OEW - 2020 - Unboxing the Textbook for an Open World
Channel: EDEN Digital Learning Europe
Date: 2020-09-10

5 March 2020, 13:00 CET

The textbook is an enduring staple of higher education, occupying a key role in formal educational settings. Practices may vary greatly in educational settings as to how the costs of textbooks are borne by students. Moreover, the role and nature of the textbook are changing rapidly in a digital world. Large, often expensive, paper books exist alongside digital versions which may include rich media and interactivity. The interactive elements of digital textbooks may also comprise assessments that can be summative or formative. Publishers may charge rental subscriptions for books which may be passed directly onto students increasing the costs of their education. Moreover, these rentals are temporary. Students do not get to “Retain” access to the learning resource – the right to retain being one of the key five Rs of Open (Wiley, 2014). How can we help unpack these issues and explore alternatives such as more open approaches? To help “unbox” the book, this panel seeks to explore students’ use (and non-use) of textbooks for learning in higher education; what alternatives might exist; and to try and envisage textbooks and educational resources in a more open future.

References:
Wiley, D. (2014). The access compromise and the 5th R. Iterating toward openness. Retrieved 10 December 2019, from  https://opencontent.org/blog/archives/3221

Moderator: Eamon Costello, DCU

Presenters:
Eamon Costello
Head of Open Education, National Institute for Digital Learning, Dublin City University

Zoe Wake Hyde
Assistant director and Product Manager at the Rebus Foundation

Aine Lynch
Assistant Librarian, Mary Immaculate College, Ireland

Tom Farrelly
Faculty member, Social Sciences, Institute of Technology, Tralee, Ireland

James Brunton
Programme Chair, Psychology, Dublin City University, Ireland

Samantha Trevaskis

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