{"id":1731,"date":"2017-10-23T23:48:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T23:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2017-10-23T23:48:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T23:48:30","slug":"promoting-open-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/promoting-open-textbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting Open Textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a presentation that I have used for the last ten years to promote open textbooks and OER at various campuses I have worked at. It is in desperate need of updating but I think it is a good model and one that I am going to pursue at Green River College as well. The data in this presentation starting at slide 40 comes from a survey I did of students in the Biology dept at Humboldt State University &#8211; it provided a striking profile of our students.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vQ5-QyGW4qDd8R1Zkg3htsnTWHDgVpA2rsJOBhIQBAmajDOuYOetOE_7P41Mgkas4MyYC9owvD3tIpU\/embed?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=5000\" width=\"533\" height=\"429\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My typical strategy is as follows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Connect with faculty &#8211; survey them and find out who is doing what.<\/li>\n<li>Go to dept meetings and discuss the issues with faculty.<\/li>\n<li>Talk to students in student government and the newspaper.<\/li>\n<li>Find a faculty member in a high stakes, high cost course &#8211; such as Biology 100 and pilot.<\/li>\n<li>Survey those students afterwards and publish the results.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In addition to this, what I learned at Humboldt State University is to NOT FORGET THE LIBRARY. The library is an invaluable ally (given the right library dean). I had the good fortune of working with the Library Dean, Cyril Oberlander, at HSU (formerly of CUNY). He is a tireless and transformational advocate for open textbooks and open practices. A transformational advocate is not just alliterative hyperbole: he has had the librarians creating online OER research guides for faculty in all disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a presentation that I have used for the last ten years to promote open textbooks and OER at various campuses I have worked at. It is in desperate need of updating but I think it is a good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/promoting-open-textbooks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[994,995,1277],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opentextbooks","tag-oer-2","tag-open-textbooks-2","tag-openedmooc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}