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Kaleidoscope Math CourseDevelopment Workshop

David LippmanMath Lead & MyOpenMath Founder

Ronda NeugebauerStudent Success Lead



Education is Sharing


Ideas are Nonrivalrous

Physical expressions are not


Expressions Are Different

• To give a book you must give it away


When expressions are digital

They become nonrivalrous


Unprecedented Capacity

to share as never before


Except we can’t


What the Internet Enables

Copyright Forbids


Use copyright to enforce sharing


OER: The 4R PermissionsSharing and creativity are inherent in OER:

•Use the content in its unaltered formReuse•Adapt, adjust, modify, improve, or alter the contentRevise•Combine the original or revised content with other OER to create something newRemix•Share copies of the original content, revisions or remixes with othersRedistribute


Open ≠ Digital

Open ≠ Free

OPEN

DIGITALFREE


“Open”

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Textbooks

Open Courses


Open Source Software

Free as in “free beer”

Free as in “free speech”

Collaboration


The Promise of Open


From http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/12/the-college-textbook-bubble-and-how-the-open-educational-resources-movement-is-going-up-against-the-textbook-cartel/


The Direct Relationship Between Textbook Costs and Student Success

60%+ do not purchase textbooks at some point due to cost

35% take fewer courses due to textbook cost

31% choose not to register for a course due to textbook cost

23% regularly go without textbooks due to cost

14% have dropped a course due to textbook cost

10% have withdrawn from a course due to textbook cost

Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus


Food Machine

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Learning Machine


Why Open (not cost)

Copy = no broken linksCopy = no surprise changes

Open = right to make changes


In Education

Free of costImproved access

CustomizationQuality improvement

Collaboration


Examples of OEROpen textbooks

WorkbooksHandouts

WorksheetsActivities

Videosetc.


Open Courseware

SyllabusReading assignments

Sometimes videos / notesHomework assignments

Assessments


OER to Improve Student Success

1. Eliminate textbook cost as a barrier2. Drive assessment-driven enhancement of

course designs and materials3. Connect to a global collaborative community

to share learning and investment


Students Use OER and

Assessments

Improve OER + Assessment

Design

Assessment and

Behavioral Student

Data

Determine OER

Effectiveness

Predict and Intervene with

At-Risk Students

ImprovOER Continuous Improvement


Kaleidoscope Project


Existing OER

Open Course LibraryIndividual faculty efforts

District efforts (ex: Maricopa)Grant-funded efforts


Open LicensesCreative Commons


Considerations

Role and purpose of text materials

Approach

Suitability to your outcomes


Considerations

License Freedoms

Printability

Practical Remixability


ArithmeticScottsdale CC Workbook + Minilessons- Workbook aligned with video mini-lessons- MyOpenMath assignments

NROC Text, original version- Text, some videos

NROC Text, as remixed by David- Text and daily handouts/worksheets- MyOpenMath assignments with embedded videos


Course is set up as 12 Lessons


Workbook with Minilesson


Homework, some with videos


Five units, multiple sections per unit


eText


Printable handout and worksheet


Homework, most with videosMix of Sousa and Khan


Pre-Algebra

College of Redwoods, course built by James Sousa- Text. Creators are not willing to provide source.- MyOpenMath assignments with embedded videos

and addition video lessons


Beginning and Intermediate Algebra

Wallace course (also Kaleidoscope phase 1)- Very skills-focused approach- Video lessons with connected questions, separate

practice assignments

Sousa / CK12 courses- Somewhat more conceptual text- Overview videos and videos embedded in

MyOpenMath homework


Precalc / College Algebra / TrigLippman/Rasmussen Text- Text, worksheets/handouts, instructors notes, sample

assessments- MyOpenMath assignments with embedded videos- More contextually motivated approach. - Covers minimal topics currently.

Stitz/Zeager Text- Text that covers more topics. More mathy approach.- MyOpenMath assignments in-development

UW Text: Good source of multi-step problems


Open Textbook


Day by Day guide showing suggested lecture pace, and how handouts, activities, and assessments fit in the course structure


Lecture outlines, with examples


Online algorithmically generated homework for each section, in addition to book homework


Many have video help, thanks to James Sousa


Stitz-Zeager


Calculus

Guichard (Whitman)- More mathy approach

Hoffman- More conceptual approach- MyOpenMath assignments and a prettier formatting are

in development

Both- Existing MyOpenMath materials aligned with commercial

texts. Some video embedded questions.


Guichard


Hoffman


Hoffman, reformatted


Business Calculus

Calaway / Hoffman- Remix of Hoffman’s book, additional written

homework assignments- Limited MyOpenMath assignments- Existing MyOpenMath materials aligned with

commercial texts.


Quantitative Reasoning

Math in Society- Topics approach, similar to Tannenbaum & COMAP- Video playlists for each chapter- MyOpenMath exercises, quizzes, writing

assignments- Some in-class activities, quizzes


Book Topics• Problem Solving / Quantitative Reasoning• Voting Theory• Weighted Voting• Apportionment• Fair Division• Graph Theory• Scheduling• Growth Models


Book Topics• Finance• Statistics (collecting and descriptive stats)• Probability• Sets• Historical Counting• Fractals• Cryptography


Text


Video playlist for each chapter


Online and paper exercises


Statistics

OLI- Well researched and tested- Conceptual focus- Embedded interactive questions in text; online only- Requires using OLI’s platform - may have a $25 cost- Supplemental MyOpenMath materials


Statistics

Collaborative Stats (Connexions)- Traditional ordering and approach. Very lacking in

conceptual development.

OpenIntro- Straightforward approach. Reasonable conceptual

development. Some odd choices (e.g. using z for means test when n>30 even when sigma unknown)

Onlinestatbook (Rice)- Very good conceptual development. Video presentations.

No proportions tests. Light on examples.


Other Resources

MathIsPower4USaylor.orgOpenCourseWare ConsortiumCurrikiMerlot