Race and
Gender 24.95
•  Pearson Custom Book 24.65
•  OER videos, websites, and
organizational publications (eg
FMF’s report on gender equity and
education)
•  Library Materials including Course
Reserves, journal articles, and
Media Library Holdings
•  Total: $49.60
Savings: $111.90 (x40 students =
$4,467)

SOURCES
Resources and Examples
Sociology

CSU AL$ Search Engine

OER
Commons,
Physics
Open College
Textbooks,
Chemistry
Open Textbooks

More Options

More Options
Search Results

More Options

Custom Publishing
New! Select or share course packs in the Co-Op

Simulations & Games
Penn State –
Animations for Physics
and Astronomy
U of Colorado, Boulder

CALL FOR
PARTICIPATION

Call for Proposals
•  Up to 20 professional development awards to faculty who
can reduce instructional material costs to students, using
•  Lower cost bookstore rentals, used and ebooks (CSU Rent Digital)
•  Custom publishing
•  OER
•  Library materials,
•  Create your own, etc.
•  Funded by a $25,000 grant from the Chancellor’s office
•  Program is completely voluntary
•  CALM website

Call for Proposals
Level 1 award- $1000
•  Proposal saves money for
average number of
students (>50 – 100/yr)
•  Project saves > %50 of
current textbook cost.
•  Project uses a
combination of OER,
library, custom publishers
or original materials.
Level 2 award - $1500
•  Project consists of all or
almost all original, Open
Education Resources or
library materials.
and/or
•  Project is scalable,
creates course material
for a G.E. or high
enrollment course (>100/
year)

The Award
•  $1000 -$1500 professional development funds
•  Goal - fund up to 20 faculty proposals
•  Participants must submit a final report detailing actual savings
to students.
•  Solutions must meet copyright and accessibility guidelines
Selection criteria
•  Quality of application
•  Potential savings
•  Authored materials and Creative Commons licensing encouraged
Application & Details – http://www.csusm.edu/ids/calm

Proposal Details
•  Submit proposal to CALM@csusm.edu
•  Deadline to submit proposal – October 25, 2013
•  Award winners will be notified by November 1, 2013
•  Implemented by Fall 2014
•  Contents of Proposal:
•  Current cost of instructional materials
•  How you plan to reduce current costs
•  Approximate # of students affected and estimated savings per
student.
•  Teams encouraged to apply

Results from 2013 Call
•  22 proposals submitted – 28 courses - 3 teams
•  20 funded
•  9 courses implemented by this semester
•  55K savings first semester
•  Estimated total savings – 1st semester 300K

NEXT STEPS

Next Steps
•  2nd Call for proposals – March 2014
•  CALM Newsletter – February
•  Academic Senate Resolution – March vote (today)
•  Student Outreach
•  Collaborate with ASI – student events
•  Student Survey – cost of texts and impacts - March
•  Website – faculty showcase
•  Faculty presentations
•  CSU Symposium March 8th
•  CSUSM Teaching & Learning Expo – Spring
•  Faculty Recognition from Provost

•  Continue
education
and
outreach

for
faculty
members.

•  Track
money
saved
/
amount
of
use

of
campus
created
content.

•  Put
campus
created
scholarship
into

ScholarWorks.

•  Link
OER
in
library
catalog,
when

possible.

NEXT
STEPS
…

•  Open
Education
Resources:
The
New
Paradigm

in
Academic
Libraries
forthcoming
from
the

Journal
of
Library
Innovation.

– Melanie
Chu,
Outreach
Librarian,
co-‐author

•  Follow
up
in
2-‐3
years:
survey
faculty
again
to

see
if
there
has
been
a
shift.

•  Carmen
Mitchell,
Institutional

Repository
Librarian,

cmitchell@csusm.edu

•  Barbara
Taylor,
Instructional

Developer,
Academic
Technology

Services,
btaylor@csusm.edu

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