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Leslie Kennedy, EdDAL$ Director, CO
Fred NeelyAL$ Outreach, CO
Naomi MoyLibrarian Extraordinaire
Dominguez Hills
Curating Open and Affordable Course Content
Workshop
• Background on AL$• Discovering and selecting open and affordable
content
• Learning Outcome– Evaluate and select from at least four strategies
for curating open and affordable course content for your course(s)
• 60,000 title Choices for students
• 8 publishing partners and affiliates
• Over $4.5 M savings and counting
CSU Rent Digital Program
Adaptive Learning Software
● Personalized learning● Café Learn
● McGraw Hill LearnSmart
● Adapt Courseware
● Cengage
● MacMillan
Potential OER Resources
Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Open CourseWare
Open Chemistry, Open Courseware, UC Irvine
Open Collections Program, Harvard
Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative
Center for Open and Sustainable Learning, Utah State University
Rice University OpenStax College
MIT OpenCourseware Project
Open University UK
UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning
African Virtual University
A professor has been using a textbook for several terms and is looking for engaging and supporting material.
or
You want to find relevant materials quickly in MERLOT.
You are considering an open textbook because of the quality content and the
affordability.
In particular, you like their potential
ancillary materials.
Steve Stewart: SOCI 301
➢ Savings to students overall.
- 130 students have saved approximately $15 each from
online book. = Savings $1950.
- 130 students will save approximately $85 each from using a
textbook 2-3 versions back. = Savings $11,050.
- 130 students able to access articles from The Economist via Bb Learn.
Copyright clearance savings approximately $20 each. = Savings $2600.
- Total Savings = $15,600 every semester.
“CALMED” Course Example – WMST 303
WMST 303: Education, Race and Gender, Dr. Natalie Wilson
• Reconstructing Gender $90.26• Troubling Education $49.95• Teaching to Transgress $21.36• Total: $161.50
CALMED course • Breaking Bad Habits of Race and
Gender 24.95• Pearson Custom Book 24.65• OER videos, websites, and
organizational publications (eg FMF’s report on gender equity and education)
• Library Materials including Course Reserves, journal articles, and Media Library Holdings
• Total: $49.60Savings: $111.90 (x40 students = $4,467)
2/21/2014 Instructional Development Services - CSUSM 28
Cougars Affordable Learning Materials (CALM)
What the CSU San Marcos Students Are Saying…
“I would use eBooks. I think they would be easier to use and to do homework with.” – Annette, Kinesiology
“EBooks help me because I have to pay for rent and food so that money I saved helped me go towards that.” –Alyssa, Economics (graduate student)
“I wish it was offered more by my teachers.” –Kevin, Entertainment Marketing
“More spending more stress, less spending less stress.” – Andrew, Philosophy
“You won't stress about working to get more money to pay everything off.” –Alex, Electrical Engineering
"The library reserve is great when I'm on campus and don't want to carry my book to school. I can check it out and study or do homework for a while.“ –Kim, Architecture
Open Resources for ComS 5 The Communication Experience
Main text from Flatworld Knowledge publishing
Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies, v. 1.0
Secondary text from Wikibooks
Survey of Communication Study
State of California LegislatureSenate Bill 1052: CA OER council
• Bill to address textbooks’ price inflation
• Establishes the CA OER Council
• Select free or affordable textbooks for 50 high impact courses
• High impact = High enrollment, quality, availability
• Establish a peer-review process
•Increase awareness and adoption among faculty
• Identify high impact courses for which open textbooks are not available, or if the current open textbook options require improvement
State of California LegislatureSenate Bill 1053: COOL4ED
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18 courses selected with peer-reviewed free or affordable textbooks
Goal:50 courses selected with free or affordable textbooks
150 curated, free or affordable textbooks
450 faculty reviews
Find open or affordable textbooks, and other open educational resources.
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http://tiny.cc/findTextbook
ActivityFind an OER for your course.
Method 1
Use the find tool in COOL4ED to look for:1) Open textbooks or,2) other open educational resources.
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Information provided by the authorsInformation provided by others
http://tiny.cc/findTextbook
ActivityFind an OER for your course.
Method 1Use the find tool in COOL4ED to look for:1) Open textbooks or,2) other open educational resources.
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http://tiny.cc/advancedFind
Select Open Textbook
ActivityFind an OER for your course.
Method 2Use the Advanced Search tool in MERLOT to look for:1) Open textbooks or,2) other open educational resources.
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Mandatory term. It will find all the material that can be used for free
Common terms in the Open Educational Resources
movement
Subject matter in the title or anywhere else Words to refine the search
"creative commons" "open textbook" intitle:microeconomics introduction
textbook microeconomics advanced
oer
eBook
resources
education
Search recommendations: intitle, site, and the use of quotation marksExamples:
“creative commons” “open textbook” intitle:microeconomics “creative commons” “open textbook” microeconomics“creative commons” “open textbook” intitle:microeconomics introduction “creative commons” oer intitle:microeconomics“creative commons” resources intitle:microeconomics “creative commons” education intitle:microeconomics
ActivityFind an OER for your course.
Method 3Use a refined search in Google to look for:1) Open textbooks or,2) other open educational resources.
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Affordable Learning Solutions MyOpenMath
ALS: Open Educational Resources by College OER Commons
BC Campus Open Ed OER Research Hub
Open Textbook Library Open Course Library
California Open Source Textbook Project Open Courseware Consortium
CMU Open Learning Initiative Open Professionals Education Network
College Open Textbooks OpenStax
Connexions OpenTextBookStore
Creative Commons Search Saylor Foundation
Lumen Learning The Orange Grove
Merlot UMN Open Academics
MerlotX Affordable Learning Georgia
Other portals/repositories/directories of Open Educational Resources
ActivityFind an OER for your course.
Method 4Look for an open educational resource by browsing specialized directories/repositories