The BCCampus Open Textbook Project aims to connect British Columbia's post-secondary institutions to promote the use, adaptation, and review of open textbooks, which are textbooks that allow free use and revision. Open textbooks offer various benefits, including significant cost savings for students and the ability to adapt content for specific educational needs. Faculty are encouraged to adopt and review these open resources to enhance education accessibility.

1. Open Textbooks:
Using, adapting,
reviewing, promoting
• Christina Hendricks
• Sr. Instructor, Philosophy and Arts One, UBC
• 2014-2015 Faculty Fellow with the BCcampus Open Textbook Project
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2. Agenda
• What is the Bccampus Open Textbook
Project?
• What are open textbooks?
• How to adopt/adapt open textbooks?

3. Connect the expertise, programs, and resources
of all BC post-secondary institutions under a
collaborative service delivery framework
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Open Education & Professional Learning
Student Services & Data Exchange
Collaborative Programs & Shared Services
bccampus.caSlide from Clint Lalonde, Bccampus, CC-BY

4. open.bccampus.ca

5. What are Open Textbooks?
Textbooks that are , of course!
But what does that mean?...

6. The 5 “R’s” of openness
•The right to make, own and control
copies of the contentRetain
•The right to use the content in a wide
range of waysReuse
•The right to adapt, adjust, or modify
the content itselfRevise
•The right to combine the original or
revised content with other open
content to create something new
Remix
•The right to share copies of the original
content, your revisions, or your remixes
with others
Redistribute
Source: David Wiley, http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221 CC-BY
Slide adapted from Mary Burgess, BCcampus, licensed CC-BY

7. Open Educational Resources
“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 and Flora Hewlett Foundation
http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education/open-educational-resources

8. Open Textbooks
Similar to any other textbook, but with an
open license to allow revision/reuse
• Often a “creative commons” license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Online, PDF, ebook, or printed
• Free of cost online; often small charge for
printed version

9. Benefits of open textbooks: Cost
Students spend $1200/yr
on textbooks
Source: Fixing the Broken Textbook Market U.S. Student PIRGs, licensed CC BY 4.0
Cover image: Center for Public Interest Research, CC-BY 4.0 license
-- College Board, U.S.
65% of students have not
purchased a textbook for a
course during their academic
career because of price
Nearly half said textbook cost
affected course choice
Slide adapted from Clint Lalonde, BCcampus, CC-BY

10. Benefits of open textbooks: Own & Retain
Ebooks may not
allow you to
copy and paste,
print or
redistribute
May only have
access for short
period of time
System Lock, Flickr photo shared by Yuri Samoilov, licensed CC
BY 2.0

11. Benefits of open textbooks: Adaptability
Take out what you don’t need, add in your
own materials or OER from others …
E.g., lecture
notes, videos,
images,
quizzes, & more
CC-A license to remix, flickr photo
shared by fotonen, CC BY 2.0

12. Where to find open textbooks
open.bccampus.ca
openstaxcollege.org
open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
Collegeopentextbooks.org

13. Adopting open textbooks
open.bccampus.ca

14. Adopting open textbooks: options
• Give students a link to the textbook on the BCcampus site
• Download the book and put it on another site for
students to download
• E.g., LMS, Dropbox, own website
• Ask your bookstore or print shop if they can print copies
of the book for students to purchase
• some books are licensed CC BY-NC, and for those the
printers can only charge for cost-recovery, not add a
markup

15. Adopting open textbooks: tell us!
If you adopt an open textbook from the collection,
please let BCcampus know.
You can do so on the page for each of the books, or
there is a link under “adopt” at open.bccampus.ca

16. Modifying/revising open textbooks
Click the link for adaptations/modifications on each
textbook page to contact BCcampus

17. Modifying/revising open textbooks
Or, download the book in one of the available formats
and edit from there (MS Word editable formats coming
this Fall!)

18. Reviewing open textbooks
http://open.bccampus.ca
Go to “current calls for proposals”, then “review an open
textbook”

19. Current focus of BCcampus Open Textbook program:
• Encourage adoption of open textbooks by faculty
• Increase awareness of OER and open textbooks
• Encourage reviews of open textbooks by faculty
• Help support faculty in adopting and adapting open
textbooks
Spread the word!

20. Thank You
Email: c.hendricks@ubc.ca
Twitter: @clhendricksbc
Website: http://blogs.ubc.ca/christinahendricks
open.bccampus.ca