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Affordable Learning Solutions

James Glapa-GrossklagCollege of the Canyons

Gerard Hanley & Brett ChristieCSU Academic Technology Services

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Session Overview & Outcomes

• Introduction to Open Educational Resourceso What are the motivations to use OER?o What are the challenges to using OER?o How can you learn more about OER?

• Affordable Learning Solutionso Raising OER awareness at your campuso Engaging your campus in OER useo Ways your faculty can author OER

“OPEN” DOORS• Open Educational Resources (OER)

– Wide range of “size and shapes”• OpenCourseWare (OCW)• Open TextBooks • Open Access Journals• Open Source (Software Code)

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PhET Interactive SimulationsCopyright © 2004-2009 Univ of Colorado. Some rights reserved.Visit http://phet.colorado.edu

Open Educational Resources:

SimulationsAnimations

TutorialsPresentations

Drill and PracticeePortfolios

AssessmentsCollections

etc

OpenCourseWare

Open Textbooks

Open Textbooks

Open Textbooks

Why is OPEN Important?

Openness enables us to build upon other people’s work, materials, expertise with appropriate attribution.– Openness enables academic

initiatives to leverage the “Academic Way”

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsimmonsonca/3285952133/

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OER DefinedDigitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2007

Also see William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources

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OER Attributes

• For education/teaching/learning• Access is Free (no cost) • Digital (and often online) enable free

distribution of resource• “Liberally Licensed” – free from restrictions

on use/re-use/modifications/redistribution

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Why Engage in OER?

Institutional Mission

“The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and …. The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge ….”

Open Access – California Community Colleges

Reduce Student Costs

Student spends $180 on a textbook for a course and $30 on a textbook supplement• SUBTOTAL = $210

CCC Class• 3 units• Current cost per unit = $36• Cost of class itself = $108

The textbook and supplement represent 76% of the overall cost of the course!

Leverage Taxpayer FundingEnglish Composition I

• 55,000+ enrollments / year• x $100 textbook

• = $5.5+ Million every yearSource: Cable Green, The Obviousness of Open Policy (2011)

Scale Education

1/3 of the world’s population is under 15

158 million enrolled in higher education today

263 million by 2025

How to accommodate 105 million more students?

Build 4 major universities every week for the next 15 years?

Source: Sir John Daniel, President & DEO of the Commonwealth of Learning

Who Is Engaged in OER?

P2PU

Who Is Funding OER?

Freedom/Permission to Use Content• Traditional Copyright - All Rights

Reserved• Acceptable Use Policies

– Locally defined rights of use• Creative Commons License

– http://creativecommons.org– Some Rights Reserved and Some

Rights Given

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Web Image from Creative Commons

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CC License Conditions

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/6/62/Creativecommons-informational-flyer_eng.pdf

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Issues and Challenges• O’erwhelming!• Quality Assurance• Technical Requirements and Standards• Sustainability• Evidence of Impact• Policy

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Finding & Using OER w/ Technologies

• MERLOT Discovery and Federated Search• • LMS building blocks and Portal Integration

– MERLOT web services is part of Moodle 2.X– MERLOT/OER Finder is part of NOOK Study app

• Content Development Integration

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Quality Assurance• Peer Reviews• Community Annotations

– User Comments & Ratings– “Citations” – Endorsements

• Authoritative Sources

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•Open file formats•Open Source Software•Metadata Standards and Packaging

Technical Standards in OER

• Access to free content - Affordability• Integration of OER use into Institutional Initiatives- Local relevance of course redesign• Retention and promotion recognition

• MERLOT’s peer review process• Accreditation Standards – Institutional drivers for change

Policies for Guiding and Recognizing OER Use

http://www.sreb.org/view/docs/view_search/&keyword=1317

Why Accessibility Now?

• It’s the federal and state law.• The digital revolution is occurring and if

we do not make accessibility a requirement now, we will “enable” the institutionalization of another “Digital Divide” & another “Achievement Gap” for people with disabilities.

• Every Person Makes A Difference

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Sharing How-To Stories

Making Progress at Your Institution

• Works best as integrated efforto Executive Leadership, Library, Bookstore, Faculty

Senate, Academic Technology, Faculty Development

• Involves many decisions and activitieso Library integration, training, and supporto Bookstore commitment and communication

to faculty, staff, and studentso Academic technology expertise (e.g., IDs)o Faculty development programming related

to effective use and authoring of OER

ALS Implementation and Sustainabiity

ALS Website Resources

Planning Next Steps

• Your campus status?

• What has been useful today?

• What questions remain?

• What is your next task so OER possibilities reach more of your faculty and students?

• How will you proceed to accomplish this?

• What allies can you enlist?

• What obstacles will you need to overcome?

Contact Information

James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean

Educational Technology, Learning Resources, & Distance Learning

College of the Canyons

James.Glapa-Grossklag@canyons.edu

Gerard Hanley, Senior Director

CSU Academic Technology Services

ghanley@calstate.edu

Brett Christie

CSU Academic Technology Services

Brett.Christie@sonoma.edu