The Status of Open Educational Resources in Manitoba
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Status of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Manitoba presentation at MADLaT by Kathleen Fehr and Trent Gill from Campus Manitoba.
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The Status of Open Educational Resources in Manitoba
- 1. Access to education Is at the heart of everything we do. The Status of Open Educational Resources In Manitoba MADLaT 2016 Presenters: Kathleen Fehr, Special Projects Coordinator, Campus Manitoba Trent Gill, Virtual Help Desk Navigator and OER Generalist, Campus Manitoba Slides adapted from “Working Together for Students” by Clint Lalonde CC-BY 4.0 @campusmanitoba #openedmb
- 2. Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Feel free to use, modify, or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution.
- 3. CAMPUS MANITOBA Access to education is at the heart of everything we do. We seek the strength of collective action. We discover opportunities through openness. We create new pathways.
- 5. OpenEd Manitoba 1. Introduction and context 2. What are open textbooks? 3. Manitoba initiative (website demo) 4. Questions
- 6. What are students saying?
- 9. “The cardinal lesson is that prices rise unchecked if the people who order the goods aren’t paying the prices.” The $250 Econ 101 Textbook, Craig Richardson, Wall Street Journal, Jan. 13, 2015
- 10. How students battled textbook publishers to a draw, Planet Money, NPR, Oct 9, 2014
- 11. How students battled textbook publishers to a draw, Planet Money, NPR, Oct 9, 2014 What is going on here?
- 12. Traditional copyright • Lead question of another session: “Are you a copyright criminal?” David Weiss | CC-BY
- 13. What are Open Textbooks? A textbook licensed under an open copyright license, and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers and members of the public. They are available for free as online and electronic versions, or as low-cost printed versions, should students opt for these.
- 14. Where do open textbooks come from? 14
- 15. The 5 R’s of Open Content • Make and own copiesRetain • Use in a wide range of waysReuse • Adapt, modify, and improveRevise • Combine two or moreRemix • Share with othersRedistribute
- 16. Creative Commons logo by Creative Commons used under a CC-BY 3.0 License CC license image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 license
- 17. Faculty have full legal rights to customize & contextualize open textbooks to fit their pedagogical needs.
- 18. BC Open Textbook Project Don’t reinvent it by Andrea Hernandez released under CC-BY-NC-SA and based on Wheel by Pauline Mak released under CC-BY license
- 19. Results in BC
- 20. Story from UBC
- 21. open.bccampus.ca
- 22. openedmb.ca
- 27. So far Reviews completed Reviews in progress 8 16 Manitoba Reviews Introducing Marketing & Principles of Marketing Anatomy and Physiology Analytical Chemistry English Literature: Victorians and Moderns Research Methods in Psychology Introductory Business Statistics Writing for Success: First Canadian Edition (in progress) Canadian History: Pre-Confederation
- 28. Participating Institutions Assiniboine Community College Brandon University Red River College The University of Winnipeg Manitoba Institute of Trades & Technology The University of Winnipeg Canadian Mennonite University
- 30. 30 11 Peer Reviewed Studies 48,623 Students 93% Same or Better Outcomes Source: http://openedgroup.org/ Adapted from David Wiley CC-BY
- 31. Next steps • Collaborative projects to encourage adaptations and adoptions • More information about OER use across the system • Long-term
- 32. Access to education Is at the heart of everything we do. The Status of Open Educational Resources In Manitoba Slides adapted from “Working Together for Students” by Clint Lalonde CC-BY 4.0 MADLaT 2016 @campusmanitoba #openedmb
Editor's Notes
- Why we do it: Access to education is at the heart of everything we do. Manitoba’s post-secondary sector is committed to higher education – the creation, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge. As such, our purpose is to expand access and connect students to the opportunities that higher education offers. What we do: We provide students the tools to find their educational path, navigate through it, and achieve their goals. Our strength is in finding solutions that come from the collective efforts of Manitoba’s post-secondary education institutions – our partners. These solutions currently include eCourses Manitoba, Set Your Course, Open Ed Manitoba, and Transfer Manitoba. In addition to these online services, students are able to get help from the Student Advocate and our Virtual Help Desk Navigators. How we do it We seek the strength of collective action. We discover opportunities through openness. We create new pathways.
- We actively spread awareness of Open Educational Resources (OER) to enhance teaching and learning across the province, and to save students money.
- Tuition costs are rising and textbooks are expensive.
- The rise in textbooks are exponentially greater than consumer goods. The reason for this… [next slide]
- …Is, analysts say, students are “captive consumers” Which means the consumer does not decide which product to buy, rather it is chosen for them, similar to how a doctor prescribes a given pharmaceutical. So the rise in prices remain unchecked. But it’s not just about cost…
- There are pedagogical implications to high textbook costs. In 2001, here’s the breakdown of textbooks bought, and we can see that students either bought them new or used. In 2013, students have more choices. They rented, perhaps borrowed.
- But although there were more alternatives, there seems to be a gap. A study was done about this and it shows that students are not acquiring the textbooks at all. In this study, 65% of students admitted that there was a point in their academic career that they didn’t buy a textbook for a course because of price. When students start out or go through the course without the resources they need, it has negative impacts on their learning.
- Problems: Textbooks are expensive Students are not using them Student can’t keep them Students fall behind Students are taking more time to finish Learning is negatively affected Traditional copyright limits is not as compatible with the kind of learning environment that we hope to create if we truly believe in “open and accessible” learning. Educators want to focus on teaching and learning, less on whether they’re breaking copyright laws. No solution is perfect, but there are opportunities to use learning resources that are equally effective and more easily acquired than traditional textbooks. Open Textbooks are the most immediately recognized bridge between traditional proprietary methods and an open environment and ecosystem for education.