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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 Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License . Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution
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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
Unless otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.Feel free to use, modify or distribute any or all of this presentation with attribution
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Agenda
• What is the Bccampus Open Textbook
Project?
• What are open textbooks?
• How to adopt/adapt open textbooks?
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
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What are Open Textbooks?
Textbooks that are open, of course!
But what does that mean?...
The 5 “R’s” of openness
Source: David Wiley, http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221 CC-BYSlide adapted from Mary Burgess, BCcampus, licensed CC-BY
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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 Foundationhttp://www.hewlett.org/programs/education/open-educational-resources
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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
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Benefits of open textbooks: Cost
Students spend $1200/yr on textbooks
Source: Fixing the Broken Textbook Market U.S. Student PIRGs, licensed CC BY 4.0Cover 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
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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
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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
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Where to find open textbooks
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openstaxcollege.org
open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
Collegeopentextbooks.org
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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
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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
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Modifying/revising open textbooks
Click the link for adaptations/modifications on each textbook page to contact BCcampus
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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!)
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Reviewing open textbooks
http://open.bccampus.ca
Go to “current calls for proposals”, then “review an open textbook”
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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!
Thank YouEmail: [email protected]: @clhendricksbcWebsite: http://blogs.ubc.ca/christinahendricks
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