RTC OER Chat (9-15-09)

Developing a Culture of Sharing and Receiving:

Open Source Textbooks and Open Courses

Cable GreeneLearning Director

http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen

Just to Recap…

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People and content are connected globally Digital, online content is growing exponentially Digital stuff we produce is used by someone Someone else can host our IT, so we can focus People and Colleges are sharing their content Everyone can participate New models are emerging that leverage these

trends – and they will be our direct competition

What are the possibilities? What will students expect from our Colleges?

Definition of OER

Digitized materials, offered freely and openly for educators, students, to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.

The Old Economics

Print, warehouse, and ship a new book for every student

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The New Economics

Upload one copy, and everyone uses it simultaneously

http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/

Making copies, storage, distribution of digital stuff = “Free”

software

textbooks

music

Textbook 2.0modular

authored by community

continuously updated

personalized on assembly

never out-of-print

published on demand

low costex: 600-page textbook for $32, not $132

Why do we Need Open Textbooks?

2005 GAO report: College textbook prices have risen at twice the rate of annual inflation over the last two decades

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05806.pdf

Why do we Need Open Textbooks?

The College Board reported that for the 2007 through 2008 academic years each student spent an estimated $805 to $1,229 on college books and supplies…

http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/trends/trends_pricing_07.pdf

Why do we Need Open Textbooks?

The gross margin on new college textbooks is currently 22.7 percent according to the National Association of College Stores.

Products available in college stores are sold with a margin, as in any retail operation. Margin is the difference between cost and retail price, reflecting work required to bring products to market.

http://www.nacs.org/public/research/margins.asp

May, 2007: Dept of Ed.

http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/course_correction.pdf

Community College Consortiumfor Open Educational Resources

Joint effort to develop and use open educational resources and open textbooks

in community college courses

cccoer.wordpress.com

Community CollegeOpen Textbook Project Goal

Identify, organize, and support the production and use of high quality, accessible and culturally relevant Open

Textbooks for community college students

Reduce the cost of

textbooks!

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CCCOER Membership

Comparison of Statistics Textbooks

Publisher: Wiley Open: Connexions & QOOP

Downloadable version:

$77.50

Downloadable & online versions:

FREE

Printed bound version:

$141.95 new

$110.25 used

Printed bound version:

$31.98 new

Does TCC teach: “Introductory Statistics”

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General Physics

600 pages

New $179.00 

Used

$125.00  

Does TCC teach:

“Introductory Physics”

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Does TCC teach: Elementary Algebra

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Do you want to go through the rest of RTC’s general

education courses?

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Challenges Faculty and student

resistance to change

Limited availability of high quality and comprehensive learning materials in some disciplines

Inadequate access to high-speed Internet by students

Challenges Compliance with accessibility requirements

Printing and computer lab demands on campus by students

Coordination with campus bookstores

Open Textbook Adoption

Locate open textbooks for consideration

Evaluate each textbook for selection

Customize, remix, and organize selected textbook

Disseminate in print and digital formats

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Locate Open Textbooksfor Consideration

MERLOT

Connexions

Wikibooks

OER Commons

Global Text Project

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Evaluate Each Textbook Quality Accessibility Cultural relevance Currency Authority of Source Reading level Depth and scope Quality and

Accuracy Articulation

Customize, Remix, and Organize

Disseminate Open Textbooks Digital formats

Printed format

Campus bookstore

Campus print-shop services

Proprietary services

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Why so urgent?

Consider One High Enrollment Course: English Composition I 37,226 enrollments / year X $100 textbook = $3.7 Million + (cost to students)

What if we looked at 100, 200, 300 high enrollment courses?

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Are there really Open Educational Resources (e.g., Open Textbooks)

on the web?

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Lenses @ Rice Connexions

social software for peer review & quality control

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Bookstores Future Role?

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Bookstores are perfectly positioned to be the College’s clearinghouse for printed open educational resources. print-on-demand open textbooks & OER course packs Students want printed options (Course Correction)

Have location and are tightly networked into IT and fiscal campus operations. e.g., students can use fin aid @ bookstores

Bookstores Future Role?

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Open Textbook Commercial Affiliates Work with them like you work with existing

commercial Publishers Flat World Knowledge: interested in

bookstores buying print copies of open textbooks at reduced rates.

Your ideas? Let’s chat.

New Textbook Publisher Models Flat World Knowledge went from 30 schools & 1,000 students

spring quarter, to 430 schools & 40,000 students this fall.

Several system faculty were involved in early reviews of their open textbooks.

There are other interesting open textbook publisher models emerging: CK-12 is doing great work in the K-12 space.

FREE Calculus Textbook? California (Free Digital Textbook Initiative Report) will likely adopt several of CK-12’s open textbooks and save the State of California a lot of money.

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WA Legislation SSHB1025 Faculty and staff members consider the least

costly practices in assigning course materials, such as adopting the least expensive edition available, adopting free, open textbooks when available, and working with college librarians to put together collections of free online web and library resources, when educational content is comparable as determined by the faculty…

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WA Legislation

SSHB1946 – two big ideas – share technology and share content.

(v) Methods and open licensing options for effectively sharing digital content including but not limited to: Open courseware, open textbooks, open journals, and open learning objects…

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Faculty Perspective?

How do faculty really feel about textbooks?

How do faculty really feel about use of OER or the Internet in place of publishers’ textbooks?

What recommendations do faculty have for encouraging faculty to replace textbooks with open educational resources?

OER on Your Campus?

Form Taskforce on campus to address adoption of open textbooks: Curriculum approval Pedagogical standards Articulation Tech support Bookstore and print shop services Library Faculty and department participation Faculty training in development of OER Marketing

Blogs: http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu http://blog.elearning.sbctc.edu Twitter: cgreen Slides @ http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen

Dr. Cable GreeneLearning Directorcgreen@sbctc.edu

(360) 704-4334