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Open Education & Professional Learning

Student Services & Data Exchange

Collaborative Programs & Shared Services

1Open Education & Professional Learning

OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a CC-BY 30 License

Support & promote the development & use of Open Educational ResourcesSupport the development of effective teaching & learning practices1

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BC Open Textbook Project

40 free & open textbooks for highest enrolled 1st & 2nd year post-secondary subjects in BC2013 – 20 for skills & training

First province in Canada2013 – AB & SASK MOU

$1 million2013 - $1 million

Visual notes of John Yap announcement, Giulia Forsythe Used under CC-SA license

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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

Annie Lennox campaigns with Oxfam at the AIDS Conference by Oxfam used under CC-BY-NC-ND license

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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

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open ≈ free

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free is assumed online

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open = free + permissions

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• Make and own a copyRetain• Use in a wide range of waysReuse• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise• Combine two or moreRemix• Share with othersRedistribute

The 5Rs

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The Open Textbook Project

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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

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Where do they come from?

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Faculty Reviews

291/365 by thebarrowboy used under a CC-BY

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Reviews > Adaptations

My Adventures Adapting a Chemistry Textbook291/365 by thebarrowboy used under a CC-BY

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Publish Many

Write Once

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Choices for students (and for adapters)

Old Leather books, by Wyoming_Jackrabbit used under a CC-BY-NC-SA

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“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?

Impact

11 Peer Reviewed Studies

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48,623 Students

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93% Same or Better Outcomes

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9 Peer Reviewed Studies of Perceptions of OER Quality

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4,510 Professors and Students

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50%Same35%

Better

15%Worse

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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

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Looking ahead…1. Build institutional capacity to enable support for faculty adoption of

open textbooks.2. Produce 50 additional OER resources over the next 3 years, through

ancillary resources, open textbooks, openly licensed guides and materials.

3. Engage with the BC post-secondary system to increase commitment to adopt and adapt open textbooks.

4. Facilitate provincial, national, and international leadership and collaboration in OER.

5. Ensure the sustainability of the collection.

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HOW?

• Training and Workshops

• Ancillary Resource Development

• OER Resource Grants, matched by Institution

• Articulation Committee Meetings

• Pressbooks Development

…. and YOU!