CALMing the High Cost of Educational Resources: How CSUSM is Creating Alternatives to Expensive Textbooks

How CSUSM is crea/ng alterna/ves to expensive textbooks.

CALMING THE HIGH COST OF EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES:

•  Total enrollment: 10,364. Undergraduate students:

9,929; graduate students: 435.

• A diverse popula/on of students. Our ethnicity: 0.3 percent Na/ve American/American Indian, 3.0 percent

African American, 8.4 percent Asian/Pacific Islander,

35.8 percent Hispanic, 36.5 percent Caucasian, 5.7

percent Two or more races and 2.7 percent Non-‐

Resident.

CSUSM BY THE NUMBERS

• 67 percent of our students receive financial assistance.

• 39 percent of our student popula/on is male and 61 percent is

female.

• 28 percent are the first members of

their families to seek a college

degree.

• Officially designated as a Hispanic

Serving Ins/tu/on (HSI) and Asian

American Na/ve American Pacific

Islander Serving Ins/tu/on

(AANAPSI)

•  ACE Scholars – working with former foster youth.

•  AB 540 Students – the DREAM Act. •  Native Advisory Council and CSUSM Tribal Initiative: relationships with more than 25 tribal communities across San Diego, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties.

UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS

•  Conflicting experiences of librarian faculty when talking with others about Open Access/Open Education Resources.

•  Survey: determine existing faculty awareness of library services and to assess the willingness of the community to support free online scholarly materials.

Campus survey of faculty

COST IS CONSIDERED!

BUT…

STILL SOME RESISTANCE…

Cougars

Affordable

Learning

Materials

CALM – Affordable Learning $olutions

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• Started in Spring 2013 • Our Team

•  Sponsor - Bill Ward, Associate Dean, IITS •  Natalie Wilson, Faculty Fellow •  3 Instructional Designers: Susan, Barbara, Cherie

• Summer 2013 •  Researched other CSUs efforts •  Developed branding –logo, posters •  Built website – lots of resources •  Developed a communications plan •  Pilot -CALMed Natalie’s courses

CALM – Communications & Kickoff • Fall 2013

•  Bill Ward met with Deans and Department Chairs •  Sept/October –Developers introduce CALM & Faculty call at

department meetings •  Customized presentations -examples of OER/library sources

•  Increased awareness and comfort level •  Started a conversation amongst the faculty •  Left flyers and emailed to lecturers

•  Two informational meetings before led by Natalie, FF •  Personal contact •  Proposed resolution to Academic Senate •  Student Posters





DEPARTMENT PRESENTATION

Resources and Examples


CALM down your textbook costs! Why •  4x the rate of inflation = increase in textbook prices •  $1,655 = what CSUSM students will spend this year for

books and supplies. •  $1,342 = The average annual Cal Grant B student award

for textbooks and living expenses. •  $20,200 = The average student debt for students

graduating from a 4 year public university in 2010. What You Can Do •  10 simple ideas


CALMed course example – WMST 303

WMST 303: Education, Race and Gender, Dr. Natalie Wilson

•  Reconstructing Gender $90.26 •  Troubling Education $49.95 •  Teaching to Transgress $21.36 •  Total: $161.50

CALMED course

•  Breaking Bad Habits of Race and Gender 24.95

•  Pearson Custom Book 24.65 •  OER videos, websites, and

organizational publications (eg FMF’s report on gender equity and education)

•  Library Materials including Course Reserves, journal articles, and Media Library Holdings

•  Total: $49.60 Savings: $111.90 (x40 students = $4,467)


SOURCES Resources and Examples Sociology


CSU AL$ Search Engine


CSU AL$ Search Engine


OER Commons,

Physics

Open College Textbooks, Chemistry

Open Textbooks


More Options


More Options Search Results


More Options


Custom Publishing

New! Select or share course packs in the Co-Op


Simulations & Games

Penn State – Animations for Physics and Astronomy

U of Colorado, Boulder


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


Call for Proposals • Up to 20 professional development awards to faculty who

can reduce instructional material costs to students, using •  Lower cost bookstore rentals, used and ebooks (CSU Rent Digital) •  Custom publishing •  OER •  Library materials, •  Create your own, etc.

• Funded by a $25,000 grant from the Chancellor’s office • Program is completely voluntary • CALM website


Call for Proposals

Level 1 award- $1000

• Proposal saves money for average number of students (>50 – 100/yr)

• Project saves > %50 of current textbook cost.

• Project uses a combination of OER, library, custom publishers or original materials.

Level 2 award - $1500

• Project consists of all or almost all original, Open Education Resources or library materials.

and/or • Project is scalable,

creates course material for a G.E. or high enrollment course (>100/year)


The Award •  $1000 -$1500 professional development funds •  Goal - fund up to 20 faculty proposals •  Participants must submit a final report detailing actual savings

to students. •  Solutions must meet copyright and accessibility guidelines

Selection criteria •  Quality of application •  Potential savings •  Authored materials and Creative Commons licensing encouraged

Application & Details – http://www.csusm.edu/ids/calm


Proposal Details • Submit proposal to [email protected]

•  Deadline to submit proposal – October 25, 2013 •  Award winners will be notified by November 1, 2013

•  Implemented by Fall 2014 • Contents of Proposal:

•  Current cost of instructional materials •  How you plan to reduce current costs •  Approximate # of students affected and estimated savings per

student. •  Teams encouraged to apply


Results from 2013 Call •  22 proposals submitted – 28 courses - 3 teams •  20 funded •  9 courses implemented by this semester •  55K savings first semester • Estimated total savings – 1st semester 300K


NEXT STEPS


Next Steps •  2nd Call for proposals – March 2014 • CALM Newsletter – February • Academic Senate Resolution – March vote (today) • Student Outreach

•  Collaborate with ASI – student events •  Student Survey – cost of texts and impacts - March

• Website – faculty showcase • Faculty presentations

•  CSU Symposium March 8th

•  CSUSM Teaching & Learning Expo – Spring •  Faculty Recognition from Provost


•  Continue education and outreach for faculty members.

•  Track money saved / amount of use of campus created content.

•  Put campus created scholarship into ScholarWorks.

•  Link OER in library catalog, when possible.

NEXT STEPS …

•  Open Education Resources: The New Paradigm in Academic Libraries forthcoming from the Journal of Library Innovation. – Melanie Chu, Outreach Librarian, co-‐author

•  Follow up in 2-‐3 years: survey faculty again to see if there has been a shift.

•  Carmen Mitchell, Institutional Repository Librarian, [email protected]

•  Barbara Taylor, Instructional Developer, Academic Technology Services, [email protected]

QUESTIONS?