New subject: Practical "How to use this OER" info for students with new textbook?

16 Apr 2019

I agree with Jessica, that it is important for students to know the difference.  I also
found that the more they know, the bigger advocates for OER outreach to faculty they
become.  I started putting this infographic up in all of my class shells as well as in the
syllabus packet.  It has sparked some great conversations with students over the years.

Christina Trunnell
TRAILS OER Statewide Coordinator
Montana State University Library
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Hi, Jessica.

I like this line of thinking. I also like the idea that students may come to *expect* more
OERs in their classes as they learn about their existence, wide-spread availability and
value. This increased knowledge and curiosity may prompt more faculty adoption of these
resources.

Best,
Andy

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Hi Ruth,
The primary reason we want to be more explicit with students about the format of this new
textbook is to make sure students utilize it fully.
Our student survey showed that students’ previous experience with traditionally published
digital books meant that they assumed that this digital OER also required an onerous
log-in process,  was only available for a limited time, and had limited printing and
download options.
While we (the OER support folks) knew the textbook was “open” and not just digital, we
learned that both the students and the faculty didn’t necessarily realize that fact.

What we want to teach the students (and the faculty) is that an open textbook means that
they now have the ability to retain, modify, share, and print the resource.  We plan to
give concrete examples that apply to student situations (i.e., “Since you can modify this
text, you can now load sections of the content into quiz programs or flash card programs
without violating the licence!”).  We will be surveying the students again next fall and
our hypothesis is that we will see both use of and satisfaction with the textbook increase
once students are aware of the flexibility of OER.

Of course, I will also be happy if a few of these informed students then become interested
in OER and/or talk to their other instructors about using OER texts as it would raise our
profile on campus.

Cheers,
Jessica

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Jessica Norman, MLS
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Hi Jessica,
Thanks so much for sharing this – I am really enjoying this conversation.  I am curious to
know why you feel it is important to be explicit about the “openness” of the resource?  My
thought is that the importance is in the value of the resource to the actual learning
experience.   Did the students find the book helped with their learning and their ability
to success in the course?  The fact that it was open would be considered an added bonus
from my perspective.

I too teach communications online so I am really interested in your perspective here.  I
would like to know what kind of change you were hoping to experience?  Also, what was the
name of the textbook you tried?
Thanks.
Ruth

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Subject: [Canadaoer] Practical "How to use this OER" info for students with new
textbook?

This past semester, we ran approximately 80 Communications classes with an OER PDF
textbook.  Late in the semester, we surveyed the students about their use of and
satisfaction with the textbook and the results were, well, lackluster.   The results
seemed to show that a significant number of students didn’t know they were using an OER,
they just thought it was an online book. They didn’t understand what an OER was and
what they could do with it, therefore they didn’t see much value. After talking to the
course coordinator, I realized that the faculty had not been given any specific
information about the OER nor were they asked to talk to the students about this new OER
textbook and how it could be used.

Lesson Learned: We can’t just add this new type of learning material to a course and
assume that the students and faculty understand the value and significance of the
change.

I’d like to craft some standard messaging – text, video, infographic? – that can be
included in all fall LMS course shells to make sure that students understand what they can
do with this OER.   I’m wondering:
A) did anyone else have this occur in a course, where OER was introduced but the students
(and maybe faculty too) didn’t recognize the significance of the change?

B) has anyone else crafted a message like this that they would be willing to share?

Cheers,
Jessica

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Jessica Norman, MLS
eLearning Librarian, Reg Erhardt Library
Liaison to: Construction, Manufacturing & Automation
Specialist in: Distance Education, Open Educational Resources

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Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
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