Cynthia Alexander, Cerritos CollegeKatie Datko, Pasadena City College

James Glapa-Grossklag, College of the CanyonsDr. Barbara Illowsky, De Anza College & CCCCO

Una Daly, OpenCourseWare Consortium

Opening up Learning:

Open Textbooks, Open Online Courses,

OER Repositories

Community College OER Panel

Welcome fromCommunity College Consortium

for OER

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Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director

OCW Consortium

James Glapa-GrossklageDean, College of the Canyons

President CCCOER Advisory Board

Agenda

• Community College Consortium• Pasadena City College, Integrating

OER • College of the Canyons OER Projects• Cerritos College Kaleidoscope Project• Chancellor’s Office and Open Textbooks

at De Anza College • Q & A

What are Open Educational Resources?

U.S. Dept. of Education

– 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 or repurposing by others.

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adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license

Examples

Includes –

• Course materials• Lesson Plans• Modules or lessons• OpenCourseWare (OCW)• Open textbooks• Videos• Images• Tests• Software• Any other tools, materials, or techniques used

to support ready access to knowledge

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Community College Consortium

for OER

Dr. Martha Kanter

U.S. Undersecretary of Education

• Founded at Foothill-De Anza College District in 2007

• Joined OCW Consortium 2011

• Growth to 200+ colleges in North America

Funded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

CCCOER Mission

• Promote adoption of OER to enhance teaching and learning

– Expand access to education– Support professional development– Advance community college mission

Funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

200+ Community & Technical Colleges12 States & 1 Province

Integrating OER from the Ground up

Katie DatkoInstructional Designer

Faculty Development

CHALLENGES OF OER INTEGRATION

Katie DatkoPasadena City College

PCC DISTANCE EDUCATION COURSES

Developed by individual faculty

Often ‘stand-alone’ courses (not a pathway or degree)

Reliant on publisher content Perception: ease of use (‘plug-

and-play’) Fully built for online

environment Free for faculty but little

awareness of total additional cost to student

Previously DE courses were:

PCC DISTANCE EDUCATION COURSES

Developed with DE Department

Pathway or degree programs

Faculty training options: 4 @One courses Semester-long in-house Institute (cohort model) Facilitator training (cohort model)

PCC retains rights to content Goal Make available under Creative Commons

license

‘Model’ DE Courses

CHALLENGES TO USING OER @ PCC

Limited exposure to and understanding of OER

Perception of what constitutes ‘academic’ text

No campus-wide plan/policy for OER adoption

BEGINNING STEPS…1. Vet, review & compile OER resources for faculty (

http://online.pasadena.edu/faculty/coursecontent/)

2. ‘De-incentivize’ use of Publisher Packs Model Courses being developed for the College can only use

a limited percentage of ePublisher Content

3. Require the integration of original instructor-content, PCC library-supported materials and/or OER in Model Courses (SB 1052: California Open Education Resources Council; SB 1053: California Digital Open Source Library)

4. Actively network with the OER Community & participate in awareness-raising activities across campus such as Open Education Week

FUTURE PLANS/GOALS

Showcase faculty currently using OER or developing openly licensed content

Use shared governance to create recommendations for OER adoption Ideal: Textbook Zero model for online/hybrid PCC GE

Pathway courses Real: Supplemental course content is OER

Work with key stakeholders to develop comprehensive plan for College-wide OER adoption

Presentation Images: Guilia Forsythe

OER at College of Canyons

James Glapa-GrossklagDean, Distance Learning

OCWC Board Member

President of CCCOER Advisory Board

• Playlists• Open Textbooks• Local repository

OER Playlists

We gratefully acknowledge the support of a U.S. Department of Education FIPSE (Fund for Improvement of Post Secondary Education) Special Focus grant

What is a Playlist?

Introductory text, learning

outcomes, unit objectives, etc.

Website with

text/articles

MediaTransition text

Another website

article/text

Transition text

Open Textbooks

• Water Technology• Sociology• Statistics

115 classes = $400,000 student savings per year

Local Repository

• 0 520 objects in 3 years• Pros• Cons

Lessons Learned

Kaleidoscope Project

Dr. Cynthia AlexanderEducational Technology Professor

Department Chair

Cerritos College Involvement with Kaleidoscope Project

Open Content

The Kaleidoscope Project commits to use only open educational resources (OER) in its course

designs.

Project Goals

• Eliminate textbook costs as an obstacle to student success

• Increase student success through assessment-driven enhancement of an OER curriculum that addresses at-risk students’ learning needs

• Create a community that will collaboratively evaluate and improve open course designs based on student learning results

Faculty Deliverables

• Outcome-centered course designs

• With common assessments

• Deliver, analyze, improve, share

• Using best of existing OER

Phase I

• Pilot Fall 2011/Enhancements implemented Spring 2012– Cerritos – Writing, Business Management, Geography (Adopt-

Reading)– Chadron – Reading, Writing, English Comp (Adopt - Chemistry and

Geography)– Mercy – Reading (Adopt - Math and Writing)– Palo Verde – Business Management, Geography (Adopt –

Engineering)– Santa Ana – English Comp– Santiago College – Math, Biology– College of the Redwoods – Reading, Math, Chemistry, Biology,

Psychology– Tomkins Cortland – Math, Biology, Psychology

Business

Biology

Geography

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Inter Algebra

Psychology

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Student Success Results

Historical Success Fall 2011 Spring 2012

+14%+16%

+49% +164% +33%

+95%

+35%

Course Availability

• Courses developed – fully OER• Available to everyone• http://www.project-kaleidoscope.org/courses

/

Phase II

• 20 additional courses (25 including math sequence courses)– History– Fine Arts– Earth Science– English Composition– Economics– Teaching– Computer Science

California OER Initiatives

Dr. Barbara IllowskyMath Instructor and open textbook co-author

CCCCO Basic Skills & OER

California Open Textbook Laws (2012)

Joint responsibility:

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Open Educational Resources Council (SB 1052)

• Establish the California Open Education Resources Council under ICAS

• Determine list of 50 lower division courses

• Establish a competitive request-for-proposal process

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Digital Open Source Library (SB 1053)

Creates the California Digital Open Source Library to serve as a statewide repository for high-quality digital open source textbooks and related materials

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1053

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OER Enhances Academic Freedom

• Provides faculty with more choices for their courses

• Allows for permission-free editing and adaptation

• Promotes customization• Eliminates forced revisions

OER: Saves $$$

Amazon $171.25 hardcopy Web - $0POD - $26.20 + SH

Wiley & Sons Connexions

De Anza College student savings…

One course, one OER text, one college*:

Estimated student savings of over

$1,000,000

• Elementary Statistics using Collaborative Statistics at

De Anza College since 2008-09 academic year

Return on Investment• Cost savings to students• Provides faculty with opportunities to share

and remix learning content for customized and localized use • Supports low-cost crowd-sourcing of content

translation to other languages

• Fast feedback loop on quality and relevance of learning content • Supports continual and improvement and rapid

development • Supports greater diversity of peer reviewers

Opportunities for Teachers and Learners - Use

Tailored content

Students and teachers as co-creators of knowledge

Enhanced engagement and interaction with materials

Increased student-student, teacher-teacher, and teacher-student communication around curriculum

Navigate and view content with ease

Modify, mix and remix content to meet individual and classroom needs

Communicate with peers around content

Join workgroups with peers around content

Join Community Colleges at OCW Consortium

• Information: Stay in the loop on issues in open education.

• Collaboration: Participate in community, attend webinars, join our advisory board.

• Collective Visibility: Gain global exposure through OCWC’s website and shared media

• Direction: Provide direct input to OCWC’s focus on community colleges.

Stay in the Loop

• Upcoming Conferences- Open Education Conference (Nov 6-8)

• CCCOER Advisory group meets monthly– http://oerconsortium.org

• Monthly Free PD Webinars– Archived for later viewing

Questions and Comments

Contact Information Una Daly, unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org

James Glapa-Grossklag, James.Glapa-Grossklag@canyons.edu

Barbara Illowsky, illowskybarbara@deanza.edu

Katie Datko, cadatko@pasadena.edu

Cynthia Alexander, calexander@Cerritos.edu