Eight Patterns of Open Textbook Adoption in British Columbia

Since the launch of the BC Open Textbook Project in 2012, the adoption of open textbooks has steadily grown within public post-secondary institutions in British Columbia, Canada. An analysis of adoption records over a five-year period reveals that open textbooks have been adopted across all types of...

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Autores principales:	Jennifer Barker, Ken Jeffery, Rajiv Sunil Jhangiani, George Veletsianos
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2018
Materias:	open educational resources open textbooks higher education British Columbia Canada Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:81406a6cc77440708cabf1825f9227b42021-12-02T17:16:06ZEight Patterns of Open Textbook Adoption in British Columbia10.19173/irrodl.v19i3.37231492-3831https://doaj.org/article/81406a6cc77440708cabf1825f9227b42018-07-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3723https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Since the launch of the BC Open Textbook Project in 2012, the adoption of open textbooks has steadily grown within public post-secondary institutions in British Columbia, Canada. An analysis of adoption records over a five-year period reveals that open textbooks have been adopted across all types of institutions, including research universities, teaching universities, colleges, and institutes, and across a diverse set of disciplines, with the largest numbers in the sciences and social sciences. In this report we identify, describe, and illustrate eight distinct patterns of open textbook adoption. These are: stealth adoption, adoption by infection, committee adoption, sanctioned exceptional adoption, course developer adoption, infection by inter-institutional carrier, creation and adoption, and lone adoption. While these patterns are not intended to be exhaustive, we hope that identifying these patterns provides a useful framework for campus leaders to (a) understand how adoptions occur in their own contexts, (b) identify ways to support further adoptions, (c) recognize that there are multiple ways, and no single path, to supporting the adoption of educational innovations at their institutions, and (d) foster the embrace of wider open educational practices. Jennifer BarkerKen JefferyRajiv Sunil JhangianiGeorge VeletsianosAthabasca University Pressarticleopen educational resourcesopen textbookshigher educationBritish ColumbiaCanadaSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 19, Iss 3 (2018)
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description	Since the launch of the BC Open Textbook Project in 2012, the adoption of open textbooks has steadily grown within public post-secondary institutions in British Columbia, Canada. An analysis of adoption records over a five-year period reveals that open textbooks have been adopted across all types of institutions, including research universities, teaching universities, colleges, and institutes, and across a diverse set of disciplines, with the largest numbers in the sciences and social sciences. In this report we identify, describe, and illustrate eight distinct patterns of open textbook adoption. These are: stealth adoption, adoption by infection, committee adoption, sanctioned exceptional adoption, course developer adoption, infection by inter-institutional carrier, creation and adoption, and lone adoption. While these patterns are not intended to be exhaustive, we hope that identifying these patterns provides a useful framework for campus leaders to (a) understand how adoptions occur in their own contexts, (b) identify ways to support further adoptions, (c) recognize that there are multiple ways, and no single path, to supporting the adoption of educational innovations at their institutions, and (d) foster the embrace of wider open educational practices.
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Eight Patterns of Open Textbook Adoption in British Columbia

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