Open Textbooks

The new emerging education technology

Introduction

• What is this presentation about?

 Definition of open textbooks : “materials used to support education that may be freely accessed, reused, modified and shared by anyone” (Downes, 2011)  Where to find open textbooks: open.bccampus.ca

• Who is this guy speaking?

• Objectives for today:  Understand the importance of measuring adoption of open textbooks  Evaluate a possible metric for measuring adoption of open textbooks • Our next 30 minutes:  Your Story (Large Group Discussion)      A Research Story Why focus on Use and Creation?

A Letter Story Live Research (using Socrative) What Do You Think? (Large Group Discussion)

Your Story

• Creators of Open Textbooks?

• Users of Open Textbooks?

• Evangelists?

A Research Story

Areas covered in the research

• Familiarity • Use of OER (includes re-use) • Creation of OER (includes adaptation) • Attitudes towards OER • Types of OER • Factors that would increase use

Why focus on use and creation?

• Creating OER leads to higher emotional engagement than simply using OER (Pawlowski, 2012).

• Emotional ownership could reduce one of the main barriers - a higher education culture that is the antithesis of open - by increasing stakeholder engagement.

• In the OER community model the activity of creating, using, redesigning to making it your own fills that stakeholder void.

Emotional Ownership and the OER Development Process (Clements & Pawlowski, 2012)

A Letter Story

Create Use

Lets Try It

• Live Research • b.socrative.com Room 375402

What Do You Think?

• Is a measurement of Use: Creation useful?

• What makes a good ratio?

• Should it be Creation: Use instead?

Final Thought

• Sir John Daniel - Commonwealth of Learning -

“ until the focus of OER is on production instead of reuse it could not be considered a mainstream adoption ” (Daniel, 2011)

References

Clements, K.I. & Pawlowski, J.M. (2012) User-oriented quality for OER: understanding teachers’ views on re-use, quality, and trust. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 28,1 4-14 Daniel, J (2011, May 9 th ) Open Educational Resources (OER): Switching focus from production to re-use? [Weblog comment]. Retrieved from http://www.col.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=140 Downes. S. (2011, July 14 th ). Open educational resources: A definition [Weblog comment]. Retrieved from http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2011/07/open-educational-resources definition.html

McKerlich, R., Ives, C. & McGreal, R. (2013) Measuring Use and Creation of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 14,4 Open Access Textbook Task Force (2010) Final Report. State of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida, USA Pawlowski, J.M. (2012) Emotional Ownership as the Key to OER Adoption: From Sharing Products and Resources to Sharing Ideas and Commitment across Borders, EFQUEL Innovation Forum, Sep. 2012