Cultivating an OER PathwayA College-Wide Collaborative Approach

Annie Knight and Cherylee KushidaSanta Ana College

Presentation Overview

● Campus service population and

demographics

● SAC’s OER history

● OER initiatives and cultivation

● Campus partnerships and key

players

● Benefits to new faculty

● Looking ahead“The renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry” is licensed under CCBY2.0

• Located in Southern California, Orange County

• Fall 2014 Credit Headcount, 18,491

• Ethnically diverse

• Celebrating our Centennial in Fall 2015!

OER at SAC

• Began OER in Fall 2011

• Kaleidoscope Project

• Gates Next Generation

• Seedling approach

•Growing into targeted courses

• Expect to have an OER Pathway soon

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Cultivating OER

• Partnered with Lumen Learning• Jump start for OER

• Created “template course”

• Funding for development and sharing (Student Equity)

• Planned for OER Librarian

• Planning Pathways

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OER Cultivation cont.• Formed faculty OER workgroup

• Working with “open” faculty

• Continued Professional development

• Support of Librarian for OER

• Identify OER courses on schedule course search

• Tracking data on courses and student savings

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OER at SAC

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faculty usage

Student OER comments:

• “The open textbook is much easier to access, instead of being carried to classes its just by a click away that we can use the textbook. “

• “I would like an actual textbook to hold on to rather than the online resource. I find it to be much easier to have. “

• “… it was easy for me to read it on my phone because I always have it with me, plus I would read it in my free time and carrying the book could be hard for me as I always use the bus as transportation. “

OER Librarian - Background and Roles● Campus OA advocate

● Developing and teaching OA

pedagogy for undergraduate

information literacy course

● Assisting faculty with locating OER

materials for their courses

● Maintaining an OER LibGuide for

faculty

● Collaboratively teaching faculty

development workshops on OER

● Possibly playing a greater role in

instructional integration of OER OER Libguide: http://libguides.sac.edu/oer_resources

OER Librarian Collaboration with Lumen Learning

● OER - SLO mapping for core courses:

OER Faculty Work Group

● Academic Senate Work Group

● Members include faculty across

the disciplines with varying

experience and interest in OER

implementation

● Develop OER standards,

guidelines, and best practices

for faculty that align with

institutional and matriculation

curricular requirements

Sample questions from an OER FAQ document currently being produced by the OER Faculty Work Group (in progress)

Helping New Faculty Blossom

● Finding community and mentorship

within a unique group of colleagues

● Establishing good OER habits from the

start

● Learning to be a better advocate for

students

● Contributing to the OER zeitgeist (by

adopting, adapting, and/or authoring

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Contact Information

● Cherylee KushidaDistance Education Coordinator and Professor, Santa Ana College

kushida_cherylee@sac.edu

● Annie KnightLibrarian and Professor, Santa Ana College

knight_annie@sac.edu