English Articulation Committee MeetingMay 6, 2016

Amanda Coolidge, Senior Manager Open Education

Open Education encompasses resources, tools and practices that are free of legal, financial and technical barriers and can be fully used, shared and adapted in the digital environment.

What is Open Education?

- SPARC, http://sparcopen.org/open-education/

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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

Open Education is part of an Open Ecosystem

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The Open Ecosystem by Clobridge Consulting is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 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

Textbook Costs vs Student Success

Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual CampusSlide: CC-BY Cable Green, Creative Commons via http://www.project-kaleidoscope.org (modified)/

Textbook Costs vs Student Success

64% do not purchase books at some point due to book cost

49% take fewer courses due to book cost

31% choose not to register for a course due to book cost

23% regularly go without textbooks due to book cost

27% have dropped a course due to book cost

21% have withdrawn from a course due to book cost

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How much students in Canada say they spend on textbooks per term

Source: Data on Textbook Costs, Higher Education Strategy Associates, 2015.

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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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Creative Commons logo by Creative Commons used under a CC-BY 3.0 LicenseCC license image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 South Africa license

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Faculty have full legal right to customize & contextualize open textbooks to fit their pedagogical needs

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open = free + permissions

• 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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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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Day 1 access to resources

“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?

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Faculty have:Right to customizeThe textbook

Students have:Day 1 access to that customized textbook and CHOICE

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Impact

11 Peer Reviewed Studies

http://openedgroup.org/

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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Allows scholars of modernism to build custom anthologies of out-of-copyright primary materials

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https://hancocksengl1100text.wordpress.com/

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http://openamlit.pressbooks.com/

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Call for Proposals

1.Ancillary Materials Development

2.OER Resource Grant

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Additional ways to be a part of the projectLet BCcampus know if you have adopted open textbooks- fill in the adoption form

Review an open textbook

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Thank you and Questions?