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Developing a Culture of Sharing and Receiving: Open Source Textbooks and Open Courses

Developing a Culture of Sharing and Receiving: Open Source Textbooks and Open Courses. Cable Green eLearning Director. Just to Recap…. People and content are connected globally Digital, online content is growing exponentially Digital stuff we produce is used by someone

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Developing a Culture of Sharing and Receiving: Open Source Textbooks and Open Courses

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  1. Developing a Culture of Sharing and Receiving:Open Source Textbooks and Open Courses Cable Green eLearning Director

  2. Just to Recap…

  3. 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?

  4. Definition of OER • Digitized materials, offered freely and openly for educators, students, to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.

  5. The Old Economics Print, warehouse, and ship a new book for every student http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/2780164461/

  6. The New Economics Upload one copy, and everyone uses it simultaneously Making copies, storage, distribution of digital stuff = “Free” http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/

  7. software textbooks music

  8. Textbook 2.0 modular authored by community continuously updated personalized on assembly never out-of-print published on demand low costex: 600-page textbook for $32, not $132

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. May, 2007: Dept of Ed.

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

  14. 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

  15. 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!

  16. CCCOER Membership 84 colleges from AZ, CA, IA, MD, NV, NY, OH, TX, WA, Ontario

  17. Comparison of Statistics Textbooks

  18. Does TCC teach: “Introductory Statistics”

  19. General Physics 600 pages New $179.00  Used $125.00  

  20. Does TCC teach: “Introductory Physics”

  21. Does TCC teach: Elementary Algebra

  22. Do you want to go through the rest of RTC’s general education courses?

  23. 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

  24. Challenges • Compliance with accessibility requirements • Printing and computer lab demands on campus by students • Coordination with campus bookstores

  25. 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 http://emharrington.com/rex/images/adoptadog/Adopt_Me.jpg

  26. Locate Open Textbooksfor Consideration • MERLOT • Connexions • Wikibooks • OER Commons • Global Text Project http://rtnl.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/thinker21.jpg

  27. Evaluate Each Textbook • Quality • Accessibility • Cultural relevance • Currency • Authority of Source • Reading level • Depth and scope • Quality and Accuracy • Articulation

  28. Customize, Remix, and Organize

  29. Disseminate Open Textbooks • Digital formats • Printed format • Campus bookstore • Campus print-shop services • Proprietary services http://images.lexcycle.com/screenshots/feedbooks_library.jpg

  30. http://therawfeed.com/pix/the_raw_feed_on_kindle-BIG.jpg

  31. 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? http://rtnl.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/thinker21.jpg

  32. Are there reallyOpen Educational Resources (e.g., Open Textbooks) on the web?

  33. Lenses @ Rice Connexions social software for peer review & quality control California Community Colleges Ohio Community Colleges Washington Community Colleges

  34. Bookstores Future Role? • 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

  35. Bookstores Future Role? • 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.

  36. 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.

  37. 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?

  38. 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

  39. Blogs: http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu http://blog.elearning.sbctc.edu Twitter: cgreen Dr. Cable Green eLearning Director cgreen@sbctc.edu (360) 704-4334

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