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Think Globally, Act Openly:Multiple Approaches to Open

Educational Resources

James Glapa- Grossklag and John Makevich, College of the Canyons,

Una Daly, Open CourseWare Consortium

E-Learning Long Beach, February 20, 2012

Session Overview

Introduction to Open Educational Resources

What are they?

What are the motivations to use OER?

Who is engaging in OER? Examples of OER projects in community colleges

Creating OER Playlists

College Open Textbooks Getting involved in the Open Education

movement

Many Flavors of Open

• Open Educational Resources aka OER• OpenCourseWare aka OCW• Open Textbooks • Open Acces Journals• Open Source (Code)

OER Defined

Digitized 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

Why Practice Openness?

Institutional Mission

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

The Community College Mission

Why Practice Openness?

• Reduce student costs• Collaborate across disciplines• Improve learning• Leverage taxpayer investments

in education• Scale education

Who is engaged in OER?

P2PU

Who is funding OER?

Community CollegeOER Project

OER Playlists at College of the Canyons

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

Why?

Consider this example:– Student spends $200 on a textbook for a course

and $30 on a textbook supplement• SUBTOTAL = $230

– Course• 3 units• Current cost per unit = $36• Cost of course itself = $108

– In this scenario, the textbook and supplement represent more than half of the overall cost of the course!

Our Projects’ Goals

• Accepting that the textbook provides structure and content

1. Focus on creation of supplemental materials and rental of existing texts

2. Develop playlists of academic content to either supplement or replace textbooks

3. Prepare some potential models of content delivery to be prepared for the post-textbook era

Adaptation?

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What is a playlist?

Introductory text, learning outcomes, unit objectives, etc.

Website with text/articles

MediaTransition text

Another website article/text

Transition text

Why consider playlists?

• Open content is already out there• Could playlist development be an easier process

to sustain than textbook development?– A fusion of both playlist and open textbook

approaches?• Fundamentals of the technique are familiar

– Faculty are accustomed to assembling existing content already (think learning units in a course management system)

– We aim to make it a more formal process

Community CollegeOpen Textbook

Online Community

College Open Textbooks

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• Empower Faculty to – Find– Select – Adopt – Share

High quality, accessible open textbooks

Funded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

An open textbook is…

• Modifiable by the instructor– Digital, Modular– Creative Commons

• Low cost to the students– Free online– Printable for free or low cost

paper bound copies ($10-$60)

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Collaborative Model

• Online Community of Practice– 1100 members

• Train-the-trainer Program• 750+ Open Textbook Catalog

– Peer Reviews– Accessibility Reviews

• Open Textbook Adopter communities

Sustainability Adopter Communities

• Small Grants• Increase Adoptions• Encourage Reuse

– Ancillaries

• Collaboration– Faculty and students

• Collect Best Practices & Replicate

Eight Adopter CommunitiesCommunity Faculty Student

sInstitutions

Chemistry 4 190 Community College and University

Educational Psych.

4 100 2 Universities and a College

American Govt. 4 1000 State University

Business Comm.

5 180+ Community College

Physics 2 120+ 6 Community Colleges

Algebra 4 -> 40 1500 Community College

Water Management

2 80+ 6 Community Colleges in Consortium, Water Districts

Indigenous People’s Reader

2 160 Community College

TOTALS: 27 3200+ 4 Universities & 17 Colleges

Community CollegeConsortium for OER

Open Courseware Consortium

Give Community College Voice

• Dr. Martha Kanter, founder– Foothill-De Anza College District, 2007

• Open Courseware merger 2011

Funded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

Why Join theCCCOER-OCW?

• Information: Stay in the loop on

issues in open education.

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

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

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

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CCCOER Priorities 2012

• Grow the Community• Educational Outreach• Online Resources for Faculty

– http://oerconsortium.org

• Conferences & Meet-ups• Research & Grant Opportunities• Partnerships for Sustainability

Help Us Grow CCCOER-OCW

MonthlyEducation Webinars

Month Topic

January 31 Open Math Home Assessment Systems

February 28 Writing Commons: Open Textbook Community

March Fostering OER-friendly policies at your college

April Finding and Selecting high-quality OER

May Open Course Library : Public Speaking

June Peer and Accessibility Reviews of OER

Open Education Week openeducationweek.org

March 5-10, 2012

• Live webinars– worldwide

• Pre-recorded short videos (captions)

• Innovations 2012 Reception– Cathy Casserly, CEO Creative Commons

Open Courseware Consortium

Sustainability of Open Policy• Education is about sharing

– Maximize the investments we are already making on learning resources

• Sharing provides benefits back– Improvements, new partners, translations,

opportunities …

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Invites you toOpen Education Policy

withCable Green

Director of Global Learning Creative Commons

Tuesday, February 21 7:30-8:30 am

Long Beach Westin Grill“no-host breakfast”

Contact informationJames Glapa-Grossklag, DeanEducational Technology, Learning Resources, & Distance LearningCollege of the CanyonsJames.glapa-grossklag@canyons.edu

John MakevichDirector, Distance and Accelerated LearningCollege of the Canyonsjohn.makevich@canyons.edu

Una DalyCommunity College Outreach ManagerOpenCourseWare Consortiumunatdaly@ocwconsortium.org

Community CollegeConsortium forOpen Educational Resources (CCCOER)

Una DalyCommunity College Outreach Manager

OpenCourseWare Consortiumunatdaly@ocwconsortium.org

James Glapa-GrossklagCollege of the Canyons

President, CCCOER Advisory BoardJames.glapa-grossklag@canyons.edu