1. Finding Open Textbooks
and
Fostering Faculty Adoptions
Amanda Coolidge, BCcampus Open Textbooks
Nicole Finkbeiner, OpenStax College
Katherine D. Harris, California OER Council
Sept 10, 2014, 10:00 am PST

2. Collaborate Window Overview
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Moderators: Lisa Close, FLVC and Una Daly, CCCOER

4. Agenda
• Introductions
• CCCOER Overview
• BCcampus Open Textbooks
• OpenStax College Open Textbooks
• California OER Council Open Textbooks
• Questions & Answers

5. Welcome
Please introduce yourself in the chat window
Amanda Coolidge
Open Education Manager
BCcampus British Columbia,
Canada
Katherine D. Harris
California OER Council Chair
Associate Professor
San Jose State University
Nicole Finkbeiner
Associate Director
Institutional Relations
OpenStax College
Moderator: Una Daly
Director of Community College Consortium
Open Education Consortium

6. CCCOER
• Promote adoption of OER to enhance
teaching and learning
– Expanding access to education
–Supporting professional development
– Advancing the community college
mission
Funded by the William & Flora
Hewlett Foundation

7. 250+ Colleges in 18 States
& Provinces

8. Open Textbooks & Adoption
• Student Access & Success
• Faculty Awareness
• Faculty Adoption
• Save Students Money

9. Cover the Cost Student Contest
Enter a video or written essay answering:
How do you cover the cost of textbooks
each semester?
Three $2,500 book scholarships will be awarded
www.thebooklessmovement.org

10. BCcampus Open Textbooks
Amanda Coolidge
Open Education Manager

11. BCcampus Open
Textbook Project
Amanda Coolidge, Manager Open Education
BCcampus
CCCOER Presentation
September 10, 2014

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So where is “BCcampus”?

13. “Connect the expertise, programs, and
resources of all BC post-secondary
institutions under a collaborative service
delivery framework”
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Curriculum Services & Applied Research
Collaborative Programs & Shared Services
Student Services & Data Exchange

14. “Connect the expertise, programs, and
resources of all BC post-secondary
institutions under a collaborative service
delivery framework”
Support & promote the development & use of Open Educational Resources
Support instructors who want to use technology in their teaching practice
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1 Curriculum Services & Applied Research
OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License

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Online Program Development Fund (OPDF)
2003-2012
$9 million invested
153 grants awarded
100% participation across system
83% partnerships
47 credentials developed in whole or part via OPDF
355 courses, 12 workshops, 19 web sites/tools and 396 course components
(learning objects, labs, textbooks, manuals, videos)
100% open license for free & open sharing & reuse by all
BC post-secondary

16. solr.bccampus.ca

17. We have a problem…
Images from
http://www.openeducation.net/2009/09/17/beyond-textbooks-andy-chlup-discusses-digital-learning-models/
CC-BY and
http://markmcguire.net/2011/01/01/r-i-p-department-of-design-studies/ CC-BY-NC
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18. What students think of textbooks
•“The price of textbooks has influenced my decision to take classes. When
the same class is offered by three different instructors, I check which book
is the cheapest, and even though the professor might not be good, I’m
forced to take that class because the textbook is the cheapest.”
•“For my ‘Intro to Stats’ class, the usual cost of the textbook is like $120.
But then I got a copy from India for like $29. And it’s the exact same copy.”
•“I was in lab one day and the guy sitting next to me had the PDF version
of the book opened on his computer. And I was like, Oh, can I have a
copy? And he sent it over to me.”
•“I have a friend who actually didn’t spend any money last year for books
because he went to the library at the beginning of the quarter, borrowed
books, scanned everything, and had the PDF file.”
•“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.”
Students Get Savvier about Textbook Buying,
The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2013
http://chronicle.com/article/Students-Get-Savvier-About/136827

19. There is a direct relationship between
textbook costs and student success
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60%+ do not purchase textbooks
at some point due to cost
35% take fewer courses due to
textbook cost
31% choose not to register for a
course due to textbook cost
23% regularly go without
textbooks due to cost
14% have dropped a course
due to textbook cost
10% have withdrawn from a
course due to textbook cost
Source: 2012 student survey
by Florida Virtual Campus

20. What is an Open Textbook?
• An instructional resource
• An ebook
• A printed book
• Usually uses a Creative Commons license to enable others
to further share and modify
Images from Bccampus.ca and CreativeCommons.org. CC-BY
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21. The BC Open Textbook Project
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Image from Bccampus.ca
60 Texts + ancillaries
First province in Canada

22. The 5 Rs of Opennessdoes open enable?
Thank You
• The right to make, own and control copies of the
Retain content
Reuse • The right to use the content in a wide range of ways
• The right to adapt, adjust, or modify the content
Revise itself
• The right to combine the original or revised content
Remix with other open content to create something new
• The right to share copies of the original content,
Redistribute your revisions, or your remixes with others
Source: David Wiley, http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221March 5, 2014, CC-BY

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Why are we doing this?Yhy are
we doing this project?
• To increase access to higher education
by reducing student costs
• To enable faculty more control over
their instructional resources
• To move the open agenda forward in a meaningful, measurable way
Images from Oxfam.org CC-BY and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Talks/World_Open_Educational_Resources_Congress_2012
/How_Open_Access_and_Open_Science_can_mutually_fertilize_with_Open_Educational_Resources CC-BY

24. The project:
• 40 Texts, aligned with the 40 most highly enrolled 1st and 2nd year
subjects in BC, plus 20 more for skills based programs
• Not just for online delivery
• Ebook (multiple formats) or print on demand
Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecture_hall CC-BY
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25. Project Phases
Phase One – Harvest and Review
Phase Two – Adapt
Phase Three - Create

26. Phase One: Harvest and Review
Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest CC-BY

27. Early Adopter and Adapter: Dr. Takashi Sato Physics KPU
Students: 60
Previous Textbook: $187
OpenStax Textbook: $0
Student savings: $11,200
1 class 1 institution 1 term

28. Phase Two: Adapt
• Make use of what exists
• Improve what exists
No, not that kind of proposal…
No, it really, really isn’t easy
• Provide funding
• Provide support
Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaxed/285108485/ CC-BY
Image source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1815-regency-proposal-woodcut.gif CC-BY

29. Phase Three: Create
What are some ways of doing this?
Faculty collaboratively authoring
Buy the rights from publishers
Book sprint

30. What about quality?
• Reviews – we’re relying on faculty
• Faculty Fellows Program
• Collaborations – peer support, idea generation, subject matter
expertise
• Supporting players: Instructional Designers,
Professional Editors
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Images from http://fundermental.blogspot.ca/2011_09_01_archive.html
http://thevarguy.com/blog/visual-collaboration-next-var-opportunity-arrives
http://quotesweliveby.blogspot.ca/2010/08/quality-begins-on-inside-quality-quotes.html

31. Results
# of reviews = 50 reviews of 21 texts
# of books in collection = 62
# of Adaptations = 8
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Social psych
• Research methods in psych
• Database design
• Project management
• Strategic management
• Chemistry
# of Creations = 4
• Canadian History
• Canadian Geography
• Criminology
• English Lit
# of Institutions adopting: 8
• Camosun College
• Langara College
• JIBC
• Kwantlen Polytechnic University
• Douglas College
• Capilano University
• NWCC
• Thompson Rivers University
$ $
Known student savings =$305K +

32. open.bccampus.ca

33. Thanks!
acoolidge@bccampus.ca
@acoolidge
open.bccampus.ca

34. OpenStax College
Nicole Finkbeiner
Associate Director, Institutional Relations

35. Peer-reviewed, quality OER
Nicole Finkbeiner
Associate Director
Institutional Relations

36. $1,200
Fixing the Broken Textbook Market report
by U.S. PIRG Education Fund
January 2014
Average per year cost for
textbooks and supplies

37. 48%
Fixing the Broken Textbook Market report
by U.S. PIRG Education Fund
January 2014
of all students surveyed said that
the cost of textbooks impacted
how many/which classes they
took each semester

38. Foundation Support

39. Meeting the OER Challenge
Ease of Use
• Make it EASY to find and use the materials
Free is not Enough
• Establish development models to ensure quality
Scope and Sequence
• Develop resources to support existing curricula
Essential Learning Resources
• Partner with groups that can enhance content

40. Our books thus far

41. Schools using our resources
800+ schools worldwide using OpenStax books
Examples:
• Austin Community College
• University of Oklahoma
• Houston Community College
• University of Georgia
• Lone Star College
• Princeton University
• Central New Mexico Community College
• State University of New York
• Maricopa Community Colleges
• Penn State University

42. 233%
Increase in adoptions in
one year (300 adoptions to
1,000 adoptions)

43. OER Enhances Academic Freedom
At the course level:
• OER provides faculty with more choices for their
courses
• OER allows for permission free editing and adaptation
• OER prevents faculty from being locked into a
particular platform or system
In the market place:
• OER should not be legislated or mandated
• OER needs to stand on it’s own vis a vis publisher
material

44. No Passwords, No Registrations,
Available in Many Formats

45. Learning
requires more
than a book
Knowledge Ecosystem.
Only_point_five (CC-BY-NC bit.ly/HpxBgx)

46. Additional Resources
• Online homework (from partners)
• Online labs (from partners)
• Online practice (from partners)
• PowerPoint slides
• Pronunciation guides
• Solution Manuals
• Test banks

47. Adopt/Recommend
• Adopt an OpenStax book as
the main textbook
• Recommend an OpenStax
book as an option for
studying/affordability

48. Instituitional Initiatives
How to implement OER as an institution
• Textbook Heroes
• Faculty support
• Instructional Design/IT
• Library
• Incentives (not mandates)
• Institutional grants
• Student organization grants
• Expressed support from administration
• OER training days/webinars

49. FAQs
1. What’s the catch or obligation?
2. Do you plan on switching to a fee model?
3. “I don’t like X or you don’t have Y”
4. Do you have SSO?
5. May I adapt and distribute without permission?
6. Do you have comp copies?
7. With no sales reps how do I get service?
info@openstaxcollege.org
8. What about revisions?
9. Who do I call if I find an error?
10.Can my bookstore order physical copies?

50. $10.5 MILLION
SAVED!

51. Nicole Finkbeiner
Associate Director,
Institutional Relations
nicolef@rice.edu
713-348-2972

52. California OER Council
Katherine D. Harris, Ph.D
California OER Council Chair
Associate Professor, San Jose State University

53. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Leaping Toward
OER in California Higher Education
CCCOER Webinar:
Open Textbook Collections and Adoptions
Sept. 10, 2014, 10am
Katherine D. Harris
Associate Professor, English, SJSU
Project Coordinator/Chair
http://icas-ca.org/coerc
COERC2014@gmail.com
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator

54. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
THE GOAL - to increase faculty adoption of high quality,
affordable or free course materials to save students money.
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
CCCOER Webinar

55. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
COERC will significantly improve the affordability of a
quality higher education experience for students
in the state of California and across the nation
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
CCCOER Webinar

56. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
The California State Legislature passed and the Governor
signed SB 1052 and SB 1053 for the California public
higher education systems to create an online library of open
educational resources and open textbooks (2012)
SB 1052 CA Senate Bill authorizing creation of COERC
SB 1053
CA Senate Bill authorizing CA Open Source Digital
Library
The CSU was designated as the leadership
organization to manage the project
CCCOER Webinar Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator

57. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
To establish this project, the California State University,
Office of the Chancellor was awarded grants from the:
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation ($500,000)
and Gates Foundation ($500,000) to match the State of
California’s funding, mandated by SB 1052 and SB 1053.
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
CCCOER Webinar

58. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Select 50
courses
Create &
administer
rigorous
review
process
Promote
production,
access &
use
Solicit input
from student
associations
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
From the Legislation
Identifying
available free
and open
etextbooks
RFP to
create
OER
materials
CCCOER Webinar

59. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
From ICAS – a hefty set of tasks
1. Meet goals of SB 1052 legislation.
2. Work collegially under the direction of the COERC Project Coordinator to
produce the deliverables specified in the Hewlett grant proposal timeline.
3. Submit policies and processes to ICAS for review and approval;
document and archive policies and processes approved by ICAS.
4. Develop policies for building the collection of open textbooks in the
California Open Source Digital Library (CDOSL). The COOL4Ed
(California Open Online Library for Education, www.cool4ed.org) is the
first library service of the CDOSL.
5. Develop a process for review teams which will include: composition,
timelines, rubrics for evaluating texts, minimum standard for text to be
included in COOL, appeal process for authors, training necessary for
review and normalizing, process for communicating names of texts
approved for inclusion in COOL by discipline (or alternate way to
categorize the texts).
[contd.]
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
CCCOER Webinar

60. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
From ICAS (contd.)
6. Send regular reports to ICAS about disciplines, texts, challenges, etc.
7. Prepare content for the COSDL website and ICAS webpage.
8. Prepare and administer (or delegate) professional development
opportunities by or across segments.
9. Develop policies for defining data that will need to be collected and
analyzed to track the success of the project.
10.Develop process for outsourcing work to "complete" a text.
11.Support review teams (COERC members may not participate on review
teams).
(available on COERC web pages)
CCCOER Webinar

61. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
COERC Project
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Oversight
Funding
Coordinator
ICAS: All CSU, CCC,
UC Academic
Senates
The State
of
California
Principal
Investigation (Gerard
Hanley, CSU
Chancellor’s Office)
The Hewlett
Foundation &
The Gates
Foundation
CCCOER Webinar

62. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
COERC Membership (formed Jan 2014)
CCC UC CSU
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Dianna Chiabotti,
Child & Family Studies &
Education, Napa Valley
Bob Jacobsen,
Physics, Berkeley
Diego Bonilla,
Communication,
Sacramento
Cheryl Stewart,
Library & Information
Science, Coastline
Peter Krapp,
Film, Media/Visual
Studies, Informatics,
Irvine
Ruth A. Guthrie,
Pomona, begins Fall
2014
Kevin Yokoyama,
Mathematics,
Redwoods
Randy Siverson,
Political Science, Davis
Larry Hanley,
English, San Francisco
Katherine D. Harris, English, San Jose State (CSU)
Project Coordinator/Chair (non-voting)
CCCOER Webinar

63. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Hewlett Foundation Grant - Deliverables
March
• ICAS establishes scope and schedule for the development of policies and
procedures for open textbook initiative
• ICAS establishes policy on shared governance and management of initiative
• COERC completes selection of Phase 1 courses, and approves evaluation
criteria
• Phase I communication plans developed by COERC and COSDL
April
• Survey of faculty, administrators, and students received by late April/early
May (COERC)
• Faculty review panels needed for first five courses established; COERC
approves evaluation criteria and review/recommendation processes
May-Aug
Faculty Review Panels:
Establish infrastructure, review apparatus, review panels, textbook access
for Phase I Reviews due on Aug 25, 2014.
CCCOER Webinar Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator

64. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Criteria for Selecting Five Courses
COERC was able to identify more than 50 courses to evaluate OER textbooks using the following criteria:
Highly enrolled according to Course Identification Number System:
http://www.c-id.net/degreereview.html
Works for as many campuses as possible following the designation for general education courses:
Critical Thinking Oral Communication Quantitative Reasoning Written Communication
Generates significant textbook savings
Relatively consistent across textbook products
Provides opportunities for faculty to augment open textbooks
Conducive to discipline-based pedagogies
Access to multiple OER textbooks for any given course
CCCOER Webinar Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator

65. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Five Courses Selected
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Introduction to
Statistics
CCCOER Webinar
Public
Speaking
Microeconomics
U.S. History
Introduction to
Chemistry

66. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Defining Criteria, Protocols & Boundaries
from COERC Glossary: http://icas-ca.org/oer-glossary
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Textbook
(for our purposes)
CCCOER Webinar
A manual of instruction in any branch of study. Online
and digital materials are making it increasingly easy
for students to access materials other than the
traditional print textbook. Students now have access to
electronic and PDF books, online tutoring systems
and video lectures.
Creative
Commons
Licensing
Creative Commons Licenses are applied to published
work online and offer simple and clear information
about what other people can and can’t do with that
work.

67. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Surveying the Faculty
1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
CCCOER Webinar

68. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Surveying the Faculty
1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
CCCOER Webinar

69. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Surveying the Faculty
1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
CCCOER Webinar

70. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Surveying the Faculty
1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
CCCOER Webinar

71. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Surveying the Faculty
1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
CCCOER Webinar

72. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Surveying the Faculty
1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
Distribution of disciplines for faculty survey participants
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
CCCOER Webinar

73. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Request for Reviewers
314 Self-indentified reviewers as of 5/12/14
Distribution of disciplines (remove “science” & “studies”)
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
CCCOER Webinar

74. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Surveying Students
100 Responses as of 5/12/14
Distributed to student government leaders on 4/1/14
?
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
CCCOER Webinar

75. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Next Steps
• Identify and invite Faculty Reviewers
• Complete protocols and infrastructure for reviews
• Manage review panels over Summer 2014
• Integrate reviews into the COSDL website for
Phase I
• Evaluate textbook selection, proof of concept for
reviewing, course selection
• Resolve student involvement issues
• Report to California State Senate
• Re-Convene COERC in the Fall
CCCOER Webinar Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator

76. COERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
www.icas-ca.org/coerc
COERC2014@gmail.com
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
CCCOER Webinar

77. Next CCCOER Webinar
Wed, Oct 8

78. OEC Quarterly Meeting
Sept 18 @ 9:00 am PT
• Promoting OER at your Institutions
• OER State of the Field Report
• Demo of Open Education Professional
Directory
• Open MOOC Update
Register at oeconsortium.org

79. Questions?
Una Daly: unatdaly@oeconsortium.org
Amanda Coolidge: acoolidge@bccampus.ca
Nicole Finkbeiner: nicolef@rice.edu
Katherine D. Harris: katherine.harris@sjsu.edu
Thank you for coming!!