Keynote address at PALCI Member meeting focusing on the libraries' role in supporting open education.

1. Sarah Faye Cohen
Managing Director, Open Textbook Network
open.umn.edu
2017 PALCI Member Meeting
June 5, 2017
The Open Textbook Network:
moving forward, together.

3. 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

5. $2,000
$3,000
$4,000
$5,000
$6,000
$7,000
$8,000
$9,000
$10,000
1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
US Higher Education Funding - $/FTE
State Funding Tuition Revenue
Data: State Higher Education Executive Officers Association 5

6. $1,000
$2,000
$3,000
$4,000
$5,000
$6,000
$7,000
$8,000
$9,000
$10,000
$11,000
$12,000
$13,000
1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015
Pennsylvania Higher Education Funding - $/FTE
State Funding Tuition Revenue
Data: State Higher Education Executive Officers Association

7. What does that mean for our students?

8. 0
200
400
600
800
1,000
1,200
1,400
1,600
1,800
1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
Hours@MinimumWage Hours of Work Required to Afford Tuition
(University of Minnesota)

9. The average borrower owes more than
$30,100
in student loans (class of 2015).
Data: The Institute for College Access & Success 9

10. Cost of Attendance
•Tuition and Fees
•Room and Board
•Books and Supplies
•Personal Expenses
•Transportation
10

11. Cost of Attendance
•Tuition and Fees
•Room and Board
•Books and Supplies
•Personal Expenses
•Transportation
11

12. 0%
100%
200%
300%
400%
500%
600%
700%
1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
%Increase
Increase in Textbook Prices
Textbooks CPI
Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics 12

14. The average student budgets
$1,230 - $1,390
on textbooks and course materials in 2016-17.
Data: The College Board 14

15. They cope
with the cost
•Purchase an older edition of the
textbook.
•Delay purchasing the textbook.
•Never purchase the textbook.
•Share a textbook.
•Download a textbook from the
web.
15

16. 2012 2016
63.6% 66.5%
Not purchase the required
textbook
49.2% 47.6% Take fewer courses
45.1% 45.5% Not register for a specific course
33.9% 37.6% Earn a poor grade
26.7% 26.1% Drop a course
17.0% 19.8% Fail a course
In your academic career, has the cost of
required textbooks caused you to:

18. Course Reserves

19. What about library resources?
19

20. Library resources are not open*, only available.
Cost to Students Permissions to Faculty
and Students
Commercial Textbooks Expensive Restrictive
Library Resources “Free” Restrictive
Open Educational
Resources
“Free” Liberal (5Rs)
CC BY 4.0 by David Wiley

21. -25%
25%
75%
125%
175%
225%
275%
325%
375%
425%
1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010
%ChangeSince1986
Source: ARL Statistics 2010-11 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.
*Includes electronic resources from 1999-2000 onward.
Graph 2
Monograph and Serial Costs
in ARL Libraries, 1986-2011* Serial
Expenditures
(+402%)
Monograph
Expenditures
(+71%)
Monographs
Purchased
(10%)
www.sparcopen.org

22. Open Textbook Library 22

23. Open Content
OER
Open
Textbooks

24. What do we mean by “open”?
24

25. open = permissions  free
copy mix
share keep
edit use

26. Why Open?
• Facilitates the free exchange of information.
• Allows higher education to take ownership of its content.
• Empowers faculty.
• Sharing is scalable.

27. Why Textbooks?
• Hits a major pain point – textbook costs.
• Faculty understand textbooks.
• Faculty know how to adopt textbooks.
• Faculty effort (vs. alternatives) is kept at a minimum.
• Textbooks can provide content for a complete (or nearly
complete) course.

28. What are we doing about it?

29. Open Textbook Network
The Open Textbook Network is an alliance of colleges
and universities committed to access, affordability,
and student academic success through the use of
open textbooks.
We’re 69 members, made up of institutional and
consortial members, representing about 460
campuses.

30. Professional
Development

32. Tools
and
Resources

33. open.umn.edu/opentextbooks
The Open Textbook Library

35. • ~400 openly licensed, complete, downloadable
textbooks
• > 60% have been reviewed by faculty at OTN
institutions
• 1M+ visits from every country in the world.
• Books produced by Rice University, SUNY, University
of Texas at Austin, Portland State, Ohio State, etc.

36. 388 Total Books* (Live)
9 Accounting & Finance
51 Business, Management & Marketing
39 Computer Science & Information Systems
18 Economics
34 Education
6 Engineering
75 Humanities & Languages
12 Journalism, Media Studies, and Communications
49 Law
67 Mathematics & Statistics
6 Medicine
39 Natural & Physical Sciences
35 Social Sciences
11 Student Success
*May 5, 2017

37. +
+

38. +
+

39. Engagement: Faculty Reviews
Review
62%
No Review
38%
1922 Faculty

40. 1 1 9 10
39
133
378
489
0
100
200
300
400
500
1.0-1.5 1.5-2.0 2.0-2.5 2.5-3.0 3.0-3.5 3.5-4.0 4.0-4.5 4.5-5.0
Reviews
Ratings
Open Textbook Reviews

41. Faculty Adoption Choices
Yes
749
Maybe
455
No
53
No response
434
1192 Faculty
= 44%

42. Savings to date–soon to be revised!

43. Develop resources to
support the lifecycle of
open textbooks.
Adoption
Modification
Creation

44. • Based on the COUP Framework
• Cost
• Outcomes
• Use
• Perceptions
• Designed to support all level of inquiry
and research
• Includes:
• Best Practices
• Workflows
• Decision making guidelines
• Documentation

48. Develop new
programs to support
our members
OTN Publishing Initiative
• Purpose: To create the next generation
of open textbooks by supporting
multiple pathways to creation
• Providing access to:
• Publishing platform
• Support for project development
• Access to services
• Author management
• Project management
• Documentation, best practices, guidelines

49. Why should libraries concentrate energy to
open?

50. Open fits into what libraries already do.
• Organizing information and
making it accessible

51. Open fits into what libraries already do.
• Organizing information and
making it accessible
• Leverage libraries’ work thus far

52. Open fits into what libraries already do.
• Organizing information and
making it accessible
• Leverage libraries’ work thus far
• A trusted resource and bridge to
faculty

53. Open fits into what libraries already do.
• Actualize librarians’ deep interest in creative and innovative
pedagogy.
• Realize the potential of the 5Rs.
• Use OERs in the flipped classrooms, as well as inquiry based learning,
problem based learning, active learning.
• Stimulate tangible partnerships with Centers for Teaching and
Learning, Instructional Designers, Distance Education, and more.

54. Open fits into what libraries already do.
• Organizing information and
making it accessible
• Leverage libraries’ work thus far
• A trusted resource and bridge to
faculty
• Surface information habits of
users, especially students

55. Open fits into what libraries already do.
• ACRL's strategic direction for
libraries:
• expressing the value of libraries,
student learning, and active
participation in the research and
scholarly environment.
• Intersections in Scholarly
Communication and
Information Literacy
• Maintaining and highlighting
the role libraries play in
supporting our students and
transforming higher education.

56. Open fits into who we are.

58. Thank you!
@thesheck
@open_textbooks
sfcohen@umn.edu