Finding, Selecting, and Adopting Open Textbooks
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Webinar facilitated by Una Daly, OpenCourseWare Consortium and Terrie McAloney, BCcampus. For more information about open textbooks and OER, visit http://open.bccampus.ca
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Finding, Selecting, and Adopting Open Textbooks
- 1. Finding, Selecting, and Adopting Open Textbooks and OER Una Daly, OpenCourseWare Consortium Una Daly, OpenCourseWare Consortium Terrie McAloney, BCcampus Terrie McAloney, BCcampus Nov 21, 2012 Nov 21, 2012
- 2. Collaborate Window Overview Audio & Video Participants Chat
- 3. Welcome Please introduce yourself in the chat window. Tell us what you want to learn today … • Una Daly, Community College Outreach OpenCourseWare Consortium • Terrie McAloney, BCcampus Special thanks to Sylvia Currie and BCcampus!!
- 4. Agenda • Myths of OER & Open Textbooks • Origins of OER • Motivation for using it • Open Licensing • Finding OER • Open Textbook Repositories • Adopting OER
- 5. Myth or Fact? • All open textbooks are peer-reviewed • OER is free • OER is in the public domain • Publisher produced material is better than OER • Open textbooks hurt bookstores • eBooks are open textbooks 5
- 6. Origin of OER circa 2002 • Open Educational Resources (OER) – free access globally “The open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes” “Digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and reuse for teaching, learning and research” adapted from Judy Baker’s ELI 2011 OER Workshop cc-by license 6
- 7. “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 …” cc-by-nc-nd Definition of OER by Texas T’s/flickr William and Flora Hewlett Foundation adapted from Judy Baker’s ELI 2011 OER Workshop cc-by license 7
- 8. Examples Includes – • Course materials • Lesson Plans • Modules or lessons • OpenCourseWare (OCW) • Open textbooks • Videos • Images • Tests • Software • Any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support ready access to knowledge adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license 8
- 9. Motivations to use OER • Save students $$$ • Empower faculty – Promote scholarship and collaboration – Eliminate unneeded updates • Avoid copyright violations alcatraz www.photolib.noaa.gov.jpg Origamidon cc-by-nc-nd
- 10. Characteristics of OER • Digital – Easily modified – free distribution • Open License – Reuse, Revise, Remix, Redistribute • Low cost – Lowers barriers to education Photo labeled for reuse by MrKCoolsPhotostream
- 11. What is an Open License? • Free: Free to access online, free to print • Open: Shared, usable and re-usable: licensing that is less restrictive than standard copyright adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license 11
- 12. Creative Commons Licenses • Works with existing copyright law • Promotes sharing • Internationally recognized • Author/creator can specify re-uses 12
- 13. Finding Images, Videos, Music search.creativecommons.org
- 14. Open Textbook Motivations Traditional Textbook Open Textbook by Open Adrienne Watt, Textbook by BCIT Instructor Adrienne Watt, Instructor New From $171.90 Free: online, pdf, ePub Hardback Print out yourself 14 14
- 15. Discover Open Textbooks Repositories & Listing Sites 15 15
- 16. College Open Textbooks • Open textbook list by subject (750+) • Peer reviews (150) • Accessibility reviews (100) • Online community of college faculty (1000+) 16
- 17. OpenStax College Foundational Support Spring 2012 Spring 2012 Spring 2013 Spring 2013 Spring 2013 Ultimate Goal – High-quality books for top 20+ courses. All books in CNX, all CC-BY CCCOER webinar cc-by Adapted from David Harrison
- 18. Adopting OER & Open Textbooks • Selection and Evaluation • Adding other materials FRE PU PPIES WIREDSTEVE CC-BY-NC-SA • Curriculum Approvals • Student Access/Bookstore Role Adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license
- 19. Evaluating OER • MERLOT Peer Reviews • Achieve OER Rubric • College Open Textbooks Ratings Collegeopentextbooks.
- 20. Best Uses of OER • Enhance existing materials with OER • Enhance existing Open Textbook – E.g. Translations, Images, etc. • Replace existing materials with an Open Textbook • Invite students to generate OER cc-by-nc-nd eslenkphoto adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license 20
- 21. Student Access to Textbooks • Classroom/Lab usage – Print, PDF, online, mobile • Repository access – Learning Management System – Internet-only access 21
- 22. Making Open Sustainable •Support open policies •Promote use of open resources •Openly license your work •Build an open education community adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license
- 23. Thank you for attending! Please type your question in the chat window or raise your hand to speak Contact Information Una Daly unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org Terrie McAloney terrie.mcaloney@bccampus.ca
- 24. Photo credits: Share http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4424154829/in/photostream/ IMG_4591 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/4700979984/ cc-by-sa La belle tzigane http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/21063837 cc-by-sa Asian Library Interior 5 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubclibrary/453351638/ cc-by-nc-sa Petru http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/23724427/ cc-by-nc-sa Opensourceways http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4371000710/ cc-by-sa
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- https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24836860/What%20are%20Open%20Educational%20Resources
- Atkins, D. E., J. S. Brown and A. L. Hammond, 2007. A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunities , Report to The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
- Do any of you create instructional materials with images such a power points or other documents. Where do you find the images that you use in these materials?
- British Columbia Author
- Difference between Referral Lists and Repositories of Open Textbooks
- Open Educational Resources: One-Day workshop on the use, re-use and re-purpose of OER by the Commonwealth of Learning is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.