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This presentation discusses open textbooks and their benefits. It notes that open textbooks can increase access to higher education by reducing costs for students. Several studies found that students performed equally well or better with open textbooks compared to traditional textbooks. However, advocacy for open textbooks is still lacking. The presentation encourages students to advocate for open textbooks by creating presentations and displays for faculty, reviewing open textbooks, and forming student groups to raise awareness of high textbook costs and push for more open alternatives.
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- 1. open.bcit.ca Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution. About Open Textbooks
- 2. open.bcit.ca Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution. Open Textbooks Simulations Wikis Blogs Adaptive tests
- 3. open.bcit.ca Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution. Why are we doing OT? To increase access to higher education by reducing student costs To give faculty more control over their instructional resources To improve learning outcomes for students Annie Lennox campaigns with Oxfam at the AIDS Conference by Oxfam used under CC-BY-NC-ND license
- 4. open.bcit.ca Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution. OER and Student Achievement 11 Peer Reviewed Studies http://openedgroup.org/
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- 8. open.bcit.ca Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution. open.bccampus.ca
- 9. open.bcit.ca Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution. open.bcit.ca Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution. Student Debt Crisis
- 10. open.bcit.ca Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution. Education is expensive Image credit: Beyond Textbooks by Thomas used under CC-BY license. Text credit: Open Textbook Network used under CC-BY license. • Tuition and Fees • Room and Board • Books and Supplies • Personal Expenses • Transportation
- 11. open.bcit.ca Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution. How much students say they spend on textbooks per term in Canada Source: Data on Textbook Costs, Higher Education Strategy Associates, 2015. Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution.
- 12. open.bcit.ca Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution. Average Student Expenditures onTextbooks The Peak: SFU Campus Newspaper
- 13. open.bcit.ca Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution. 66% do not purchase books at some point due to book cost 47.6% take fewer courses due to book cost 45.5% choose not to register for a course due to book cost 37.6% regularly go without textbooks and earn a poor grade due to book cost 26.1% have dropped a course due to book cost 20.7% have withdrawn from a course due to book cost Impact of Textbook Cost Source: 2016 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey – Florida Virtual Campus (DRAFT)
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- 15. open.bcit.ca Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution. The goal Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution. Free, high quality Textbooks for all No Compromise
- 16. open.bcit.ca Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution. open.bcit.ca Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution. Advocacy is lacking
- 17. open.bcit.ca Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution. What can YOU do? • Presentations • Utilize visuals, create displays • Speak directly to faculty • Suggest that faculty review a textbook • Showcase examples • Form a student led OER group • Run a #textbookbroke campaing • Connect. Collaborate. Join forces.
- 18. open.bcit.ca Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under CC-BY. 4.0 International. Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution. What can YOU do? https://open.bccampus.ca/2013/03/11/how-students-can-advocate-for-open-textbooks/
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- 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.
- There are three main reasons that propel BCcampus’s drive for open education and in particular in the open textbook project. To increase access to higher education by reducing students, to give faculty more control over their instructional resources, and to improve learning outcomes for students. The goals of the BC Open textbook project are, first and foremost, to increase access to higher education by making higher education more affordable. Students pay an average of $1200 per year in textbook costs and for some students that can be a barrier to their education in a number of ways. Our second goal is to give faculty more control and power over the learning resources they use in the classroom. Because open textbooks have a Creative Commons license that allows for the book to be modified, instructors can modify and tailor their textbook to fit their course instead of modifying their course to fit a publisher’s textbook. Thirdly, we want to contribute to improving learning outcomes for students
- There are a number of studies that highlight the proven quality and efficacy of open educational resources. One result in particular, and most recent, highlights just this. Across eleven academic studies that attempted to measure results pertaining to student learning (with 48,623 students participated) none showed results in which students who utilized OER performed worse than their peers who used traditional textbooks. Allen, G., Guzman-Alvarez, A., Molinaro, M., Larsen, D. (2015). Assessing the Impact and Efficacy of the Open-Access ChemWiki Textbook Project. Educause Learning Initiative Brief, January 2015. See also this newsletter. Bowen, W. G., Chingos, M. M., Lack, K. A., & Nygren, T. I. (2012). Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence from Randomized Trials. Ithaka S+R. Bowen, W. G., Chingos, M. M., Lack, K. A., & Nygren, T. I. (2014). Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence from a Six‐Campus Randomized Trial. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 33(1), 94-111. Feldstein, A., Martin, M., Hudson, A., Warren, K., Hilton, J., & Wiley, D. (2012). Open textbooks and increased student access and outcomes. European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning. Retrieved from http://www.eurodl.org/index.php?p=archives&year=2012&halfyear=2&article=533. Gil, P., Candelas, F., Jara, C., Garcia, G., Torres, F (2013). Web-based OERs in Computer Networks. International Journal of Engineering Education, 29(6), 1537-1550. (OA preprint) Hilton, J., Gaudet, D., Clark, P., Robinson, J., & Wiley, D. (2013). The adoption of open educational resources by one community college math department. The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 14(4), 37–50. Hilton, J., & Laman, C. (2012). One college’s use of an open psychology textbook. Open Learning: The Journal of Open and Distance Learning, 27(3), 201–217. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02680513.2012.716657. (Open Repository Preprint). Lovett, M., Meyer, O., & Thille, C. (2008). The open learning initiative: Measuring the effectiveness of the OLI statistics course in accelerating student learning. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2008 (1). Pawlyshyn, Braddlee, Casper and Miller (2013). Adopting OER: A Case Study of Cross-Institutional Collaboration and Innovation. Educause Review. Robinson, T.J. (2015). Open Textbooks: The Effects of Open Educational Resource Adoption on Measures of Post-secondary Student Success (Doctoral dissertation). Robinson T. J., Fischer, L., Wiley, D. A., & Hilton, J. (2014). The impact of open textbooks on secondary science learning outcomes. Educational Researcher, 43(7): 341-351. Wiley, D., Hilton, J. Ellington, S., and Hall, T. (2012). “A preliminary examination of the cost savings and learning impacts of using open textbooks in middle and high school science classes.” International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. 13 (3), pp. 261-276.
- Almost 50, 000 students participating in eleven studies…
- …where 93% experienced the same or better outcomes when assigned open educational resources, such as open textbooks.
- One of the drivers for open education is that education is becoming increasingly more expenses. While there are a number of affordability issues, as listed in this slide, books and supplies are not the highest cost leading to affordability issues – but it is the one cost that faculty and institutions can impact and it has a special impact on the academic success of students.
- In the 2015 “Data on Textbook Costs” paper, Alex reports that in 2012, nearly 85% of the 1350 Canadian students polled stated spending between less than $200 to over $800 on textbooks per term. What’s interesting here is not what they paid, but how they chose to save money. After all, students have a number of potential strategies to avoid purchasing textbooks: they can sign them out of the library, they can buy them used, they can share with friends, and in some cases find pirated electronic copies on the internet. To observe how students were actually behaving, we asked them not just how much money they spent, but also: i) whether they actually bought all the required books and materials; and if not, ii) how much they would have spent if they actually had bought all the books.
- The 2012 Florida Student Textbook Survey takes this data one step further and illustrates how students behave when faced with high textbook costs. In this survey, 54 % spent more than $300 on textbooks during the Spring 2012 term and 19% spent over $500. More than half (64%) reported not having purchased the required textbook because of the high cost, and Almost one-fourth reported doing without frequently (23%). 45% reported not registering for a course 49% took fewer courses 27% dropped a course, 21% withdrew from a course.”
- AMS – UBC: Provides advice and links for how students can get involved