Student and Faculty Perceptions of OpenStax in High Enrollment Courses

As public funding for higher education decreases and the cost to students to attend college increases, universities are searching for strategies that save students money while also increasing their chances for success. Using free online textbooks is one such strategy, and the OpenStax College initia...

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Autores principales:	C. Edward Watson, Denise P. Domizi, Sherry A. Clouser
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2017
Materias:	open educational resources OpenStax biology faculty development course design Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d9336ae3a45d4ebb849a9b5bc87737982021-12-02T17:16:06ZStudent and Faculty Perceptions of OpenStax in High Enrollment Courses10.19173/irrodl.v18i5.24621492-3831https://doaj.org/article/d9336ae3a45d4ebb849a9b5bc87737982017-08-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2462https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831As public funding for higher education decreases and the cost to students to attend college increases, universities are searching for strategies that save students money while also increasing their chances for success. Using free online textbooks is one such strategy, and the OpenStax College initiative at Rice University is one of the most widely recognized producers of such materials. Through a mixed method approach, this article examines the student and faculty experiences of adopting and using an OpenStax textbook. With 1,299 student participants, it was found that students greatly value the quality, attributes, and the cost of the OpenStax Biology textbook, though minor concerns were raised about its online format. Faculty adoption of a free textbook provides unique opportunities for course redesign and improvement, and the approach employed in this course transformation context resulted in clearly articulated learning outcomes, a fully realized structure in the course’s learning management system, and improvements to instructional practice. The student, faculty, and course benefits of this study offer a compelling argument for the adoption of high quality open education resources (OER) in public higher education contexts. C. Edward WatsonDenise P. DomiziSherry A. ClouserAthabasca University Pressarticleopen educational resourcesOpenStaxbiologyfaculty developmentcourse designSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 18, Iss 5 (2017)
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description	As public funding for higher education decreases and the cost to students to attend college increases, universities are searching for strategies that save students money while also increasing their chances for success. Using free online textbooks is one such strategy, and the OpenStax College initiative at Rice University is one of the most widely recognized producers of such materials. Through a mixed method approach, this article examines the student and faculty experiences of adopting and using an OpenStax textbook. With 1,299 student participants, it was found that students greatly value the quality, attributes, and the cost of the OpenStax Biology textbook, though minor concerns were raised about its online format. Faculty adoption of a free textbook provides unique opportunities for course redesign and improvement, and the approach employed in this course transformation context resulted in clearly articulated learning outcomes, a fully realized structure in the course’s learning management system, and improvements to instructional practice. The student, faculty, and course benefits of this study offer a compelling argument for the adoption of high quality open education resources (OER) in public higher education contexts.
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title	Student and Faculty Perceptions of OpenStax in High Enrollment Courses
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Student and Faculty Perceptions of OpenStax in High Enrollment Courses

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