The document discusses open education and open educational resources (OER). It notes that OER encompass teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or are released with intellectual property licenses that allow for free use, adaptation, and distribution. Examples of OER include open textbooks, videos, course materials, lesson plans, and software. The document summarizes research finding that using OER increases access to education by reducing costs for students and that students perform equally well or better with OER as with traditional resources. It provides steps for instructors to find, review, supplement, and distribute open textbooks and resources for their courses.

1. open.bccampus.ca
Amanda Coolidge
Senior Manager, Open Education
acoolidge@bccampus.ca

2. Open Education encompasses resources, tools
and practices that are free of legal, financial
and technical barriers and can be fully used,
shared and adapted in the digital environment.
What is Open Education?
- SPARC, http://sparcopen.org/open-education/
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3. Open Education is part of an Open Ecosystem
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4. What are Open Educational Resources?
• Open textbooks
• Videos
• Course materials
• Lesson plans
• Software
• Games
• Simulations
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Adaptive tests
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5. Textbooks are expensive
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• Tuition and Fees
• Room and Board
• Books and Supplies
• Personal Expenses
• Transportation
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6. How much students in Canada say they spend on
textbooks per term
Source: Data on Textbook Costs, Higher Education Strategy Associates, 2015.
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7. Source: Data on Textbook Costs, Higher Education Strategy Associates, 2015.
How many students buy all required textbooks per term
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8. “My textbook is…
…back-ordered
…in the mail
…out of stock
…the wrong edition
…on hold until my student loan arrives
…not needed until I decide I want this course”
How often do students start the term
without the resources they need?
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9. Textbook Costs vs Student Success
Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus
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Textbook Costs vs Student Success
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64% do not purchase books at some point due to book cost
49% take fewer courses due to book cost
31% choose not to register for a course due to book cost
23% regularly go without textbooks due to book cost
27% have dropped a course due to book cost
21% have withdrawn from a course due to book cost
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10. Worry York University U.S. Colleges &
Universities
Have some sort of debt 72% 62%
Worry about paying monthly
expenses
61% 51%
Neglected studies or reduced
course load because of debts
48% 30%
Expect to be unable to repay
student debt after graduation
32% 18%
Source: Globe and Mail, November 1, 2015
How students feel about their debt
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11. Average student debt difficult to pay off, CBC, March 11, 2014
Student Debt in Canada, Canadian Federation of Students, Fall 2013
After three years of post-secondary schooling
in Nova Scotia, Verge graduated in 2008 with
about $25,000 of debt — just about the
national average. More than five years later,
she has only managed to pay back about
$2,000.
For people like Verge, high debt loads are not
only a financial stress but can delay the time it
takes individuals or couples to reach certain
milestones, such as having children, getting
married or owning property…
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12. 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 improve learning outcomes for students
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13. BC Open Textbook Project
40 free & open textbooks for highest
enrolled 1st & 2nd year post-secondary
subjects in BC
2013 – 20 for skills & training
First province in Canada
2013 – AB & SASK MOU
$1 million
2013 - $1 million
Visual notes of John Yap announcement, Giulia Forsythe Used under
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14. The Project
Don’t reinvent it by Andrea Hernandez released under CC-BY-NC-SA and based on Wheel by Pauline Mak released
under CC-BY license

15. Faculty Reviews
291/365 by thebarrowboy used under a CC-BY

16. Reviews > Adaptations
My Adventures Adapting a Chemistry Textbook291/365 by thebarrowboy used under a CC-BY

17. Faculty have full legal right to
customize & contextualize open
textbooks to fit their pedagogical
needs

18. open = free + permissions
• Make and own a copyRetain
• Use in a wide range of waysReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute

19. 11 Peer Reviewed Studies
http://openedgroup.org/

20. 48,623 Students
http://openedgroup.org/
93% Same or Better Outcomes

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Normal Market Textbook Market
• Competition in the market
forces prices down
• Consumer choice rewards
companies that compete
on price and quality
• Five major publishers
control 80% of the market,
locking out competitors
• The student- the
consumer- has no choice
in which textbook they’re
assigned

22. HOW do I adopt an Open Textbook
for my course?

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4 Easy Steps
1.Find
2.Review
3.Supplement
4.Distribute

24. Step 1: Find an Open Textbook
Start Here: http://open.bccampus.ca
Open Textbook Library: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
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25. Connect with your library, department, colleagues
and T&L Centre
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26. Step 1: Find an Open Textbook
Still not satisfied? Look at your
institutional Library’s OER guide
for more mega sites of open
textbooks.
Feeling lucky? Do an internet
search of your course with open
textbook in the search string.
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27. Read Reviews
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28. Step 3. Supplementary Resources
Consider what ancillary resources you have found most helpful to use in your course. Are
they…
• Publisher PowerPoints
• Testbank Questions
• Image banks
• Videos
• Student Exercises
Take a moment to think about the following:
• How much of that publisher content do you usually change to suit your course?
Now let’s go find Ancillary Resources.
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29. Supplementary Resources- OTB Collection
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30. Supplementary Resources- OTB Collection
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31. Advanced Google Search
https://www.google.ca/advanced_search
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32. Advanced Google Search
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33. Step 4: Distribute the textbook and supplementary
resources with students
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1. Provide the link to the textbook to your students.
OR
2. Download copies of the book and put them on another site, e.g. LMS,
Dropbox Google Documents (and share that link)
OR
3. If you have a faculty website put copies of the files on your faculty site and
send students to your website to download the copy.
OR
4. Connect with your bookstore or print to make print copies available for
your students.

34. Making ancillary resources available
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1. Provide the link to the OER to your students.
OR
2. Download copies of the OER and put them on another site, e.g. LMS,
Dropbox Google Documents (and share that link)
OR
3. If you have a faculty website put copies of the files on your faculty site and
send students to your website to download the copy.

35. How to find other OER: Repositories
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Creative Commons Search
HippoCampus
MERLOT
MIT OpenCourseWare
NCLOR: The North Carolina Learning Object Repository
NSDL: National Science Digital Library
OER Commons
Open Course Library
OpenStax
PhET
SOL*R

36. How to find other OER
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• Connect with the Library
• Get your students to find open resources, have them do a content review and
post to your course website or LMS.
• Ask your colleagues what they currently use

37. Looking ahead…
1.Ancillary Materials Development
2.OER Resource Grant
3.Adoption Workshops