Open Textbook Advantages Free Available to all students
Open Textbook Advantages Free Available to all students from before the first day of class Flexible, can be altered to meet specific instructional needs Portable, easy to bring to class Versatile, can incorporate or link to interactive elements Pedagogically effective Students register for more courses in following semester
Libre. Texts The Libre. Texts project is a multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access educational materials Our Four Principles Free Integrated Dynamic Community Driven THE LIBRARIES ARE A LIVING RESOURCE IMPLEMENTED, DEVELOPED, AND “OWNED” BY THE PEOPLE THAT USE IT
Libre. Texts Impact Libre. Texts has served 223 million pages since 2008. Libre. Texts gets over 7. 5 million page views per month Libre. Texts has saved $31 Million to date in textbook expenditures (that we know of). Over 68500 pages in 12 libraries 398 Libre. Texts plus other resources Over 50 campuses and hundreds of courses use Libre. Text
Libre. Texts Timeline Begun in 2008 by Delmar Larsen at UC Davis as the Chem. WIKI Extended to other STEM fields driven by faculty at multiple institutions Rebranded as Libre. Texts in 2016 to cover the complete college curriculum Joining with the California State University System in 2018 (MOU) to provide Affordable Learning Solutions to Cal State faculty and students • Awarded a $5 million DOEd award October 1 2018, 11 institutions, 63 faculty at research, comprehensive, and community colleges, including those serving minorities and women • • Faculty and students working together to build an open, free textbook environment, integrated over all fields 2008 2010 2011 2015 2017
DOEd RFP Issued July 29, 2018 Proposals due August 29, 2018 Award to Libre. Texts announced October 1, 2018 Absolute Priority 1—Improving Collaboration and Dissemination Through Consortia Arrangements. Absolute Priority 2—Addressing Gaps in the Open Textbook Marketplace and Bringing Solutions to Scale. Absolute Priority 3—Promoting Degree Completion. Competitive Preference Priority— Using Technology-Based Strategies for Personalized Learning and Continuous Improvement
Libre. Texts Teams The proposal called for five teams Content creation Content harvesting Dissemination and outreach Technology development and implementation Assessment and analysis
Meeting the timeline Much of the proposal structure and team membership had been formulated in a well reviewed but losing 2018 IUSE proposal Libre. Tets is an existing community Libre. Texts is a nationwide effort
Improving Collaboration and Dissemination Through Consortia Arrangements.
Libre. Texts Team (11 Institutions) Institutional Level University of California Davis California State University Chancellor’s Office Contra Costa Community College District Hope College Los Rios Community College District Prince George’s Community College Saint Mary’s College University of Arkansas Little Rock University of Washington Research universities, comprehensive and community college systems, PUIs, MSIs, community colleges.
Libre. Texts Team (62 faculty) Faculty Level College of St. Benedict/College of St. John’s University De. Pauw University Mendocino College Monroe Community College South Tahoe Community College University of Illinois Springfield University of Kansas University of Michigan University of Minnesota Rochester University of Rochester Organizations Dark Tonic Studios Edu Technologic Hypothes. is Mindtouch, Inc
Libre. Texts Dissemination As part of Absolute Priority 1, DOEd wanted projects which (a) Reduce the cost of college for large numbers of students by reducing textbook costs Libre. Texts has always been free and open to all, including all institutions, faculty, and students. It will continue to be so. To date a minimum of $31 million has been saved by students Libre. Texts authoring software Is simple to use, allowing alteration of all our OER to suit the needs of different faculty and their students and provides institutional branding.
Dissemination Team Goals: • Market Libre. Texts to faculty and through them to students • To recruit, train and support faculty users The Dissemination plan featured Partnerships with Merlot and the AL$ network thru CSU MOU Expand social media presence Establish contact mailing lists to inform others about Libre. Texts Expand contacts with current users to keep them up to date Expand Libre. Texts presence at appropriate conferences especially regional ones • Hope College partners will build a multilevel training system • Print on demand dissemination • • •
Mutilevel Training System • Three day course @ Hope College for selected team members • Experienced trainers who have led such courses • Based on best practices for design of online materials • Trainees will create basic training courses for their disciplines • Libre. Texts will fund their attendance at a discipline based conference where they will recruit and train others • Presentations will be recorded and made available on the Libre. Texts You. Tube channel.
Libre. Texts Content As part of Absolute Priority 1, DOEd wanted projects that (b) contain content that aligns student learning objectives with the skills or knowledge required by large numbers of students as part of a degree pathway Libre. Texts evolved from the Chem. WIKI, & covers the chemistry curriculum best. DOEd sponsorship will be complete a ZTC chemistry curriculum with all supporting materials. Libre. Texts is in negotiation with one of the partner institutions to demonstrate this as a pilot project. DOEd support will expand offerings in the other libraries and create a new Careers and Technical Education Library spearheaded by the community college partners. This expansion will support student learning from introductory thru advanced courses and provide material at different levels of sophistication for different students in different types of institution
Addressing Gaps in the Open Textbook Marketplace and Bringing Solutions to Scale. (a) Identify and assess existing open educational resources in the credential pathway or the subject area or areas proposed, before creating new ones; Content Development and Harvesting Teams (b) focus on the creation and expansion of education and training materials that can be taken to scale, within and beyond the participating consortium members, to reach a broad range of students participating in highenrollment courses or preparing for in- demand occupations Content Development Team (c) create protocols to review any open textbooks created or adapted through the project for accuracy, rigor, and accessibility for students with disabilities; Assesment and Analysis Team (d) disseminate information about the results of the project to other IHEs, including promoting the adoption of any open textbooks created or adapted through the project. Dissemination Team
Libre. Texts Content Development
Content Development Focii • • Build a Careers and Technical Education Library Complete Chemistry Library and pilot ZTC curriculum UC Davis is taking the lead in building the geosciences library Expand remaining libraries including Biology, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Health, Social Science and Humanities
Harvesting Team Common format allows simple integration and modification
Promoting Degree Completion. (a) Promoting and tracking the use of open textbooks in postsecondary courses, including an estimate of the projected cost savings; Assessment and Analysis Team and Dissemination Team (b) assessing the impact of open textbooks on instruction and student learning outcomes, Assessment and Analysis Team (c) updating the open textbooks beyond the funded period. Libre. Texts is an ongoing community effort with a stable technical platform that has grown steadily since its start in 2007
Assessment and Analysis • Large number of faculty & student users in diverse settings opens opportunities to gain a greater understanding about how all sorts of students learn online • Since Libre. Texts are simple to modify, assessment can be immediately fed back into content • In depth assessment will be done in a few selected courses • Medium and large scale analysis will be done in most courses
Accessibility • Large scale focus on Content Developers/Creators • Led by the Student Disability Center at UC Davis • Site. Improve software will be used to test all Libre. Texts content • Some content will be manually tested • Artificial Intelligence will allow suggestion of changes on the fly and some changes may be automated • Guidelines and best practices will be generated and disseminated to users.
Course Structure • Medium scale focus on Content Developers/Creators • Will analyze and define the structure of each Libre. Texts component in a substantial sample of courses • This will allow correlation with student engagement and performance. • The framework of course components will inform subsequent analysis.
Student Engagement • Large scale focus on creators, instructors and students • Analysis of course level data will provide general guidelines • Broad analysis of many courses in different settings will allow developers to receive overall feedback of how their material is being used • Instructors will receive feedback on student behaviors • Medium scale focus on students use of annotations, hashtags, emoji, et al, will be used to measure student affective states.
In Depth Student Engagement • Small scale studies of the link between course design and outcome • Use machine learning to evaluate • Formative analysis modifying content to optimize engagement • Design, test and introduce an adaptive learning system tailored to the learner’s profile and performance
Tracing Student Behavior Using Libre. Texts Traditional course Can extract information regarding student study habits. Clear Cramming
Tracing Student Behavior Using Libre. Texts Dianne Bennett (Chemistry) Exams Cramming is not observed in a flipped class at Sacramento City College
Using Technology-Based Strategies for Personalized Learning and Continuous Improvement Business Medicine Web. Work
Contact Information https: //Libre. Texts. org info@Libre. Texts. org
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Libre. Texts Reach Libretexts is the highest ranking OER project worldwide BC Campus Open. Stax Lumen Libre. Texts Global Rank: 286, 455 Global Rank: 56, 955 Global Rank: 9, 436 Global Rank: 8, 128 National Rank: 153, 363 National Rank: 8, 885 National Rank: 2, 982 National Rank: 3, 021 * Based on Student Traffic and Alexa. com rankings
How to adopt Libre. Texts Identify what you want… Does something identical exist in the Libraries already? yes Copy, Paste, and Go no Does something similar exist in the Libraries already? no yes Copy, Paste, Edit, and Go
How to adopt Libre. Texts no Does something similar exist outside the Libraries already? yes Ask permission to integrate into Libre. Texts yes no no Construct from Scratch… involve faculty and students yes Int t n e t n o c t the u o h g u ds thro e e n r u o y egrate Copy, Paste, Edit, and Go
Living Library Your Libre. Texts for Your class Your students Free for your institution A living library Easy to develop OER Easy to update Easy to share Not just textbooks Community Faculty driven Community support High visibility Libre. Texts Framework Powerful integration Advanced software Mindtouch Customizable Career Advancement Annual review Promotion Reputation Grants
How do Open Textbooks Compare Relatively few studies Summarized at the Review Project http: //openedgroup. org/review While only a few studies have been done, they have involved over 17, 000 students using OER texts compared with 100, 000 students using printed textbooks On performance studies show “Zero Cost” open textbooks yield as good or marginally better results across disciplines and institutions. On perception about half the students and instructors find OER textbooks equal to printed textbooks, a large group of the remaining find them better and a smaller group find them worse. On cost. . .
Evaluating Libre. Texts for Teaching Stage 1 (Spring 2014 ): Compare Libre. Texts to Conventional Textbook in same Class (Chem 2 C at UCD) with same instructor. Stage 2 (Summer 2014): Assess Libre. Texts in same class (Chem 2 C), but taught under different conditions (faster pace). Stage 3 (Fall 2014): Assess Libre. Texts in same class (Chem 2 A), but with two different instructors. Independent Evaluation team: i. AMSTEM Hub at UC Davis (http: //iamstem. ucdavis. edu) • Marco Molinaro • Greg Allen (head TA) Educause Learning Initiative Brief, Feb. (2015). Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 16, 939 -948 (2015).
Why are textbooks so expensive? Pharmaceuticals are marketed to physicians Textbooks are marketed to faculty Neither pay for them
Who ordered that? If it is a college textbook, the professor.
Why did they order it? Ancillary services offered to faculty • Desk copies • On line homework • Test banks • Solution manuals • Publishers representatives COST IS SECONDARY
Most instructors have no support In teaching oriented institutions • • Course loads are high Up to 5/5 in community colleges There is no help with marking Technical support for online systems is lacking
Most instructors have no support In teaching oriented institutions • • Course loads are high Up to 5/5 in community colleges There is no help with marking Technical support for online systems is lacking
Publishers are in trouble too • Used books • Bootleg files • Rental market is not as profitable Pearson took a three billion dollar write down last year Publishers only profit in the first year that a text is published Move to on line systems (linked to texts) The historic marketing model is collapsing.
People are noticing Recently, faculty, administrators and even legislators have become more aware of the pressures this is putting on students. To say nothing of students and parents.
State Governments Want OER California College Textbook Affordability Act of 2015 (AB 798). California Open Educational Resources Council Governor’s 2016 -17 Zero Textbook Cost Proposal @ CC Florida law establishing Florida Virtual Campus as OER clearinghouse Washington law requiring state to take lead in developing OER Open Washington Open Educational Resources Network Rhode Island Governor’s Open Textbook Initiative Open Oregon OER Funding Texas Higher Ed Coordinating Board study on OERs Massachusetts GO OPEN Initiative Grants Maryland Open Source Textbooks Initiative
Colorado OER Grants HOUSE BILL 18 -1331 (CRS C. R. S. 23 -4. 5 -104) provides funding for expanding the use of open education resources (OER). The Colorado OER Council has opened a grants competition Proposals due Wednesday October 31, 2018 Two tracks, faculty and institutional with limits of 5 K$ and 100 K$ Libre. Texts meets many of the goals of the RFP We would be pleased to work with you as a group or as individuals There are other avenues to explore that will advance your careers
We Got Plenty of OER Textbooks. . . But textbooks alone are not enough for wide dissemination WHY have they not been broadly adopted? We need • The PRODUCT, integrated Open Educational Systems that support instructors and students • To MARKET the Open Educational Systems to instructors, students, administrators and the public. • Departments and colleges to VALUE creation and use of OES components • A COMMUNITY to help those adopting and adapting OES Libretexts will work with Metropolitan State University
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