 to welcome everyone to today's webinar on finding and selecting and adopting open textbooks. And we do have an expert with us today. Una Daily comes to us from the Open Coursework Consortium, which is a global initiative. Una actually is the executive director of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources, which is, I guess you'd say, an arm of the Open Coursework Consortium. And she presents across the country on all things open, but today she's going to speak to us about specifically on textbooks. And I know that many of us have in the past maybe dabbled in open textbooks, but the amount of open textbooks and the quality of them has just increased exponentially. So today's webinar is right on topic for some of the things we've been talking about and in conjunction with some of our initiatives, which is to have our own repository within the next 12 months. So hopefully we'll gather a lot of information from Una today to get us started on that. So without further ado, I'm going to turn it over to Una. Thank you. Thank you very much, Rhonda. And yes, I'm very pleased to be here today with you again. I think a number of you joined us last month for our big picture of Open Educational Resource webinar. And that one is recorded as well if you'd like to go back and review any of that material. The reason I mentioned that is that today is really a hands-on workshop in the sense that we're going to very briefly go over that introductory material about what is an open educational resource, what's an open license. And then I really want to spend the majority of the time visiting a couple of the repositories or listing sites out there that have open textbooks. But you can get kind of comfortable going to those sites today and then you can, of course, do that in the future at your colleges and perhaps within your department. Because we know how important it is for faculty to look at these together and really essentially find peer reviews for these materials or perhaps perform a peer review together on materials. As Rhonda mentioned, things have improved a great deal. The quality of these open textbooks keeps getting better and better. And so as we get to those repositories, I won't be able to go over all of them, but we'll talk about each repository and listing site has some way of providing a rating system for these open textbooks. All right. If you haven't used our system before, we do use the Blackboard Collaborate system that you're all logged into. I've provided a phone number on that first page. Sometimes it's easier to have conversations, so the phone is very handy for that. If you are on a headset, you can talk as well with us, but you'll need to use the talk button up at the top left hand part of the screen. And you should see a list of participants in the participants window, which is also just under the audio and video portion at the top left. And you can type into the chat window, which is just underneath that, and all of the participants will see that text. All right. And if you do have any tech support issues during this webinar, please do use the number below. Those are our folks at the California Community College Chancellor's Office to manage our system, and we're very pleased to have them available. All right. I think Rhonda did a wonderful job of introducing me. I'd love to hear about you folks as well and what colleges you're at. And I'm going to actually go through the list here. If you're not on the phone, which appears so many of you are not, maybe you would type in the chat window. So, David, I'm looking just alphabetically at our participants list. Maybe, David, you could share with us what college you're at. And even are you faculty there, you staff, administration? I don't know if David's online. I don't hear him speaking. But, oh, thank you, David. David typed in. He's at Jackson College. And he's an instructional designer. All right. Wonderful. Thank you, David. How about Dawn? Dawn, you're next in our alphabetical list. All right. You're at Alpana College. I'm going to get my chat window to scroll here. And you're in the Learning Technology Department. Well, wonderful. Welcome, Dawn and David. How about Deb? I am with St. Clair County Community College in Michigan, obviously. And I'm the Academic Technologies Director. Lovely. Glad you could join us, Deb. All right. We have somebody from Glenn Oaks. I think that might be a college rather than somebody's name. Well, while we're waiting for, oh, all right. Oh, I'm sorry. Glenn Oaks is your name. I'm sorry about that, Glenn. And you're in a community college in Centerville, Michigan. All right. One more one. Una, this is Rhonda. Glenn Oaks is Glenn Oaks Community College in Centerville, Michigan. And I believe it's Amy or Patricia that's on the line. If you could just type in the chat who's on the line with us and what you do there, that would be great. Thanks, Rhonda. Wonderful. Thank you, Pat, for sharing that. And Pat is the Academic Dean. And Amy Young Assistant is online as well. And, oh, and we've got faculty as well, Distance Learning Faculty, Kevin. Wonderful. Welcome. Glad you could join us. Marilee, you're up next. Oh, and she's already typed it in. She's well ahead of me. She's at Muscogee. And I'm going to mispronounce that I apologize that. Muscogee. Thank you. Sorry, we West Coast people. And she's an instructional designer, and she also has Jeffrey with her who is a faculty. Wonderful. Thanks, guys. How about Northern Michigan College? I think that's what NMC is. Northwestern Michigan College. Okay. Oh, and it's Jan. Okay. Wonderful. It's Jan Oliver. And she oversees online and classroom technology. And Tina Ulrich, a librarian, may join us. Okay. Wonderful. Good to see you again, Jan. I know you were with us last time. All right. It looks like our next person is Patty, who might have entered herself a couple of times. No worries. Patty, please enter. Patty and Cheryl are from the Distance Learning and Bookstore. Oh, wonderful. I'm glad we have somebody from a bookstore, because I do want to talk about the role of bookstores in open textbook adoption. And of course, we have Rhonda. I think everybody knows Rhonda. So, and how about Schoolcraft? Oh, and Cheryl. Entire Learning Department. Okay. Welcome. I'm just briefly going to go through my slides about the Community College Consortium if you weren't at our last webinar. We are the Community College Consortium at the open course where we're an associate consortium of theirs, but we work very closely together. We actually started out in California originally by Dr. Martha Cantor, who was our Under Secretary of Education until just a few, just a month ago. And Barbara was a real visionary around bringing open education to the Community Colleges. And she felt that both the cost savings for our students and the creativity for our faculty were really wonderful things that could come from Community Colleges getting engaged in open education. But our focus, even though we're part of this large global organization, the Open Coursework Consortium, which is over 250 institutions worldwide, is our focus is the Community College, the two-year college mission. Although we, although we often, if you've attended our webinars, we often have folks both within and without the system. So because our students, of course, articulate to the four-year colleges and universities, so it's very important that we keep that communication going. And here's a brief picture of our members, and we're very happy to have you guys right here in Michigan as part of our consortium. So here's our agenda today. We're going to kind of flip through our early part of this tour false and access to education, and we're going to get right into finding open textbooks and then the adoption process. So these are kind of fun questions to get people started. And so I'm going to ask you just to use your, you can either type in the chat window when I mentioned the question, or you can use your little checkboxes up at the top where if you look at directly underneath my name, the moderator, you'll see like a little checkbox, and you can either say yes or no up there. So open textbooks are free. Is that a true or false statement? And let's see. So I'm going to go ahead and click, OK, great. So we've got, all right, Rhonda and Merrily. We have a lot of folks saying no. OK, Dawn says yes. And if you've done these quizzes with me before, you know that usually there's no one correct answer. And so open textbooks, so I think that everybody answered correctly. I'm going to go into a little bit more detail on our next slide. But open textbooks are free to use online. That's the generally accepted definition. They have an open license, which means they're free to use, reuse online. Are they free to get a printed copy? It depends. Most of the repositories have a print on demand option where they will sell a book for a modest fee. Those are not, those are, those are not free. You do pay for the printing cost and the shipping cost. So, and so that's kind of the superficial answer. But of course, we know that open textbooks must be developed. And often that is done through grant programs and that provide money so that faculty and other subject matter experts can work together. OK, next I'm going to ask one of you to explain that. So here, here's another one that we hear about open textbooks and has some validity possibly. Open textbooks don't have test banks, true or false? OK, and I'm, I'm getting mostly false. And would anyone like to share their, their thinking about that one? If you're on the phone or you could type in the chat window. I'm going to assume that this is right. I'm going to say it depends. I think some of them do and not all of them do. Yes, you're absolutely right, Ronda. A lot of the early open textbooks didn't have test banks. They're more just content without really the assessment or testing component. But that's changing. And there's a grant that I'm going to talk about in a minute that's going to help out a lot with that. And certainly there's some areas such as the math area where there's a lot of test banks that exist. So that's really changing. And then my final one is open text. So I'm going to go ahead and clear that. And then open textbooks are only available in math and science. I sometimes hear this from folks. OK, wonderful. And I'm getting pretty much a consistent no. And there are a great deal of open textbooks being written for math and science, which is exciting. So, you know, the STEM area is very popular. But we are seeing more and more becoming available in the humanities and the social sciences. So thank you for playing that game with me. And once again, here's the definition of open educational resources from the Department of Education. And once again, the emphasis is these resources they reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or repurposing by others. So that's the free piece. But we all know that quality instructional materials take faculty time and expertise. And a number of us were at the open ed conference about two weeks ago, which is an annual conference. Sometimes in the United States, this year it was in the US and Utah. And they announced an open item test bank grant that had been received by David Wiley, who is one of the open education leaders in the US. And they are developing an open item test bank for the top 20 college courses. And they estimate they'll do about 750 questions per course. So this is going to help a lot with the general ed components of the open textbooks. In other areas, there still is room for growth. Here is just an example of a recent textbook that was released this fall. For those of you who attended our advisory meeting in September, which is we have monthly advisory meetings. Our community college consortium. And Dr. Marie Lassiter, who is at the University System of Georgia, talked about this open textbook that they developed their faculty within the university system developed over the last three years. It's very high quality, peer reviewed US history open textbook that is free to download and use digitally. I think, actually I don't know what the options are around print, but I know they do have print options for this. It is a history of the US from colonial times through 1877. And a question I asked her was, when is the next one coming from 1877 through the 20th century? She said, we're working on it. So it's really exciting to see these really high quality textbooks coming out of the system that will be available for all of us to use. Once again, the big OER landscape includes not only open textbooks, it includes open courses. Sometimes even some MOOCs are open. The vast majority are not open right now in the sense that the content is not open. You cannot remove it. But there's more and more plans around trying to have a MOOC platform that will be open, really open in the sense that faculty and students can take those materials and repurpose them. And of course it includes videos and images and other items. Today we're going to focus on open textbooks. And so the characteristics of an open textbook is that you as an instructor or staff can modify these. And you may want to introduce case studies that are more relevant to folks who are living in Michigan. You might want to look at the car industry for instance. In California we might be looking at case studies around agriculture, maybe the movie industry. So when you take an open textbook, you can modify that open textbook to add in chapters or case studies that are relevant to your students. And you can remove case studies that are not applicable to your student population. Also if the materials you choose to use are not accessible initially for students with disabilities because they're openly licensed, you could add in video captions for instance and things like that. So very important pieces around providing a high quality experience for students. Low cost of course is a huge piece of it. They're free online and then printable either by the student or with a low cost hard copy option available. And when we go to the different repositories, I'll talk a little bit about those options. Once again, what is this open license? So this open license is we call this creative commons. That is the term is creative commons and I do recommend that you go to the creative commons.org site if you haven't been there. And they talk in more detail about how they were started over a decade ago to really address the needs of this digital age. I'm not indicating all of these materials, but copyright law is very restrictive and gets in the way of sharing. And we as educators really want to be able to share our resources both with each other and with students. And so what creative commons allows you to do is with materials that you create or that you find out on the internet, you can repurpose those and put them together with a creative commons license which allows, if you're the creator, you still maintain your copyright. But it allows other people to reuse it without the restrictions of copyright where they would have to get a formal agreement with you. And I'm not going into detail on that one today, but I'll just tell you what are the pieces of creative commons that you need to be aware of. The creative commons, once again, sits on top of copyright and allows you to give a version of your materials away. And the minimum that someone has to perform if they use creatively commons license materials is they have to give attribution to the creator. Now, if the license also contains the noncommercial component, which is this little dollar sign with the cross through it, it means that they may not resell the materials. However, if somebody shares a material and doesn't specify the noncommercial, then it is possible for somebody to incorporate that into a business model. And finally, the last condition that you should be aware of is to share alike. And that's on the far right side there of the slide. And what that says is if that's part of the license, the creator has specified that if you reuse their materials and you're going to publish them, you need to share it the same way that they did. So you need to use the same creative commons license along with the three conditions if they specified them. Now, when we look at some of the textbooks, you'll see that some of them have different licenses depending on either the repository policy or if it was an individual faculty who produced it, they will have specified what the license is. Now, I know that that is confusing and I went over it quickly. If you have any questions, go ahead and just type those in the chat window and I'll try to answer those or speak up. And once again, the website is creativecommons.org and they have a lot of great tutorials there to help you understand that. All right, well, we'll move on. All right. I'd like to ask now before we jump into the existing repositories if anyone has used or even reviewed an open textbook for the possibility of using it in their classroom. Okay, so I'm getting Dawn and Dad have not. All right, looks like Patty may have tried something. Nope, maybe not. Oh, okay, wonderful. So Patty says she reviewed a psychology textbook. And Patty, can you tell us either the author of that textbook or where you found it? I'm going to make a guess that Patty may have reviewed the introduction to psychology textbook. Okay, no problem, Patty. There is an excellent introduction to psychology textbook available at sailor.org, the Sailor Foundation. It actually was a former Flat World Knowledge textbook and I believe the author is Stanger. He actually has a CC buy and has a creative commons license with a noncommercial share alike condition on it. All right, so Merily says that Jeff looked at, oh, that wasn't it. Okay. All right. Sorry, Patty. And Merily said that Jeff looked at some materials from MIT but the content was too high for our students. Okay, great. And that's a really good point, Merily. So it sounds like Jeff looked at some of the MIT open courseware materials. Of course, MIT is part of the open courseware consortium. It was one of the founding members. In some cases, when you look at those materials from MIT and other four-year colleges and universities, it is possible to modify those materials because it has an open license. You can change them so that maybe you take the reading level down to where your students are comfortable. Sometimes that's more work than you want to undertake. But an open license does provide you with that option. Okay, and Patty says, in our case, the content was more K-12. All right, so, okay, I see. That's interesting. It would be interesting to see what that textbook was. And, yeah, so I will tell you that there is a lot of four-year college materials available. But over the last two to three years, the private foundations and even the state governments have really been focusing on general education, which means that more and more of the open textbooks are really focused on the first two years of college. So, many of them can be taken in a fairly, really, they can be taken as is and used in the classroom. All right, well, thanks for sharing that. Here is an example of the cost savings and the license difference between using a commercial textbook. This one on the left is introductory statistics. It's published by Wiley & Sons. It has a full copyright. You can get it at Amazon for $142.48. It probably is available at the bookstore of colleges that are using it for a slight markup above that. And a similar textbook, which has been used for over 15 years as an introduction to statistics text, has been updated over that period of time as well, is available digitally for no cost to students or faculty. It's available in a soft bound hard copy, if you will, through the connections repository for $26.20. So, huge savings for students. And when you look down here at the publisher, that is Connections, which is the OER repository at Rice University. And the license that it has is a Creative Commons license attribution. So, that's what that license says is if you reuse this textbook, and you can reuse it as is with your students, no problem. But if you want to make modifications to it, you need to specify that you got the original textbook from Connections, and you need to give Barbara Olowski and Susan Dean, who are instructors at the Anza College in California, that you need to give them credit as original authors. But that's the only restrictions on that one. So, a very good deal for statistics professors and students. So, now I want to talk to you about the steps for open textbook adoption. And today we're really going to focus on number one and number two. So, finding and selecting textbooks. So, this is not as easy as it should be. You will find that you generally will be, you generally will go to a few repositories when you're getting started. Over time, I find that people really gravitate towards one or one or two repositories that they find their materials at. So, today we're going to talk about kind of the wide selection of repositories and how each repository has some kind of quality control measures around those textbooks. And then secondly, we'll go into adopt and use. Let's say you found something now that may be appropriate for your classroom, and you want to work within your department and your college to make the transition to this open textbook smooth. And you may also be looking at customizing it. That's a potential. And then finally, we'll go through steps three and four very quickly at the end about gathering research and how important that is to this process. And planning for sustainability. As you go down the open textbook path, you do need to think about revisions and support into the future. It's not a decision that you make today and don't have to continue to manage or to think about into the future. And this isn't really different than publisher textbooks. One has to make sure that as things change within their discipline that the textbook will reflect that. And with publisher textbooks, they may be doing some of that for you, but you as the subject matter expert need to stay on top of it as well. All right. So, there's a lot of different repositories and listing sites out there to help you. So, if any of you are, tell me about how many of you are aware of some of these sites? And please just go ahead and type in the chat window if you've gone to any of these sites before. All right. Okay. Yes. So, Merlot. And I bet that I know we have some librarians online. And Merlot, of course, is one of the oldest repositories out there. And Merlot has a lot of commentary because Merlot generally doesn't contain the content, but it refers to either open content. It's not always open, but Merlot has a huge listing of open materials as well. And it also allows faculty and staff who are using the Merlot materials to make comments on it. Merlot contains a very comprehensive peer review system, which it uses to, obviously, to review materials within Merlot. Not all materials within Merlot are peer reviewed, but many are. And you also have the option of providing comments. So, if you're a regular Merlot user, you can provide comments on materials that you find in there. You can also enter materials into Merlot yourself, which is kind of exciting because it's a very community-based system. All right. Well, thank you. So, we've heard that folks at Glen Oaks have looked at the University of Minnesota collection. So, yes, then that's a very high quality, but small listing of open textbooks with peer reviews. Now, not all of the open textbooks have been peer reviewed, but the folks at the University of Minnesota have really been trying to incentivize their faculty to do peer reviews. They only, at the University of Minnesota, their policy has been to only use very complete open textbooks in their listing site. So, you're going to find very high quality materials, and some of them do have peer reviews on site there, which is exciting. All right. Oh, David says that he's used OER Commons in open stacks. Wonderful. OER Commons is a really amazing site as well. It can be a little difficult to use initially, but if you're a person who's very comfortable with search sites, it's an excellent resource, and it also allows ratings by users. So, in order to provide ratings at OER Commons, you create a free account where you identify who you are and your expertise, and you can do that. And then as you comment on materials, people will know what your credentials are, and you will let them know how the materials used, worked in your classroom. You can comment on pedagogy and content. And so, wonderful site. Open stacks we're going to go to in a minute, but thanks for sharing that, David. I'm going to talk about OER Commons Connections for Low and EBSX. All right. Wonderful. So, Patty has really been to most of these sites. And I will say Orange Grove Text Plus is a repository of that. It's managed by the State of Florida, by their Florida virtual campus. In fact, the manager of that is a member of our consortium. So, if you attend any of our advisory meetings, which are open to community college folks, They do a wonderful job of not only putting text books of their own creation there from Florida that are open, they put some open courses in there. There is open courses for information literacy for students and for internet browsing. And they also harvest what we call harvest resources from other repositories because the orange growth is Florida state repository. And so they actually take things from other open repositories and put them in there so that they are Florida staff and faculty. In fact, orange growth is a K through 20 repository can actually get the materials directly there. So thank you for that. I'm just going to mention really quickly the ones that didn't come up. The first one is a foundation. It's about five or six years old and it's all about providing free online college education that's openly licensed. They have a book list of open text books which is simply alphabetically listed. I think they have something over 100 text books and they're very high quality text books and they're available in word and PDF format. And the only way they're able to get these text books in word format is that it makes it very easy for you to modify those. And which California State University works very closely with Merleau but their affordable learning solution site is also a very useful place to go. We're going to talk a little bit about college open text books which is a very simple site that's been around for about three or four years. And textbooks are organized by discipline and they're simply listings of text books by discipline. So it's a great first place to go. And they also provide peer reviews at that site for 150 of those text books. So although the listing site is over 700 at this time, you'll find some great reviews as well. So let's get started. So here is the college open textbook site and I'm going to take you over to this. And you should be able to see me typing this in the window. And I'm taking you over to this website and we're going to go to the open textbook content. And I'm going to ask for a question from a volunteer from the audience. What discipline would you like us to take a look at? You can see that there are 24 disciplines here ranging from anthropology and archeology to statistics and psychology. Anyone who's on the phone or, oh, okay, nursing. So, you know, Deb, I'm going to get back to you later on. In fact, if you contact me offline, I will help you with some of that nursing stuff right now. There is not as much nursing available, but there are some sites. Let's say there aren't as many open textbooks available for nursing right now. There are definitely some pre-nursing textbooks available, but there's some good stuff coming. So contact me about that one offline. Okay, English. I'm going to go with English since, of course, English composition is part of that gen ed area. All right. So here is a listing of English textbooks from the college open textbook site. And we can see that there are, there's college writing. There's an electronic literature collection. Now, when Glen Oak said English, they didn't give me specifically whether it was writing or literature. So this particular one has some composition books. It has the Flat World Knowledge Handbook, which is available from sailor.org. And so which, a composition, okay. So that would be the writing textbook. And this one, this one here, the Flat World Knowledge Handbook, I'm going to go over here. I think the location that we're going to find this one is at sailor. I'm going to, let's see. I'm going to, I might, so I'm going to allow you to also go to this site and check it out. I'm going to put that into our college open textbooks.org. Go ahead and click on that. And I'm going to let you as well take a look at that while I'm sharing my website here. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to take us to books. I'm going to take us to books. All right. So Glen Oak asked for the English textbook. And if we can find, that particular English textbook is inside here, inside this list. Here is business English for success, business communication. And I'm going to try and find the handbook. Let me see. Here's the handbook for writers. Can everyone see this screen? Rhonda, since you're on the phone, can you see the screen I'm showing? I can see it. So this is that handbook for writers. It was written by a community college instructor for world knowledge originally. And so this version is open. And you can see that there's a PDF and a doc version here. I can click on this and download. So I'm not going to do that at this time just because of the time it will take. But for the Glen Oaks people, I'm going to go ahead and post this back in our window and let you take a look at that when you have a chance. And you can download that book directly. And I think you'll find that's very useful. It was written for community college folks. And back to my window here. So go ahead and search that sailor.org books while I'm getting back to my window here. Excuse me for that. All righty. There we go. Back to our whiteboard. So I'm going to move along to our next one. This is the OpenStax college. And I believe it was David who said that he had used these. OpenStax has produced five open textbooks so far focused on gen ed. And that's physics, sociology, biology, concepts of biology, and anatomy and physiology. So those are all available now for you to use. And they are located at the connections repository at Rice University. Connections uses a rating system themselves called lenses where professional organizations, faculty can identify and create a lens of endorsed material. And all of these textbooks here have been peer reviewed and developed by subject matter experts. And I'm going to do some sharing here. All right. Let me take you out to OpenStax college.org. And if we click on our books, you'll see the five textbooks that I mentioned. They are currently in the process of creating 20 textbooks in total, all focused on gen ed. And here, if you click on the our books link, it'll take you directly to the five that are available today. And you can download those. All right. So I'm going to, let me see where is my chat window. Okay. So here is that URL. All right. So Glenn Oakes asked me about the peer review. So the peer review at OpenStax college, I believe there's three peer reviews, three folks who do the peer reviews. They use basically the publisher model for peer reviews at OpenStax. That isn't always true of all of the repositories. The college open textbooks, for instance, when they publish their peer reviews, they're written by a single faculty or subject matter expert. So it will vary. Okay. Great question, Rhonda. Connections is the OER repository that was started at Rice University about, I think it was started in 1999 or 2000. And OpenStax college is a project of connections, but it has multiple donors who work with them. In addition to connections in Rice University, the Maxwell Foundation, I think the Gates Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation is also working with them. And so connections is an OER repository. And these OpenStax textbooks are textbooks that live within it, but they're a special project. And I hope that helps. In general, when you go to connections, you're going to find different learning modules. But if you want to specifically get to the OpenStax materials, you should go through the OpenStax website and it'll actually take you into the connections repository where they live. Alrighty. And Merlot, we talked about Merlot before, and I'm going to, in the interest of time, I'm going to put the website address for Merlot that I would recommend you go to, which is merlotx.org. And I think I won't do that today, but when you go to that site, what you will see is find OpenStax books. And if you click on that, it'll take you directly into that browser window for finding OpenStax books at Merlot. Now, once again, there's many peer reviews at Merlot, and accessibility is one of the really key policies and strategies at Merlot. They want to make sure all materials are accessible. So you will find accessibility reviews, and they encourage you as community users to share any information that you might have about the accessibility of an open resource. And there is a community called the OER access at merlot.org, if that's an area of interest to you, and I'm going to type that here into the chat window. But there's a lot of great material there at OER access.merlot.org, and I encourage you to check it out if accessibility is an area of interest. And finally, I'm going to show you Sailor OpenStax books. Once again, I mentioned that Sailor.org is an educational foundation that was started based on the idea of providing free education, free college education to anyone in the world. Since that time, Sailors really branched out. They work with the adult council on education to have their materials accredited in the sense that they can be used for students to then take exams at different colleges and get credit for those. They also work with learning counts around helping students to develop portfolios for prior learning assessment. And in addition to that, they maintain a list of open textbooks at the Sailor OpenStax books site. And I showed that to you earlier, but I'll show that to you one more time. I can't get out on that. So what I'll show it to you here, and I showed that to you earlier, for the writing, for the handbook for writing. There's over 100 textbooks here. They're freely available for download and sharing under different open licenses. And it's all in alphabetical order based on the title of the textbook. So do check those out. Many of these have been peer reviewed through the publisher model of peer review, which means that they have been peer reviewed by subject matter experts, but the peer review itself may not be available. But I do highly recommend this list. There's some really excellent resources here, and you can see it just, it goes from business to English, sociology, economics, et cetera. And for instance, if we click on this sustainable business casebook, it'll simply download that word file onto my computer, and then I can edit it as I want to. Now once again, these have a Creative Commons license. If you're going to publish these materials that you've modified, you do need to consider putting an open license back on them. All right. So that was a whirlwind tour through a number of the really popular sites. And I want to just give you a couple of minutes to look at those on your own. I've typed those in there. I'm going to just give you just a couple of minutes to type these URLs into your browser window. And then I'm going to ask you to share in the chat window, or if you're on the phone, you can let me know what you found. All right. I'm just going to give you about 30 more seconds. But if any of you have found a resource that you think would be useful to bring into your classroom or if you work with faculty, a resource that you think might be helpful to share with them for possible adoption, I'd invite you to share that with us now while we're waiting for somebody to share. Why don't you let me know, OK. Thank you. Well, wonderful. Rhonda updated the OER page on the Michigan Community College Virtual Learning Consortium. Good to hear that. And of these four sites, why don't you tell me which one you think might be most useful for faculty or staff who are new to open textbooks? And how bad if I ask you, would it be college open textbooks? Can you answer yes or no to that one by clicking on the little check mark at the top? OK. So I clicked OK. And Rhonda thinks college open textbooks would be useful. It has a very simple list with just discipline-specific areas. What about, so thank you. And Glenn Oaks felt that college open textbooks might be valuable too. And we also got another one. OK. Great. All right. I'm going to clear that. How about open-stacks college? OK. Those books feel that that would be useful for their faculty and staff at their college. And once again, right now, open-stacks only has five textbooks. They've got biology, physics, sociology, and anatomy, and physiology. So Deb thinks that might be useful. So if you work with faculty or if you teach in those areas, those resources might well be worth checking out. All right. How about Merlot.org? How many people feel about that site? I know we didn't get a chance to visit that today. OK. Deb also thinks that Merlot would be a useful one. Merlot has 2,200 open textbooks in their listing site. So they have a large set of open textbooks. OK. You looked at, OK. Glenn Oaks looked at Sayler as well. I'm sorry. OK. Oh, good. You can hear that Jess is interested in SaylerBooks.org. OK. And there is a lot in Merlot. Yes. You're absolutely right, Rhonda. There's quite a bit in Merlot. And yes, Merlot makes a good point that Merlot, because it has so many different options for searching, it can be confusing to the first-time user. So I'm glad we were able to share that. And now I'm going to try and go through adopted use quite quickly. There are some sort of key components to this, which I'm going to share with you today. So I'm going to share that with you. OK. So I'm going to try and go through adopted use quite quickly. There are some sort of key components to this, which many are the same as when you adopt a commercial textbook. But there's sort of different pieces that you need to be aware of, because open textbooks will work a little bit differently than commercial textbooks. And so I'm going to go through these steps really quickly. The first one is, if you find an open textbook that you want to adopt in your classroom, you need to, of course, take care of your college's adoption process and manage that. In some very small colleges, that's really a very quick process, as I've been told by faculty, where there's one or two members within their department. But if you have a full curriculum committee and you need to talk to your department dean, those are steps that you really want to do early in the process. You also want to make sure your bookstore is aware of that choice so that students don't come in and get the impression that there is no textbook at all. Librarians can be very helpful in this process as well. Students are a key piece of this. So student access. Will the textbook need to be used in a physical classroom? Then you want to make sure that students have access to it either physically in the classroom or through a lab environment. If students are only using this online, it may be fine for them simply to have a digital copy. But we know from surveys with students over the last four or five years that still somewhere between 60 and 70 students would like print copy. 60 to 70 percent of students still want print copies. So when you're looking at an open textbook, choosing a repository that provides a print on demand option might be important for your students. And finally, with all different repositories, do you want to copy that textbook into your learning management system so students can access it through there? Or do you want to provide just a link to students so from anywhere, any place they don't need to be logged in, they can get to an open textbook on the website? So some things for you to think about in terms of who your students are and how you want them to access those materials. If bookstore managers, and it was great to see that we have one online today, confirm with the bookstore that they had the correct open textbook information for students. What has happened in some cases is students will access either the bookstore website or they'll come in and they're told that there's no textbook. And that isn't true, but it's just that there's been a bit of a miscommunication. And so, the bookstores can provide print on demand for students if they have the facilities for that. In cases where a bookstore is a revenue generator for the college, you may need to talk with your administration, your board of trustees about the savings for students by using open textbooks. And does that offset any generation, any revenue generation expectations for the bookstore? Are there ways to mitigate that? Bookstores still remain the central repository in terms of what books are being used, but maybe the model changes over time. And I'd love to have a longer conversation about that. And finally, if you find an open textbook that almost meets your needs, but you want to change it and add some additional resources, these are some of the issues that you would want to make sure you think about a little bit. And today we won't have time to go into detail on those, but relixing OER is really a topic for another day, but it's well worth discussing in the future. Can I ask a question, Una, on that topic right there? Sure. Quickly. Yeah. Is it possible or is it a requirement that if a faculty member were to download a textbook say, and they remixed it or they customized it and they put chapter one first or they don't use chapter three, is it a requirement that they must share that remix? Do they have to or do they just use what they want and that's what they have to do? It's not a requirement. So if they're going to keep it within their learning management system, it's not a requirement that you remix it. You are required to leave the licensing information within that so that students or other faculty who see it see that original license, that it's an open textbook. If you're going to publish it on the open web, then you have to consider what license. You will have to consider the open license. And if it says share alike in the original license, then you will need to be concerned about that. But if you're keeping it within your LMS, just keep the original licensing information in the materials that you took and that's sufficient. Okay, thank you. Sure. So Ronda, we're a little over time right now and I imagine we'll have to finish up pretty quickly. So shall we try and let folks use this time offline to discuss adoption concerns? I think so. And I'll ask the group right now if they would like to just have another session that focuses on adoption concerns and a Q&A on that. Okay. Maybe they can type it in the chat room or put a check mark. Okay. All right. Thanks for that, Ronda. I know a number of you have to leave on the hour and are in the process of doing that. I apologize for us not getting through this material in an hour. There's a lot around finding and adopting that requires some thought. Okay, another session would be nice. Okay. Yeah, we've got a couple of check marks there and people also mentioning it. So maybe what I can do offline with the UNA is maybe identify a time when we can do just a session on adoption concerns. Okay. Okay. So that sounds excellent. So I'm going to just go to our final slides here for those of you who, and I know some of you do have to leave. So our step three in this process is the collaboration. Even after you've gone through all this announcement piece, there's other folks to get involved. Campus advocates, publishers may be a process, you know, both commercial and open textbook publishers. So it's an evolving area and doing some research as well. And then from once you deploy the open textbook into your classroom, having a survey with your students at the end of the semester is a very valuable way to gather feedback on how that went. And finally, we are trying to make open education sustainable. So how can we do that? How can we promote open practices and policies at the college level or even the state level? Recommending open textbooks as a possible solution to the affordability issue and to help faculty to be innovative. Librarians can help faculty to find OER. Deans can help faculty to find OER. Students are generally very positive about lower costs for their textbooks. And they can make very convincing cases to higher level administrators. And openly license your own work. Those of us who are faculty who have taught in the past, you know you're always creating your own materials to bring in. Consider openly licensing those and sharing them out. And then join the open education community as the Michigan virtual campus has already done that. And here's a list of different workshops that we offer and ways that we can help. I want to thank you once again for inviting me this morning. We have one more in our webinar series coming up on the December 11th. We're going to have some folks from the California Community College and Creative Commons talk about some of the work they're doing with their grant licensing to increase open policies in California. And that is for now at the end. And if you have any questions, I'm happy to stick around for another five minutes or so. And I'm going to turn off the recording now though so that our captioner can move on. Thank you, Una.