[Open-education] Opening the Textbook: #OER in U.S. Higher Education, 2015-16 Babson Survey Research Group

Tue Jul 26 16:23:15 UTC 2016

More detail from our friend, Nicole:

From: Nicole Allen <nicole at sparcopen.org>
Date: Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 7:15 AM
Subject: [OER-advocacy] New OER report released by Babson

Dear all,

Today the Babson Survey Research Group has released a new report on OER in
U.S. higher education
<http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthetextbook2016.pdf>. The
report is based on a survey of 3,000 faculty and follows Babson’s 2014
national report
<http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthecurriculum2014.pdf>.

Overall the report shows that OER awareness among faculty is improving, but
is still below a majority. It also finds that open textbooks have gained a
small but measurable foothold in the market, but challenges toward greater
adoption remain. These results are heartening that OER is on the rise in
U.S. higher education, though they also underscores that there’s much more
work to do — and the importance of efforts by projects like OpenStax, Open
Textbook Network, Lumen, librarians, and so many others to continue raise
awareness and support faculty.

Links:

   - Report: http://onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html
   - Press Release:
   http://www.babson.edu/news-events/babson-news/Pages/faculty-survey-open-education-resources-low-but-improving.aspx

First stories:

   - Chronicle:
   http://chronicle.com/article/More-Professors-Know-About/237252
   - IHE:
   https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/07/26/study-finds-use-open-educational-resources-rise-introductory-courses

Major findings:

   - Faculty awareness of OER has increased, with 25% of faculty reporting
   that they were “Aware” or “Very Aware” of open educational resources, up
   from 20% last year. About a third (34%) claimed some level of awareness.
   - 5.3% of courses are using open textbooks.
   - OpenStax textbooks are adopted at a rate of 10% among large enrollment
   undergraduate introductory courses.
   - The most common factor cited by faculty when selecting educational
   resources was the cost to the students. After cost, the next most common
   was the comprehensiveness of the resource, followed by how easy it was to
   find.
   - The barriers to adopting OER most often cited by faculty are that
   “there are not enough resources for my subject” (49%), it is “too hard to
   find what I need” (48%) and “there is no comprehensive catalog of
   resources” (45%).

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:29 PM, Cable Green <cable at creativecommons.org>
wrote:

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> http://onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html
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> http://onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthetextbook2016.pdf
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