This is a presentation for various meetings with student groups at the University of British Columbia: introducing open textbooks, their value, and asking how we might best promote them.

1. Open Textbooks:
What are they, and how
might we promote them?
• Christina Hendricks
• Sr. Instructor, Philosophy and Arts One, UBC
• 2014-2015 Faculty Fellow with the BCcampus Open Textbook Project
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2. Open Textbooks: What, and how promote?
Agenda
• What is BCcampus and the Open Textbook
Project?
• What are open textbooks?
• How might we best spread the word?

3. Connect the expertise, programs, and resources
of all BC post-secondary institutions under a
collaborative service delivery framework
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Open Education & Professional Learning
Student Services & Data Exchange
Collaborative Programs & Shared Services
bccampus.caSlide from Clint Lalonde, Bccampus, CC-BY

4. open.bccampus.ca

5. What are Open Textbooks?
Textbooks that are , of course!
But what does that mean?...

6. The 5 “R’s” of openness
•The right to make, own and control
copies of the contentRetain
•The right to use the content in a wide
range of waysReuse
•The right to adapt, adjust, or modify
the content itselfRevise
•The right to combine the original or
revised content with other open
content to create something new
Remix
•The right to share copies of the original
content, your revisions, or your remixes
with others
Redistribute
Source: David Wiley, http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221 CC-BY
Slide adapted from Mary Burgess, BCcampus, licensed CC-BY

7. Open Educational Resources
“OER are teaching, learning, and research
resources that reside in the public domain
or have been released under an intellectual
property license that permits their free use
and re-purposing by others.”
-- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education/open-educational-resources

8. Open Textbooks
Similar to any other textbook, but with an
open license to allow revision/reuse
• Often a “creative commons” license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Online, PDF, ebook, or printed
• Free of cost online; often small charge for
printed version

9. Benefits of open textbooks: Cost
Students spend $1200/yr
on textbooks
Source: Fixing the Broken Textbook Market U.S. Student PIRGs, licensed CC BY 4.0
Cover image: Center for Public Interest Research, CC-BY 4.0 license
-- College Board, U.S.
65% of students have not
purchased a textbook for a
course during their academic
career because of price
Nearly half said textbook cost
affected course choice
Slide adapted from Clint Lalonde, BCcampus, CC-BY

10. Benefits of open textbooks: Own & Retain
Ebooks may not
allow you to
copy and paste,
print or
redistribute
May only have
access for short
period of time
System Lock, Flickr photo shared by Yuri Samoilov, licensed CC
BY 2.0

11. Benefits of open textbooks: Adaptability
Take out what you don’t need, add in your
own materials or OER from others …
E.g., lecture
notes, videos,
images,
quizzes, & more
CC-A license to remix, flickr photo
shared by fotonen, CC BY 2.0

12. Where to find open textbooks
open.bccampus.ca
openstaxcollege.org
open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
Collegeopentextbooks.org

13. HELP?
Looking for ways to:
• Increase awareness of OER and open textbooks
• Encourage adoption of open textbooks by faculty
• Encourage reviews of open textbooks by faculty
• Hopefully increase the number of open textbooks
over time (will require more funding)

14. Thank You
c.hendricks@ubc.ca
@clhendricksbc
http://blogs.ubc.ca/chris
tinahendricks
open.bccampus.ca