Appendix: Adoptions in B.C.

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

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Langara College

Okanagan College

Thompson Rivers University

University of British Columbia

University of Victoria

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

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