Open Textbooks at College of the Redwoods
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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.
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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.
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Adapting or modifying educational resources is what gives open the competitive advantage over its commercial counterparts. Adapting an educational resource means that a faculty member can change the content to best suit the learning outcomes of their course; it means that students can take an active role in adapting and changing material for assignment and assessment purposes. However, adapting is rarely done across open educational projects. BCcampus's Open Textbook project is one of the few open projects to have successfully completed a series of adaptations on a number of open textbooks. This presentation will walk you through the steps of HOW to adapt an open textbook. Participants will be introduced to a step-by-step approach to adaptation, including technical format considerations and style guide supports. Participants will leave the session with an adaptation toolkit, produced by BCcampus, that is CC licensed and can be adapted for the needs of each institution or project.
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In order to help students withstand the rising cost of textbooks, and in turn support the mission of student success, the University of South Florida has implemented two electronic resource based initiatives as part of the Tampa Library’s Textbook Affordability Project.
Through the E-books for the Classroom program, the Library purchases electronic versions of texts required for coursework, providing equitable access to needed materials at no cost to the students. For the past five years, this program has evolved into a highly successful Textbook Affordability measure, acquiring hundreds of e-books and serving thousands of students, as well as becoming an integral part of the e-book acquisition process.
The Library, with the support of the Office of the Provost and in collaboration with other departments across the University, is publishing a faculty-authored multimedia Open Access Textbook to be used by hundreds of students each semester in USF’s children’s literature courses. The USF institutional repository, Scholar Commons, will host the textbook, making it freely available on a global scale. This program effectively uses library expertise and skills, coordinating university-wide faculty, professional, and technical resources, to create library-as-publisher for the benefit of the students and textbook affordability.
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This document discusses open textbooks and textbook affordability. It notes that textbook costs are a major financial burden for students and can impact learning outcomes. Open textbooks are presented as a solution, as they are available online for free or at low cost, and can be adapted and customized. The document outlines a project between British Columbia and Manitoba to have faculty review and provide feedback on open textbooks to help improve quality and adoption. Faculty will be paid $250 per review to evaluate textbooks against a standard rubric. The goal is to increase access to affordable, high-quality open educational resources for post-secondary students.
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This document discusses the BC Open Textbook Project, which aims to create 40 free and open textbooks for the highest enrolled first and second year post-secondary subjects in British Columbia. It notes that the project received $1 million in funding in 2014 to support faculty authors in reviewing, adapting, and creating new open textbooks. The benefits of open textbooks discussed include lower costs for students and improved access and outcomes. Examples are provided of faculty collaboratively adapting and updating open textbooks in sprints or workshops. Initial results found that the project has saved students over $500,000 in textbook costs since 2013.
Open textbooks-presentation
This document discusses the high costs of traditional college textbooks and proposes open textbooks as a solution. It outlines problems with the traditional textbook market structure that gives publishers too much power and leads to high prices. Open textbooks are proposed as an alternative, which are free online and can be customized by professors. Several models for creating and publishing open textbooks are presented, including individual authors, institutional projects, government and foundation funding, and commercial publishers. The document encourages students, professors, colleges and authors to support open textbooks to make education more affordable and accessible.
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This document summarizes three open education projects: the Community College Open Textbook collaborative, College of the Canyons' open educational resource content playlists project, and partnerships between the Orange Grove Repository, University Press of Florida, and WebAssign to provide open textbooks and online homework. The collaborative and College of the Canyons project focus on developing and sharing open educational resources to reduce textbook costs for students. The partnerships aim to make open textbooks permanently available and integrate them with online homework and additional resources through the Orange Grove Repository, University Press of Florida publishing services, and WebAssign's online homework system.
More Than Just Free, It's Freedom: The Case for OER
1) The document summarizes a presentation about open educational resources (OER) given by Regina Gong, an OER librarian and project manager at Lansing Community College.
2) It provides background on OER and LCC's OER initiative, including adoption rates, cost savings for students, and research on student outcomes when using OER.
3) Gong discusses open educational practices and how faculty are innovating with OER, as well as statewide collaborations in Michigan to promote OER adoption.
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- 1. Geoff Cain Director, Instructional Design Open Textbooks at College of the Redwoods
Editor's Notes
- This presentation is a brief over-view of what we are doing at College of the Redwoods with open textbooks and OERs. College of the Redwoods already has faculty working on projects that are basically open source texts and open education resources. They just may not define them that way. The work of the CCCOER is a chance to define and channel that work.
- I learned about the Open Textbook Advocate Training through folks that I was following in Twitter and from various blogs.
- I was surprised to find out that there were already two completed open math textbooks on campus and another one being written. This is a really important point: a lot of this work is already going on. I talked to a music professor whose notes and guides that he hands out to the students are his textbook. The guide to his class is customized to the way he teaches. The nursing dept. has a procedures book that they sell to the students in the bookstore that supplements the texts. We have faculty already doing this. I want to bring them a way to do this effectively and efficiently.
- I got a note from our bookstore manager that said that “Regarding Dave Arnold and Bruce Wagner's Math 120 project for our district, we have sold approximately 430 copies of the printed version even though it is available free on CD.” It is also available, of course, for free online.
- This book is coming from an instructional design puzzle: how do you get textbooks to inmates who are not allowed to have pre-printed books from outside of the prison? How do you get textbooks to prisoners where the funding for education has been cut to prison education? How do you textbooks to prisoners where the staff who handled the physical books have been cut? An open, electronic textbook was the only solution.
- I am going to continue to promote open texts in our district through face-to-face and online meetings and through our newsletter (which will be coming out this summer). The best way to promote the texts is to promote the remarkable instructors who are already engaged in this work. The best thing we can do is to get instructors together to talk about their work.
- I have this feeling that there are more projects and potential projects on campus that need to be supported and promoted. As this happens, I will be sharing it through the CCCOER, my wiki, blog, and via twitter.