community college oer showcases: nova's oer ge program, kaleidoscope at cerritos college, and...

Cynthia Alexander, Cerritos CollegeNatalie Clewell, Northern Virginia Community CollegePaul Golisch, Maricopa Community College District

March 12, 2014

Community College Consortium

OER Innovations Panel

Welcome!!

• Introduction to OER• NOVA’s Extended Learning Institute OER-

based General Education Program.• Kaleidoscope at Cerritos College• Maricopa College District OER Project• OCW-CCCOER Community of Practice• Q & A

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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. cc-by donkyhotey/flickr

adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license

What is an Open License?

• Free: Free to access online, free to print

• Open: Reuse, Revise, Remix, Redistribute

• Creative Commons: less restrictions than standard copyright but author retains full rights.

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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CCCOER Mission

• Promote adoption of OER to enhance teaching and learning

– Expand access to education– Support professional development– Voice for open education at community

colleges.

Funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

240+ Colleges in 16 states & provinces

NOVA’s OER-based General Education Program

Natalie ClewellExtended Learning Institute Librarian

Teamwork:The Foundation of

OERsNatalie Clewell, ELI Librarian

Northern Virginia Community Collegenclewell@nvcc.edu

2013 – Developed and offered 12 OER GenEd courses

2014 – Develop and offer 10 additional OER GenEd Courses.

Create greater awareness of OER at NOVA

NOVA’s OER-Based Project at ELI

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so

much.”- Helen Keller

The OER Team

OER Cours

e

Faculty

Instructional Designer Librarian

Administration

Subject-matter experts

Evaluate OERs for quality/appropriateness

Make final decisions on course content

Faculty

Course design experts

Encourage faculty to consider new learning activities

Ensure course quality

Instructional Designers

Information experts

Identify OERs

Copyright and Creative Commons guidance

Librarian

Organization experts

Acquired funding through grants

Put the pieces together

Administration

Bringing it all together…

ResultsELI OER Course Cost of Materials

before RedesignPotential FA13 Savings

ENG 111 $140 $7,560

ENG 112 $93 $67,797

ENG 125 $89 $2,670

MTH 151 $263 $18,410

PHY 201 $94 $1,880

PHY 202 $94 $1,880

HIS 121 $109 $7,630

HIS 122 $109 $7,630

ART 101 $226 $55, 370

ART 102 $226 $42,714

HIS 262 N/A --

SDV 100 $77 $14,630

TOTAL Fall 2013 OER Pilot Potential Savings $228,171

Questions?

Kaleidoscope Project

Dr. Cynthia AlexanderEducational Technology Professor

Department Chair

Kaleidoscope Project

Phase III

Introduction to Online LearningCerritos College - CaliforniaSpokane Community College - WashingtonCentral Community College - NebraskaMercy College – New York

Two-Day WorkshopCompare Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)Determine contentAssign tasksCreate timeline

All documents shared in Google Docs – course finalized in Canvas

All SLOs AddressedContent is modular

SLO-specificActivities and assessments for each module

Also SLO-specific

Completion TimelineMiddle to end of summerPilot next FallExamination and evaluation Complete at end of Spring 2015

ExperienceBoth exciting and rewardingShare ideas

Increase student involvementMultimediaUse of exclusive CC materials

Examine my own course

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OER District Committee

Paul GolischDean of Information Technology

Adjunct Math Instructor

Co-Chair District OER Committee

We saved our students over

$260,000 in just one year!

“Open Educational Resources allow everyone in class to have all the materials on day one. Many students have to postpone the purchase of the course materials because of financial aid.”

Manuel OrdonezMajor: Business

OER Example: MyOpenMath

myopenmath.com

mathispower4u.com

Library Faculty

The 4 Rs of OER

• Presentations/Dialogue Days• Internal OER Course Grants• Department Meetings• “Water Cooler” Discussions• Promotional Items• CTLs• College Libraries

http://www.skmurphy.com/startup-stages/scaling-up-stage/

Creating OER Awareness and Increasing Adoption

Maricopa MillionsOER Course Development

Phase 1 (Spring 2014)• English 101• English 102• Reading 091 (Dev Ed)

Phase 2 (Summer 2014)• TBD• Proposals due end

of March

$100 per student

Fall 2013:

1. Surveyed faculty

2. Ran SIS reports

Future:

1. Filter in SIS

2. “OER” in SIS notes

20 students per class

www.maricopa.edu/oer

Community College Consortium for OER

Una DalyCommunity College DirectorOpenCourseWare Consortium

James Glapa-GrossklagDean, College of the CanyonsPresident, CCCOER Advisory

• Find & Adopt open textbook workshops• Understanding open licenses• Open textbook development workflow• Online accessibility• Faculty and student surveys• Access to community of

OER practitioners & experts

Need Help Getting Started?We can help …

Spring Webinars (Wed, 11:00 PT, 3:00 ET)

• 2/5 - Open Textbook and Adoptions• 3/12 - Community College OER Projects

• 4/9 – OER Impact Research Findings

• 5/14 - Intellectual Property: Open Licensing, Trademarks, Patents, etc.

Join our Advisory Group to be notified of upcoming events and participate in our monthly OER chat.

Cynthia Alexander: calexander@cerritos.edu

Natalie Clewell nclewell@nvcc.edu

Paul Golisch: paul.golisch@paradisevalley.edu

Una Daly: unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org

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

Thank you for coming!!

Questions for Panelists

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