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When the Textbook Doesn't Fit:
Developing Open-source Materials to Meet
Academic Needs
Robin Murie and Alyssa Bonnac
Minnesota English Language Program
When doesn’t the textbook fit?
Examples from your own teaching:
What have you done to
modify/improve/adapt?
English for Science and
Engineering
English for Physics
• 7 weeks, AEP
• Bridge course for Physics 1301
English for Science and Engineering
• 7 weeks, IEP
Textbook doesn’t fit!
Integrated Skills for Academic
English
7 week course (2nd half of the term)
Flexible goals to meet range of needs: “polish English skills in order to be more
successful in university level classes”
Students are in academic programs --
not traditional “ESL” levels
Who enrolls?Exchange students, 2nd semester seniors, Students who
need the creditsare facing difficulties in classeswant to “speak more”want to work on writing skills
Some have serious concerns.
Partnership for Affordable
Content
Partnership for Affordable
Content
• Freely available open textbooks
• Library licensed resources such as
ejournals and ebooks
• Open education resources
• Faculty created, openly licensed materials
• Lawful determinations of fair use
Students can save money
Free & Peer-Reviewed:
UMN Open Textbook Library
$204 on
Amazon
What is an “open” educational
resource? 1. Reuse – the right to reuse the content in its unaltered /
verbatim form
2. Revise – the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the
content itself
3. Remix – the right to combine the original or revised
content with other content to create something new
4. Redistribute – the right to make and share copies of
the original content, your revisions, or your remixes
with others
This material is based on original writing by David Wiley, which was published freely under a Creative
Commons Attribution 4.0 license at:http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1123
What is an “open” educational
resource?
Where can you find open
resources?
Where can you find open
resources?
Using open-resources
Open Textbook
Chapter
“Success in College”
Lecture - Open Yale
Courses
Educational Handout -
University of North
Carolina
Adapting materials for Integrated
Skills for Academic English
Moodle Site as repository for sourcesSuccess in College (College Success) text
U of MN lecture on climate change
Links to online resources
COCA, OWL, USNews blogs, campus resources
Research Project -- students write materials to
post
Finding a book
College Success
Success in College
Ch 2: Staying Motivated, Organized, On Track
o Chapter Introduction
o Setting and Reaching Goals
o Organizing Your Space
o Organizing Your Time
o Chapter Activities
Students write course content
course project: research an issue and
create a document to put on Moodle.
(blog, ppt, “chapter”, links to resources)
interviews, case studies, collect
information from websites, build advice,
observation of a specific campus site
What’s ahead
● ESL Materials for Lab Reports
● Compile resources and create
modules to share
A Growing Trend
Growing movement towards
open access
The right fit for you and your
students
Your materials
or open
materials
tailored to your
students and
your teaching
style.
Resourceshttp://cnx.org - OpenStax Connections has some great resources that are
good for higher education.
https://openstaxcollege.org/ - OpenStax College has release a number of
the most famous, and most heavily used, open college textbooks.
http://oercommons.org - OER Commons is one of the larger sources of
OER.
http://www.merlot.org - MERLOT is one of the oldest sites for OER. It also
has some powerful search features.
http://open.umn.edu/ - our own Open Textbook Library, created by CEHD,
it is the most well known clearinghouse for open textbooks. Also includes
reviews.
http://flickr.com - Flickr is a great place to find openly licensed (creative
commons) images for use in presentations and OER you create!
http://wikipedia.org - Wikipedia/Wikimedia is also a great place for OER
content and images.
