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We have led the horse to water – more information
We have led the horse to water …. now what?
Student perceptions, use and impact of open textbooks at Douglas College
Presentation at BCCampus symposium May 2018 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
A short 45-min session to present our data from Douglas College students about student attitudes towards OER.
Our session will compare and contrast student’s attitudes in first year physics, astronomy and biology classes to open textbooks. We will also relate attitudes towards OER to simple demographic information and the overall cost of textbooks to determine whether there are indicators that can be measured a priori to suggest that students in a particular course may be more or less receptive to the incorporation of OER.
We would further like to discuss with other researchers the procedures, promise, pitfalls, and possibility of conducting further replications at multiple institutions across BC. Finally, we would like to discuss what our data suggest about the utility and ease of encouraging widespread adoption of OER in BC.
•Research Ethics Board Application made our brains hurt – we are scientists who researched rocks and rats.
•Research Ethics Board Approval took 6 months to approve questions that had already passed Kwantlen Polytechnique.
•Needed to take class time for surveys.
Photo credits
•Special thanks to Eric Urquhart for the suggestion for the title of this workshop
•Rocky the non drinking horse by Jenn Barker CC-BY 4.0
•Babe the Pug by Jenn Barker CC-BY 4.0
•Jenn Barker in the lab with one of her rats by Jenn Barker CC-BY 4.0
•Jennifer Kirkey in the lab Jennifer Kirkey CC-BY 4.0
•Douglas College aerial views from Douglas College Media and Communications Office – released for public use https://www.douglascollege.ca/about-douglas
•Douglas College demographic information from https://www.douglascollege.ca/about-douglas/institutional-research-and-planning/quick-facts
•Rajiv Jhangiana from Festival of Learning 2018 speaker lists
•Not just horsing around is Jenn Barker and her horse Rocky. Photo credits Jenn Barker. Taking a selfie with a horse is tricky. CC-BY 4.0
•George the Goodbye Horse Jenn Barker CC-BY 4.0
George the horse says good-bye Photo Credit Jenn Barker 2018 CC0
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