workshop on open textbooks by Michiel de Jong, Jacqueline Michielen-van de Riet and Sylvia Moes for workgroup B-OOO

1. Workshop
Open
tekstboeken Sylvia Moes (VU)
Jacqueline Michielen-van de Riet
&
Michiel de Jong
18 Oktober 2021

2. Programma van
vandaag
9:00-10:00 webinar
• Introduction Open tekxtbooks (Michiel)
• Didactics and integration in Learning Desgin(Sylvia)
• Open textbooks VU & TU Delft (Sylvia, Michiel)
• Publication process (Jacqueline)
• Summary and questions
10:00 – 11:00 workshop
How do you set up an service for open textbooks?

3. Introduction Open
tekstboeken
Michiel

4. Introduction
Open textbooks are part of a broader Open Education movement
• Education more affordable and accessible to students
• More free exchange of knowledge among experts
• Teaching materials easier to adapt to classes
• Engaging students through interesting learning assignments

5. International context
Movement mainly originated in U.S. and
Canada
• Textbooks far too expensive
• Large income gap between students
In the Netherlands this problem seems to be
less of a problem
• Problem mainly visible in purchase of
educational collections
• Teacher and student have less visibility
Source https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-new-era-of-the-400-college-textbook-which-is-part-of-the-unsustainable-higher-education-bubble/

6. Textbooks in the Netherlands
What problems with educational literature do
we observe?
• Limited and delayed delivery of textbooks
• Very limited possibilities for use
Difficult coordination with education
• Poor agreements between authors and
publishers
Analysis of an Open Textbook Adoption in an American History Course: Impact on Student Academic Outcomes and Behaviors
Penny Beile, Aimee deNoyelles, and John Raible, College & Research Libraries (C&RL), Volume 81, no.4 (2020)
Source https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/24437/32279

7. Open textsbooks in the Netherlands
What opportunities do open textbooks offer?
• Teachers can publish their own teaching materials -> recognition
• Teaching literature better matches lesson design
• Students can access course materials at any time
• Institution can showcase its areas of expertise
• Your own open textbook offers instructors new teaching activities

8. Developments
within the
Netherlands
2017: Make it accessible: Haagse
Hogeschool
2018: TU Delft Open Textbooks
2017: VU: Start project with 4 other HE
institutions for textbook on ecotoxicology
2021: Open textbooks Rijksuniversiteit
Groningen

9. Didactical design and
possibilities of Open textbooks
Sylvia Moes

10. Co-creation between teachers and students
Creation of open textbooks, (School of Trades
& Technologies - Medicine Hat College)
• Why. Updated information, in students'
language
• Plus creation of videos by students
(explanations of topics and detailed
walkthroughs on how they would solve a
problem)
https://bccampus.ca/2021/01/18/co-creating-oer-with-students-in-the-trades/

11. Blooms Taxonomy
https://www.versnellingsplan.nl/Kennisbank/tool-kies-wijzer-digitaal-leermateriaal/

12. Interactie met content -
samenwerken & peer feedback

13. Integration in
educatiton
• What are the learning objectives of the subject?
• What role does the open textbook play in this? How does it contribute to the learning
objectives?
• What learning activities fit this?
• Lower order learning goals or higher? (See Bloom's taxonomy)
• Should the book be interactive? (video, quizes, animations, etc.
• What does this require of the platform used to create the book?
• Who is/are the author(s)
• Teachers?
• Teachers and students?
• Access to the book?
• Will students have access to the book as a whole/or will it be accessed modularly?
• Should it be integrated into the learning environment?
• What are the output formats needed?
• Tip: students read text more easily from paper than a screen. Always have a
downloadable PDF available

14. De open tekstboek diensten
van VU en TU Delft
Sylvia en Michiel

15. VU Open Texstbooks
• 2017: Start of incentive regulation project Ecotoxicology
• publication of 1st textbook 2019
• Since 2020 - 28 open textbooks (unique titles)
• Wikiwijsmaken
• Pro:
• Low-threshold to use (many teachers no HTML knowledge)
• Multiple authors, cross-institution
• Interactive, 9 different forms of "test yourself quizzes"
• Modularity & Reuse.
• Easy to manage, multiple output formats
• Downside:
• Book can be written in English, buttons are NL-language (so far no barrier in use for students)

16. TU Delft open Textbooks
Founded 2018:
• Open Textbook Workshop in a Day
• First book published in August 2018
• 14 unique titles (September 2021)
• Working with Pressbooks, MS Word and
Latex. First pilots with Jupyter Books.
• Part of Open education & Open
Publishing within the TUD OS program

17. Publicationproces
Jacqueline

18. Process flow of open textbooks
https://www.versnellingsplan.nl/en/Kennisbank/open-text-book/
See now the guidlines for creation and publishing
open textbooks, left graph was input for this
guidline, available in English

19. Cover in Indesign

20. Cover
"Mechanics and Relativity" by Timon Idema is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, used with
permission.

21. Open Textbooks
Platform
"Mechanics and Relativity" by Timon Idema is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0,
used with permission.

22. https://textbooks.open.tudelft.nl/textbooks

23. Summary and questions
Michiel

24. Summary and quesions
Open textbooks offer many advantages for instructor, student and institution
Setting up an open textbook service can be done in various ways: examples from TU Delft and VU.
Approach and support partly dependent on identity of institution: biggest difference between VU
and TU Delft.
10:00-11:00 workshop: How do set up an open textbook service?

25. Workshop
• 11:00 a.m.: division into teams
• 11.05 a.m.: brainstorming on the questions and filling in the sheet - opportunity to ask questions
• 11.30 a.m.: feedback on results - 5 minutes per team
• 11.50 a.m.: conclusion - evaluation workshop

26. Sheet (URL in de chat)

27. Aanvullende
vragen:
• Do dynamic subjects
• Does the content change rapidly?
• Is there a niche?
• Do many open textbooks already exist in this field?
• What do you know from the measurements of UvO, is
it cheaper (in the long run) to make a textbook
yourself, instead of remittance?
• Is collaboration between other institutions possible?