This document summarizes an event where 20 academics gathered in Chilliwack, British Columbia to create test questions for open textbooks as part of the Open Textbook Project. They aimed to make educational history by developing a large bank of high-quality questions. A study is mentioned that found students using open textbooks performed as well or better than those using commercial textbooks on exams, with open digital textbooks showing no significant difference in scores compared to commercial textbooks. The event aimed to build institutional capacity for open educational resources through workshops, grants, and impact research on open textbooks and open educational practices.
Why Should You Care About Open Educational Resources?Una Daly
OER Grant Opportunities for California Community Colleges
1. AB 798 Textbook Affordability Act of 2015
2. Achieving the Dream's OER Degree Initiative
3. California State Budget Proposal 2016-17 for OER Degrees
Why Should You Care About Open Educational Resources?Una Daly
OER Grant Opportunities for California Community Colleges
1. AB 798 Textbook Affordability Act of 2015
2. Achieving the Dream's OER Degree Initiative
3. California State Budget Proposal 2016-17 for OER Degrees
June 8: Designing for Open Pedagogy with CCCOERUna Daly
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free and open webinar on Designing for Open Pedagogy. Open Pedagogy was first introduced by Lumen Learning co-founder David Wiley, as a way to capture how the use of OER can change educational practices. He relates that using OER in the same way as traditional textbooks is like driving an airplane down the road – it is missing out on what open can provide for student and teacher collaboration, engagement, and learning.
When: June 8, 10amPST/1pmEST
We will hear from two professors who have not only adopted OER but have redesigned their courses with the principles of open pedagogy. Although reduced cost is what originally attracted them to using OER, involving their students in creating and evaluating OER course materials has significantly increased student engagement and critical thinking and their courses are continually being updated and improved as a result.
Featured Speakers:
• Suzanne Wakim, Biology Faculty Butte College, OER Coordinator
Will share her open course design strategy where students in subsequent semesters build on the work of those before them to create an open textbook and ancillary material. Students discuss and decide on how best to present material in the book, what applications are relevant for each topic, and what materials can help other students learn the course content.
• Mike Elmore, Political Science Faculty, Tacoma Community College
Will share how he has engaged students in collaborative writing of an Introduction to Political Science open textbook. His students report that writing assignments take on new meaning when they realize that other people are going to read their work. Not just repeating what they have read or heard in class, they compare their understanding with their peers and collaborate to present their ideas in the best way possible.
Participant Login Information:
No pre-registration is necessary. Please use the link below on the day of the webinar to login and listen.
http://www.cccconfer.org/GoToMeeting?SeriesID=62446bc7-ca21-4fb3-a56b-7f135cc8cde4
Posted by: Una Daly, Director of Curriculum Design & College Outreach, OEC Consortium, email: unatdaly@oeconsortium.org
Social Media for Medical Researchers: Is it worth the time?Julie Leask
Session for Early Career Researchers in Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, 25 September 2013.
Presenters: Julie Leask and Cameron Webb, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
Finding and adopting oer with CanvasCommons, OpenStax, and SaylorUna Daly
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free, open webinar on finding the most recently updated open textbooks, open courses, and open educational resources for college. Speakers will share their open collections: how to find content, peer review processes, and strategies for encouraging faculty adoptions to improve teaching and learning and expand access for learners.
Date: Wed, Sept 9, Time: 10 am PST, 1:00 pm EST
Featured Speakers:
open neon sign
Image: CCO License
Kate McGee, Project Director, Canvas Commons
Nicole Finkbeiner, Associate Director of Institutional Relations, OpenStax College
Tanner Huggins, Educational Project Manager, Saylor Academy
Best Practices for Faculty Development to Promote Adoption of OERUna Daly
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free and open webinar on best practices for Faculty Development to promote OER adoption. Two librarians who are leading efforts in their states to inform and inspire faculty to adopt OER will be featured.
Open Oregon is a project of the Oregon’s community colleges focused on reducing textbooks costs and open education is gaining momentum as an innovative and long-term solution to the problem. Amy Hofer is the statewide coordinator of these efforts and works with all 17 community colleges in Oregon to help promote these efforts through faculty development and sharing resources centrally.
Lansing Community College held its first OER Summit in fall of 2015. With support from their Provost, Regina Gong and her team organized a statewide event for Michigan community college featuring OER thought leaders from many organizations including CCCOER and also faculty from Lansing Community College. It was an important event to inform and advocate for using open educational resources to reduce costs and expand faculty’s curriculum choices.
Date: Wed, February 10, Time: 10 am PST, 1:00 pm EST
Featured Speakers:
• Amy Hofer, Coordinator, Statewide Open Education Library Services, Open Oregon
• Regina Gong, Manager of Library Technical Services and Systems, Lansing Community College
Open Textbooks Workshop: University of Sunderland Beck Pitt
This workshop was conducted by Beck Pitt at the University of Sunderland on Wednesday 13 December 2017 as part of the Hewlett funded UK Open Textbooks Project.
The workshop slide deck was originally developed by David Ernst of the Open Textbook Network, see: https://www.slideshare.net/djernst
For more on the UK Open Textbooks project: http://ukopentextbooks.org
Back to the Features: questioning the impact of ancillary resources on open t...Arthur Green
In this session, we present several case studies of ancillary resource development for open textbooks in British Columbia. Through these case studies we explore an emerging framework for best practices and the often unrecognized challenges that ancillary resource development poses for open educational resources (OER).
There is increasing evidence that lack of ancillary resources impact OER adoption. Over 40% of the respondents to a 2016 survey of 2,902 faculty members at 29 higher education institutions ranked instructor supplements and student supplements (ancillary resources) as important or very important factors in textbook adoption (Green 2016).
Indeed, the lack of ancillary resources for open textbooks negatively impacts faculty perceptions and adoption rates (Jhangiani et al. 2016). While ancillary resources are often expected by overworked instructors in need of teaching aids, the development of ancillary resources for open textbooks poses several challenges that can be both logistic and fundamental to open education.
For example, ancillary resources may not be shared in the same locations as the associated open textbook, may not be adequately updated with new textbook versions, may not be openly licensed, and may actually undermine the opportunity that open textbooks provide to improve pedagogical approaches.
Moreover, the types of ancillary resources required and the way ancillary resources are developed in different disciplinary settings may require different strategic approaches. In this presentation, we overview these challenges, introduce some applied examples of ancillary resource development, and provide the first steps towards best practices for ancillary resource development.
Back to the Features: Questioning the Impact of Ancillary Resources on Open T...BCcampus
Arthur Gill Green,Teaching and Learning Fellow, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow University of British Columbia and College Professor, Okanagan College
Jennifer Kirkey, Instructor of Physics and Astronomy, Douglas College
Rod Lidstone, Instructor, Plumbing, Pipe and Refrigeration Trades, Camosun College
Festival of Learning: Celebrating Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in Burnaby, B.C. from June 6 -9, 2016
June 8: Designing for Open Pedagogy with CCCOERUna Daly
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free and open webinar on Designing for Open Pedagogy. Open Pedagogy was first introduced by Lumen Learning co-founder David Wiley, as a way to capture how the use of OER can change educational practices. He relates that using OER in the same way as traditional textbooks is like driving an airplane down the road – it is missing out on what open can provide for student and teacher collaboration, engagement, and learning.
When: June 8, 10amPST/1pmEST
We will hear from two professors who have not only adopted OER but have redesigned their courses with the principles of open pedagogy. Although reduced cost is what originally attracted them to using OER, involving their students in creating and evaluating OER course materials has significantly increased student engagement and critical thinking and their courses are continually being updated and improved as a result.
Featured Speakers:
• Suzanne Wakim, Biology Faculty Butte College, OER Coordinator
Will share her open course design strategy where students in subsequent semesters build on the work of those before them to create an open textbook and ancillary material. Students discuss and decide on how best to present material in the book, what applications are relevant for each topic, and what materials can help other students learn the course content.
• Mike Elmore, Political Science Faculty, Tacoma Community College
Will share how he has engaged students in collaborative writing of an Introduction to Political Science open textbook. His students report that writing assignments take on new meaning when they realize that other people are going to read their work. Not just repeating what they have read or heard in class, they compare their understanding with their peers and collaborate to present their ideas in the best way possible.
Participant Login Information:
No pre-registration is necessary. Please use the link below on the day of the webinar to login and listen.
http://www.cccconfer.org/GoToMeeting?SeriesID=62446bc7-ca21-4fb3-a56b-7f135cc8cde4
Posted by: Una Daly, Director of Curriculum Design & College Outreach, OEC Consortium, email: unatdaly@oeconsortium.org
Social Media for Medical Researchers: Is it worth the time?Julie Leask
Session for Early Career Researchers in Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, 25 September 2013.
Presenters: Julie Leask and Cameron Webb, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
Finding and adopting oer with CanvasCommons, OpenStax, and SaylorUna Daly
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free, open webinar on finding the most recently updated open textbooks, open courses, and open educational resources for college. Speakers will share their open collections: how to find content, peer review processes, and strategies for encouraging faculty adoptions to improve teaching and learning and expand access for learners.
Date: Wed, Sept 9, Time: 10 am PST, 1:00 pm EST
Featured Speakers:
open neon sign
Image: CCO License
Kate McGee, Project Director, Canvas Commons
Nicole Finkbeiner, Associate Director of Institutional Relations, OpenStax College
Tanner Huggins, Educational Project Manager, Saylor Academy
Best Practices for Faculty Development to Promote Adoption of OERUna Daly
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free and open webinar on best practices for Faculty Development to promote OER adoption. Two librarians who are leading efforts in their states to inform and inspire faculty to adopt OER will be featured.
Open Oregon is a project of the Oregon’s community colleges focused on reducing textbooks costs and open education is gaining momentum as an innovative and long-term solution to the problem. Amy Hofer is the statewide coordinator of these efforts and works with all 17 community colleges in Oregon to help promote these efforts through faculty development and sharing resources centrally.
Lansing Community College held its first OER Summit in fall of 2015. With support from their Provost, Regina Gong and her team organized a statewide event for Michigan community college featuring OER thought leaders from many organizations including CCCOER and also faculty from Lansing Community College. It was an important event to inform and advocate for using open educational resources to reduce costs and expand faculty’s curriculum choices.
Date: Wed, February 10, Time: 10 am PST, 1:00 pm EST
Featured Speakers:
• Amy Hofer, Coordinator, Statewide Open Education Library Services, Open Oregon
• Regina Gong, Manager of Library Technical Services and Systems, Lansing Community College
Open Textbooks Workshop: University of Sunderland Beck Pitt
This workshop was conducted by Beck Pitt at the University of Sunderland on Wednesday 13 December 2017 as part of the Hewlett funded UK Open Textbooks Project.
The workshop slide deck was originally developed by David Ernst of the Open Textbook Network, see: https://www.slideshare.net/djernst
For more on the UK Open Textbooks project: http://ukopentextbooks.org
Back to the Features: questioning the impact of ancillary resources on open t...Arthur Green
In this session, we present several case studies of ancillary resource development for open textbooks in British Columbia. Through these case studies we explore an emerging framework for best practices and the often unrecognized challenges that ancillary resource development poses for open educational resources (OER).
There is increasing evidence that lack of ancillary resources impact OER adoption. Over 40% of the respondents to a 2016 survey of 2,902 faculty members at 29 higher education institutions ranked instructor supplements and student supplements (ancillary resources) as important or very important factors in textbook adoption (Green 2016).
Indeed, the lack of ancillary resources for open textbooks negatively impacts faculty perceptions and adoption rates (Jhangiani et al. 2016). While ancillary resources are often expected by overworked instructors in need of teaching aids, the development of ancillary resources for open textbooks poses several challenges that can be both logistic and fundamental to open education.
For example, ancillary resources may not be shared in the same locations as the associated open textbook, may not be adequately updated with new textbook versions, may not be openly licensed, and may actually undermine the opportunity that open textbooks provide to improve pedagogical approaches.
Moreover, the types of ancillary resources required and the way ancillary resources are developed in different disciplinary settings may require different strategic approaches. In this presentation, we overview these challenges, introduce some applied examples of ancillary resource development, and provide the first steps towards best practices for ancillary resource development.
Back to the Features: Questioning the Impact of Ancillary Resources on Open T...BCcampus
Arthur Gill Green,Teaching and Learning Fellow, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow University of British Columbia and College Professor, Okanagan College
Jennifer Kirkey, Instructor of Physics and Astronomy, Douglas College
Rod Lidstone, Instructor, Plumbing, Pipe and Refrigeration Trades, Camosun College
Festival of Learning: Celebrating Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in Burnaby, B.C. from June 6 -9, 2016
About the Webinar
The most rapid developments in the world of e-books have taken place in the popular market for fiction and non-fiction monographs. However, with the development of new standards such as EPUB 3 that support multimedia and the improvements in reading devices, the penetration of electronic versions of trade books has advanced quite rapidly. The market for digital textbooks, however, has grown at a more modest rate for a variety of reasons. The electronic textbook marketplace is still working through some very complex technological and business model issues.
This two-part webinar series will explore the nascent world of electronic textbooks and how publishers, students, and librarians are dealing with these new products.
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Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
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8. “KPU Open Studies will act as a liaison to key
partnerships involving open educational
resources such as the BC Campus Open
Textbook project, and the Open Education
Resource universitas (OERu).”
13. Building Institutional Capacity
Talks, workshops, booths, press releases
Paid educational leave
Existing internal grants
New internal grants
External funding
Impact research
Development of a Z degree
Institutional policy
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16. I would not have bought the text book for
this course because it's an elective. I
would have possibly walked away with a
C, now I might actually get an A-
It is easily accessible and convenient.
Material is easy to understand and follow
I personally really like the convenience of having the
complete set of chapters on my computer and even
accessible from my phone if I need it. I like that I don't
have to lug around another text book
It's free and it's a great money saver
18. Academics aim for educational history in Chilliwack
By Chilliwack Times
Published: July 23, 2014 02:00 PM
Updated: July 23, 2014 02:362 PM
Tucked in a corner of the Cheam Mountain Golf Course clubhouse, twenty academics pored over textbooks and tapped
away on laptops Saturday in an effort to make educational history.
The participants, who all have doctorates in psychology, gathered from around British Columbia to create a body of
high-quality test questions for the Open Textbook Project.
19. Jhangiani et al. (under review)
Jhangiani, R., Dastur, F., LeGrand, R., & Penner, K. (under review). As good or better than
commercial textbooks: Students’ perceptions and outcomes from using open digital and
open print textbooks.
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"Open Textbook Summit 2015" by BCcampus_news is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Case study for how institutions can support faculty who wish to embrace open education.
Structural factors:
Undergraduate teaching university
Open access institution
35 students/class
Close to 2/3 from visible minority groups, 20% first generation students
Faculty under no obligation to perform research; however, some internal support for research
Cost savings + pedagogy; social justice + innovation; free + freedom
Academic freedom
The grassroots activity is matched by “grasstops” support
With the support of the VPA
Support & recognize existing open practitioners
Identify & remove barriers for potential practitioners
Identify & leverage low hanging fruit/easier wins
Talks, workshops (OT, open ped, open business models), booths, press releases
Open ed & access weeks
Draw on external expertise; collaborations
Faculty search interview includes a question about open practices. Strong signal.
+ Creation of the Open Studies TF position
Course evaluations
Make a strong case that open aligns with the the mandate of the institution
Work to secure resources but maintain academic freedom
Build internal capacity by using existing and new levers
Leverage external partnerships and collaborate
Slowly shift institutional culture