Iskme Sloan Consortium Symposium 2010

1. Latest Trends in Open Textbook Research
Panel Discussion
Sloan Consortium Symposium, July 21, 2010
Clare Middleton-Detzner, Institute for the Study of
Knowledge Management in Education ISKME:

2. Challenges to Open Textbook Use
Effort
required for
alignment to
accessibility
standards
Lack of professional
Faculty Open textbook development and
misunderstandings technology in
adoption
about quality of schools to support
OER materials
and use OER use
Lack of
knowledge on
impact of OER
on teaching &
learning

3. Benefits of Open Textbook Use
Adaptability, interactivity, and consistency of open
textbooks support curriculum development
I didn’t know or think about this before I adopted the book...
I’ve changed around the book so it’s in the order I like. I’ve
added material to it. I like making it fit to the way I want to
teach the course.

4. Benefits of Open Textbook Use
Enhances faculty’s ability to support interactive
learning processes
I’m now offering students the ability to interact with
information and their interaction is what leads the classroom.
It’s not just the method of information that’s being changed, it
provides the opportunity for students to access more original
material in a way that promotes interactive learning.

5. Benefits of Open Textbook Use
Enhances faculty’s ability to support students’
metacognitive processes
Now I send emails to my students with a URL link to the
chapter they’re supposed to read. It helps keep them on track
with where we are in the course.

6. Benefits of Open Textbook Use
Facilitates faculty collaboration and leads faculty
towards advocacy
My colleagues and I collaborated to integrate the book with
our existing syllabi and course curriculum…now we meet
regularly to talk about lesson plans.

7. Future Directions of Open Textbook Research
Current Finding (ISKME) Future Research Questions
How do open textbooks impact
Benefits of open specific academic disciplines?
textbook use are seen
across academic How does academic discipline
disciplines, and differ affect the development,
between disciplines adoption, and ease of use of
open textbooks?

8. Future Directions of Open Textbook Research
Current Finding (ISKME) Future Research Question
Open textbook use How can web-based tools and
supports inquiry- technology further enhance the
based, interactive interactivity of open textbooks?
learning and
pedagogy What supports do faculty require
to utilize interactive and inquiry-
based curriculum to benefit
student learning?

9. Future Directions of Open Textbook Research
Current Finding (ISKME) Future Research Question
The integration of In what ways can collaboration
open textbooks into among faculty be leveraged to
courses and existing support widespread open
curricula facilitates textbook adoption?
collaboration among
faculty How does collaboration among
faculty relate to faculty
professional development?

10. Future Directions of Open Textbook Research
Current Finding (ISKME) Future Research Questions
OER serves as a In what ways does
mechanism for faculty OER support faculty
professional professional
development development?

11. Future Directions of Open Textbook Research
Current Finding (ISKME) Future Research Questions
What is the role of
Widespread open administrators and bookstore
textbook adoption managers in supporting and
requires facilitating open textbook
administrative and adoption?
institutional support
How can open textbook
adoption be embedded into
existing institutional processes?

12. Clare Middleton-Detzner
Institute for the Study of Knowledge
Management in Education
clare@iskme.org