Slides from Dr Viv Rolfe's presentation at the Jisc student experience experts group meeting

1. DrViv Rolfe, UWE Bristol
29/03/2017 Using open textbooks in FE and HE

2. Jisc Student Experience Experts Group
Wednesday 29th March 2017
Using Open Textbooks
in FE/HE
Dr Viv Rolfe, UWE Bristol, vivrolfe.com @vivienrolfe
Selection of BCcampus open textbooks

3. Openly licensed
Collaborative author / peer-review process
Multiple formats (free for students) vs low cost print
Easily ‘adopted’ and ‘adapted’
Selection of OpenStax open textbooks

4. Let’s get this conversation started.
Nearly 50% of students
graduating in 2015
moved back home (NUS
2015). Debt concerns
most of them.
Average UK student
textbook spending is
around £1000 (NUS
2010) and similar in
the US.
Based on £5.60 minimum wage,
a student would have to work
200+ days in the year just to
cover living / study costs
excluding fees (17 days to cover
average textbook spends).

5. What students think.

6. REVIEW
ADOPT “as is”
or ADAPT?
DISTRIBUTE
Siyavula (Africa)
BCcampus (Canada)
OpenStax (US)
Lumen Learning (US)
Open Textbook LIbrary
BCcampus guides
How to engage staff – reviewing
Adoption / adaption guides
Accessibility guides
Pressbooks.com x eFormats
Low cost print option
LMS
Library catalogues
Reading list software
How to begin?

7. Questions?
The workshops included a discussion session to
explore who was using openly licensed texts, and
whether people would be interested in joining a
mailing list?

8. http://vivrolfe.com/blog/open-textbook-mashup/
Further information
The Open University OER Hub, WonkHE and me will
be working on an OPEN TEXTBOOK PROJECT. Contact
me if you would like to join an informal network.