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Why are we doing this project?
1. To increase access to higher education by reducing student costs
2. To enable faculty more control overtheir instructional resources
3. To move the open agenda forward in a meaningful, measurable way
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Average student debt difficult to pay off, CBC, March 11, 2014
Student Debt in Canada, Canadian Federation of Students, Fall 2013
After three years of post-secondary schooling
in Nova Scotia, Verge graduated in 2008 with
about $25,000 of debt — just about the
national average. More than five years later,
she has only managed to pay back about
$2,000.
For people like Verge, high debt loads are not
only a financial stress but can delay the time it
takes individuals or couples to reach certain
milestones, such as having children, getting
married or owning property…
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Why Textbooks Cost So Much, The
Economist, August 16, 2014
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Course Textbook Bookstore Amazon
CHEM 1105 Chemistry: The Central Science (lab manual) $215.00 $214.20
MATH 1501 Basic Technical Mathematics with Calculus $186.50 $140
MINE 1101 Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology $118.95 $155
COMM 1135 Writing for Success $45.95 $36.20
COMP 1620 New Perspectives on Computer Concepts $183.95 $165.25
New Perspectives on Microsoft Excel $137.95 $151.40
MINE 1100 Mineral Exploration and Mining Essentials $73.95 $89.95
MINE 1107 None - -
PHYS 1147 Custom book & Lab Manual $37 n/a
SURV 1145 None - -
Total $999.25 $952
2 Year Mining Exploration Program
Term 1 (of 4)
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Principal/Agent Problem
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“The cardinal lesson is that
prices rise unchecked if the
people who order the goods
aren’t paying the prices.”
The $250 Econ 101 Textbook, Craig Richardson, Wall Street Journal, Jan. 13, 2015
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There are pedagogical implications
to high textbook costs
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How students battled textbook publishers to a draw, Planet Money, NPR, Oct 9, 2014
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How students battled textbook publishers to a draw, Planet Money, NPR, Oct 9, 2014
What is going on here?
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65% students have
not purchased a
textbook for a course
during their academic
career because of
price
Source: Fixing the Broken Textbook Market U.S. PIRG
Cover image: Center for Public Interest Research used under CC-BY 4.0 license
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Textbook Costs vs Student Success
Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual CampusSlide: CC-BY Cable Green, Creative Commons via http://www.project-kaleidoscope.org/
60%+ do not purchase books at some point due to book cost
35% take fewer courses due to book cost
31% choose not to register for a course due to book cost
23% regularly go without textbooks due to book cost
14% have dropped a course due to book cost
10% have withdrawn from a course due to book cost
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Students Get Savvier about Textbook Buying,
The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2013
Emma Anderson, 21Political science, U. of California at Berkeley
“Usually when I don’t buy it, it’s because I’ve found that you actually don’t need it for the class.”
Jennifer Bi, 20Economics, U. of California at Berkeley
“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.”
Marie Efira, 63Anthropology, Foothill College
“I had to take very few classes, because each time the price of the book more than doubles the tuition fee. It took me much longer to get my degree.”
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“My textbook is…
…back-ordered
…in the mail
…out of stock
…the wrong edition
…on hold until my student loan arrives
…not needed until I decide I want this course”
How often do students start the term
without the resources they need?
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Problems
1. Textbooks are expensive
2. Students are not using them
3. Students can’t keep them
4. Students can fall weeks behind
5. Students are taking more time to finish
6. Learning is negatively affected
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Open textbooks can help
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What are Open Textbooks?
A textbook licensed under an open
copyright license, and made available
online to be freely used by students,
teachers and members of the public.
They are available for free as online and
electronic versions, or as low-cost printed
versions, should students opt for these.
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What are Open Textbooks?
A textbook licensed under an open
copyright license, and made available
online to be freely used by students,
teachers and members of the public. They
are available for free as online versions,
and as low-cost printed versions, should
students opt for these.
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Faculty have full legal rights to
customize & contextualize open
textbooks to fit their pedagogical
needs
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The 5 R’s of Open
• Make and own copiesRetain
• Use in a wide range of waysReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute
Adapted (color change) from Open Education: A “Simple” Introduction by David Wiley released under CC-BY license
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Creative Commons logo by Creative Commons used under a CC-BY 3.0 License
CC license image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 South Africa license
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The Project
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The Project
Don’t reinvent it by Andrea Hernandez released under CC-BY-NC-SA and based on Wheel by Pauline Mak released
under CC-BY license
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Faculty Reviews ($250)
291/365 by thebarrowboy used under a CC-BY
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Reviews > Adaptations
My Adventures Adapting a Chemistry Textbook291/365 by thebarrowboy used under a CC-BY
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New Creations
Publish Many
Write Once
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Results
Year Faculty Sections Students Savings
2013 12 18 553 $55,300 - $84,560
2014 42 78 2630 $263,000 - $367,896
2015 (Jan-April)
33 73 2224 $222,400 - $252,285
Total 87 169 5407 $540,700 - $713,921
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Outreach
Leva Lee, BCcampus
Erin Fields, UBC
Amanda Wanner, UBC
Oregon Community College Library Association Webinar - May 26, 2015
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● Librarians & OER
● BCOER Beginnings
● Our Projects
● Learning & Sharing
● Future plans
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Librarians & Open Education Resources
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Beginnings
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Participation
1
0
BC Postsecondary Institutions
and BCcampus
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Mission
BCOER is a group of B.C. Postsecondary librarians
working together to support the use of quality Open
Educational Resources (OER).
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BCOER Hackfest
OER Awareness was identified as a key need. Talking points for an advocacy poster and ideas for librarian professional learning were discussed.
BCOER Hackfest, May 2014We tested an assessment rubric for OER repositories.
40 repositories were evaluated.
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BCOER Project: Advocacy Poster
A poster was develop with talking points to engage faculty in conversations. It is an OER made available on open.bccampus.ca
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BCOER Project: OERR Assessment Rubric
The OER Repository rubric developed and tested at the Hackfest is now available on open.bccampus.ca.
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BCOER Project: Subject Guides
These OER Primer Libguides were developed by a team of BCOER
librarians. The links are available on open.bccampus.ca
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BCOER Project: Shared Spaces
Currently exploring & testing a collaborative space to
develop/maintain OER subject guides
http://mediawiki.bccampus.ca/index.php/Category:BCOER
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BCOER Project: Librarians & OER Event
“Open Education Resources: Librarians,
Leadership & Opportunity”
Aboriginal Gathering Place,
Douglas College, New Westminster, BC
October 27, 2014
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BCOER Project: Web space
Web site Collaboration site
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BCOER: Community feedback
http://bcoerguides.wikispaces.com/ETUG+Spring+Workshop+Session
Awareness
Discoverability
Quality & Longevity of OERs
Licensing – understanding CC
Resistance to Change
Knowing about Opportunities
2014 Thinking session on
identifying OER
Challenges
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BCOER: Connecting & Sharing
#bcoer
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Upcoming Events
Open Textbook Summit May 28 & 29
BCcampus Webinars
March 9 - 14
April 22 - 24
Spring Workshop June 4 & 5
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More Project Ideas
• Develop more Pro-d opportunities in variety of modes (e.g. f2f
events, webinars, podcasts, self-serve resources)
• Host a resource sprint for/by librarians
• Facilitate an OER librarians community of practice
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Acknowledgments
Icons are from “The Noun Project”
(http://thenounproject.com/) licensed under a Creative
Commons – Attribution license (CC-BY 3.0)
• Brainstorm by Jessica Lock
• Celebration by Scott Lewis
• Collaboration by Krisada
• Digital-Classroom by Dan Hetteix
• Librarian by Wynne Nafus Sayer
• Open-Education by Berkay Sargin
Thank YouQuestions?
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