Abstract
Opportunities for academic libraries to enrich their products and services through facilitating open education (OE) in higher education are presented in an overview of good practices. A case study of open textbook publishing was performed at TU Delft to study how these products and services could stimulate educators to adopt OE. A simplified user acceptance model of innovation was developed and applied to the case study, to study the educator’s mind-set before and after they published an open textbook with the support of the TU Delft Library. Using the insights that were gained from the case study and from good practices of other university libraries, recommendations are presented for professionalizing products and services by academic libraries to facilitate the adoption of OE into educational practice and to develop institutional policies and regulations that support educators with these practices.
Highlights
With the turn of the century, a significant change has occurred in the way information is created, found, adapted and used
We present a TU Delft case study of Open Textbook publishing, which we consider a good practice of open education
We have presented the concept of open education as an educational innovation that has the potential for adoption into higher education
Summary
With the turn of the century, a significant change has occurred in the way information is created, found, adapted and used. The way we handle this information is changing as well This is of particular importance to universities, because this change affects how research output is shared between researchers and how education is provided to students. There are numerous examples of open access initiatives in Europe, for example in The Netherlands and Norway (Utrecht University, 2018), (Van Wezenbeek, Touwen, Versteeg, & Van Wesenbeeck, 2017), (UNIT, 2019), (Science Europe, 2018). In these initiatives there is very limited mention of open access publishing of educational literature and digital course materials, even though open access has a wide range of possible applications in higher education
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