This presentation summarizes research on the high costs of textbooks and their negative impact on students. It notes that the presentation is a derivative work based on four other works licensed under Creative Commons licenses. The presentation then provides data showing rising student loan debt levels in the US and Canada, large increases in textbook costs, and negative impacts of these costs such as students not purchasing required textbooks or taking certain courses due to textbook costs. It advocates for adopting open textbooks to provide significant savings for students while improving access and learning outcomes.

1. This presentation is a derivative work based upon 3 works: Adopting Open Textbooks Workshop by Clint Lalonde,
Adopting Open Textbooks Workshop by Paul Stacey, Open Education: The Business and Policy Case for OER by Dr. Cable Green,
and OER: Relieving the Pressure by Dr. David Wiley,
all of which were licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY)
Except where otherwise noted this Adopting Open Textbooks Workshop presentation
is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY)
RAJIV JHANGIANI, Ph.D.!
Department of Psychology!
OER Meeting!
Kwantlen Polytechnic University !
May 29, 2014!

2. • In
Sept.
2010
Federal
student
loan
debt
surpassed
$15
billion

3. • In
Sept.
2010
Federal
student
loan
debt
surpassed
$15
billion
• Average
BC
student
debt
in
2011
was
~$29,497

4. • In
Sept.
2010
Federal
student
loan
debt
surpassed
$15
billion
• Average
BC
student
debt
in
2011
was
~$29,497
• The
cost
of
textbooks
has
increased
by
812%
over
30
years

5. • In
Sept.
2010
Federal
student
loan
debt
surpassed
$15
billion
• Average
BC
student
debt
in
2011
was
~$29,497
• The
cost
of
textbooks
has
increased
by
812%
over
30
years
• BC
students
now
work
180%
more
hours
than
they
did
in
1975
to
pay
for
PSE

6. • In
Sept.
2010
Federal
student
loan
debt
surpassed
$15
billion
• Average
BC
student
debt
in
2011
was
~$29,497
• The
cost
of
textbooks
has
increased
by
812%
over
30
years
• BC
students
now
work
180%
more
hours
than
they
did
in
1975
to
pay
for
PSE
• 60+%
of
students
have
at
some
point
decided
against
buying
a
textbook
due
to
cost

7. • In
Sept.
2010
Federal
student
loan
debt
surpassed
$15
billion
• Average
BC
student
debt
in
2011
was
~$29,497
• The
cost
of
textbooks
has
increased
by
812%
over
30
years
• BC
students
now
work
180%
more
hours
than
they
did
in
1975
to
pay
for
PSE
• 60+%
of
students
have
at
some
point
decided
against
buying
a
textbook
due
to
cost
• E-­‐textbooks
cost
students
more
$
$$,
not
less

8. Hriday
Thakkar,
19
Interna'onal
economics,
Foothill
College
“The
price
of
textbooks
has
influenced
my
decision
to
take
classes.
When
the
same
class
is
offered
by
three
different
instructors,
I
check
which
book
is
the
cheapest,
and
even
though
the
professor
might
not
be
good,
I’m
forced
to
take
that
class
because
the
textbook
is
the
cheapest.”
Johnny
Lazzarini,
21
Biology,
Foothill
College
“When
I
look
at
a
syllabus
and
it
says,
‘required
text,’
I
think
in
my
head,
‘Oh,
that’s
adorable.’
One
of
the
resources
that
I
use
before
I
sign
up
for
class
is
Rate
My
Professors.
If
they
say
you
rarely
if
ever
need
the
textbook,
why
am
I
going
to
drop
a
hundred
bucks
on
a
textbook?
I’m
not
gonna
do
it.”

9. Jus6n
Abraham,
21
Economics,
U.
of
California
at
Berkeley
“I’ve
never
bought
a
textbook
from
the
bookstore,
like
in
my
en_re
college.
I’m
buying
textbooks,
but
the
interna_onal
version.
It’s
like
way
cheaper.
For
my
‘Intro
to
Stats’
class,
the
usual
cost
of
the
textbook
is
like
$120.
But
then
I
got
a
copy
from
India
for
like
$29.
And
it’s
the
exact
same
copy.”
Sargunjot
Kaur,
20
Computer
science,
U.
of
California
at
Berkeley
“In
the
beginning
of
the
semester
we’ll
be
trying
to
buy
books,
and
you
can
put
it
on
Facebook,
be
like,
Oh,
I’m
taking
this
class.
A
lot
of
people
will
just
be
like,
Oh,
I
actually
have
the
PDF,
let
me
send
it
to
you.
Or
I
was
in
lab
one
day
and
the
guy
sibng
next
to
me
had
the
PDF
version
of
the
book
opened
on
his
computer.
And
I
was
like,
Oh,
can
I
have
a
copy?
And
he
sent
it
over
to
me.”

10. OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License

11. What are OER?
“Open Educational Resources (OERs) are teaching,
learning, and research resources that reside in the
public domain or have been released under an
intellectual property license that permits their free use
and re-purposing by others.”
Source: William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources

13. Philosophy
of
Openness
Open
Textbooks
Open
Research
Open
Publica_on
Prac_ces
Open
Pedagogy

14. Some
advantages
of
going
open
• Significant
savings
to
students
• Greater
access
&
convenience
• Ability
to
adapt,
update,
&
remix
• Befer
student
performance
&
reten_on
• Ins_tu_onal
advantages
• Live
more
closely
in
concert
with
values

16. Research
Methods
(Fall
2013
&
Spring
2014)
• 67
students
collec_vely
saved
$8700
$120
$0
(digital)
or
$13.06
(print)

17. “Having
the
free
textbook
available
to
me
online
was
great
in
so
many
ways.
It
allowed
me
to
save
$130
and
when
you’re
on
a
fixed
budget
like
I
am,
it
helped
me
a
lot.
Also
it
being
free
and
online
allowed
me
to
download
it
to
all
my
portable
devices
without
having
to
pay
for
more
registra_ons
like
other
downloadable
books
do.
So
I
could
take
it
with
me
wherever
I
went.”
Research
Methods
(Fall
2013
&
Spring
2014)

18. Research
Methods
(Fall
2013
&
Spring
2014)
“Having
the
online
text
book
in
my
Research
Methods
class
was
great
it
saved
me
and
everyone
in
class
from
having
to
spend
$130!
Now
when
you’re
on
a
student
budget
that’s
huge!
Now
if
we
could
only
get
all
my
classes
to
do
that
I
wouldn’t
have
to
spend
so
much
money
on
just
text
books!”

22. BC
Campus
Open
Textbook
Project
hfp://open.bccampus.ca/
BC
Campus
Shareable
Online
Learning
Resources
hfp://solr.bccampus.ca/wp/
Saylor
Academy
Library
hfps://saylor.longsight.com/
OpenStax
College
hfp://openstaxcollege.org/books
OpenStax
CNX
hfp://cnx.org/
Open
Textbook
Library
(U
of
Minnesota)
hfp://open.umn.edu/
opentextbooks/
Merlot
hfp://www.merlot.org/
NOBA
Project
hfp://nobaproject.com/
American
Ins_tute
of
Mathema_cs
hfp://aimath.org/textbooks/
Crea_ve
Commons
hfp://
search.crea_vecommons.org/

23. Creative Commons License Features
Credit:
Adop'ng
Open
Textbooks
Workshop
by
Paul
Stacey
licensed
under
a
Crea've
Commons
AHribu'on
3.0
Unported
License
(CC-­‐BY

24. Credit:
Adop'ng
Open
Textbooks
Workshop
by
Paul
Stacey
licensed
under
a
Crea've
Commons
AHribu'on
3.0
Unported
License
(CC-­‐BY