Adopting Open Textbooks workshop at Kwantlen Polytechnic University http://open.bccampus.ca/2013/01/28/adopting-open-textbooks-workshop-kwantlen/

1. Adopting Open Textbooks
Workshop
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
February 26, 2013

2. Workshop Team
BCcampus
• Terrie McAloney
• Sylvia Currie
• Mary Burgess
• Hilda Anggraeni and Heather Kincaid (Thanks for the graphic
wall!)
KPU
• Meg Goodine
• Jane Fee
• Alan Davis
• Judie Phillips
• Todd Mundle
NWCC and Douglas College
• Adrienne Watt
Creative Commons
• Paul Stacey
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3. Today’s Agenda
• Myth or Fact?
• Creative Commons Licensing
• BCcampus Open Textbook Project
• Lunch: Keynote
• Discovery & Selection
• Institutional Processes
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4. Activity
1. Open textbooks: One thing you know or want to know
2. Myth or Fact
• All open textbooks are peer-reviewed
• Open Educational Resources (OER) are free
• OER are in the public domain
• Publisher produced material is better than OER
• Open textbooks hurt bookstores
• eBooks are open textbooks
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5. Creative
Commons
Licensing
Paul Stacey
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6. A
Case:
From
Start
to
Finish
Adrienne Watt
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7. Need
 Affordability for student $$$
 Availability for class start
 Obsolescence of textbook content
 Content is too broad
 Ability to customize textbook for course, not
the other way around
 Faculty empowerment
 Promote collaboration
 Eliminate unneeded updates

8. Prepare
 Check available sources online
◦ www.oercommons.org
 repository of 42K + tools for sharing curriculum
◦ www.saylor.org
 free education, free books
◦ www.cnx.org
 Educational content repository
 There are many more

9. Develop
 Choose tool – Word, Pressbooks, others
 Create a list of topics to cover
 Create images, or use public domain
 Make sure all source material is CC BY
◦ Attribution must credit original author.
◦ Proof read, proof read, proof read
 Get an editor to review the book (if possible)

10. Feedback
 Peer reviews
 Student feedback was very positive
 Always more work to be done
 Multimedia content
◦ Videos
◦ Instructor materials
◦ Student activities
http://bccampus.pressbooks.com/dbdesign/

11. Discussion
A replacement for the textbook
should…
Discuss
Report one thing
Post all comments on the wall
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12. Share One Item
licensed for re-use: Some rights reserved by denise carbonell
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13. …. have more versatile learning content that is
customizable, current, affordable, dynamic,
accessible and portable
CC-BY-NC-SA
ShipLibrary/
flickr
adapted from Judy Baker’s ELI 2011 OER Workshop cc-by license
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14. The
BCcampus
Project
Mary Burgess - Video
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15. Workshop Feedback
Reminder!
What did you like?
What would you change?
What are your next steps?
(Add to the wall!)
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16. Steps: Adopt an Open Textbook
1. Discover
&
Select
2. Ins3tu3onal
Processes
San Miguel stairs creative commons licensed by
larry&flo 2007
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17. MERLOT Peer Reviews
Structured Process
Highest quality resources reviewed first
At least two trained peer reviewers
Criteria
Quality of Content
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Ease of Use
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18. College Open Textbooks Ratings
Peer reviews based on rating scale with comments:
Reviewer's Comments
I recommend this book. Overall, the chapters are very readable and the
material presented is consistent and appropriate for the course. A wide range
of exercises introduces students of varied interests to a variety of applications.
Graphics are both clear and complete in both the on-line and printed versions
of the text.
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19. Discover Open Textbooks
Repositories & Listing Sites
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20. College
Open
Textbooks
College
Open
Textbooks
• Point
to
Open
textbook
list
by
subject
(750+)
• Peer
reviews
(150)
• Accessibility
reviews
(100)
• Online
community
of
college
faculty
(1000+)
• Nursing
• Introductory
Sociology
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21. BOUNDLESS
BOUNDLESS
18
open
textbooks
under
Crea3ve
Commons
ASribu3on
(CC
BY-­‐SA)
Cover
subjects,
such
as
accoun3ng,
biology,
chemistry,
sociology,
and
economics
Some
premium
features,
including
flashcards,
study
guides,
and
quizzes.
Requires
a
free
user
account.
Marke3ng
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22. MERLOT
MERLOT
• Open
textbook
list
by
category
(2200+)
• Some
Merlot
Peer
reviews
• Some
Accessibility
reviews
• Registered
MERLOT
users
may
create
personal
collec3ons
and
comment.
• Nursing
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23. Connexions
Connexions
• Open
License
• Searchable
by
subject
areas
• Collec3ons
of
learning
modules
• Lens
for
endorsing
content
• Print
on
Demand
• Create
&
publish
your
own
materials
• Basic
Math
Textbook
for
the
Community
College
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24. Florida’s Orange Grove Text Plus
Florida’s
Orange
Grove
Text
Plus
• Open
license
• Repository
&
Harvested
• Print-­‐on-­‐demand
• Link
to
within
CMS
• Florida
University
Press
•
Sta3s3cs
hSp://orangegrovetexts.com/AA0001170
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25. OpenStax College
OpenStax College
Founda3onal
Support
All
books
in
CNX,
all
CC-­‐BY
Spring
2012
Spring
2012
Feb
2013
Feb
2013
Spring
2013
Ul#mate
Goal
–
High-­‐quality
books
for
top
20+
courses.
hSp://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/biology
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26. Saylor
Saylor
• Freely
available
for
download,
online
reading,
sharing
• Various
open
licenses
• Many
from
Flat
World
Knowledge
• Publish
your
own
materials
• Currently
PDF
and
Word
format
• Chemistry
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27. OER Commons
OER Commons (advanced search)
Entrepreneurial
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28. Finding Images, Videos, Music
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29. PressBooks at BCcampus
PressBooks at BCcampus
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30. Examples of OERs
IMathAS http://dlippman.imathas.com/
Athabasca Press
Jorum - Computer Science
InTech
CK-12
Wiki Books - Computing
Light and Matter
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31. Examples of BC Open Textbooks
• Objects-first Java book - Rick Gee
people.okanagan.bc.ca/rgee/javabook.pdf
• A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation
with MATLAB - Serhat Beyenir
http://cnx.org/content/col11371/latest/
Adult Literacy Fundamental Mathematics - Liz
Gerard and Wendy Tagami
http://urls.bccampus.ca/qn
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32. Institutional
Processes:
KPU
Todd Mundle
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33. Next Steps at Your Institution
Giulia
Forsythe
cc-­‐by-­‐nc-­‐sa
hSp://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8094691691/
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34. Why OER Matters
Why Open Education
Matters
Enhance existing materials with
OER
Enhance existing Open Textbook
Replace existing materials with cc-by-nc-nd
Open Textbook eslenkphoto
Invite students to generate OER
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35. Thank you for participating!
open.bccampus.ca
Mary Burgess mburgess@bccampus.ca
Terrie McAloney terrie@bccampus.ca
Sylvia Currie scurrie@bccampus.ca
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