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Why Should You Care about

Open Educational Resources

Una T. Daly, Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources

April 1, 2016

Welcome

Una Daly, CCCOER DirectorInstructional Design @One

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250+ Colleges in 21 States and Provinces

http://oerconsortium.org

What courses do you teach?

Open Educational ResourcesOpenly licensed learning materials that can be used for

teaching, learning, & assessment without cost. They can be modified and redistributed without violating copyright law.

U.S. Department of Ed, Office of Ed Technology

Exercise Your Rights: The 5 Rs

Student Learning

Faculty Choice

Taxpayer Cost

Funding Now Available

California Textbook Affordability Act 2015

• Incentive grants to CCC and CSU to accelerate adoption of OER to save students money.

• Follow-on from SB 1052, 1053– California OER Council– California Open Online Library

(COOL4Ed)

Top 50 College Courses

• English Composition, Literature• Elementary Spanish

http://cool4ed.org

What textbooks do you use?

eTextbook Reviews

http://cool4ed.org

CID ENGL 105( MJC103)

http://cool4ed.org

SPAN 100

http://cool4ed.org

Open Course Resource Guides

• English Composition I & II• Pre-college English• English Literature• English as a Second Language

OER Adoption Incentive Program (AB 798)

• Apply for $10,000 -$50,000 by June 30

• Bonus grants in 2018 to grantees if they met their saving goals and $$$ remain.

AB 798 Request for Proposal, Templates, Toolkits, etc.

http://cool4ed.org

Let’s Do the Math• $3 Million Dollars is available

– up to 100 applications will be accepted.– Average grant award: $30,000

• 113 colleges + 23 CSU = (136) campuses

• Chances of being selected are VERY GOOD if minimum requirements met.

Minimum requirements• Local academic senate OER resolution.• Faculty plan to adopt OER or low cost

materials in at least 10 course sections, saving students at least 30%

• Identify campus coordinator, professional development plan, distribution for print

• Complete budget expenditures plan

http://cool4ed.org

• Access to high-quality OER

• Faculty choice & development

• Student success

Community College Consortiumfor OER (CCCOER)

http://oerconsortium.org

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Free Webinars Spring 2016• April 23: NOBA OER Psychology

• May 11: Faculty Perspectives on OER

• May 18: Authoring Platforms for OER

• June 8: Open Pedagogy

Join our Community

• Access to a community of OER experts• Online advisory email list• Collaboration opportunities: grants,

conferences• OER Professional development services

Email: cccoer@oeconsortium.orgTwitter: @unatdaly, @cccoerhttp://oerconsortium.org