Eight Patterns of Open Textbook Adoption in British Columbia

Autor/inn/en	Barker, Jennifer; Jeffery, Ken; Jhangiani, Rajiv Sunil; Veletsianos, George
Titel	Eight Patterns of Open Textbook Adoption in British Columbia
Quelle	In: International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 19 (2018) 3, S.320-334 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1492-3831
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Shared Resources and Services; Textbooks; Higher Education; Longitudinal Studies; Adoption (Ideas); Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Gemeinwirtschaft; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Ideas; Ideenfindung; Kanada
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01