Open Textbook Initiative & Library Textbook Affordability Program
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Open Textbook Initiative & Library Textbook Affordability Program
- 1. An Open Textbook Initiative & Library Textbook Affordability Program Robin Ashford, MSLIS Senior Librarian / Assistant Professor George fox University, Portland, Oregon OTEN Inspiration and Innovation Conference, February 11, 2017
- 2. What are open textbooks? - Published under a Creative Commons license, open textbooks are available to students for free. By using open textbooks, students can save thousands of dollars over a college career. Open textbooks are open educational resources (OERs) - Open educational resources (OER) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, research, and other purposes. https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/What_is_OER%3F
- 3. Why Open Textbooks? A couple of reasons: 1) Cost http://njpirgstudents.org/campaigns/make-textbooks-affordable https://twitter.com/SenatorDurbin/status/773570064951943168 #TextbookBroke
- 4. https://twitter.com/SenatorDurbin/status/773574579008729088 • Seven out of 10 students don’t purchase a required textbook during their academic career because of cost. • 60% of students have delayed purchasing textbooks until they’ve received their financial aid. http://www.uspirg.org/news/usp/student- group-releases-new-report-textbook-prices
- 5. 2) In the context of open, what is possible = what is permitted “My main point is that our conversations about OER should emphasize how all of it's benefits - increasing academic freedom, improving affordability and access, revising and remixing - flow from permissions. Permissions are what differentiate OER from other materials and are the source of their benefits.” -David Wiley Underselling Open: The Problem with Cost Framing: https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/4774 On the Relationship Between Free and Permissions in “Open” :https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/4783
- 6. Getting started with our Open Textbook Initiative https://pixabay.com/en/hand-monitor-tap-enter-start-895592 /
- 7. First step: Get money! -An Open Textbook Initiative via George Fox Innovation Fund: $16K
- 8. Timeline: - April 2016 Open Textbook Initiative funded - June 2016 George Fox University joined the Open Textbook Network - August 2016 Faculty conference open textbooks awareness presentation - September 29, 2016 Open Textbook workshops held at George Fox University - Dec 2016 Open Textbook Library reviews submitted - February 2017 Open Textbook Library reviews (9) published -Open Textbook adoptions for Fall 2016 & Spring 2017 (13) (10 replace prior required texts)
- 9. The Open Textbook Network promotes access, affordability, and student success through the use of open textbooks. http://research.cehd.umn.edu/otn/ Over 350 active network campuses As of 2016: $3.1 million in textbook savings reported by 9 early members
- 10. Faculty workshop/trainer presentations by faculty presenter Rajiv Jhangiani, PhD, and trainer presenter, Meg Brown-Sica, MS Workshop was recorded for Faculty who were unable to attend in person due to teaching or travel conflicts.
- 11. Open Textbook Library George Fox faculty reviews, adoptions, and more!
- 12. Open Textbook Initiative–Incentivizing Innovation George Fox Faculty Open Textbook Workshop Results - Nine of 12 eligible George Fox faculty members submitted reviews and received a $200 stipend - Five faculty who reviewed and adopted Open Textbook Library titles receive an additional $500 course redesign stipend - One faculty member committed to author an open textbook, $3000 stipend (additional $1500 allocated for copy editing)
- 13. “Our hope in GFU's Department of Professional Studies is to move all GE courses to open textbooks in the next year or two, and then begin to move all major courses to open” - Professor Jennie Harrop, Chair, Department of Professional Studies
- 14. George Fox University Student Savings: 10 Courses -Chemistry–CHEM 211 General Chemistry (184 students) Savings Fall 2016 = $47,840 -Chemistry-CHEM 110 Chem & Environmnt (40 students) Savings Spring 2017 = $8,011 -Sociology–SOCI 150 Princ of Sociology (57 students) Savings Fall 2016 & Spring 2017 = $5,016 -Psychology–PSYC 240 Statistical Proc (105 students) Savings Fall 2016 & Spring 2017 = $25,195 -Psychology–PSYC 391 Research Methods (16 students) Savings Spring 2017 = $2,264
- 15. George Fox University Student Savings–Cont. -Management–MGMT 260 Principles of Management (35 students) Savings Spring 2017 = $10,675 -Psychology–PSYC 150 (ADP) (54 students) Savings Fall 2016 & Spring 2017 = $7,088 -Adult Writing–LACC 101 (ADP) (31 students) Savings Fall 2016 & Spring 2017 = $4,250 -Adult Writing II–LACC 102 (ADP) (78 students) Savings Fall 2016 & Spring 2017 = $8,330 -Soc/Cult Diversity–LACC 285 (ADP) (11 students) Savings Fall 2106 = $186
- 16. George Fox University Student Savings Fall 2016 & Spring 2017 Semester $118,855! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canada's_fireworks_at_the_2013_Celebration_of_Light_in_Vancouver,_BC.jpg
- 17. What else could be done to help students succeed? http://www.georgefox.edu/library/Services/Faculty/textbook-affordability.html
- 18. Many libraries launching textbook affordability programs Rutgers University Libraries Launch Open and Affordable Textbook Project to Provide Relief for Soaring Textbook Costs
- 19. Coming soon: Student savings from George Fox library ebooks assigned by faculty in lieu of traditional texts
- 20. Coming soon: George Fox Library ebook texts list for assigned course readings http://atkinsapps.uncc.edu/etextbooks https://library.sjsu.edu/affordable-learning-solutions/textbooks-available-ebooks-library
- 21. More help: Library Guides on OER, Open Access and Open Textbooks (in development)
- 22. https://unsplash.com/?photo=trvP9JiYC1E A look to the future… second proposal in the works for Fall 2017/Spring 2018 academic year -Reviews, adoptions, adaptions, authored titles
- 23. Thank you! Feel free to contact me to further discuss open textbooks and textbook affordability program ideas. rashford@georgfox.edu @rashford
Editor's Notes
- For those who are unaware of open textbooks, I’m including a definition. Many people are aware of the term OER or open educational resources. I like to state that all open textbooks are open resources, though not all open resources are open textbooks. So open textbooks are a specific type of OER.
- The #textbookbroke campaign began in the United States (in 2014) as a way to showcase the high prices of textbooks and engage in conversations with college and university communities surrounding affordability. This campaign’s goal is to spread awareness surrounding open textbooks and OER more generally, as well as ensure that students are talking about the price of educational materials, and thinking critically about the resources that they are assigned.
- Seven out of 10 students don’t purchase a required textbook during their academic career because of cost. 60% of students have delayed purchasing textbooks until they’ve received their financial aid.
- “If the permissions granted by open licenses empower me to solve the cost problem, what else can I do because of these permissions?” The possibilities are limitless, because in the context of open what is possible = what is permitted.
- Myself and our educational technologist and hybrid learning director submitted a proposal to an internal innovation fund for a modest Open Textbook Initiative. We learned in April that our proposal was funded for a total of $16, 000.
- What is the OTN: The Open Textbook Network (OTN) promotes access, affordability, and student success through the use of open textbooks. On-campus faculty workshop lead by our team of experts, to support faculty adoption of open textbooks. Training a representative from your campus to facilitate future open textbook workshops. Support from the OTN team in collecting data and building evidence of impact for your students. Gain access to an extensive national network of open education practitioners. COSTS $5000 institutional cost, which is then matched by generous funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. $200 per faculty member who both attends our on-campus workshop and writes a brief open textbook review.
- On September 29, 2016 our workshop leaders were on campus to present. We held two workshops, one for faculty led by Rajiv Jhangiani and the other for trainers (mostly librarians and ed technologists) led by Meg Brown-Sica, the Assistant Dean for Collections and Scholarly Communication at Colorado State University. All faculty who wanted to be eligible for a review stipend were required to register. Those who were considering adopting an open textbooks, and to receive a $500 course re-design stipend, were required to first attend the workshop and submit a review.
- This slide shows a couple of the open textbooks that were adopted by faculty at George Fox. In the next slide I’ll share a little more about how reviews and adoptions work.
- At George Fox we had 67% of faculty who were eligible write a review the average is 44% We’re even more excited that seven of the eight faculty who reviewed titles have committed to adopting. And as you can see we have contracted with one faculty member to author an open textbook.
- This is an especially exciting comment from our chair of the Department of Professional Studies and the provost is working toward helping this happen at George Fox.
- Our greatest success by far is a Chemistry course in which a department of three Chemistry profs taught 4 sections of Chemistry and all were using the OpenStax Chemistry textbook, total of 184 students saved $260 each for the $58,760 total savings throughout this academic year.
- Our greatest success by far is a Chemistry course in which a department of three Chemistry profs taught 4 sections of Chemistry and all were using the OpenStax Chemistry textbook, total of 184 students saved $260 each for the $58,760 total savings throughout this academic year.
- The Library Textbook Affordability Program was developed as an extension of what was started… Helping with textbook affordability is a library goal. George Fox librarians work with faculty colleagues to provide high quality educational resources to students while saving them money. George Fox Libraries have been progressive with their purchases and subscriptions for e-books; we currently provide access to over 350K e-books, 98% of which are available 24/7 to unlimited simultaneous users.
- This is a rapidly growing trend.
- Reviews, adoptions, adapting and authoring