Presentation to the VCCS Reengineering Task Force on the TCDLR Interim Report. Richmond, VA Sept. 24th, 2013

1. TEXTBOOK COSTS
& DIGITAL
LEARNING
RESOURCES

2. Task Force on College Textbooks
JUNE 2004

3. Task Force on College Textbooks: 2004
1. Faculty members receive education about the cost of
textbooks. Particular attention is paid to those parts of
the ordering process over which they have leverage and
how this leverage can be used to help control costs.
2. Textbook adoption processes are formalized and include
textbook cost as a consideration.
3. The same textbook is adopted for all sections of a given
course within colleges and across multi-campus
colleges.
4. Textbook adoptions are consistent across statewide or
region-wide college groups.
5. Textbooks are adopted for a minimum of three years.
6. Academic divisions’ textbook orders are accurate and
timely.

4. Task Force on College Textbooks: 2004
7. The College encourages faculty to adopt or develop
alternatives to traditional textbooks for their classes.
8. The college provides students with alternative ways to
pay for textbooks.
9. The bookstore provides a used textbook sales and
purchase program that results in significant cost savings
to a significant number of students.
10.There is a positive working relationship between
bookstore personnel and college personnel.
11.Bookstores make use of less expensive sources for
textbooks.
12.The bookstore utilizes alternative approaches of
providing textbooks at lower cost to students.

6. $520-$1000
per semester

7. TEXTBOOK COSTS
& DIGITAL
LEARNING
RESOURCES
WORKGROUP

8. 1. Examine VCCS administrative
practices and policies that
unnecessarily add to the cost of
academic textbooks
1. Explore how networked digital
technology can best be leveraged to
lower the overall cost of
textbooks, including using open
educational resources

9. 3. Investigate ways which currently
licensed electronic resources can be
used in electronic "course packs," as
a substitute for text books, or for the
supplementary material often
required for a course of study
3. Identify opportunities for interested
VCCS faculty to explore using openly
licensed resources in their courses

10. 5. Examine the current relevance of
printed textbooks in an age of
interactive, web-based content,
digital publishing, and collaborative
social networks.
5. Recommend strategies and policies
for creating an institutional culture
that embraces and practices
openness, transparency,
collaboration, and sharing.

11. VISION
Our vision is to provide every
student with the opportunity to
receive high quality instruction with
supporting instructional resources
that are cost-effective, most
efficient for colleges, and supported
by faculty.

12. SUBCOMMITTEES
FINANCIAL AID
BOOKSTORE CONTRACTS
PUBLISHERS
ACCESSIBILITY
SURVEY
MOOC

13. FINANCIAL AID
• 34.7%, 100K+ students
• Awards disbursed after
15% of term has passed

14. • Follett (9 colleges)
• Barnes and Noble (4 colleges)
• Nebraska Book Company (5 college
• College-owned (5 colleges)
BOOKSTORE CONTRACTS

15. TEXTBOOK
PUBLISHERS

16. TEXTBOOK
PUBLISHERS

17. Accessibility

18. Teaching &
Learning

19. 2013 Horizon Report
Less than a year
• MOOCS
• Tablet computing
2-3 years
• Games & gamification
• Learning Analytics

20. LIBRARY
RESOURCES

21. LIBRARY
RESOURCES
PSY 200 pilot

22. Institutional
& faculty
culture“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”
–Peter Drucker

24. OER Incentives
Full-time
1. Grant funding
2. Release time
3. Additional education and training
4. Assistance from a peer group
Part-time
1. Additional education and training,
2. Grant funding
3. Assistance from a peer group
4. Release time

26. Chancellor’s OER Adoption Fund
1. BIO 101
2. BIO102
3. BUS 100
4. CHM 111
5. CST 100
6. ENG 111
7. ENG 112
8. HIS 101
9. ITE 115
10.MTH 163
11.PSY 201
12.SDV 100

27. Tidewater Community College
Open@TCC
Z Courses
Associate degree in Business Admin
$0 Textbook Costs

28. NVCC’s OER General Education Certificate
1. ENG 111
2. ENG 112
3. ENG 125
4. MTH 151
5. PHY 201
6. PHY 202
7. HIS 121
8. HIS 122
9. ART 101
10. ART 102
11. HIS 262
12.SDV 100

29. RECOMMENDATIONS
VCCS Presidential evaluations should be
revised to include metrics for measuring
the goal to significantly reduce the cost
of textbooks and related course
materials in at least 10% of all course
sections offered each year, in each of
the next ten years.
Institutional & faculty culture

30. RECOMMENDATIONS
Full-time faculty evaluations should
include required criteria to “select
high-quality learning resources, such
as textbooks, bearing in mind
appropriateness, necessity,
accessibility, and reduced student
costs”.
Institutional & faculty culture

31. RECOMMENDATIONS
Promote reduced student costs for
textbooks and related instructional
materials in new evaluation systems for
part-time and administrative faculty.
Institutional & faculty culture

32. RECOMMENDATIONS
Individual colleges and the System
Office should provide
training, resources, and incentives for
both full- and part-time faculty to
identify, develop, and/or adopt open
educational resources (OER) for their
courses.
Institutional & faculty culture

33. RECOMMENDATIONS
Encourage colleges to develop a
request for proposals (RFP) for potential
vendors to provide system-wide
bookstore services.
College Bookstore Contracts

34. RECOMMENDATIONS
Conduct periodic data collection to
determine student satisfaction and
student success related to
acquisition, cost and use of required
course materials over the next five years.
College Bookstore Contracts

35. RECOMMENDATIONS
Investigate the use of inexpensive print-
on-demand services to offer VCCS
students the option of printing high-
quality copies of any digital-only course
materials
College Bookstore Contracts

36. RECOMMENDATIONS
Pursue opportunities to collaborate with
publishers to design strategies to reduce
course materials costs in selected target
courses.
Textbook Publishers

37. RECOMMENDATIONS
Investigate and consider the feasibility of
introducing legislation to require
publishers to warehouse digital versions
of any adopted textbooks.
Textbook Publishers

38. RECOMMENDATIONS
Identify college practices relative to the
disbursement of financial aid that hinder
a student’s ability to acquire required
course materials before the first day of
class, remedy them to the greatest
extent possible, and develop best
practices for use by all colleges.
Financial Aid

39. RECOMMENDATIONS
Pursue opportunities to provide
additional flexibility in how students can
creatively access their financial aid to
obtain lower costs for required course
materials.
Financial Aid

40. RECOMMENDATIONS
Provide incentives and resources to
identify and package licensed library
resources into course packs for high
enrollment courses that can be freely
used as primary or supplementary
course materials by any VCCS faculty.
Library Resources

41. RECOMMENDATIONS
Provide incentives and resources to
identify and package licensed library
resources into course packs for high
enrollment courses that can be freely
used as primary or supplementary
course materials by any VCCS faculty.
Library Resources

42. RECOMMENDATIONS
Use LibGuides to quickly customize and
“brand” access to a set of particular e-
resources, whether library, open access,
or other.
Library Resources

43. RECOMMENDATIONS
Conduct a survey to determine the
extent to which recommendations of
the 2004 Task Force on College
Textbooks continue to be implemented.
Other Recommendations

44. RECOMMENDATIONS
Pursue the feasibility of establishing a flat
textbook fee.
Other Recommendations

45. RECOMMENDATIONS
Explore the use of alternative
technologies to provide students access
to low cost required course materials
(i.e., use of tablets pre-loaded with
required e-books).
Other Recommendations

46. Thanks!
Questions?