Robin Donaldson, Project Manager, The Orange
Grove
Sharing is the foundation of education and OER—
• Educational materials produced by one party that
are licensed to be used freely and at no cost by
others.
• Curriculum content, assignments, textbooks...
• Used on all levels of education
• Can dramatically reduce cost of teaching & learning
OER
•Revise: adapt and modify
•Reuse: use the original or your new version
•Remix: combine the OER with other OER
•Redistribute: make copies and share original OER or
new version
Open textbooks
1. …freely available through an open license that permits users
to: read, download, copy, distribute, self-print, search, or link
to the full texts without financial, legal or technical barriers.
2. In addition, students may often be able to order a
commercially bound print-on-demand copy at a modest cost.
3. Freely accessible digital textbooks that can be read online,
downloaded, and self-printed at no or low cost.
Students focused on cost. What’s missing?
Millions being spent by states on textbooks and
instructional content.
States are in the process of updating their textbooks
and instructional content to align with the Common
Core Standards.
Goals
 Provide a means for educators to share resources
 Increase opportunities for Florida educators to incorporate
open educational resources (OER) into curricula
 Provide a central location for finding OER
 Increase access to OERs from around the world
Solution to Identified Needs:
• Difficulty finding open
resources and open textbooks
• Means for sharing resources
Where educators can:
Share their original content with colleagues
Collaborate with colleagues to create content
Rate and comment on others’ contributed content
Associate items to standards-compliant digital content
Reuse and Repurpose content multiple times
Ensure Quality
Institutions can define review process
• Review of copyright and general information
• Assign a peer review process
• Faculty can comment and rate contributed
resources
Orange Grove Collections
Collections open to the public:
 Orange Grove, Open Textbooks & Harvested Resources
Metadata = Discoverability
Examples of metadata
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Title
Author
Description
Date contributed
Comments & Ratings
ERIC, MeSH, GEM, Common Core
Standards, Common Course Numbers
 File type
Harvested Resources & Open Textbooks
Over 69,000 high quality resources
• Current focus on STEM and general education
• Next steps – Humanities and Literature
InTech – STEM graduate level textbooks and books
Connexions – Open Textbook K-20
CK-12 - Open textbooks for K-12
Guests & Students are able to:
• Search and use public
resources
• Share content with
others
• Comment on and rate
content
Licensing - Basic Conditions
Provide attribution to author(s)
 Non-commercial purposes
Optional Conditions
Add, remove, or alter content
(derivative works) – CC BY-ND
Derivative works must offer the same
license (share alike) CC BY-SA
Use of the textbook commercially –
CC BY-NC
Open textbook licensing
Commercial publishers usually own copyright and
reserve all printing or duplication rights.
Open textbook authors retain their copyright instead of
selling it and may apply limited rights to textbook use.
The University Press of Florida
Solution to Identified Need:
Quality is #1 priority for both
faculty and student leaders
when selecting or using
textbook
The University Press of Florida
Highly recognized and regarded scholarship
dissemination for state
Acquisitions: select and guide textbook projects
Development: editing, design, index, ISBN, proof,
print, marketing, sales
Distribution: bookstores (malls and campus)
Solution to Identified Need:
Student report practice
problems improve their
grades
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Independent Company in Raleigh, NC - ww.webassign.net
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Dynamic online homework system with feedback
Automatically graded, tracked assignments
Multiple question types
Tools to enter mathematical and chemical notation
Embed links to open textbook content, videos, tutorials
Offer instructors the ability to embed personal content
(questions, notes, videos)
Print-On-Demand Publisher (POD)
Solution to Identified Need:
Students want to be able to
purchase a commercial print
edition at low cost
Print-On-Demand Publisher (POD) for OGT+
 Low cost
Quality commercial book
 Minimum order = 1 and no maximum order limits
 0-48 hour turn around
 Bookstores may place orders
E-Textbook & Open Textbook Initiatives and
Legislation
• California
• Florida
• Utah
• Washington
Florida SB 2120 for K-12
• Transition to electronic and digital instructional
material pilot program
• Electronic or digital textbooks by 2015-16
• Pilot programs authorized between 2011-2015
California Proposed Legislation
Bill 1: Digital Open Source Textbooks
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Produce 50 high quality open textbooks and related materials
Bidding open to publishers, faculty, and other interested parties
CC BY license
$25,000,000
Bill 2: California Digital Open Source Library
 Create a statewide repository for open textbooks and related
materials
 Provide incentives to faculty for choosing lower cost alternatives
such as open textbooks and related teaching tools
 Require publishers to provide free copies of textbooks to
campus libraries to be placed on reserve
Washington State
Open Course Library
 State Board of Community and Technical Colleges
 Complete course materials for the 81 highest enrollment
courses for $30 or less, open licensed
House Bill 2337 Regarding Open Educational Resources
in K-12 Education
 Allocates 1.5% of curriculum and textbooks funds for
development of openly licensed courseware
 Would builds on work of CK-12 and other openly licensed
textbooks and open educational resources
Utah
• Office of Education: develop & support open
textbooks
 Secondary curriculum areas
 Language Arts
 Science
 Mathematics
• $5/print book
• Books updated as needed
Contact Information
Robin Donaldson
rdonaldson@distancelearn.org
(850) 922-3107
Florida Distance Learning Consortium
1753 West Paul Dirac Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32310
florida.theorangegrove.org
openaccesstextbooks.org
Assuring Quality and Print Versions
OGT+ YouTube Video