OER and Beyond: Reducing Costs, Transforming Teaching

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#GoOpenHCC@actualham

Presentation CCBY Robin DeRosaImages CC0 Alan Levine

How Open Education Can Work for HCC

• Drive down the overall cost of college for students

• Improve throughputs and student success• Increase student engagement• Connect students with their fields, professions,

and communities• Reinvigorate faculty engagement with teaching• Build collaboratives with other public colleges

and universities• Build a case for public funding of higher

education

Book Costs Move Off the Charts

• 56% of students pay more than $300 per semester

• 20% pay more than $500 per semester (that’s equal to 56% of tuition at HCC!)

• Students worry more about paying for books than they worry about paying for college.

Effects of Textbook Prices• 67% did not purchase

a required textbook• 38% earned a poor grade• 20% failed a course• 48% occasionally or

frequently took fewer courses

• 26% dropped a course• 21% withdrew from a course

2016 Survey of 22,000 students, Florida Virtual Campus, comprised of the

12 universities and 28 colleges in the Florida state system.

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Student Success“students who use OER perform significantly better on the course throughput rate than their peers who use traditional textbooks, in both face-to-face and online courses that use OER.” (2016)

Throughput Ratean aggregate of:drop rates, withdrawal rates, C or better rates.

Tidewater Community College

Quality“The classes with traditional published textbooks I study and memorize to pass tests. In this class I have a greater appreciation for the things I learned because I actually experienced the material and lesson as opposed to simply passing a test. This knowledge will last a lifetime.”

Tidewater Community College (2015 Report)

OER Open Pedagogy

Tidewater Community College (2015 Report)

Where I Began

Collaboratively Built: Alums, Incoming Students, Professor

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Interactive and Public Annotation

An Open “Textbook”Can Be:• Interactive• Collaborative• Dialogic• Dynamic• Empowering• Contributory• Current• Accessible• Multimedia• Public• (Free)

Open Pedagogy•Improves access to education.

•Treats education as a learner-driven process.

•Stresses community and collaboration over content.

•Connects the college to the wider public.

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Access, broadly writ.digital divide & redlining, accessibility, online safety &

harassment,

Student-Centered Learner-Driven

Content ≠ King• Rhizomes• Networks• Communities• Collaborations

PublicBlogs, PLNs,

ePorts

• @gardnercampbell

• @anrikard• @audreywatter

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Personal

Reflective Portfolio

Portal for sharing and

collaborating

to OPEN (vb.)

• Challenge barriers to access. Be honest and critical.

• Center learners. Be radical and real.

• Facilitate connection. Be a sticky node, not a gate.

• Share your practice. Be generous and just.

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Current

Partnerships

• First Movers:

Maricopa Millions ($7.5 in 4

years), The Tidewater Z-Degree

• #GoOpen: Dep’t of Ed.

• Mass #GoOpen:

$1 million+ in 2017-18

• Achieving the Dream

• CCCOER

• 2 + 2 Agreements

(UMASS Amherst)

Public Higher Education

We can’t save public higher education by privatizing it.

Instead, let’s focus on access, on connected learning, and on sharing our resources.

Instead of competitors and comparators, we will build a network of collaborators.

Open Education offers us real strategies to increase student success and empowerment, engage learners with the world outside the college walls, and invite the public to share in the knowledge commons.

Afternoon Workshop

Tools/Techniques• Annotating Readings

with Hypothes.is• Building ePorts with

Domain of One’s Own• Building Personal

Learning Networks with Twitter

• Creating Open Textbooks with PressBooks

• “Opening” your syllabus

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