The BC Open Textbook Project: More than Saving Students Money.
In the fall of 2012, the BC Ministry of Advanced Education announced funding to support the development of open textbooks. The primary goal of the project is to save post-secondary students money by promoting the adoption of free, open textbooks. But there are additional goals and benefits of the open textbook project that will benefit the post-secondary system in BC and beyond. In this presentation, Clint Lalonde from BCcampus will give an update on the BC Open Textbook project, and talk about some of the other open educational goals of the project that go beyond saving students money.
Open Access Week: College of Du Page KeynoteUna Daly
Open Access Week keynote for In Service Day at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Choose Generation Open: Transforming Teaching and Learning with Open Educational Resources with Una Daly, Community College Director at the Open Education Consortium and Kate Hess, Faculty Librarian, at Kirkwood College, Iowa.
This document provides an overview of the BC Open Textbook Project. It discusses the project's goals of increasing access to post-secondary education by reducing student costs through the use of open educational resources (OERs). The project aims to have free and open textbooks available for the 40 highest enrolled subjects in the first two years of post-secondary programs in BC. The document outlines the three phases of the project: launching with an initial set of OERs, adapting existing resources, and creating new open textbooks. It highlights early positive results and outlines plans to expand the project.
Updated slides about BCcampus' Open Education Resources projects, for KPU Open Education Week Event – March 10, 2014, by David Porter, Executive Director.
The document discusses a national workshop on virtual open schooling in India that was organized by the National Institute of Open Schooling and Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia to explore establishing a virtual open schooling model in India that would utilize online and distance learning technologies to provide flexible, accessible education for students across the country. Key topics discussed include defining virtual open schooling, potential structural models, support services, instructional delivery methods, course development, assessment, funding, technologies, and further implementation issues.
How Open Educational Resources and Digital Technologies are Changing Higher E...Tom Caswell
This document discusses how open educational resources (OER) and digital technologies can help break the "iron triangle" of higher education by lowering costs, increasing access, and maintaining quality. It outlines the current challenges of high textbook costs and limited access to education. By adopting open licenses for publicly-funded educational content and sharing resources through initiatives like Open Course Library, institutions can leverage digital technologies to improve affordability and scalability while benefiting students. The goal is to explore more sustainable models for higher education using open, networked approaches.
Why, What and How of OER. Educational trends and how Open Education can help address these. Copyright and Open Licensing. Getting Started with an OER project.
Re- engineering of College Libraries(Commerce): issues and Challenges for 2020Dr Trivedi
This document discusses the need for re-engineering college libraries to adapt to changing user needs and technologies. It outlines several drivers requiring libraries to change, such as educational reforms, new technologies, and evolving user expectations. The author advocates for re-engineering library processes using strategies like identifying needs, forming project teams, setting objectives, and implementing and evaluating new processes. Key benefits of re-engineering include cost reduction, time savings, improved services, and competitive advantage. NAAC accreditation guidelines also emphasize the importance of developing strong college libraries.
This document discusses how digital technologies are changing education by making information more accessible and collaborative. It notes that we are in a time of technological and economic transformation where knowledge is becoming more networked and digitized. Examples are given of how participatory web tools, eLearning, open educational resources, and shared digital content can help prepare students for new types of jobs and problems. The document advocates for making more educational resources openly licensed and freely available through platforms like open courseware to reduce costs for students and leverage global collaboration.
Open Access Week: College of Du Page KeynoteUna Daly
Open Access Week keynote for In Service Day at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. Choose Generation Open: Transforming Teaching and Learning with Open Educational Resources with Una Daly, Community College Director at the Open Education Consortium and Kate Hess, Faculty Librarian, at Kirkwood College, Iowa.
This document provides an overview of the BC Open Textbook Project. It discusses the project's goals of increasing access to post-secondary education by reducing student costs through the use of open educational resources (OERs). The project aims to have free and open textbooks available for the 40 highest enrolled subjects in the first two years of post-secondary programs in BC. The document outlines the three phases of the project: launching with an initial set of OERs, adapting existing resources, and creating new open textbooks. It highlights early positive results and outlines plans to expand the project.
Updated slides about BCcampus' Open Education Resources projects, for KPU Open Education Week Event – March 10, 2014, by David Porter, Executive Director.
The document discusses a national workshop on virtual open schooling in India that was organized by the National Institute of Open Schooling and Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia to explore establishing a virtual open schooling model in India that would utilize online and distance learning technologies to provide flexible, accessible education for students across the country. Key topics discussed include defining virtual open schooling, potential structural models, support services, instructional delivery methods, course development, assessment, funding, technologies, and further implementation issues.
How Open Educational Resources and Digital Technologies are Changing Higher E...Tom Caswell
This document discusses how open educational resources (OER) and digital technologies can help break the "iron triangle" of higher education by lowering costs, increasing access, and maintaining quality. It outlines the current challenges of high textbook costs and limited access to education. By adopting open licenses for publicly-funded educational content and sharing resources through initiatives like Open Course Library, institutions can leverage digital technologies to improve affordability and scalability while benefiting students. The goal is to explore more sustainable models for higher education using open, networked approaches.
Why, What and How of OER. Educational trends and how Open Education can help address these. Copyright and Open Licensing. Getting Started with an OER project.
Re- engineering of College Libraries(Commerce): issues and Challenges for 2020Dr Trivedi
This document discusses the need for re-engineering college libraries to adapt to changing user needs and technologies. It outlines several drivers requiring libraries to change, such as educational reforms, new technologies, and evolving user expectations. The author advocates for re-engineering library processes using strategies like identifying needs, forming project teams, setting objectives, and implementing and evaluating new processes. Key benefits of re-engineering include cost reduction, time savings, improved services, and competitive advantage. NAAC accreditation guidelines also emphasize the importance of developing strong college libraries.
This document discusses how digital technologies are changing education by making information more accessible and collaborative. It notes that we are in a time of technological and economic transformation where knowledge is becoming more networked and digitized. Examples are given of how participatory web tools, eLearning, open educational resources, and shared digital content can help prepare students for new types of jobs and problems. The document advocates for making more educational resources openly licensed and freely available through platforms like open courseware to reduce costs for students and leverage global collaboration.
OER and The Economies of Sale - MACS 2014Charles Key
This presentation, given to the 2014 fall meeting of the Michigan Association of College Stores, provides an overview of the argument for Open Educational Resources and how college stores can participate.
This document discusses developing a culture of open sharing of educational resources. It notes that open resources can increase access and affordability for students, as textbooks are increasingly expensive. When resources are openly shared, more people can work on solving problems. The document advocates for policies where publicly funded educational materials are openly licensed and shared so the public has access to what they paid for through taxes. Open resources could help increase student completion rates and save millions of dollars in textbook costs.
The document discusses the growth of eLearning and open education in Washington community and technical colleges. It notes that eLearning enrollments increased 31% between 2008-2009 and 2009-2010, accounting for 58% of total enrollment growth. Open education aims to increase access and completion through affordable openly licensed educational resources like an Open Course Library of 81 high-enrollment courses costing students less than $30 for textbooks. The benefits of open education include improved completion rates, lower costs, and engaging in the global discussion of open educational resources.
The Landscape of Open Educational ResourcesNicole Allen
This document discusses open educational resources (OER) and efforts to increase their adoption and use. It provides examples of organizations that are creating and sharing OER, including open textbooks and online courses. It also describes a startup company called Lumen Learning that provides support for institutions and faculty to adopt OER, with the goals of reducing costs for students and improving educational outcomes.
This document provides information about an opportunity to attend the Wifi: Depot Banquet with the password "depot255". It discusses how work created with support from a Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant must be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. "OPEN" Consortia will support all DOL TAACCCT grantees. It also discusses the growth of tertiary education enrollment and projections, challenges of accommodating more students, and how open educational resources can help address these challenges by reducing costs.
Open Educational Resources Overview (NAGPS LAD, 09/27/15)Nicole Allen
The document discusses the rising costs of textbooks and the potential for open educational resources (OER) to help address this issue. It notes that textbook prices have risen much faster than inflation or other costs like tuition. This has made textbooks unaffordable for many students and negatively impacted their academic performance. The document then introduces OER as freely available resources that can be legally adapted and shared, and provides examples of OER repositories and initiatives. It discusses evidence that using OER can reduce costs for students and institutions without harming learning outcomes. The document advocates for policies and programs to promote greater OER adoption.
Promising aspects of online education in Africa: OER, Open Textbooks & MOOCsROER4D
Promising aspects of online educationin Africa: OER, Open Textbooks & MOOCs? A presentation by Associate Professor Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams for the World Development Report 2016: Internet for Development Regional Consultation Conference, Nairobi, 26-27 January 2015, Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town
Open Educational Resources and Practices in EstoniaHans Põldoja
This document provides an overview of open educational resources and practices in Estonia. It discusses key concepts in open education such as MIT OpenCourseWare and Creative Commons licenses. It then outlines several open educational initiatives and repositories in Estonia, including Koolielu, HITSA repository, LeMill, and course materials from various universities. The document also discusses why open educational resources are beneficial for both learners and teachers. It provides examples of open online courses in Estonia and experiments with open assessment using open badges. Overall, the document gives a comprehensive look at the landscape of open educational resources and practices currently available in Estonia.
This document provides an overview of an event discussing open educational resources (OER) for reducing textbook costs in Oregon. The event included presentations from Blue Mountain Community College and Columbia Gorge Community College on their OER efforts, which have led to significant cost savings for students. Barriers to adopting OER were also discussed, such as lack of faculty awareness and support issues. The document outlines the benefits of OER including increasing access and affordability as well as improving learning outcomes.
Creative Commons and the Department of Labor US$2 Billion Grant ProgramCable Green
The document discusses the Open Professionals Education Network (OPEN) which will provide services to support Department of Labor TAACCCT grantees in meeting grant requirements. OPEN will help grantees license work created with grant funds under a Creative Commons license, apply learning science principles to develop open educational resources, and provide professional development opportunities regarding open policies and content development. The timeline indicates that Wave 1 of TAACCCT grants was launched in February 2014 and the OPEN kick-off event was in May 2014, with each grant wave lasting three years.
Open educational resources faculty presentationFrank Quinn
The document discusses the high cost of higher education and textbooks as a serious problem, and presents open educational resources (OER) as an actual solution. OERs are teaching materials that are freely available online for anyone to use and modify. Studies show students' textbook costs deter them from taking certain classes and negatively impact their grades. The document provides resources for finding and adopting OERs, and notes institutions may offer grants to encourage faculty adoption of OERs to help make education more affordable and improve student outcomes.
The document summarizes the BC Open Textbook Project, which aims to promote open educational resources in British Columbia by developing open textbooks for the highest enrolled first and second year courses. It provides statistics on the project's success in creating over 50 open textbooks across multiple institutions, with estimated student savings of over $915,000. The project also supports faculty reviews and adaptations of open textbooks to increase adoption.
OER and the Economies of Sale - CAMEX 2014Charles Key
Higher education is experiencing a "crisis of cost." Open Educational Resources are positioned to be an important part of the solution. This presentation contains seven reasons that OER are here to stay and challenges campus stores to embrace the opportunity and drive OER adoptions.
Presentation during Open Access Week celebrations at Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa
Goal of the presentation: Address broader aspects of openness in higher education
The document summarizes strategies for leveraging technology in challenging budget times presented by Dr. Cable Green. It discusses:
1) Adopting cloud-based systems to reduce costs of licenses, hosting, help desks, and professional development.
2) Increasing the use of open educational resources and open textbooks to reduce costs for students and increase access to educational materials.
3) Implementing a strategic technology plan with five strategies including treating IT as a centrally funded service and increasing online student services and professional development.
This document summarizes the key points from a presentation on open educational resources and open textbooks. It discusses the high cost of traditional textbooks, how open textbooks can help address this issue by being freely available online and in low-cost print versions. It describes how faculty can adapt open textbooks to fit their needs and how one college saw improved student outcomes and savings after adopting an open psychology textbook. The presentation promotes open education initiatives in British Columbia that aim to increase the use of open textbooks through faculty reviews, adaptations and collaborative writing sprints.
Open Textbook Network workshop at George Fox UniversityRajiv Jhangiani
The document discusses the high cost of textbooks and its negative impact on students. It notes that textbook prices have risen much faster than inflation, with the average student budgeting $1,200-1,400 for books and materials annually. The rising costs have led many students to delay purchasing textbooks, not buy required books, or take fewer courses overall. Open educational resources (OER) such as open textbooks are presented as an alternative to help increase access and affordability for students while maintaining quality. The Open Textbook Library currently hosts over 250 openly licensed textbooks that are complete, free to use, and have received positive reviews.
A brief overview on open Education, the emergence of Open Courses, lessons learnt from Free / Libre Open Source Software Communities & some recent projects in this field at which we are working on.
With a mandate from our IT Steering Committee and a wee pot of money Okanagan College built Model Technology Enhanced Classrooms at each of our 4 campuses this past year. The intent was to provide instructors with an opportunity to gain familiarity with educational technologies currently in use but not available to everyone at OC. It also came at a time when we are wrestling with the demise of VGA as a universal connection standard, and instructors wanting to use iPads for teaching, and students wanting to be able to display on the projector, and bringing in guest speakers using Skype, and running a backchannel, and … So we built them. And we learned a lot of things along the way. And I’ll tell you about them. http://www.okanagan.bc.ca/Campus_and_Community/employees/itservices/edtech/Model_Tech_Classroom.html Since 2005 Mike Minions has been the Educational Technology Coordinator at Okanagan College.
Discovering a Multi-Access Learning Environment in ActionBCcampus
2010 ETUG Spring Workshop: (see session descriptions http://etug.ca/?page_id=835)
Session: Discovering a Multi-Access Learning Environment in Action
Presenter: Valerie Irvine, TIE Research Lab, Faculty of Education, University of Victoria
OER and The Economies of Sale - MACS 2014Charles Key
This presentation, given to the 2014 fall meeting of the Michigan Association of College Stores, provides an overview of the argument for Open Educational Resources and how college stores can participate.
This document discusses developing a culture of open sharing of educational resources. It notes that open resources can increase access and affordability for students, as textbooks are increasingly expensive. When resources are openly shared, more people can work on solving problems. The document advocates for policies where publicly funded educational materials are openly licensed and shared so the public has access to what they paid for through taxes. Open resources could help increase student completion rates and save millions of dollars in textbook costs.
The document discusses the growth of eLearning and open education in Washington community and technical colleges. It notes that eLearning enrollments increased 31% between 2008-2009 and 2009-2010, accounting for 58% of total enrollment growth. Open education aims to increase access and completion through affordable openly licensed educational resources like an Open Course Library of 81 high-enrollment courses costing students less than $30 for textbooks. The benefits of open education include improved completion rates, lower costs, and engaging in the global discussion of open educational resources.
The Landscape of Open Educational ResourcesNicole Allen
This document discusses open educational resources (OER) and efforts to increase their adoption and use. It provides examples of organizations that are creating and sharing OER, including open textbooks and online courses. It also describes a startup company called Lumen Learning that provides support for institutions and faculty to adopt OER, with the goals of reducing costs for students and improving educational outcomes.
This document provides information about an opportunity to attend the Wifi: Depot Banquet with the password "depot255". It discusses how work created with support from a Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant must be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. "OPEN" Consortia will support all DOL TAACCCT grantees. It also discusses the growth of tertiary education enrollment and projections, challenges of accommodating more students, and how open educational resources can help address these challenges by reducing costs.
Open Educational Resources Overview (NAGPS LAD, 09/27/15)Nicole Allen
The document discusses the rising costs of textbooks and the potential for open educational resources (OER) to help address this issue. It notes that textbook prices have risen much faster than inflation or other costs like tuition. This has made textbooks unaffordable for many students and negatively impacted their academic performance. The document then introduces OER as freely available resources that can be legally adapted and shared, and provides examples of OER repositories and initiatives. It discusses evidence that using OER can reduce costs for students and institutions without harming learning outcomes. The document advocates for policies and programs to promote greater OER adoption.
Promising aspects of online education in Africa: OER, Open Textbooks & MOOCsROER4D
Promising aspects of online educationin Africa: OER, Open Textbooks & MOOCs? A presentation by Associate Professor Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams for the World Development Report 2016: Internet for Development Regional Consultation Conference, Nairobi, 26-27 January 2015, Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town
Open Educational Resources and Practices in EstoniaHans Põldoja
This document provides an overview of open educational resources and practices in Estonia. It discusses key concepts in open education such as MIT OpenCourseWare and Creative Commons licenses. It then outlines several open educational initiatives and repositories in Estonia, including Koolielu, HITSA repository, LeMill, and course materials from various universities. The document also discusses why open educational resources are beneficial for both learners and teachers. It provides examples of open online courses in Estonia and experiments with open assessment using open badges. Overall, the document gives a comprehensive look at the landscape of open educational resources and practices currently available in Estonia.
This document provides an overview of an event discussing open educational resources (OER) for reducing textbook costs in Oregon. The event included presentations from Blue Mountain Community College and Columbia Gorge Community College on their OER efforts, which have led to significant cost savings for students. Barriers to adopting OER were also discussed, such as lack of faculty awareness and support issues. The document outlines the benefits of OER including increasing access and affordability as well as improving learning outcomes.
Creative Commons and the Department of Labor US$2 Billion Grant ProgramCable Green
The document discusses the Open Professionals Education Network (OPEN) which will provide services to support Department of Labor TAACCCT grantees in meeting grant requirements. OPEN will help grantees license work created with grant funds under a Creative Commons license, apply learning science principles to develop open educational resources, and provide professional development opportunities regarding open policies and content development. The timeline indicates that Wave 1 of TAACCCT grants was launched in February 2014 and the OPEN kick-off event was in May 2014, with each grant wave lasting three years.
Open educational resources faculty presentationFrank Quinn
The document discusses the high cost of higher education and textbooks as a serious problem, and presents open educational resources (OER) as an actual solution. OERs are teaching materials that are freely available online for anyone to use and modify. Studies show students' textbook costs deter them from taking certain classes and negatively impact their grades. The document provides resources for finding and adopting OERs, and notes institutions may offer grants to encourage faculty adoption of OERs to help make education more affordable and improve student outcomes.
The document summarizes the BC Open Textbook Project, which aims to promote open educational resources in British Columbia by developing open textbooks for the highest enrolled first and second year courses. It provides statistics on the project's success in creating over 50 open textbooks across multiple institutions, with estimated student savings of over $915,000. The project also supports faculty reviews and adaptations of open textbooks to increase adoption.
OER and the Economies of Sale - CAMEX 2014Charles Key
Higher education is experiencing a "crisis of cost." Open Educational Resources are positioned to be an important part of the solution. This presentation contains seven reasons that OER are here to stay and challenges campus stores to embrace the opportunity and drive OER adoptions.
Presentation during Open Access Week celebrations at Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa
Goal of the presentation: Address broader aspects of openness in higher education
The document summarizes strategies for leveraging technology in challenging budget times presented by Dr. Cable Green. It discusses:
1) Adopting cloud-based systems to reduce costs of licenses, hosting, help desks, and professional development.
2) Increasing the use of open educational resources and open textbooks to reduce costs for students and increase access to educational materials.
3) Implementing a strategic technology plan with five strategies including treating IT as a centrally funded service and increasing online student services and professional development.
This document summarizes the key points from a presentation on open educational resources and open textbooks. It discusses the high cost of traditional textbooks, how open textbooks can help address this issue by being freely available online and in low-cost print versions. It describes how faculty can adapt open textbooks to fit their needs and how one college saw improved student outcomes and savings after adopting an open psychology textbook. The presentation promotes open education initiatives in British Columbia that aim to increase the use of open textbooks through faculty reviews, adaptations and collaborative writing sprints.
Open Textbook Network workshop at George Fox UniversityRajiv Jhangiani
The document discusses the high cost of textbooks and its negative impact on students. It notes that textbook prices have risen much faster than inflation, with the average student budgeting $1,200-1,400 for books and materials annually. The rising costs have led many students to delay purchasing textbooks, not buy required books, or take fewer courses overall. Open educational resources (OER) such as open textbooks are presented as an alternative to help increase access and affordability for students while maintaining quality. The Open Textbook Library currently hosts over 250 openly licensed textbooks that are complete, free to use, and have received positive reviews.
A brief overview on open Education, the emergence of Open Courses, lessons learnt from Free / Libre Open Source Software Communities & some recent projects in this field at which we are working on.
With a mandate from our IT Steering Committee and a wee pot of money Okanagan College built Model Technology Enhanced Classrooms at each of our 4 campuses this past year. The intent was to provide instructors with an opportunity to gain familiarity with educational technologies currently in use but not available to everyone at OC. It also came at a time when we are wrestling with the demise of VGA as a universal connection standard, and instructors wanting to use iPads for teaching, and students wanting to be able to display on the projector, and bringing in guest speakers using Skype, and running a backchannel, and … So we built them. And we learned a lot of things along the way. And I’ll tell you about them. http://www.okanagan.bc.ca/Campus_and_Community/employees/itservices/edtech/Model_Tech_Classroom.html Since 2005 Mike Minions has been the Educational Technology Coordinator at Okanagan College.
Discovering a Multi-Access Learning Environment in ActionBCcampus
2010 ETUG Spring Workshop: (see session descriptions http://etug.ca/?page_id=835)
Session: Discovering a Multi-Access Learning Environment in Action
Presenter: Valerie Irvine, TIE Research Lab, Faculty of Education, University of Victoria
A La Carte Education - The Evolution of LearningChanelle Henry
This document discusses the evolution of a la carte education, which allows learners to customize their education by choosing individual courses or modules. It defines a la carte education as an open approach requiring learner engagement. Examples of a la carte options include interdisciplinary programs, online courses, intensive programs, self-organized classes, and self-paced learning. The document suggests that in the future, learners will be able to assemble stackable credentials by combining modules from different sources. It then presents hypothetical student cases and has participants brainstorm customized a la carte solutions to engage each student.
Hands-On Learning: The role of Maker Culture in Innovative Pedagogy BCcampus
This document discusses the role of maker culture in innovative pedagogy. It presents quotes that advocate for hands-on, experiential learning through construction and collaboration. Maker culture encourages informal, shared learning by emphasizing experimentation, risk-taking, and student-driven production of knowledge. This shifts the teacher to a facilitator role and prioritizes student autonomy in designing their own learning experiences. Challenges include assessing open-ended student work and ensuring equitable access to resources, but proponents argue this approach better engages students and leads to deeper learning outcomes.
Keynote address (Feb, 2016) to the educators in the Fort Nelson school district. We all know that we cannot teach a child without a concection... without a relationship. In the hustle and bustle of our jobs as educators, we often forget our why, the reason we got into education, of trying to make a difference with kids. In this talk, 6 Keys to Connecting are shared and discussed with the challenge of creating a more positive climate and better connections with kids in our classrooms, schools, and organizations.
Mobile-First SEO - The Marketers Edition #3XEDigitalAleyda Solís
How to target your SEO process to a reality of more people searching on mobile devices than desktop and an upcoming mobile first Google index? Check it out.
Beyond Free: How Open Textbooks Can Improve Learning, Build Community & Empow...Clint Lalonde
This document summarizes a presentation about open educational resources and the BC Open Textbook Project. The presentation discusses the high costs of textbooks for students and how open textbooks can help by giving students day-one access to customizable resources that improve learning outcomes. The BC Open Textbook Project aims to create 40 open textbooks in high-enrollment subjects to increase access to post-secondary education and give faculty more control over instructional materials. Faculty review and adapt existing open textbooks to fit their needs and share them openly.
Beyond Free: the B.C. Open Textbook ProjectBCcampus
This document summarizes the benefits of open educational resources (OER) and open textbooks, specifically the BC Open Textbook Project. It outlines 6 key benefits of open textbooks beyond just being free: 1) faculty can customize textbooks to fit their needs, 2) textbooks can be retained and used in the future, 3) students have day 1 access to resources, 4) open textbooks may improve learning outcomes, 5) faculty can collaboratively create stronger resources, and 6) open textbooks enable authentic learning activities like contributing to online resources. The BC Open Textbook Project aims to create 40 free open textbooks for high-enrollment courses in British Columbia.
This document summarizes the British Columbia Open Textbook Project. It discusses the project's goals of increasing access to post-secondary education by reducing student costs through the creation and adoption of open educational resources. The project has three phases: launching an initial collection of open textbooks, adapting existing open textbooks to the BC context, and creating a small number of original open textbooks. It provides examples of early textbook adoptions and cost savings for students. The overall aim is to connect expertise across BC post-secondary institutions to collaboratively develop and share open educational resources.
The document summarizes an Open Education meeting that discussed open educational resources (OER). It notes that OER encompass free educational materials that can be fully used, shared and adapted digitally. It then provides details on British Columbia's open textbook project, including its goals of increasing access and reducing costs for students. Statistics are presented showing the high costs of textbooks for students and the impact of those costs on enrollment and completion. The benefits of open textbooks for faculty are discussed, including the ability to customize materials.
Glenda Cox on Open Educational Resources in Higher EducationDaniela Gachago
This document discusses open education resources (OER) and their potential benefits. OER refer to educational materials that are openly licensed and freely available online. They can be shared, reused, remixed and redistributed. The document outlines several challenges in higher education globally and in South Africa that OER could help address, such as increasing demand, costs, and quality issues. It also discusses factors that impact OER adoption like philosophy, technology, finances, legal issues, pedagogy and quality. Potential benefits of OER include increasing access to education, reducing costs, improving teaching quality and visibility for institutions.
Beyond Free: The BC Open Textbook Project BCNetClint Lalonde
The BC Open Textbook Project aims to increase access to post-secondary education by reducing student costs. It supports the development of free and open textbooks for high-enrollment courses. In its first two years, the project involved over 100 faculty and benefited over 5,000 students, saving an estimated $540,000 to $713,000 in textbook costs. The project allows faculty to customize resources while ensuring students have access to materials from day one. Research shows open textbooks may improve learning outcomes and provide opportunities for collaborative authoring and authentic learning activities.
Updated Keynote Slides (November, 2014)Cable Green
This document summarizes Dr. Cable Green's presentation on open education and the case for open educational resources (OER). Some key points from the presentation include:
- Rising costs of higher education and student debt are putting pressure on the traditional education system and accessibility of education. OER can help address these issues by reducing costs.
- Technological advances have reduced the cost of copying and distributing digital content to nearly zero, challenging traditional business models of content industries like textbooks. OER take advantage of these new affordances.
- Many successful open projects exist like Wikipedia, open educational resources, and open access policies that maximize public access to publicly funded research. These examples demonstrate the potential of open approaches.
The Government of India is aware of the strong and urgent need to make secondary education within easy reach, affordable and of good quality. There are certain measures that can be adopted to bring quality, equity and access for every child. Schools can be upgraded; their capacity to serve students expanded, creating new schools, and increasing GDP allocated to secondary schools are some of them. However, these require heavy investments in terms of infrastructure and finances. Adoption of ICT tools and an increased shift towards open distance and electronic education can improve quality and increase efficiency. Although there are various schemes in place, it is estimated that the demand for secondary education is going to increase sharply due to increased turnover of students from primary level (like the success obtained via Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan programme). Going virtual is one of the solutions. This concept paper looks into the aspect of increasing demand for access to education in the context of RMSA, meeting the educational needs by Open Schooling system, emerging trends in ICT use in education and proposes a framework for Virtual Open Schooling in India.
This document summarizes a presentation by Amanda Coolidge from BCcampus about their Open Textbook Project. The presentation discusses the high cost of textbooks for students, which can impact their course selections and success. It then introduces the BC Open Textbook Project, which aims to create 60 open textbooks and ancillary resources to save students money. The project has three phases: harvesting and reviewing existing open resources, adapting/improving existing materials, and creating new open textbooks. So far the project has resulted in 62 open textbooks being adopted at 8 institutions, with estimated student savings of over $305,000.
Keynote ACE / UPCEA (San Diego) #sols14Cable Green
This document presents the business and policy case for open educational resources (OER). It discusses the growing global demand for higher education and rising student debt levels, as well as how digital technologies allow for near-zero marginal costs of copying and distributing educational content. OER such as open textbooks, courseware, and other materials are presented as a way to increase access and affordability for students. The document outlines several open policy proposals, such as requiring openly licensed materials from publicly funded education projects. It argues that when the cost of sharing educational resources is near zero, educators and governments have an ethical obligation to share such resources openly to maximize social impact and return on investment.
This document summarizes a panel discussion on open educational resources (OER) from the WCET Annual Conference in Denver. The panelists discussed their organizations' efforts to support OER, including MERLOT's collection of over 30,000 materials, the Orange Grove's work on open textbooks in Florida, and Kentucky's Learning Depot which provides open resources aligned to common core standards. The panel explored how partnerships can help increase access to high quality open textbooks and other materials to reduce costs and support student success.
BC Open Textbook Project - Selkirk Discovery DaysClint Lalonde
The document summarizes the BC Open Textbook Project. It discusses the problems of high textbook costs that negatively impact students' access to education. Open textbooks are presented as a solution by being available online for free or in low-cost print versions, while still allowing customization. The project aims to develop 40 open textbooks in high-enrollment subjects. It highlights positive impacts seen at one college that adopted an open psychology textbook, such as improved grades and reduced withdrawal rates. Faculty are able to adapt open textbooks to fit their needs. The goals of the project are to increase access through lower costs while giving faculty more control over resources.
http://net.educause.edu/eliweb119 (recording here too - though I'm not sure if Educause requires you be an ELI member to see it - I think it will be open - hope so :)
Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Cable Green, PhD, Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons. Cable Green, Director of Global Learning @ Creative Commons, will discuss how, if we are smart, we will use today's technical and legal tools to build and share high quality, affordable educational resources with everyone who wants to learn. The combined forces of digital content, the Internet and the effect of Moore's law push the cost of storing, replicating and distributing educational materials, once created, to near zero. Open licensing allows this content to be reused, revised, remixed and redistributed so others may localize, customize, translate, and (most important) collect and share open data on the effectiveness of the educational resources to continuously improve their quality. Cable will also discuss how open policies, once adopted, make sustainability a non-issue and ensure publicly funded educational resources are open educational resources.
This document discusses trends in open education including rising demand for higher education, concerns about student debt and the perceived value of higher education, and the affordances of digital technologies. It outlines how digital copies and distribution are essentially free, changing business models for media like movies, music and textbooks. Open educational resources including open courseware and open textbooks are increasing in availability. Challenges of adopting open educational resources include lack of faculty knowledge, questions of quality and trust, and inflexible institutional processes. The document advocates for open policies that require publicly funded educational resources to be openly licensed to maximize dissemination, economic efficiency and social impact.
The document summarizes key points from a presentation given by Carolina Rossini on open educational resources (OER) at an event in Monterrey, Mexico in June 2014. Some of the main topics covered include:
- The growing demand for higher education globally and challenges of accommodating more students
- Issues of student debt and the perceived value of education
- Challenges facing education systems in the global south such as growing student numbers, financial pressures, and graduate employability
- Brazil's focus on digital inclusion and access to knowledge through open licensing of educational resources
- The "4R" freedoms of OER - reuse, revise, remix, redistribute
- How open licensing and interoperability can enable
Cccoer Webinar Find and Adopt Open TextbooksUna Daly
This document summarizes presentations from three organizations working on open textbooks: BCcampus, OpenStax College, and the California OER Council. BCcampus has developed over 60 open textbooks for the British Columbia higher education system, saving students an estimated $305,000. OpenStax College has created free online and low-cost print textbooks for high-enrollment courses that are adopted at over 800 schools worldwide. The California OER Council works to promote open educational resources and adoption among California community colleges.
This document discusses open education and its benefits. It defines open pedagogy as connecting students to the public to empower them to shape their future. Open access is described as allowing academic research to benefit the public and engage with influence from the public. Open educational resources are presented as relieving the financial burden on students of textbook costs, which average $1,328 per year, and supporting public education. Data shows high percentages of students do not purchase required textbooks or take fewer courses due to cost. Creative Commons licensing is described as allowing openly-licensed content that should not cost much. Benefits of open educational resources include their multimedia, accessible, interactive, collaborative, dialogic and dynamic nature which can empower contribution and keep content current
Una Daly and James Glapa-Grossklag from the Community College Consortium for OER at the Open Education Consortium were keynote speakers for the Maryland Online OER Day held at University of Maryland University College in Largo. Over 150 faculty, staff, and administrators registered for the daylong event held on June 2, 2014.
Indigenous History Month Art Activity
In June 2022, we got together virtually to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Month by working our way through a month-long art project. Each person was to think of an Indigenous artist they admire, research the artist and their work, and create a piece of art for themselves influenced by the artist they had chosen. Throughout the month we presented on these artists and why we connect to their art and discussed important topics like appropriation vs. appreciation. We learned a lot about Indigenous artists in Canada and about each other and ourselves. The art project allowed people to connect with their heritage as well as Indigenous peoples; it was as much a research and art project as it was a team-building and self-reflection activity.
The document discusses open education and the benefits it provides. It notes that open textbooks can save students money by avoiding expensive textbook costs, and that open licensing of materials can promote sharing of resources between education systems. It emphasizes that open education helps make higher education accessible to all by removing cost barriers. The document highlights several advocates and organizations working to advance open education and open access.
Unpacking Power Hierarchies in Students as Partners PracticesBCcampus
Slides from a session with Roselynn Verwoord, Conan Veitch, Yahlnaaw, and Heather Smith from the Symposium 2018 held on October 24, 2018 in Vancouver, B.C.
First of its kind – tuition-free and course materials free credentialBCcampus
This document summarizes a new tuition-free credential program in adult basic education that uses open educational resources. It notes that the program will provide free course materials to students, reducing barriers to education. Quotes from those involved praise the hard work of adult basic education students and say this funding helps further reduce barriers they face. Statistics are given on the number of open textbooks and savings to students from previous open education initiatives.
Building Canada’s Zed Cred: Challenges and OpportunitiesBCcampus
Slides from the panel session with Amanda Coolidge, Krista Lambert, and Rajiv Jhangiani from the 15th Annual, Open Education Conference held on October 10 – 12, 2018 in Niagara Falls, New York
Connecting Students with People who Care(er): Post-Secondary Professionals as...BCcampus
1. The document discusses post-secondary education professionals and their role in student career development. It defines these professionals as "Career Influencers" who informally provide career advice, guidance, and counseling to students.
2. Career Influencers see their role impacting student career development through functions like advising, guiding, counseling, teaching, advocating, and networking. They also impact students by sharing their own life experiences and demonstrating attributes like being approachable, authentic, and empathetic.
3. Professionals conceptualize "career" differently, including as a means of expression, pursuit of meaning, and contribution to society. Their experiences and values shape these conceptions.
4. Furthering professionals
Presentation by Ian Linkletter, Learning Technology Specialist, UBC
Presenting about UBC’s efforts to implement and evaluate team chat as a learning technology for online and blended courses. Team chat (like Slack) is a transformative communication and collaboration technology, combining threaded discussions with real-time chat in an intuitive and flexible way. Features like persistent history, advanced search capability, file sharing, typing status, mobile apps, and emoji reactions add up to a versatile tool that is still easy to use.
Research shows how timely interactions with instructors, collaboration with classmates, and a sense of community can enhance teaching and learning. This is particularly important in an online learning environment. Team chat has given our students a direct communication channel to their instructor and each other, helping them connect, ask questions, seek clarification, collaborate, and build community.
Since 2016, the Faculty of Education has been piloting an open source team chat application called Mattermost on a UBC-hosted server. Unlike Slack or Microsoft Teams, which are both cloud-hosted outside of Canada, Mattermost allows us to keep student data secure in compliance with BC’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA). Mattermost has been used in over 20 course sections across the faculties of Education, Arts, and Science. As of December 2017, the UBC Mattermost pilot consists of 100 daily active users, 300 monthly active users, and almost 70,000 posts.
Attendees will learn (and chat) about:
• Ways team chat can enhance learning
• How team chat has been applied in real use cases including online program cohorts, learning communities, and research teams
• The relationship between secure, safe, transparent platforms and academic freedom
Mattermost will be blended into the session, allowing attendees to choose the conversation(s) they wish to join, participate in real-time, network with colleagues, and carry on chatting after the Festival of Learning concludes.
Festival of Learning 2018 - May 28 – 30 at the Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront in Vancouver, B.C.
Cultivating trust and Emotional Safety in Educational EnvironmentsBCcampus
Presentation by: Steven Bishop, Learning Designer, Douglas College, Ross Laird, Educational Consultant, Laird Associates, Leva Lee, Manager, BCcampus, Kathryn McNaughton, Hope Miller, Online Learning Designer/Trainer, Douglas College, Sandra Polushin, Coordinator / Faculty, Douglas College
Many educational institutions are grappling with the troubling rise of mental health challenges within their communities. Issues such as depression and anxiety are becoming increasingly common not only within the student population but also among instructors and educational administrators, many of whom find their collegial environments to be fraught with new hurdles involving the care and wellness of people.
Bedrock human values such as belonging, trust, and emotional safety are becoming harder to develop and sustain in educational environments undergoing turmoil and change from a variety of influences. How might we preserve and nurture these values? How might we commit to practices that cultivate the wellness and well-being of our colleagues and communities? How might we commit to environments of authentic caring in which people feel emotionally safe and valued?
Over the past year, a small group of practitioners at several local institutions (BCcampus, Douglas College, Vancouver Community College) has been working on projects designed to encourage emotional care and wellness. In this interactive session on the theme of "Mental Health for all within and across our organizations", these practitioners will each share the hurdles and rewards of their process. The purpose of the session will be to provide participants with perspectives and tools to use in approaching themes of care and wellness at their own institutions -- with colleagues, students, and community partners.
The experiential session will be informed by the practice, theory, and research currently being conducted at the partner institutions involved in these projects. Participants will hear about common hurdles involved in promoting the care and wellness of people, will hear perspectives about navigating the complex terrain of human relationships, and will practice tools and ideas for moving forward with their own initiatives.
Festival of Learning 2018 - May 28 – 30 at the Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront in Vancouver, B.C.
An adventure into creation of OER: A STEM wiki projectBCcampus
Presentation by Pamini Thangarajah, Associate Professor, Mount Royal University
Removing financial barriers to undergraduate education is crucial, and the creation of open educational resources (OER) will directly help. And not only would the resources developed benefit the students as they are taking the class, but also by making the material open, it could be used by other faculty and students, not only at your institution but beyond.
In an appreciation of my financially unburden educational experience, I have explored what I can do to help the students to access the required learning materials. There is no open text(s) available that can be used for this course. To this end, I have created the resources in an open educational environment.
In this session, I will be walking you through my experience of creating open educational resources for a mathematics course at the Mount Royal University, Calgary.
Festival of Learning 2018 - May 28 – 30 at the Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront in Vancouver, B.C.
Find, Import, Clone, & Remix: Using Pressbooks to Work with Openly Licensed C...BCcampus
This document provides an overview of using Pressbooks to work with openly licensed educational content. It begins with defining open educational resources and discussing their benefits. It then introduces Pressbooks as an online publishing platform built on WordPress that allows editing and publishing books. Examples are given of how Pressbooks is being used at UW-Madison, including replacing textbooks, language learning materials, public domain anthologies, and student projects. The document concludes with a demo of how to find and import open content for use in Pressbooks.
Analysis of UFV Student Learning Patterns: Ratio of Instructor-Directed (In-C...BCcampus
Presentation by Samantha Pattridge and Hannah Peters (UFV)
Symposium 2017: Scholarly Teaching & Learning in Post-Secondary Education
The Symposium is an annual one-day event presented by the BCTLC and BCcampus that combines presentations, discussions, and networking with colleagues who share an interest in scholarly teaching and learning in post-secondary education.
When: Nov. 6, 2017
Where: Simon Fraser University – Harbour Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Encouraging Folio-Thinking: Capturing the Learning with e-PortfolioBCcampus
Presentation by Claire Hay, Associate Professor of Geography, University of the Fraser Valley, Michelle Johnson, Educational Developer, University of the Fraser Valley and Mary Gene Saudelli, Faculty, Teaching and Learning, University of the Fraser Valley
Symposium 2017: Scholarly Teaching & Learning in Post-Secondary Education
The Symposium is an annual one-day event presented by the BCTLC and BCcampus that combines presentations, discussions, and networking with colleagues who share an interest in scholarly teaching and learning in post-secondary education.
When: Nov. 6, 2017
Where: Simon Fraser University – Harbour Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Presentation by Shauna Jones, Senior Lecturer, Simon Fraser University
Symposium 2017: Scholarly Teaching & Learning in Post-Secondary Education
The Symposium is an annual one-day event presented by the BCTLC and BCcampus that combines presentations, discussions, and networking with colleagues who share an interest in scholarly teaching and learning in post-secondary education.
When: Nov. 6, 2017
Where: Simon Fraser University – Harbour Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Scholarly Teaching to SoTL: Exploring the Shared "S" BCcampus
The document discusses the relationship between scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). It notes that while all faculty should strive for scholarly teaching, not all will engage in SoTL. Several scholars are cited that discuss definitions and distinctions between scholarly teaching and SoTL. Scholarly teaching refers to applying scholarly standards to one's teaching, while SoTL involves systematically reflecting on teaching in a way that can be shared and built upon by other academics. The document also discusses attempts to define SoTL that have struggled due to the diversity of SoTL.
Leveraging Generative AI to Drive Nonprofit InnovationTechSoup
In this webinar, participants learned how to utilize Generative AI to streamline operations and elevate member engagement. Amazon Web Service experts provided a customer specific use cases and dived into low/no-code tools that are quick and easy to deploy through Amazon Web Service (AWS.)
This presentation was provided by Racquel Jemison, Ph.D., Christina MacLaughlin, Ph.D., and Paulomi Majumder. Ph.D., all of the American Chemical Society, for the second session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session Two: 'Expanding Pathways to Publishing Careers,' was held June 13, 2024.
This presentation was provided by Rebecca Benner, Ph.D., of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, for the second session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session Two: 'Expanding Pathways to Publishing Careers,' was held June 13, 2024.
This document provides an overview of wound healing, its functions, stages, mechanisms, factors affecting it, and complications.
A wound is a break in the integrity of the skin or tissues, which may be associated with disruption of the structure and function.
Healing is the body’s response to injury in an attempt to restore normal structure and functions.
Healing can occur in two ways: Regeneration and Repair
There are 4 phases of wound healing: hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling. This document also describes the mechanism of wound healing. Factors that affect healing include infection, uncontrolled diabetes, poor nutrition, age, anemia, the presence of foreign bodies, etc.
Complications of wound healing like infection, hyperpigmentation of scar, contractures, and keloid formation.
Elevate Your Nonprofit's Online Presence_ A Guide to Effective SEO Strategies...TechSoup
Whether you're new to SEO or looking to refine your existing strategies, this webinar will provide you with actionable insights and practical tips to elevate your nonprofit's online presence.
Gender and Mental Health - Counselling and Family Therapy Applications and In...PsychoTech Services
A proprietary approach developed by bringing together the best of learning theories from Psychology, design principles from the world of visualization, and pedagogical methods from over a decade of training experience, that enables you to: Learn better, faster!
Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering.pptxDenish Jangid
Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering
Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
Buildings: Selection of site for Buildings, Layout of Building Plan, Types of buildings, Plinth area, carpet area, floor space index, Introduction to building byelaws, concept of sun light & ventilation. Components of Buildings & their functions, Basic concept of R.C.C., Introduction to types of foundation
Chapter 5
Transportation: Introduction to Transportation Engineering; Traffic and Road Safety: Types and Characteristics of Various Modes of Transportation; Various Road Traffic Signs, Causes of Accidents and Road Safety Measures.
Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
Water Pollution: Water Quality standards, Introduction to Treatment & Disposal of Waste Water. Reuse and Saving of Water, Rain Water Harvesting. Solid Waste Management: Classification of Solid Waste, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Solid. Recycling of Solid Waste: Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill, On-Site Sanitation. Air & Noise Pollution: Primary and Secondary air pollutants, Harmful effects of Air Pollution, Control of Air Pollution. . Noise Pollution Harmful Effects of noise pollution, control of noise pollution, Global warming & Climate Change, Ozone depletion, Greenhouse effect
Text Books:
1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
4. BCP, Surveying volume 1
Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering.pptx
Beyond Free
1. BeyondFree
The BC Open Textbook Project
Clint Lalonde
Manager, Curriculum Services & Applied Research
Uvic Open Access Week Oct 25, 2013
Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution.
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2. “Connect the expertise, programs, and
resources of all BC post-secondary
institutions under a collaborative service
delivery framework”
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Curriculum Services & Applied Research
Collaborative Programs & Shared Services
Student Services & Data Exchange
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3. “Connect the expertise, programs, and
resources of all BC post-secondary
institutions under a collaborative service
delivery framework”
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Curriculum Services & Applied Research
Support & promote the development & use of Open Educational Resources
Support instructors who want to use technology in their teaching practice
OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License
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4. What are OER?
―OER 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.‖
William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources
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5. What are OER?
―Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of
educational materials that are in the public domain or
introduced with an open license. The nature of these
open materials means that anyone can legally and
freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them.‖
UNESCO
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educationalresources/what-are-open-educational-resources-oers/
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7. Reusability Paradox
The more context
a learning object
has, the more (and
the more easily) a
learner can learn
from it.
To make learning
objects maximally
reusable, learning
objects should
contain as little
context as possible.
The Reusability Paradox image by David Wiley used under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 3.0) Retrieved from
http://cnx.org/content/m11898/latest/
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8. ―Therefore, pedagogical
effectiveness and potential for reuse
are completely at odds with one
another, unless the end user is
permitted to edit the learning object.‖
Source: The Reusability Paradox, David Wiley, Connexions. http://cnx.org/content/m11898/latest/
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10. Some Rights Reserved
Creative Commons logo by Creative Commons used under under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
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11. Image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law
http://education-copyright.org/creative-commons/
Used under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 South Africa license
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12. Beyond Free Benefit #1
Faculty have full legal control to
customize & contextualize
learning resources
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13. Online Program Development Fund (OPDF)
2003-2012
$9 million invested
153 grants awarded
100% participation across system
83% partnerships
47 credentials developed in whole or part via OPDF
355 courses, 12 workshops, 19 web sites/tools and 396
course components (learning objects, labs, textbooks,
manuals, videos)
100% open license for free & open sharing & reuse by all
BC post-secondary
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15. What is an Open Textbook?
A textbook licensed under an open
copyright license, and made available
online to be freely used by students,
teachers and members of the public.
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17. 40 free and open textbooks
available for the highest
enrolled 1st & 2nd year postsecondary subjects in BC
First province in Canada
Visual notes of John Yap announcement, Giulia Forsythe http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8094691691/
Used under Creative Commons attribution share-alike license
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18. Why are we doing this project?
To increase access to higher education by reducing student costs
To improve student learning by removing barriers to resources
To give faculty more control over their instructional resources
Images from Oxfam.org CC-BY and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/World_Open_Educational_Resources_Congress_2012
/How_Open_Access_and_Open_Science_can_mutually_fertilize_with_Open_Educational_Resources CC-BY
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19. Students spend $1200/yr on textbooks
4x rate of inflation over past 20 years
70% students have not purchased textbook for a
course because of price
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21. There is a direct relationship between textbook
costs and student success
60%+ do not purchase textbooks at
some point due to cost
35% take fewer courses due to
textbook cost
31% choose not to register for a
course due to textbook cost
23% regularly go without textbooks
due to cost
14% have dropped a course due
to textbook cost
10% have withdrawn from a course
due to textbook cost
Source: 2012 student survey by Florida
Virtual Campus
Slide: CC-BY Cable Green, Creative
Commons via http://www.projectkaleidoscope.org/
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22. ―My textbook is…
…back-ordered
…in the mail
…out of stock
…the wrong edition
…on hold until my student loan arrives‖
How often do students start the term
without the resources they need?
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23. What students think of textbooks
―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.‖
―I was in lab one day and the guy sitting 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.‖
―I have a friend who actually didn’t spend any money last year for books because
he went to the library at the beginning of the quarter, borrowed books, scanned
everything, and had the PDF file.‖
―My most expensive class was clinical psych, because she writes the textbook
herself, and it has a new edition every semester or something ridiculous. So it was
like almost $200. And the thing is that you can’t use the previous edition, because
she changes it herself because she knows the textbooks sell well. It’s like so
manipulative.‖
Students Get Savvier about Textbook Buying,
The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2013
http://chronicle.com/article/Students-Get-Savvier-About/136827
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27. Virginia State University School of Business
Open Textbooks in 9 courses (Flat World Knowledge FWK)
“Students in courses that used FWK textbooks tended to have
higher grades and lower failing and withdrawal rates than those
in courses that did not use FWK texts.”
Andrew Feldstein, Mirta Martin, Amy Hudson, John Hilton III, & David Wiley. Open Textbooks
and Increased Student Access and Outcomes. Retrieved April 28, 2013, from
http://www.eurodl.org/?p=current&article=533
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28. Utah Open Textbook Project
1 year pilot 2000 students
10 high school science
teachers adapt CK12
textbooks
Cost US $4.99/book
printed & delivered (US
$80)
5.9% gain in standardized test scores
Source: http://bccampus.ca/2012/10/29/questions-and-answers-on-open-textbooks-part-1a/ http://utahopentextbooks.org/
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29. Houston Community College
Psychology Department modifies an existing open
textbook to create custom textbook
“During the fall semester 2011, 690 students used this book.
Compared with students using a traditional text in the spring of
2011, students who used the free online textbook scored higher
on departmental final examinations, had higher grade point
averages in the class and had higher retention rates.
Source: One college’s use of an open psychology textbook, John Hilton III, Carol Laman,
Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning Volume 27, Issue 3, 2012
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31. launched in 2008 on a shoestring budget, now nets over
2 million visitors a month, making it the most visited
domain among the university's websites.
Delmar Larsen now offers extra credit to students who submit entries, occasionally
holding pizza parties to bring in volunteers to write or review pages. He assigns a
rating system to new articles based on the author's expertise and experience, with
articles moving up as they are edited and vetted.
ChemWiki recently received its first major funding — a grant
of $250,000 from the National Science Foundation
http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/
Source: http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10748
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35. The HoTT book
―We are a group of two dozen mathematicians who wrote a
600 page book in less than half a year. This is quite amazing,
since mathematicians do not normally work together in large
groups. ―
―..the spirit of collaboration that pervaded our group at the
Institute for Advanced Study was truly amazing.
We did not fragment. We talked, shared ideas, explained things
to each other, and completely forgot who did what.
If we can get mathematicians to share half-baked ideas, not to
worry who contributed what to a paper, or even who the authors
are, then we will reach a new and unimagined level of
productivity. Progress is made by those who dear (sic) the
break rules.‖
Andrej Bauer, University of Ljubljana
Source: The HoTT book, Mathematics and Computation http://math.andrej.com/2013/06/20/the-hott-book/
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36. ―Rather than working as employees on by-the-piece rates
for global companies like Pearson, faculty members can
assume the role of publishers.
Using free content-management systems like Joomla,
Drupal, or WordPress in conjunction with inexpensive web
hosting packages, we can build communities around our
educational materials.‖
―We need to realize our power as authors and publishers.
Working collaboratively, we can create dynamic teaching
and learning environments.‖
Joe Moxley, University of South Florida, http://writingcommons.org/
Source: Open Textbook Publishing, Joe Moxley, World.edu http://world.edu/open-textbook-publishing/
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37. Beyond Free Benefits
1. Faculty have full legal control to customize
& contextualize learning resources
2. Improved learning: Day 1 access &
customized resources
3. Opportunities for Authentic Learning
4. Collegial collaboration
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44. 1
Phase One: Launch (March -August 2013)
Example of BC reviews of
Collaborative Stats book
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45. 1
Phase One: Launch (March -August 2013)
Early Adopter: Dr. Takashi Sato Physics KPU
Students: 60
Previous Textbook: $187
OpenStax Textbook: $0
Student savings: $11,200
College Physics textbook cover image by OpenStax College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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46. 1
Phase One: Launch (March -August 2013)
Early Adopter: Dr. Takashi Sato Physics KPU
Students: 60
Previous Textbook: $187
OpenStax Textbook: $0
Student savings: $11,200
1 class 1 institution 1 term
College Physics textbook cover image by OpenStax College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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Phase Two: Adapt (Sept 2013-Sept 2014 underway)
Adaptations – 2 types: Existing & New
More textbooks (13 new)
More reviews
More outreach: Libraries & Bookstores
Technology (PoD, PressBooks, Connexions)
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48. 2
Phase Two: Adapt (Sept 2013-Sept 2014 underway)
Type 1: New
Suggest a textbook & modifications for a subject area
we have not found existing textbooks.
Anthropology
Applied Science
Commerce
Criminology
Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Geography
History
Kinetics/Kinesiology
Political Science
Visual Arts, Media & Design
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49. 2
Phase Two: Adapt (Sept 2013-Sept 2014 underway)
Type 2: Existing
Introduction to Psychology
The faculty who reviewed this text felt that it needed to be adapted to reflect a Canadian context, that it
required the addition of a chapter on stress, health, and coping, and an overview of all the major
psychological perspectives in the first chapter of the text. The BC Open Textbook project will fund a
subject matter expert $7500 to complete this work. Technical support and editing services will be
provided.
Introduction to Sociology
This book received a good overall rating, however the faculty who reviewed it felt that it required
adaptation to reflect a Canadian context and the insertion of content about Feminist Theory. The BC
Open Textbook project will fund a subject matter expert $7500 to complete this work. Technical support
and editing services will be provided.
Introduction to Chemistry
Reviewers of this text found it was missing content about Kinetic-Molecular Theory and
Thermodynamics. In addition it is lacking a glossary. The BC Open Textbook project will fund a subject
matter expert $5000 to add the additional content and create a glossary.
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Phase Three: Create (January 2014-Sept 2014)
Produce as few textbooks as possible from scratch
Create 1 exemplar e-textbook
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