Research Examining the Impact of Open Textbook Adoption on Teaching and Learning: Early Findings Presentation at CCCOER Meeting , June 22, 2010 Clare Mortensen, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education Licença: CC-BY-SA Fonte: http://www.slideshare.net/oercommons/iskme-slides-ccotc-062110-sent

1. Research Examining the Impact of Open Textbook
Adoption on Teaching and Learning: Early Findings
CCCOER Meeting , June 22, 2010
Clare Mortensen, Institute for the Study of
Knowledge Management in Education ISKME:

2. Introduction and Methodology

3. CCOTC Research and Evaluation Methodology
CCOTP/CCCOER
1) What institutional Participant Obs.
policies are needed of Meetings • Identification of factors
to support adoption influencing open
and use of open CCOTP/CCCOER textbook adoption and
textbooks? Interviews what obstacles exist to
2) How and to what their use
extent are open Administrator • Insight into ways that
textbooks being Interviews open textbook use
created, shared, enhances teaching and
and used? learning
Bookstore Mgr.
3) How does the use of Interviews • Identification of benefits
open textbooks and challenges of open
support teaching and textbook adoption in
learning? Student interviews terms of teaching,
learning, and
institutional policy
Faculty Interviews
Research Questions Data Collection Methods

4. Overview of ISKME’s OER Research Trajectory
Timeline and Projects
2003 2005 2007 2009 2011
• FHSST
• Teachers’ Domain • OER Arts
• Online & SJ Cyberlearning
• CNX • Training Commons
Learning
• Travel Well EUN Siyavula 0
in Community
in Dev Ed OER Colleges
• MITE Commons • SEP
• CurriculumNet
 Ongoing Projects
• Curriki
Community College Open
OER PD Textbook Project
• Ways that OER supports teaching and learning
• Emergent practices/perceptions aligned to OER
Major Research
Issues Studied
• Types of and ways knowledge is
• Creation, use and reuse behaviors shared through OER
• Challenges and supports for OER • OER communities of practice
• Incentives and interest to participate in online resources
• Existing behaviors to support use of online resources and OER
• What makes resources usable and reusable for teachers and learners

5. Summary of Interviews Complete and Outstanding
Sample Target Response Interviews
Complete
Faculty 41* 25 17
Administrators 2 5 1
Bookstore 2 5 1
Managers
Students 3 5 0
CCOTP Members 3 5 2
*Includes 20 faculty users of Collaborative Statistics at De Anza College

6. Faculty Interviews:
Preliminary Findings

7. Disciplines and Type of Courses Taught
Computer Science
Political
Science
65%
Education teach online or
hybrid courses
Fine
Arts
Business
and
Economics
Math
Academic Discipline (N=17)

8. Familiarity and Engagement with Open Textbooks
94% first-time adopters of
open textbooks
29% authors of open
textbooks

9. Textbook Repositories Used
47%
24%
12% 12%
6%
N = 17

10. Textbook Licenses Used
59%
29% 29%
6%
N = 17

11. Factors Influencing Open Textbook Adoption
• Financial savings
for students
• Word of mouth I adopted the textbook because an old
colleague of mine wrote the book and I
• Authorship agreed with his [pedagogical and
• Peer review philosophical] approach.
• Department-wide
adoption

12. Benefits of Open Textbook Use (Overall)
I didn’t know or think about this before I
• Ability to modify
adopted the book.. I’ve changed around
• Interactivity the book so it’s in the order I like. I’ve
added material to it. I like making it fit to
• Consistency
the way I want to teach the course.

13. Benefits Across Academic Disciplines
Discipline Open Textbook Use Example
Information Systems Textbook “models everything we’re talking about in class”
Political Science Textbook enhances interactivity between traditional
course materials and public domain websites (such as
whitehouse.com)
Mathematics Textbook provides consistency in notation – “I can’t see
how a math book could be a mashup”
Sciences Textbook well-aligned with “the linear nature of teaching
certain subjects”

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

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

16. Impact of Open Textbook Use on Teaching ractice
• Facilitates
faculty
collaboration My colleagues and I collaborated to
integrate the book with our existing syllabi
• Leads faculty and course curriculum…now we meet
towards regularly to talk about lesson plans.
advocacy

17. Research and Evaluation
Next Steps

18. Moving Forward with Analysis and Dissemination
• Continuing interviews with faculty bookstore managers,
administrators, and students
• Conducting analysis of data
• Dissemination of findings in Fall 2010/Winter 2011
• Peer-reviewed journal article

19. Clare Mortensen
Institute for the Study of Knowledge
Management in Education
clare@iskme.org