International Tourism Management
Yay! We found an open textbook now what?OpenEd 2015 VancouverIrwin DeVries Naomi CloutierLicensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International, except where otherwise noted.
BackgroundAbout usStudy background and scopeBCcampus open textbooksOERuPurposeGrowing body of research on uptake, perceptions, effectivenessLess on development and maintenance
----- Meeting Notes (2015-11-17 17:17) -----Scope - five courses with open textbooksSociology, History, Psychology, Art, EnglishThow fro the OERu
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BackgroundQuestion: What were participants experiences and views of the development and/or implementation processes of five open textbooks at TRU Open Learning?MethodologyNotes from development meetings and communicationsVideo interviews with participantsDirect participation and observationSurfaced themesPreliminary findings only study to expand
1. Convergences
Experimental mindset (institutionally supported)Opportune course development/revision stageAware, ready and willing faculty (authors) and developersBody of available open textbooksCapacity to revise and add value
2. Differences from traditional textbook developmentOpen peer review and collaborationImproved currency due to a shorter production time; localization can be a higher priorityCourse content can influence textbook contentDynamic document; authoring, editing, publishing, producing media changes to workflowConsideration of next user 5 Rs of opennessReuse, revise, remix, redistribute, retain
3. SustainabilityChampions Maintenance plan - support ($) for expertise neededHow to share and evolve from the finished product
Early observationsNo one approach multiple and complex pieces need come into play (convergences)Context specific (institution, jurisdiction, capacity, advocates, development methods, awareness, course lifecycles)Advantages of relevance, currency, quality, open peer feedback, collaboration, flexibilityChallenges of version control, distribution, developing for own use and for reuse, workflows, digital resources management, funding, maintenanceQuestions raised for further studyModels for sustainability (Downes 2005) - whats actually working?Centralization decentralization (Wiley 2005)How are the open textbooks being used? Track over timeOpen business models? (Stacey 2015)
the sustainability of OERs in a fashion that renders then at once both affordable and usable requires that we think of OERs as only part of a larger picture, one that includes volunteers and incentives, community and partnerships, co-production and sharing, distributed management and control. (Downes 2005)
EndnotesImageshttp://www.tru.ca/__shared/assets/coyote_banner29454.jpghttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Kamloops.jpghttps://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1407/542862353_3203ae6737.jpghttps://www.flickr.com/photos/thompsonrivers/4670553830/in/album-72157624198863176/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/thompsonrivers/21686048374/in/album-72157657731169744/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/thompsonrivers/8974752994/ buildinghttps://www.flickr.com/photos/thompsonrivers/9359763007/in/album-72157657772035849/ http://www.hellobc.com/kamloops.aspx
NotesSee http://bccampus.ca/open-textbook-project/ for detailed description.See http://oeru.org/ for OERu overview.OERu courses referenced are located here: http://wikieducator.org/Art_Appreciation_and_Techniques; http://wikieducator.org/Introduction_to_Research_Methods_In_Psychology Open E.g. http://lumenlearning.com/research/; http://openedgroup.org/review
ReferencesDownes S. (2007). Models for sustainable open educational resources [Electronic version]. Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects, 3, 2934. Retrieved from http://ijklo.org/Volume3/IJKLOv3p029-044Downes.pdfStacey, P. (2015). Open business models Call for participation. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/45022Wiley, D. (2005). Thoughts from the Hewlett Open Ed grantees meeting. http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/192
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Irwin DeVriesDirector, Curriculum DevelopmentThompson Rivers University, Open [email protected] IrwinDevidevries.comNaomi CloutierAssociate Director, Curriculum ServicesThompson Rivers University, Open [email protected]
