5. Course Reserves
• Students looking for textbooks
• Faculty meeting that need
• The library cultivating relationships
with faculty and students through
reserves
• Long lines
• Too few copies
• Too many copies for the library’s
space
• Desk ”traffic patterns”
8. “There’s an open education
conference in Vancouver, BC. You
should go.”
9. “There’s an open education
conference in Vancouver, BC. You
should go.”
10. “There’s an open education
conference in Vancouver, BC. You
should go.”
11.
12. Defining Open Educational Resources
Hewlett Foundation Definition:
“OER are teaching, learning,
and research resources that
reside in the public domain or
are released under an
intellectual property license
that permits their free use and
repurposing by others”
19. The average borrower owes more than
$28,950
in student loans (class of 2014).
Institute for College Access and Success
http://projectonstudentdebt.org/files/pub/Student_Debt_and_the_Class_of_2012_NR.pdf
http://ticas.org/posd/map-state-data-2015
Illinois Wesleyan = $32,101
20. Cost of Attendance
• Tuition and Fees
• Room and Board
• Books and Supplies
• Personal Expenses
• Transportation
21. Cost of Attendance
• Tuition and Fees
• Room and Board
• Books and Supplies
• Personal Expenses
• Transportation
24. The average student budgets
$1,249 - $1,364
on textbooks and course materials in 2015-16.
http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-estimated-undergraduate-budgets-2015-16
25. Coping with
the Cost
• Purchase an older edition of
the textbook
• Delay purchasing the
textbook
• Never purchase the textbook
• Share a textbook
• Pirate a textbook
“I figured French
hadn’t changed that
much.”
- UMN student
26. 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:
http://www.openaccesstextbooks.org/pdf/2012_Florida_Student_Textbook_Survey.pdf
28. Why Open?
• Facilitates the free exchange of information.
• Allows higher education to take ownership of
its content.
• Empowers faculty
• Sharing is scalable.
37. They don’t know much about them.
They’re busy:
• Prepping for their courses
• Responding to students
• Grading
• Mentoring
• Research
• Grant writing
• Committee Work
• The list goes on…
http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthecurriculum2014.pdf
38. Barriers to Faculty Adoption
• Faculty don’t know where to find open textbooks
• Faculty don’t understand the urgency of student financial
stress, and how it can impact students academically
• Faculty aren’t aware that open textbooks are an option
• Faculty don’t know what open textbooks are
• Faculty confuse open textbooks with electronic textbooks
• Faculty are skeptical of the quality of open textbooks
• Faculty have limited time to engage in reviewing open
textbooks
EducateEngage
42. • 335 books
• 615 reviews by faculty at OTN schools
• 1 million (!) visits from every country in the
world (except North Korea)
• Books produced at Rice University, SUNY,
University of Texas at Austin, NOBA,
University of Minnesota, Portland State,
Grand Valley State, …
43. 335 Total Books*
8 Accounting & Finance
48 Business, Management & Marketing
34 Computer Science & Information Systems
14 Economics
6 Engineering
8 Foreign Languages
21 General Education
59 Humanities & Language
42 Law
60 Mathematics & Statistics
54 Natural & Physical Sciences
21 Social Sciences
*November 2, 2016
49. OTN Publishing Initiative
• Completing a pilot with University of Arizona,
University of Washington, UMASS Amherst and
Cleveland State University.
• Providing access to:
– Publishing platform
– Support for project development and services
– Standardized training
– Documentation, best practices, guidelines
51. What will you do?
- Join the OTN!
- Open Textbook Library: email / meetings / +
- Partnership with student government.
- Online guides (instructors, students).
- OT listserv/learning community.
- Webinars/workshops (e.g. using and adapting).
- Adopter profiles (articles, videos).
- Mini-grants to encourage adoption
- What else?
http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education/open-educational-resources
OER Logo 2012 J. Mello,used under a Creative Commons license CC-BY
Open Ed 2012.
Dave was focused on a particular challenge: Discovery, Access, Engagement, Outreach, Evaluation of open textbooks. To solve it, he started “The Open Academics Catalog.”
Consumer Revolving Credit = Credit Card Debt
What is included in Cost of Attendance.
Not the biggest one: we focus on this one that we CAN do something about. And it has a special role in students lives on campus: often an “unexpected” cost for students
U Michigan Flint, Mark Perry, Economist: Risen 1041% since 1977. No consumer product has risen in cost at this rate.
No standard way this number is developed across institutions. An average.
Data that students don’t “spend” this much.
Delay is the rule, not the exception.
US PIRG Report on Financial Aid and textbooks
And that coping has an academic impact.
Access to the content for academic success
Access to courses to meet academic goals
Access to course outcomes
Textbook costs as an impediment to student academic success. Impact on retention and completion.
The ability to update content, customize content, improve content.
Open.umn.edu/opentextbooks
We do it together.
Strategies to make open textbooks a viable alternative to commercial books.
http://openedgroup.org/toolkit
https://press.rebus.community/otnmodify/
Supporting member institutions in developing open pedagogical practices among and with their faculty.