Open Courses:
Design and Development
Wm Preston Davis, Northern Virginia Community College
Karen Vignare: University of Maryland University College
Kim Thanos, Lumen Learning
Oct 8, 2014, 10:00 am PST

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Agenda
• Introductions
• CCCOER, Open Education Consortium
• Northern Virginia Community College
• University of Maryland University College
• Lumen Learning
• Next webinar is Nov 12, Open Pedagogy
• Questions?

Welcome
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Karen Vignare
Vice Provost
University of Maryland University
College
Wm. Preston Davis
Director, Extended Learning
Institute
N. Virginia Community College
Moderator: Una Daly
Director of Community College Consortium
Open Education Consortium
Kim Thanos
CEO and Co-Founder
Lumen Learning

• Promote adoption of OER to enhance
teaching and learning
–Expanding access to education
–Supporting professional development
–Advancing the community college
mission
CCCOER
Funded by the William & Flora
Hewlett Foundation

250+ Colleges in 18 States
& Provinces

OER-based Course Design &
Development
• Students
• Faculty
• Pedagogy and Outcomes
• Institutional Benefits and Challenges

OER-based General Education
Wm. Preston Davis, EdD
Director, Extended Learning Institute

Open Educational Resources at
NOVA
Wm. Preston Davis, Ed.D. wdavis@nvcc.edu

OER
Open
Course
Ware
Modules
Textbooks
Streaming
Videos
Open
Journals
Tutorials
Learning
Objects

Why are we using OER?
 Increasing Access – Open Educational Resources
allows for all students to have equal access to all
course materials
 Increasing Affordability – Open Educational
Resources are free or very low cost, significantly
reducing educational expenses for students
 Increasing Student Success – Open Educational
Resources are high quality educational materials
available in a variety of engaging formats for all
learners

How is NOVA addressing OER
through ELI?
 Faculty workshops and training on OER
 OER Resource sites for faculty &
students
 Robust collections development
program
 Maximizing digital content delivered
online
 OER-based Certificate program &
Associate Degree tracks open to all

NOVA’s OER-Based General
Education Project at ELI
 Developed 25 OER-based courses to date saving
students over $200,000 in textbook costs per
term.
 Innovative broad-impact Gen Ed approach
benefits more students and creates greater
awareness of OER.
 Helping faculty identify or develop free/OER
materials increases faculty control of course
content and improves teaching and learning
outcomes.
 Makes education more accessible and affordable
for all learners at NOVA and throughout the
VCCS by doing away with the requirement for

Current ELI OER Courses
 English – ENG 111, 112, 125
 College Math – MTH 151, 152
 Science – PHY 201, 202
 History – HIS 121, 122, 262
 Humanities/Fine Arts – ART 101, 102
 Physical/Health Education – PED 116
 Student Development – SDV 100
 Communications – CST 110
 College Statistics – MTH 157
 Information Technology – ITE 115
 Economics – ECO 201, 202
 Humanities/Fine Arts – REL 100, MUS 121
 Social/Behavioral Sciences – PSY 200, SOC 200

Project Resources
 NOVA Faculty were provided small grant
funded stipends to redesign an online course
using OER and free material instead of
traditional textbooks.
 ELI team resources (Librarians, Instructional
Designers) were provided to assist in course
design and development, and with OER
curation.
 NOVA’s Shared Services Distance Learning
(SSDL) Program makes these OER courses
potentially available at 21 community colleges

Faculty Collaboration
Faculty invited to launch ELI’s OER project
were carefully selected based on:
 A history of providing high quality and innovative
instruction;
 A clear understanding and application of sound
course design and online teaching pedagogy;
 Demonstrated knowledge of and/or prior use of
library collections and/or open course content;
 Supporting the project goals of increasing access,
affordability, and student success without
textbooks.

Some Resources used for Implementing OER
 Openstax
 OER Commons
 Saylor.org
 Open Textbook Library
 BC Campus
 College Open Textbooks
 Creative Commons
 Lumen Learning
 Howard Hughes Medical Institute
 Library Collections Materials

Costs of Course Textbooks
 ENG 111: $140
 ENG 112 : $93
 ENG 125: $89
 MTH 151: $263
 PHY 201: $269
 PHY 202: $244
 HIS 121: $109
 HIS 122: $109
 ART 101: $226
 ART 102: $226
 HIS 262: N/A (new course)
 SDV 100: $77
Average cost of Textbooks = $185
 CST 110: $140
 ECO 201: $281.80
 ECO 202: $281.80
 ITE 115: $182.70
 MTH 152: $161.80
 MTH 157: $123.55
 MUS 121: $141.45
 PED 116: $92.85
 PSY 200: $107.15
 REL 100: $138.55
 SOC 200: $114.65
Potential savings of $3600 per student

Outcomes
 These online OER-based courses are more
affordable and accessible to community college
students.
 Students can save thousands of dollars, and all
students have equal access to all course
materials.
 Student Success rates have improved in almost
all OER courses.
 NOVA is participating in the Kaleidoscope Project
and currently working on several campus-based
OER courses to pilot in spring.
 Other VCCS Schools have adopted NOVA’s OER
model.
 NOVA’s OER project received a prestigious
national WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Award.

Questions?
Comments?
wdavis@nvcc.edu
Thank You!

Massive Open Adoption
Resources
Karen Vignare
Vice Provost

UMUC: Massive Open
Adoption Resources
Karen Vignare, Ph.D.
Sharon Brosch
Karen.vignare@umuc.edu

• Pioneer in adult and distance education since 1947
• One of 11 accredited, degree-granting institutions in the
University System of Maryland
• Focus on the unique educational and professional
development needs of adult students
• More than 90,000 students enrolled worldwide
About UMUC

E-Resources Project
Goal:
No cost materials for all students
Maximize use of high quality Open
Education Resources (OER)

OPEN COURSEWARE
• Saylor.org Free Education
• OpenCourseWare Consortium
• MIT Open Courseware
• Open Yale Courses
• National Repository of Online
Courses
• Stanford Online
• Notre Dame OpenCourseWare
E-BOOKS
• College Open Textbooks
• Books 24x7 (subscription)
• Community College Consortium for
Open Educational Resources
• Openstax College
• Project Gutenberg
LEARNING OBJECTS
• MERLOT
• OER Commons
• iLumina
Types of Sources

Web site for Eresource Teams

Targets
• Fall 2014
– 50% of all undergraduate courses have free embedded
electronic resources
– DONE
• Status
– Currently, 538 of 745 (72%) stateside TUS courses
have completed the eResources process.
– By Spring 2015 (December), we should have an
additional 11% complete.
Timeline and Targets

Targets
• Fall 2015
– 100% of undergraduate courses have free e-resources
• Fall 2016
– 100% of graduate courses have free e-resources
Timeline and Targets

Estimated Student Savings
 From eResource implementation of $5 Million
 Calculations based on previous textbook costs
 These savings will be repeated as these
courses are offered throughout the year!
 Working on public facing website for
documentation

Concerns
• Curation of resources is very time consuming
• As UMUC transforms its learning model to a
personalized competency based tools and
tools like adaptive do we have the
right/enough resources
• Can we improve our no cost materials to fully
OER?
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Questions
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karen.vignare@umuc.edu

Lumen Learning Open Courses
Kim Thanos
CEO and Co-Founder

lumen
lumenlearning.com
Lumen Learning
Course Development Process
Kim Thanos, CEO, Lumen Learning
kim.thanos@lumenlearning.com

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Lumen Learning’s mission to improve student
success through the use of open educational
resources and learning analytics.
Create and share high-quality open courseware
using OER (CC-BY license on all development
work)
Provide hosting, services and support to
institutions for a per enrollment fee
Provide unfettered access to students from day 1
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Supported Open Courseware
$5 per enrollment
traditional textbook replacement
Open Mastery Courseware
$40 per enrollment
competency-based, adaptive
LUMEN’S PRODUCTS

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Step 1: Define and map outcomes
SUPPORTED OPEN COURSEWARE

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Step 2: Build Master Course
SUPPORTED OPEN COURSEWARE

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Step 2: Build Master Course
SUPPORTED OPEN COURSEWARE

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Step 2: Build Master Course
SUPPORTED OPEN COURSEWARE

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Step 2: Build Master Course
SUPPORTED OPEN COURSEWARE

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Step 3: Complete Quality Review
SUPPORTED OPEN COURSEWARE

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Step 4: Publish
SUPPORTED OPEN COURSEWARE

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Step 5: Faculty Align, Refine and Adopt
SUPPORTED OPEN COURSEWARE

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Step 5: Faculty Align, Refine and Adopt
SUPPORTED OPEN COURSEWARE

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Supported Open Courses
Design Goals
Provide one click adoption of high-quality open
courses
Empower all faculty archetypes: build, adapt,
adopt
Fully enable ALL 5 R’s (retain, reuse, revise, remix,
redistribute)
Support a data-driven continuous improvement
process for courses and OER
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Open Mastery Courses
Design Goals
Provide a cost-effective, OER solution for
personalized learning
Use a “1 size fits 1” approach to learning, enabled
by derivative works and learning data
Balance learning science-driven design and
faculty need to revise and customize
Generate new OER that can be used outside of
Lumen courseware
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Mastery Learning:
Solve for known pitfalls of competency-based learning
Common Issues
with Competency-
based Learning
• Break down
competencies into
tiny pieces
• Students have
trouble putting the
pieces together
• Mastery of complex,
non-recurrent skills
is elusive
“Holistic” Mastery Learning Course Design
1 Relevance: What this is and why it matters
2 Context: Describing the sub-competencies and individual skills
that comprise the competency
3 Diagnostic: How much do you already know?
4 Pathway: Align educational content with student needs
5 Skill-building: Content, exercises, and interactives that develop
individual recurrent and non-recurrent skills
6 Integration Level 1: Explicit support for putting skills together
into sub-competencies
7 Integration Level 2: Explicit support for putting sub-
competencies together into competencies
8 Summative Assessment: Human-graded artifacts
demonstrating workplace-caliber mastery
Course workflow for each competency:

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Mastery Design: Competency Based
OPEN MASTERY COURSEWARE

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Mastery Design: Relevance
OPEN MASTERY COURSEWARE

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Mastery Design: Diagnostic
OPEN MASTERY COURSEWARE

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Mastery Design: Context
OPEN MASTERY COURSEWARE

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Mastery Design: Synthesis
OPEN MASTERY COURSEWARE

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Questions, interest or feedback?
nate.angell@lumenlearning.com

Next CCCOER Webinar
Wed, Nov 12

Una Daly: unatdaly@oeconsortium.org
Karen Vignare: karen.vignare@umuc.edu
Kim Thanos: kim.thanos@lumenlearning.com
William Preston Davis: wdavis@nvcc.edu
Thank you for coming!
Questions?