Higher education faculty perceptions of open textbook adoption
| Published | June 2017 |
| Type of work | Special Issue: Outcomes of Openness: Empirical Reports on the Implementation of OER |
| Journal | The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 123-141 |
ABSTRACT
The high cost of tuition and textbooks can have a negative impact on potential students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Open Educational Resources (OER) offers students a way to save educational costs while utilizing high-quality open textbooks. Up until now, there have been few studies focused on a specific provider of open textbooks. This study investigates open textbooks provided by OpenStax. Specifically, this study uses the COUP framework to examine: (1) cost reduction, (2) outcomes, (3) uses, and (4) the faculty perceptions of the quality of OpenStax textbooks. Additionally, we expanded the framework to address (5) the relationship between the perceived quality of the OpenStax textbook and the faculty perception of student performance, (6) the faculty’s intention to continue to adopt OpenStax textbooks, and (7) the perceived importance of accessibility to faculty who use OpenStax textbooks. Overall, the findings suggest that a significant amount of financial savings and a number of pedagogical shifts can be supported by the use of OpenStax textbooks.| Keywords | OER · open textbooks · OpenStax · perception of open textbooks |
| Published at | Athabasca, AB |
| ISSN | 1492-3831 |
| Other number | 4 |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Rights | by/4.0 |
| DOI | 10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3120 |
| URL | http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/3120 |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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