{"id":111,"date":"2021-06-08T15:54:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T19:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/openubcpub\/chapter\/impact-data-open-ubc\/"},"modified":"2022-04-26T11:02:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:02:24","slug":"impact-data-open-ubc","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/openubcpub\/chapter\/impact-data-open-ubc\/","title":{"raw":"Impact Data","rendered":"Impact Data"},"content":{"raw":"<\/a>Developing strategies and approaches to measuring the success of your open text project should be developed during the Project Plan stages. Collecting and analyzing this data will help you maintain accountability to the goals of your project and to understand whether your project is successful. Measuring success will depend on a few factors:\r\n
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  1. What constitutes success for your project and how will it be measured? Pedagogical innovation? Surveys? Interviews?<\/li>\r\n \t
  2. Who do you need to report to about the open text project? Funders? Your institution? Department?<\/li>\r\n \t
  3. What data is needed to indicate \"success\"? Adoption numbers? Students impacted?<\/li>\r\n \t
  4. How do you need to use the data for your own portfolio? Tenure and promotion? Merit?<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nWorking through these questions will assist you in collecting the right metrics to report fully about the success of your project. This guide outlines the kinds of data that you can collect to frame discussions about your open textbook project and ensure you have reached your goals.\r\n
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    Adoption Data<\/span><\/h2>\r\nCollecting adoption data can be a difficult process as it requires adopters to identify that they are using the text in their courses or instructional practices. Developing a feedback mechanism for your text that requests that adopters identify their use of the text is the easiest way to gather this data.\r\n\r\nTo begin, decide how you will track adoptions and what statistics you\u2019ll collect. For instance, you might want to track adoption trends by course level, type, term, or semester.\r\n\r\nThen identify the tool you will use to gather this data. For example, you can develop a Qualtrics<\/a> form located as a link on the homepage of your textbook, in the front matter of the text, or in a metadata field of your open textbook record to encourage self-reporting.\r\n
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    Examples - Calculus Volume 3 Adoption Metrics<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/header>\r\n

    \r\n\r\nCalculus Volume 3 Adoption<\/a><\/b>\r\n