BC Open Textbook Summit 2017

This presentation will describe the results of a survey of 200 instructional faculty across 26 BC post-secondary institutions. The key questions this survey addresses include: 1) Who has a role in selecting required course materials, 2) What factors are more or less important to faculty when selecting course materials, 3) What is the relative importance to faculty of different ancillary resources, 4) How often do faculty hear from their students about requiring a textbook or using an older edition, 5) What is their awareness of OER and open textbooks, 6) How do faculty perceive the relative quality of open and commercial resources, and 7) How do each of these factors predict the likelihood of future adoption.

Dr. Rajiv S. Jhangiani
University Teaching Fellow and Psychology Instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University; Senior Open Education Advocacy & Research Fellow at BCcampus; Faculty Workshop Facilitator at the Open Textbook Network

Dr. Surita Jhangiani
Psychology Instructor at the Justice Institute of British Columbia and the University of British Columbia