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Academic Libraries & Open Educational Resources: Developing Partnerships
ALA Annual ConferenceOrlando, FLSaturday, June 25, 2016
Academic Libraries & Open Educational Resources: Developing Partnerships
ACRL Program Evaluation https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ALA16ACRLeval
PanelistsHeather BlicherOnline Learning LibrarianNorthern Virginia Community CollegeExtended Learning Institute
Jeremy SmithDigital Projects Manager in Scholarly CommunicationUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
John ShoppertDirector of Library ServicesColumbia Gorge Community College (OR)
ModeratorRobert KellyCoordinator of Library ServicesHutchinson Community College (KS)
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OER Overview
“Teaching, learning, and research resources that
reside in the public domain or have been released under
an intellectual property license that permits their
free use and re-purposing by others.
-William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Types of Open Educational Resources
What makes OER open? The 5Rs▷ Retain▷ Reuse▷ Revise▷ Remix▷ Redistribute -www.opencontent.org
▷ Free: Free to access online, free to print
▷ Open: Re-use, Revise, Remix, Redistribute
▷ Creative Commons: Free and open allows author to share with others but retain copyright
What is an Open License?
LICENSING OER WORK WITH CREATIVE COMMONS
LICENSING OER WORK WITH CREATIVE COMMONS
Free vs Open Resources
Cost to
Students
Permissions To Teachers & Students
Commercial Textbooks
Expensive Restrictive
Library Resources
Free Restrictive
Open Education
Resources
Free 5Rs
Why OER?
Why OER?
2014 survey of 264 students in OEI classes
Student Choices
2016 survey of 54 students in OEI classes
Student Choices
Seeding the SoilDeveloping Open
Education
Connecting Librarians to OER
Educate yourself
Align your strengths to your contributionsGet involved & educate others
Librarians as:▷ Resource/Guide▷ Researcher▷ Content creator▷ Curator▷ Copyright Go-to
Library OER Guide
AccessOver 10,000 students have completed an OER course
Student Success9% average increase of student success in OER courses
AffordabilityStudents saved $1,500,00 since Fall 2013
Outcomes
▷ Achieving the Dream Grant achievingthedream.org/
▷ OTN Campus Leader Program (VIVA) vivalib.org/
▷ OER-based General Education Certificate Program (online)eli.nvcc.edu/oer/
▷ 2 OER-based Associate of Science degrees (online) eli.nvcc.edu/oer/
▷ Zx23 Project (VCCS)edtech.vccs.edu/z-x-23-project/
▷ zELI Open Degree Pathway (online) lumenlearning.com/partner-nova-zeli/
Seeking SolutionsOpen Education
Initiative
The OEI is a faculty incentive program that encourages
▷The creation of new teaching materials and models
▷The use of existing open (free) information resources
▷The use of library subscription materials
▷The development of open technologies
COLLABORATION ACROSS CAMPUS
Libraries
Teaching Excellence & Faculty Development
Academic Computing
LIBRARY OER WEBSITE
FACULTY SUCCESS STORIES
Carlos Gradil● Animal Sciences 421: Fundamentals of Reproduction● Cost Savings to date: $7,680
Miliann Kang● Women’s Studies 187: Gender, Sexuality and Culture● Cost Savings to date: $8,475
Hossein Pishro-Nik● Electrical and Computer Engineering 314: Introduction
to Probability and Random Processes● Cost Savings to date: $25,833
Faculty Project Types AdoptReplace commercial textbook with open textbook
AdaptCombine existing OER, library resources, and newly created material
CreateCreate entirely new open course materials
GO - Gorge Open
Columbia Gorge Community College
GO - Gorge OpenCommercial Textbook Alternative Program
Columbia Gorge Community CollegeThe Dalles, Oregon
Library as Gateway
▷Resources▷Research ▷Fair use▷Faculty Liaison
“Gate”, John Schoppert is licensed under a CC - BY Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Talk isn’t Cheap, It Takes Time
▷Administration▷Faculty▷Bookstore & Foundation▷Student Government▷Outside Media ▷Listservs -
Oerconsortium.org [email protected]
Build a Brand
Student AssessmentsQ: Would you take another course using open resources?
“I loved that I got to use the articles that we were asked to use, and apply our knowledge creatively.”
CGCC OER course assessment
Build partnerships
OpenOregon.org grants funded -
● Community college collaborations● K12 / CGCC OER development● Oregon OER CC coordinator
Oregon HB2871- “The OER bill”
● $1.1 mil. Grant funding for both 4-year & 2-year institutions
● Oregon OER coordinator● Requires designation of OER
classes in schedule
OpenOregon.org
OER Challenges
OER Challenges
▷Bookstore pushback
▷Time
“Textbook Canyon” by Alan Alfaro is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License.
OER Challenges
▷Lack of awareness
▷Faculty: the second wave
Opening the Curriculum: Open Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2014 is licensed under a CC - BY Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Report available at: http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html.
OER Challenges
▷Lack of central location of OER
▷Funding: sustainability - OER fee?
“veleta* Quijote y Sancho” by Jacinto Iluch Valero is licensed under a CC-BY-SA 2.0 Generic License.
OER Trends
State-wide Initiatives
Zx23 Project (VA)A one-year grant-funded project to support the Virginia Community College System’s goal of creating zero textbook-cost Degrees to be available at all 23 VCCS colleges.
OpenOregon.org▷ Statewide
community college OER program
OR. HB 2781▷ Funds 2-year & 4-
year college’s OER projects
Massachusetts Go Open
OER Trends - Achieving the Dream
OER Trends - K12 OER
● #GoOpen K12 teams will develop a strategy for the implementation of openly-licensed educational materials.
● Commit to replace at least one high school textbook with openly-licensed educational materials in the next year.
● Document and share their implementation process.
OER Trends - Dept of Labor
Advantages to requiring a CC BY license on DOL-funded resources:● Increases the impact, reach and scalability of grants
● Creates conditions for maximum potential value created from of all resources it funds, more efficiency, and better stewardship of public funds
● Public has access to the education resources it funded
● Innovative and entrepreneurial uses of openly licensed materials are enabled
● Resources are available for reuse by anyone
OER Assessment
5 year data at UMass Amherst
Total Savings Over Time By CollegeCollege # of Students per college Savings per college over time
College of Natural Sciences 4,746 $818,168.50
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences 1,248 $155,877.00
College of Humanities & Fine Arts 875 $117,727.00
College of Engineering 739 $133,722.00
College of Education 703 $74,283.00
College of Nursing 117 $15,900.00
Honors College 187 $7,835.00
Stockbridge School of Agriculture 275 $37,058.00
Isenberg School of Management 282 $7,682.25
School of Public Health and Health Sciences 175 $40,779.00
9,347 $1,409,031.75
Material Types
Thanks!Any questions?
Heather [email protected]
Jeremy [email protected]
John [email protected]
Robert Kelly [email protected]
2016 ALA Annual Conference Planning Committee
Chair - Robin Brown, Borough of Manhattan CC, CUNYLisa Eichholtz, Jefferson Comm & Tech CollegeDeborah Farber, Casa Loma CollegeRobert Kelly, Hutchinson CC (KS)Katie Hoskins, Northern Virginia CCStephen Phelan, Maricopa County CC DistTed Chodock, College of Southern NevadaCynthia Wetzel, Pearl River CCMonica Lopez, Cerritos CollegeMaryAnn Niles, Middlesex CCSamantha Hines, Missoula College - University of MontanaAshley McMullin, DePaul University
Academic Libraries & Open Educational Resources: Developing Partnerships
ACRL Program Evaluation https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ALA16ACRLeval
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