Presentation for CCCOER

1. BCcampus Open
Textbook Project
Amanda Coolidge, Manager Open Education
BCcampus
CCCOER Presentation
September 10, 2014

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So where is “BCcampus”?

3. “Connect the expertise, programs, and
resources of all BC post-secondary
institutions under a collaborative service
delivery framework”
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Curriculum Services & Applied Research
Collaborative Programs & Shared Services
Student Services & Data Exchange

4. “Connect the expertise, programs, and
resources of all BC post-secondary
institutions under a collaborative service
delivery framework”
Support & promote the development & use of Open Educational Resources
Support instructors who want to use technology in their teaching practice
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1 Curriculum Services & Applied Research
OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License

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Online Program Development Fund (OPDF)
2003-2012
$9 million invested
153 grants awarded
100% participation across system
83% partnerships
47 credentials developed in whole or part via OPDF
355 courses, 12 workshops, 19 web sites/tools and 396 course components
(learning objects, labs, textbooks, manuals, videos)
100% open license for free & open sharing & reuse by all
BC post-secondary

6. solr.bccampus.ca

7. We have a problem…
Images from
http://www.openeducation.net/2009/09/17/beyond-textbooks-andy-chlup-discusses-digital-learning-models/
CC-BY and
http://markmcguire.net/2011/01/01/r-i-p-department-of-design-studies/ CC-BY-NC
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8. What students think of textbooks
•“The price of textbooks has influenced my decision to take classes. When
the same class is offered by three different instructors, I check which book
is the cheapest, and even though the professor might not be good, I’m
forced to take that class because the textbook is the cheapest.”
•“For my ‘Intro to Stats’ class, the usual cost of the textbook is like $120.
But then I got a copy from India for like $29. And it’s the exact same copy.”
•“I was in lab one day and the guy sitting next to me had the PDF version
of the book opened on his computer. And I was like, Oh, can I have a
copy? And he sent it over to me.”
•“I have a friend who actually didn’t spend any money last year for books
because he went to the library at the beginning of the quarter, borrowed
books, scanned everything, and had the PDF file.”
•“My most expensive class was clinical psych, because she writes the
textbook herself, and it has a new edition every semester or something
ridiculous. So it was like almost $200. And the thing is that you can’t use
the previous edition, because she changes it herself because she knows
the textbooks sell well. It’s like so manipulative.”
Students Get Savvier about Textbook Buying,
The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2013
http://chronicle.com/article/Students-Get-Savvier-About/136827

9. There is a direct relationship between
textbook costs and student success
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60%+ do not purchase textbooks
at some point due to cost
35% take fewer courses due to
textbook cost
31% choose not to register for a
course due to textbook cost
23% regularly go without
textbooks due to cost
14% have dropped a course
due to textbook cost
10% have withdrawn from a
course due to textbook cost
Source: 2012 student survey
by Florida Virtual Campus

10. What is an Open Textbook?
• An instructional resource
• An ebook
• A printed book
• Usually uses a Creative Commons license to enable others
to further share and modify
Images from Bccampus.ca and CreativeCommons.org. CC-BY
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11. The BC Open Textbook Project
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Image from Bccampus.ca
60 Texts + ancillaries
First province in Canada

12. The 5 Rs of Opennessdoes open enable?
Thank You
• The right to make, own and control copies of the
Retain content
Reuse • The right to use the content in a wide range of ways
• The right to adapt, adjust, or modify the content
Revise itself
• The right to combine the original or revised content
Remix with other open content to create something new
• The right to share copies of the original content,
Redistribute your revisions, or your remixes with others
Source: David Wiley, http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221March 5, 2014, CC-BY

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Why are we doing this?Yhy are
we doing this project?
• To increase access to higher education
by reducing student costs
• To enable faculty more control over
their instructional resources
• To move the open agenda forward in a meaningful, measurable way
Images from Oxfam.org CC-BY and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/World_Open_Educational_Resources_Congress_2012
/How_Open_Access_and_Open_Science_can_mutually_fertilize_with_Open_Educational_Resources CC-BY

14. The project:
• 40 Texts, aligned with the 40 most highly enrolled 1st and 2nd year
subjects in BC, plus 20 more for skills based programs
• Not just for online delivery
• Ebook (multiple formats) or print on demand
Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecture_hall CC-BY
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15. Project Phases
Phase One – Harvest and Review
Phase Two – Adapt
Phase Three - Create

16. Phase One: Harvest and Review
Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest CC-BY

17. Early Adopter and Adapter: Dr. Takashi Sato Physics KPU
Students: 60
Previous Textbook: $187
OpenStax Textbook: $0
Student savings: $11,200
1 class 1 institution 1 term

18. Phase Two: Adapt
• Make use of what exists
• Improve what exists
No, not that kind of proposal…
No, it really, really isn’t easy
• Provide funding
• Provide support
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaxed/285108485/ CC-BY
Image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1815-regency-proposal-woodcut.gif CC-BY

19. Phase Three: Create
What are some ways of doing this?
Faculty collaboratively authoring
Buy the rights from publishers
Book sprint

20. What about quality?
• Reviews – we’re relying on faculty
• Faculty Fellows Program
• Collaborations – peer support, idea generation, subject matter
expertise
• Supporting players: Instructional Designers,
Professional Editors
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Images from http://fundermental.blogspot.ca/2011_09_01_archive.html
http://thevarguy.com/blog/visual-collaboration-next-var-opportunity-arrives
http://quotesweliveby.blogspot.ca/2010/08/quality-begins-on-inside-quality-quotes.html

21. Results
# of reviews = 50 reviews of 30 texts
# of books in collection = 62
# of Adaptations = 8
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Social psych
• Research methods in psych
• Database design
• Project management
• Strategic management
• Chemistry
# of Creations = 4
• Canadian History
• Canadian Geography
• Criminology
• English Lit
# of Institutions adopting: 8
• Camosun College
• Langara College
• JIBC
• Kwantlen Polytechnic University
• Douglas College
• Capilano University
• NWCC
• Thompson Rivers University
$ $
Known student savings =$305K +

22. open.bccampus.ca

23. Thanks!
acoolidge@bccampus.ca
@acoolidge
open.bccampus.ca