{"id":88109,"date":"2018-03-20T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?p=88109"},"modified":"2018-03-27T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T16:04:28","slug":"umw-professors-transform-education-with-open-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/20\/umw-professors-transform-education-with-open-textbooks\/","title":{"rendered":"UMW Professors Transform Education with Open Textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highlighting? Not allowed. Underlining? Don\u2019t even think about it.<\/p>\n<p>That was Caitie Finlayson\u2019s approach to textbooks as a college student. As one of many undergrads who relied on financial aid, she kept pages pristine so the books could be resold for a small portion of the original \u2013 and often hefty \u2013 sum.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, as an assistant professor of geography at UMW, Finlayson received a grant from the Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation to revise her World Regional Geography course. She chose to write an <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.umw.edu\/OER\">open textbook<\/a> that would make geography accessible to the masses \u2013 at no cost.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:7,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.umw.edu\\\/news\\\/2018\\\/03\\\/20\\\/umw-professors-transform-education-with-open-textbooks\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:230672515}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1100px; height: 306px;\" data-original-width=\"1100\" data-original-height=\"306\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 663px; height: 306px;\" data-original-width=\"663\" data-original-height=\"306\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/20\/umw-professors-transform-education-with-open-textbooks\/photographer-211\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"659\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"302\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"88113\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3000,1374\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Norm Shafer&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Caitlie Finlayson has created a World Geography text book for her students to use in her geography class, Friday, January 26, 2018. (Photo by Norm Shafer).&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1516924800&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Norm Shafer@2018&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;23&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Photographer&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Photographer\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-3-300x137.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-3-1024x469.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-3.jpg?w=659&#038;h=302&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-3.jpg 3000w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-3-300x137.jpg 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-3-768x352.jpg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-3-1024x469.jpg 1024w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-3-1140x522.jpg 1140w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-3-600x275.jpg 600w\" width=\"659\" height=\"302\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"659\" data-original-height=\"302\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Photographer\" alt=\"Caitlie Finlayson&#039;s open textbook on World Geography has been downloaded over 2,000 times in over 30 countries.\" style=\"width: 659px; height: 302px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Caitlie Finlayson&#8217;s open textbook on World Geography has been downloaded over 2,000 times in over 30 countries. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 437px; height: 306px;\" data-original-width=\"437\" data-original-height=\"306\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/20\/umw-professors-transform-education-with-open-textbooks\/photographer-209\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"433\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"302\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"88111\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3000,2094\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Norm Shafer&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Caitlie Finlayson has created a World Geography text book for her students to use in her geography class, Friday, January 26, 2018. (Photo by Norm Shafer).&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1516924800&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Norm Shafer@2018&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;58.7&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Photographer&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Photographer\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-2-300x209.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-2-1024x715.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-2.jpg?w=433&#038;h=302&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-2.jpg 3000w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-2-300x209.jpg 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-2-768x536.jpg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-2-1024x715.jpg 1024w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-2-1140x796.jpg 1140w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Geography-Textbook-2-600x419.jpg 600w\" width=\"433\" height=\"302\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"433\" data-original-height=\"302\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Photographer\" alt=\"Caitlie Finlayson working with students in her World Geography class.\" style=\"width: 433px; height: 302px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Caitlie Finlayson working with students in her World Geography class. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>Two years later, her <a href=\"http:\/\/caitiefinlayson.com\/worldregional\/\"><em>World Regional Geography<\/em><\/a> textbook \u2013 published under an open license, which allows free sharing, editing, and reuse \u2013 has been downloaded over 2,000 times in over 30 countries. It has also been selected for inclusion in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.widernet.org\/eGranary\/\">eGranary Digital Library<\/a>, which makes websites and digital education resources available to people in developing countries who might lack reliable internet access.<\/p>\n<p>The geography textbook is part of a movement at UMW led by a group of faculty passionate about providing open educational resources (OER) in the classroom. Focusing specifically on open textbooks, the group \u2013 Open UMW \u2013 identifies existing open access resources and encourages faculty to either adopt them or create their own open textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have potential to lose money when you publish openly,\u201d said Steve Greenlaw, professor of economics and one of the university\u2019s biggest champions of open access efforts. \u201cBut the good that you do is so much more than the money you would make anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88112\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"88112\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/20\/umw-professors-transform-education-with-open-textbooks\/photographer-210\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Steve-Greenlaw-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3000,1955\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Norm Shafer&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Steve Greenlaw in his office, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018. (Photo by Norm Shafer).&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1519257600&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Norm Shafer@2018&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;16&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Photographer&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Photographer\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Steve Greenlaw\u2019s open textbook, Principles of Economics, has been used by 152,722 students since it was published in 2014.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Steve-Greenlaw-1-300x196.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Steve-Greenlaw-1-1024x667.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-88112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Steve-Greenlaw-1-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Greenlaw\u2019s open textbook, Principles of Economics, has been used by 152,722 students since it was published in 2014.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Steve-Greenlaw-1-1024x667.jpg 1024w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Steve-Greenlaw-1-300x196.jpg 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Steve-Greenlaw-1-768x500.jpg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Steve-Greenlaw-1-1140x743.jpg 1140w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Steve-Greenlaw-1-600x391.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Greenlaw\u2019s open textbook, Principles of Economics, has been used by 152,722 students since it was published in 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And he would know.<\/p>\n<p>Greenlaw\u2019s open textbook, <em>Principles of Economics,<\/em> has been used by 152,722 students since it was published in 2014, according to the open textbook publisher OpenStax. That represents a $15 million savings, about $98 per book.<\/p>\n<p>For some students, those savings make all the difference in their academic success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor students on financial aid, it\u2019s common not to receive that aid until three weeks into the semester,\u201d said Greenlaw, \u201cIf students don\u2019t get the book until three weeks into the semester, they have a higher rate of failure because they fall behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Continuing the Conversation at UMW<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>A recent survey of 110 UMW faculty showed that 86% are solely responsible for the selection of required textbooks in their classes, which illustrates the potential for OER to expand even further. That\u2019s where UMW Libraries comes in.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, many of the Commonwealth of Virginia\u2019s academic libraries joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/research.cehd.umn.edu\/otn\/\">Open Textbook Network<\/a>, a higher education initiative promoting OER that maintains the <a href=\"http:\/\/open.umn.edu\/opentextbooks\/SearchResults.aspx?subjectAreaId=11\">Open Textbook Library<\/a>, an online catalog of open textbooks. As a network member, UMW Libraries provides workshops for faculty. Afterward, they can review a textbook from the library for a stipend.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_88114\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88114\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"88114\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/20\/umw-professors-transform-education-with-open-textbooks\/simpson-library\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Library-1-5.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"3000,1931\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Norm Shafer&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;X-T1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;UMW library, for a virtual tour,  January 8, 2015.  (Photo by Norm Shafer).&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1420738676&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Norm Shafer@2014&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;14&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00555555555556&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Simpson Library&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Simpson Library\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The UMW Libraries are part of the Open Textbook Network, a higher education initiative promoting open education resources.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Library-1-5-300x193.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Library-1-5-1024x659.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-88114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Library-1-5-1024x659.jpg\" alt=\"The UMW Libraries are part of the Open Textbook Network, a higher education initiative promoting open education resources.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Library-1-5-1024x659.jpg 1024w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Library-1-5-300x193.jpg 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Library-1-5-768x494.jpg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Library-1-5-1140x734.jpg 1140w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/03\/Library-1-5-600x386.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UMW Libraries are part of the Open Textbook Network, a higher education initiative promoting open education resources.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe workshops cover what open textbooks are, how they differ from e-textbooks provided by commercial publishers, and how textbook costs can impact student success,\u201d said Erin Wysong, UMW reference and sciences librarian and UMW\u2019s campus leader for the network. \u201cMy goal is to make sure UMW faculty are aware of all of their options when they select course materials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wysong also addresses questions about quality, sharing that lower student textbook costs doesn\u2019t have to come at the expense of quality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t a case of \u2018you get what you pay for,\u2019\u201d Wysong said. \u201cStudies have shown that students using OER have similar or better outcomes compared to students using traditional textbooks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the Open Textbook Library workshops, UMW Libraries has created an <a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.umw.edu\/OER\">online guide<\/a> to help faculty take a first step in looking for open educational resources for their courses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf just one faculty member decides to adopt an open textbook for a single class section, the aggregate cost savings for that section could be thousands of dollars,\u201d Wysong said.<\/p>\n<p>For Finlayson, who published <em>World Regional Geography<\/em> in 2016, open publishing breaks barriers to a subject she\u2019s passionate about.<\/p>\n<p>And Finlayson gets to see her students mark up the pages of their printable copy of the textbook \u2013 highlighters included. At $15 for a print copy, students are saving more than $100 on the textbook and can scribble away without worrying about the resale value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highlighting? Not allowed. Underlining? Don\u2019t even think about it. That was Caitie Finlayson\u2019s approach to textbooks as a college student. As one of many undergrads who relied on financial aid, she kept pages pristine so the books could be resold for a small portion of the original \u2013 and often hefty \u2013 sum. 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