Research Examining the Impact of Open Textbook Adoption on Teaching and Learning: Early Findings
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Presentation at CCCOER Meeting , June 22, 2010 Clare Mortensen, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
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Research Examining the Impact of Open Textbook Adoption on Teaching and Learning: Early Findings
- 1. Research Examining the Impact of Open Textbook Adoption on Teaching and Learning: Early Findings CCCOER Meeting , June 22, 2010 Clare Mortensen, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education ISKME:
- 4. Insight into ways that open textbook use enhances teaching and learning
- 5. Identification of benefits and challenges of open textbook adoption in terms of teaching, learning, and institutional policyCCOTP/CCCOER Interviews Administrator Interviews Bookstore Mgr. Interviews Student interviews Faculty Interviews Research Questions Data Collection Methods
- 10. SEP
- 11. CurriculumNet
- 13. Siyavula
- 14. Online Learningin Dev Ed
- 15. Cyberlearning in Community Colleges
- 17. MITE
- 18. Ongoing Projects
- 19. Community College Open Textbook Project
- 20. OER PD
- 21. Ways that OER supports teaching and learning
- 22. Emergent practices/perceptions aligned to OER
- 23. Types of and ways knowledge is shared through OER
- 24. OER communities of practice
- 25. Creation, use and reuse behaviors
- 27. Existing behaviors to support use of online resources and OER
- 30. Disciplines and Type of Courses Taught Computer Science Political Science 65% teach online or hybrid courses Education Fine Arts Business and Economics Math Academic Discipline (N=17)
- 31. Familiarity and Engagement with Open Textbooks 94% first-time adopters of open textbooks authors of open textbooks 29%
- 32. Textbook Repositories Used 47% 24% 12% 12% 6% N = 17
- 33. Textbook Licenses Used 59% 29% 29% 6% N = 17
- 35. Word of mouth
- 36. Authorship
- 37. Peer review
- 39. Interactivity
- 41. Impact of Open Textbook Use on Teaching Practice I’m now offering students the ability to interact with information and their interaction is what leads the classroom. It’s not just the method of information that’s being changed, it provides the opportunity for students to access more original material in a way that promotes interactive learning. Enhances faculty’s ability to support interactive learning processes
- 42. Impact of Open Textbook Use on Teaching Practice Now I send emails to my students with a URL link to the chapter they’re supposed to read. It helps keep them on track with where we are in the course. Enhances faculty’s ability to support students’ metacognitive processes
- 46. Conducting analysis of data
- 47. Dissemination of findings in Fall 2010/Winter 2011
Editor's Notes
- Shows the trajectory of our research how we’ve built upon our learnings/finding over time…early research in ‘03 focused on online resources (not open resources) and instructgors interest in using online resources. Started looking at digital resources and whether instructors were intersted in using them.Then worked on six studies of OER – how users on an OER platform create and use materials, incentives and dicinsentives to that use and creationThen moved into questions that focus on how OER is aligned to teaching and learning and what new practices OER might support
- Faculty interviewed represented six major academic disciplinesOf the faculty that have been interviewed so far, 29% are from public universities, 18% are from private universities, and 53% from community collegesOf those faculty we have yet to interview/contact for interviews, 90% are community college faculty (and 20 of the 24 to be contacted are De Anza College faculty using Collaborative Statistics)Ten States Represented (2) California (2) Florida (4) Washington (2) Pennsylvania (2) New York (5) Other (IL, MA, MT, NH, TX)
- Among the faculty interviewed, about half are using textbooks available via Flat World KnowledgeAbout a quarter of the faculty reported the textbook they are using is not available any of the more well known repositories but rather the textbook is posted as a document/pdf on a university website or a personal website. Lulu may be used in combination so that students can order hard copies. Textbook authors expressed interest/desire to post their book on other repositories as well – or stated they’d heard that it has been posted elsewhere by someone else (so there is some overlap btw these categories)
- Among the faculty interviewed, about half are using textbooks available via Flat World KnowledgeAbout a quarter of the faculty reported the textbook they are using is not available any of the more well known repositories but rather the textbook is posted as a document/pdf on a university website or a personal website. Lulu may be used in combination so that students can order hard copies. Textbook authors expressed interest/desire to post their book on other repositories as well – or stated they’d heard that it has been posted elsewhere by someone else (so there is some overlap btw these categories)
- Faculty are motivated by pricePeer review – several faculty discussed how open textbooks need to be brought into existing peer review processes at colleges and universities. We are addressing that with CCOTCA couple of faculty interviewed talked about the potential for open textbooks to be adopted department-wide. While faculty resist any infringement on autonomy, the fact that open textbooks can be modified/the sequence can be changed means there’s more potential for department wide adoption. Addresses issue of having common course material across many courses taught by different faculty.
- Faculty are motivated by pricePeer review – several faculty discussed how open textbooks need to be brought into existing peer review processes at colleges and universities. We are addressing that with CCOTCA couple of faculty interviewed talked about the potential for open textbooks to be adopted department-wide. While faculty resist any infringement on autonomy, the fact that open textbooks can be modified/the sequence can be changed means there’s more potential for department wide adoption. Addresses issue of having common course material across many courses taught by different faculty.
- Information Systems: online textbook “models everything we’re talking about in class”Political Science: online textbook enhances interactivity between traditional course material and public domain websites (such as whitehouse.com)Mathematics: difficult to utilize disjointed OER materials; an open textbook provides consistency in notation – “I can’t see how a math book could be a mashup”Sciences: open textbooks lend themselves well to “the linear nature of teaching certain subjects”
- Tell the audience: Students tell faculty it’s easier to locate information using open textbooks