There are a number of ways that post-secondary institutions participate in and manage the adoption of open textbooks in British Columbia. See examples below.

Adoptions in action

Douglas College

• Open textbooks in use at Douglas College for Fall 2021
• Researchers describe patterns of open textbook adoptions in B.C. — July 23, 2018 (Open Douglas)

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

• Estimated Cost Savings to Students (Zed Cred Initiative)

Langara College

• Langara adoptions

Okanagan College

• Open Textbook Survey

Thompson Rivers University

• Adopt open textbooks

University of British Columbia

• Open UBC Snapshot: Significant use and support for open resources — January 3, 2019
• Open UBC Snapshot: Use of open resources continues to increase — January 9, 2018
• UBC open textbook adoption snapshot — July 18, 2017
• Open UBC Snapshots: Textbook displacements by open resources — December 10, 2016

University of Victoria

• Open textbook adoptions @ UVic

Research

BCIT, Douglas, KPU, RRU

Barker, Jennifer, Ken Jeffery, Rajiv Sunil Jhangiani, and George Veletsianos. “Eight Patterns of Open Textbook Adoption in British Columbia.” The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning 19, no. 3 (2018). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v19i3.3723

UBC

Hendricks, Christina, Stefan A. Reinsberg, and Georg W. Rieger.  “The Adoption of an Open Textbook in a Large Physics Course: An Analysis of Cost, Outcomes, Use, and Perceptions.” The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning 18, no. 4 (2017). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i4.3006