Supporting Open Textbook Adoptions at University of Arkansas
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1. Open Educational Resources:
Reducing Textbook Costs in Oregon
and Building Faculty Partnerships
Jacquelyn Ray – Director of Library & Media Services,
Blue Mountain Community College
John Schoppert – Director of Library Services, Columbia Gorge CC
Massachusetts Council of Chief Librarians of Public Higher Education
Institutions (MCCLPHEI)
July 13, 2016
6. Open Education Resources
Open educational resources (OER) means
teaching, learning, and research resources that
reside in the public domain or have been released
under an intellectual property license that permits
their free use and repurposing by others.
-Hewlett Foundation
11. Free vs Open Resources
Cost to
Students
Permissions
To Teachers
& Students
Commercial
Textbooks
Expensive Restrictive
Library
Resources
Free Restrictive
Open
Education
Resources
Free 5Rs
15. OpenOregon.org cost analysis -
average Oregon materials cost for a 2-year degree:
$2,142.84 for the AAOT
$2,002.96 for the AS
$2,316.19 for the ASOT-BUS
16. MA. Student fee increases:
State Universities - up to 7.8%
MA. community college - up to 10%
21. Reflect on the possible barriers at
your institution in advancing OER.
• Write one barrier per sticky note
• Go for quantity
• There are no right answers
• You’ll share these at your table in 15
minutes.
22. Table Discussion
• Share your barriers
• Are there commonalities?
– Group them into themes
– Name each theme
• Are there outliers?
23. Room Share
• Themes
• Outliers
• Are there nuances we want to acknowledge?
• Are there concerns we want to acknowledge?
24. Barriers to Faculty Adoption
• Faculty don’t know where to find open textbooks
• Faculty don’t understand the urgency of student financial
stress, and how it can impact students academically
• Faculty aren’t aware that open textbooks are an option
• Faculty don’t know what open textbooks are
• Faculty confuse open textbooks with electronic textbooks
25. Barriers - Institutional
• Bookstore pushback
• Admin. financial support
• Instructional services support - faculty senate?
• Student services support - advisors in the loop?
• $$ Contract language - faculty stipends or NOTAs
• Copyright ownership - admin. open license
support in contract?
26. Blue Mountain Community College
Columbia Gorge Community College
OER programs
or, what the h#*^! did we get
ourselves into?
29. “OER are key not only to
solving the global
education crisis but to
unlocking sustainable
global growth in the
21st century....”
Ambassador David T. Killion, U.S.
Permanent Representative to
UNESCO, and Sir John Daniel,
President and CEO of the
Commonwealth of Learning from
2004 to 2012)
UNESCO World OER Congress in 2012
OER Impact
http://education.okfn.org/is-there-a-link-between-oer-and-
economic-growth/
30. The cost barrier kept
2.4 million
low and moderate-income college-
qualified high school graduates from
completing college in the previous
decade.
The Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED529499.pdf
31. ● Textbook prices disproportionately impact
community college students: 50% of students
report using financial aid for books at community
colleges, compared to 28% at 4 year public
schools. And, on average, community college
students use more financial aid than their peers at
4 year schools.
• 5.2 million U.S. undergraduate students spend a
total of $1.5 billion dollars of financial aid on
textbooks every semester, or $3 billion per year.
Covering the Cost:
Student PIRGs report, 02.16
http://www.studentpirgs.org/sites/student/files/reports/National%20-%20COVERING%20THE%20COST.pdf
32. 63.6% Not purchase the required textbook
49.2% Take fewer courses
45.1% Not register for a specific course
33.9% Earn a poor grade
26.7% Drop a course
17.0% Fail a course
In your academic career, has the
cost of required textbooks caused
you to:
http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf
33. What do you do?
https://www.youtube.huhjcom/watch?v=rjaTJC8zZJ4
34. What can we do?
•Tuition and Fees
•Room and Board
•Books and Supplies
•Personal Expenses
•Transportation
35. What can we do?
•Tuition and Fees
•Room and Board
•Books and Supplies
•Personal Expenses
•Transportation
37. • A community college instructor
• An “urban” high school instructor
• A rural high school instructor
• A Librarian
The Team-a League of Early
Adopters
Julian Fong https://www.flickr.com/photos/levork/4965599865
38. Work to be done
• Divide up the work evenly among
chapters according to expertise.
• Locate, evaluate, and repurpose
existing OER.
• Build up the ancillary primary source
documents and supporting media
• Put it all together and SHARE!
39. Evidence from First Year
US History 201-203
Reviewed and adopted by 11
local schools (only 2 have
not)
*Having this text was a
“deal breaker”
Savings as of Winter 2016
$32,667
369 students x $120
Two high school faculty
= $5,000
And growing savings…
40. How do we measure success?
• Significant cost savings
• A book that can be adapted up or
down based on curricular needs
• A model collaborative endeavor
• A quality resource that can be shared
across the state
Continued growth, better
pedagogy, and improved
learning…
43. The next challenges:
• Changing
Perception
• Conversation,
Conversation,
• Conversation
Stakeholders:
Needs, Concerns,
Buy-in, AdvocacyTweaking the current
Mindset
44. Second Wave
● Mix, Repeat &
add Sprinkles
● Savings
● Students
● Strategic Plan
● Sustainability
45. • 35 Grants OpenOregon Grants
Awarded
•BMCC received 6 (CS 120-295, Bio)
•All connected to
Early Credit/”Promise” Classes
OpenOregon Grants Awarded
to BMCC
46. (My)Innovative Project Award
Goes to:
Dr. Sascha McKeon:
Converting High School Science
Labs to be College Ready,
Safe, with an OER based
curriculum.
Savings: $81k
51. GO - Gorge Open
Columbia Gorge Community College
Commercial Textbook Alternative Program
The Dalles, Oregon
52. Retention - After One Year
Only 51 out of 100 FTEs
are still enrolled after one year
52
53. The library is a gateway
● Resources
● Research
● Fair use
● Faculty liaisons
“Gate”, John Schoppert is licensed under a CC - BY Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License.
54. Embrace cheerleading
● library as hub
● become a project lead
● establish partners
● build a taskforce
“Gate”, John Schoppert is licensed under a CC - BY Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License.
55. Talk isn’t Cheap, It Takes Time
● Administration
● Faculty
● Bookstore & foundation
● Student government & advisors
●Other in-state institutions
● Outside media
● Listservs –
oerconsortium.org
sparc-liboer@arl.org
56. Discover
“Textbooks have been so expensive that I decided to not
even purchase the text for a couple of my classes.”
Margaret, CGCC Student Life President
Faculty textbook cost sensitivity level – some faculty
already use earlier editions of textbooks or OER
60. Student Assessments
Q: Would you take another course
using open resources?
“I loved that I got to use the articles
that we were asked to use, and apply
our knowledge creatively.”
CGCC OER course assessment
67. CGCC - Hood River Valley HS
2016 OpenOregon grant:
● Create ENG253, 254 Am. Lit OER
● College Now & CGCC concurrent courses
● Course assessments & reports
68. CGCC - Hood River Valley HS
2017 OpenOregon grant:
● Create WR115 OER grammar textbook
● build on Pressbook platform
● print, share, adapt
69. #GoOpen team will develop a strategy for the implementation of
openly-licensed educational materials.
Commit to replace at least one textbook with openly-licensed
educational materials in the next year.
Document and share their implementation process.
70. Oregon Dept. Ed.:
● Oregon joins Dept.Ed. #GoOpen initiative
● OER as an option in textbook purchasing cycle
● Oregon’s #GoOpen:
http://www.oregonednet.org/groups/go-open
● National #GoOpen info: http://tech.ed.gov/open-
education/
● K-12 OER Collaborative:
http://k12oercollaborative.org/
76. 2016-17 OER Grants Awarded from Open Oregon
Impact:
• 15 community colleges
• 7,000 students
• $1,142,624 potential savings in textbook costs
• OER courses built are open licensed and reusable
• Courses found on OpenOregon.org resources page
77.
78. Oregon HB2871 - The OER Bill
• $1.1 mil. funding for grants & OER coordinator
• meets CC-BY open standards
• Requires OER icon in class schedule
• Grant terms: June ‘16 - ‘17
• Only one biennial funding so far
79. Oregon HB2871 - The OER Bill
• top 15 enrolled transfer courses
• cross-institutional collaboration
• 2-year & 4-year
80. BMCC/CGCC Textbook sprint
• Based on BCcampus Open Textbook Sprint model
• Create a “first draft” finished textbook
• Gather faculty and technologists to create a textbook in 4
days
• The goal of a book sprint is to create a textbook in a very
short time period
https://open.bccampus.ca/2014/07/03/book-sprint/
81. BMCC/CGCC Textbook sprint
• 5 sociology faculty from 5 institutions
• Create an open sociology transfer sequence
• Community college & university collaboration
• Meets CC-BY open standards
• Includes librarians & tech support
• Posted to Oregon repository for adaption
88. Mapping Our Curriculum
• Identified essential concepts and time
periods
• Assessed current content valued and what
was lacking
• Connected with Common Core and College
Proficiencye
89. Assessment
• Pro/Cons
–Accessibility, Readability and Engaging Layout(for
instructor and student), Accuracy, and
Organization
• Learning Objectives/Proficiency Criteria
–Historical Thinking, Critical Thinking, Diversity,
and Communication
• Overall
–Availability and quality of ancillaries
90.
91. Let’s Practice, OER in 4 Steps
Using your model syllabus:
1.Identify LOs (page 3-4 of your booklet)
2.Search for open textbook that you could use
in your course (page 5)
3.Need more? Check your library (page 6)
4.Evaluate! Once you found a few items use
the checklist on page 7 to consider what
you’ve found and what you may need.
93. Continuing conversations with stakeholders
• OER taskforce / council vitality
• Faculty - second wave adopters
• Faculty - builders, not adapters
• Admin - funding concerns
• Students - student body change-over
• Bookstore - fiscal impact
94. Sustainability
• From OER to open padagogy
• sustainable funding - Lumen model course fees?
• Professional development - OpenEd16
• Centralized repository?
97. Resources: Pedagogy
Education without limits: Why open textbooks are the way forward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiyjhdTRiwo
Why Open Education Matters. (2012).Mireles, N. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/dTNnxPcY49Q
Wiley, D., & Green, C. (2012). Why Openness in Education? In Diana G, Oblinger Ed. (2012). Game Changers: Education and
Information Technologies. Educause Retrieved from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/PUB20376.pdf
Wiley, D. (n.d.). The Open Future: Openness as Catalyst for an Educational Reformation. Educause Review, (July/August), 15-20.
Fischer, L. Hilton, J., Robinson, J., & Wiley, D. (2015). A Multi-institutional study of the impact of open textbook adoption on the
learning outcomes of post-secondary students. Journal of Computer High Education
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12528-015-9101-x#page-1
Khan, S. (2011). Let’s use video to reinvent education. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/nTFEUsudhfs
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Pawlyshyn, N., Braddlee, Casper, L., & and Miller, H. (2013). Adopting OER: A Case Study of Cross-Institutional Collaboration
and Innovation. Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/adopting-oer-case-study-cross-institutional-collaboration-and-
innovation
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oer/
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98. Resources: Economics
Danya Perez-Hernandez. (2014, January 28). Open Textbooks Could Help Students Financially and Academically. Chronicle of
Higher Education(Wired Campus).
Senack, Ethan. (2015). This 500-Person Town is Leading Education. Huffington Post.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MkNBTujROeGUcqzpYURlGsN_cAw6qkjDigzqwZQ4KTA/edit
Allen, N. (2013). OER and Solving the Textbook Cost Crisis. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/lej_ry8ZfkY
Episode 573: Why Textbook Prices Keep Climbing - NPR. Retreived from
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/03/353300404/episode-573-why-textbook-prices-keep-climbing
Fixing the Broken Textbook Market Retrieved from http://www.studentpirgs.org/textbooks
Planet Money. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/03/353300404/episode-573-why-textbook-prices-keep-
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