A panel of Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) members will share how they are adopting OER for degree pathways, certificates, and courses at their colleges. CCCOER was founded in 2007 and now composes over 250 colleges in 21 states and provinces. Members collaborate online regularly at monthly webinars and advisory meetings and in-person at conferences on best practices for OER adoption. This cross-institutional sharing of open educational resources, open practices, open policies, and open research provides a powerful OER advocacy network for community colleges. New members have immediate access to online resources and a community of OER practitioners and experts who can help them launch their projects more efficiently and quickly. Meetups at regional and national conferences provide an opportunity to share and promote successful OER adoption strategies of our members with colleagues in higher education. Audience participation will be welcomed. Our eLearning Panel will be moderated by Una Daly, CCCOER Director and our panelists include: • James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources and Distance Learning College of the Canyons • Dana Hester, EdD, Dean, Social and Behavioral Sciences & Distance Education, Citrus College • Elliot Jones, PhD, Music Professor and Open Textbook Author, Santa Ana College

1. Adopting OER for Degree
Pathways, Certificates, and
Courses
Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0
Dana Hester, Citrus College
Elliott Jones, Santa Ana College
James Glapa-Grossklag, College of the Canyons
Una Daly, Open Education Consortium
June 16, 2016

2. Welcome
•
Dana Hester, EdD
Dean, Social and
Behavioral Sciences &
Distance Education
Citrus College
Elliott Jones, DMA
Music Professor
Director of Choral Music
Santa Ana College
James Glapa-Grossklag
Dean, Educational Tech,
Learning Resources, and
Distance Learning
College of the Canyons

3. • Expand awareness of quality
open resources
• Support faculty choice
and innovation
• Improve student success
Community College Consortium
for OER (CCCOER)
http://oerconsortium.org
Come In, We're Open gary simmons
cc-by-nc-sa flickr

4. 250+ Colleges in 21 States
& Provinces
California
Community
College
Chancellor’s
Office

5. Collaboration Opportunities
• Monthly webinars
• Monthly advisory meetings
• Meetups and panels at conferences
• Mentoring, research, resource
sharing, and grants
Image: Open Access Good Practice by JISC, CC-BY-NC-SA

6. Open Educational Resources
“Openly licensed learning materials that can be used for
teaching, learning, & assessment without cost. They can
be modified and redistributed without violating copyright.”
Office of Educational Technology, Dept of Education

7. California Textbook
Affordability Act 2015
• Incentive college grants to accelerate
adoption of OER to save students money.
• Follow-on from SB 1052, 1053
– California OER Council
– California Open Online Library (COOL4Ed)

8. OER Degrees:
Zero-Textbook Cost
• OER replaces expensive textbooks
for each course in a degree program
• Observed results:
– Student savings
– Faculty engagement
– Retention and outcomes improvement
• Research and case studies growing

9. OER-based Degrees
"High Impact OER Adoption:" by David Wiley, Lumen Learning

10. OER-based Degrees
"High Impact OER Adoption:" by David Wiley, Lumen Learning

11. "High Impact OER Adoption:" by David Wiley, Lumen Learning

13. "High Impact OER Adoption:" by David Wiley, Lumen Learning

16. OER Adoption at Citrus College
Dana Hester, EdD
Dean, Social and Behavioral Sciences & Distance
Education

17. OER – TAKING FLIGHT
Citrus College
Dr. Dana Hester, Dean, Social & Behavioral
Sciences and Distance Education

18. Getting Buy-In
• DE Committee – discussion and agreement to
have pilots
• Discussion with Bookstore and Print shop
managers
• Academic Senate
• Associated Students

19. Moving Beyond DE Courses
• Providing OER links and encouraging exploration
• English and math are working well
• Humanities and Sociology are still exploring
resources
• One faculty created an OER textbook and
materials for an Admin. of Justice class
(traditional) – students love it!

20. Next Steps
• Continue discussions with Academic Senate and
Associated Students
• Provide professional development to review texts
and materials together – interdisciplinary
• Document and share adoption process

21. Santa Ana’s OER Journey
Elliott Jones, DMA
Music Professor
Director of Choral Music

22. • Located in Southern
California, Orange
County
• Fall 2015 Credit
Headcount, 16,612
• Ethnically diverse
• Celebrated our
Centennial this year!

23. OER at SAC
• Began OER in Fall 2011
• Kaleidoscope Project (Gates Next
Generation grant)
• Seedling approach
• Growing into targeted courses
• Expect to have an OER Degree
Pathway soon
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“Germinated seedling.jpg” by Dbxsoul is licensed under CC-BY-3.0

24. What’s Working
• Partnering with Lumen
Learning
• Jump start for OER
• OER Librarian
• Create “template course” for
department sharing
• Funds for development and
sharing
24
“20070212 tomato seedlings” by Jennifer is licensed under CC BY 2.0

25. MUS 101
25

26. MUS101
• Increased academic freedom and flexibility
• Subject based instead of textbook based
• Course materials built around SLO’s
• Material available from day one
• Obvious financial benefit to students
• Adoption of OER Music 101 materials by most of
the department faculty
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27. What’s Working cont.
• Formed faculty OER workgroup
• Discussions with Curriculum
Committee
• Continued Professional
development on OER
• Identify OER courses on schedule
course search
• Tracking data on courses and
student savings
27

28. 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. “

29. SANTAANA COLLEGE
Elliott Jones
Music Faculty
Director of Choral Music
jones_elliott@sac.edu

30. Launching an OER Initiative
James Glapa-Grossklag
Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and
Distance Learning
President of the Board, Open Education Consortium
@JGlapaGrossklag

31. "Remote Marathon" by Marines is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

32. Leadership & Vision
"Vision" by Mélanie Plante is licensed under CC BY 2.0

33. Project Goal(s)
• Lower student
costs?
• Increase faculty
collaboration?
• Reach a total cost
savings number?
• Improve learning?
" Project 365 #237: 250809 Fingers Crossed!"
by pete is licensed under CC BY 2.0

34. Top barriers to achieving
educational goals?
Costs of enrollment and fees
52%
Work pressures
60%
Costs of books and supplies
75%
"Do Not Enter sign (Mexico).svg" by Fry1989 is licensed
under CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: 5th Annual Student Survey of Online Classes Spring 2012 Report #271

35. ASSOCIATED STUDENT GOVERNMENT
A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF OPEN TEXTBOOKS
WHEREAS, the cost of college textbooks is a prominent affordability issue for
students who take on additional loan debt to pay for textbooks, or, undercut their
own learning by forgoing the purchase of textbooks; and
WHEREAS, open textbooks offer an affordable, comparable and flexible alternative to
expensive, commercial textbooks; and
WHEREAS, it is the prerogative of faculty to select the course materials that are most
appropriate for a class; and
WHEREAS, it is appropriate to seek and consider low-and no-cost options, including
open textbooks, as long as there is no reduction in educational quality; and
WHEREAS, students have a concern about textbook affordability and its impact on
student success; and

36. Access to textbook
on first day
Free online, low-cost
print option
Faculty control
How to Provide?

37. Source: LEAP survey of College of the Canyons faculty, May 2015
COC
faculty
say

38. COC Academic Senate OER Resolution
Whereas, The significant rise in costs of textbooks is a barrier to college
attendance, student access, and student success;
Whereas, Many colleges are interested in reducing the cost of textbooks to
increase student access to necessary course materials; and
Whereas, Individual faculty have the Academic Freedom and choice to
select instructional materials that may include the adoption of lower cost,
high-quality, open educational resources (OER);
Resolved, That the Academic Senate of College of the Canyons supports
efforts to increase student access to high-quality open educational resources
and reduce the cost of textbooks and supplies for students in course sections
for which faculty choose to adopt open educational resources to promote
student learning and to reduce the cost barriers for students.
Resolved, That faculty will maintain the option to choose their own course
materials, and to select open educational resources or not.

39. Open Textbooks @ COC
Spring 2016 Fall 2016
SOC 5 courses
HIST 4 courses
MATH 3 courses
WATER 2 courses
BIO 1 course
BUS 1 course
ENGL 1 course
MATH +2 courses
CHEM 2 courses
COUNS 1 course
Under review
+ENGL
COMS
HEALTH
PHOTO

40. OER degree pathway
aka
Zero Textbook Cost degree
aka
ZTC@COC:
Sociology ADT

41. ZTC@COC Steps to Date
 LEAP business plan
 Opening Day presentation
 Governor’s Office meeting
 Secured local funding
 Identified initial degree pathway as SOC
 Hired college assistant for faculty
support
 Updated Bookstore Committee
 Requested evaluation plan
 Issued call for participation to faculty
 Formed OER advisory committee
 Presented to:
• Board of Trustees
• Opening Day
• Academic Senate
• College Planning Team
• Ed Tech Committee
• Joint meeting of BOT & ASG
• Full Cabinet
• Technology Committee
 Communicate with Bookstore
"Steps, Canal Road, Armley" by Tim Green is
licensed under CC BY 2.0

42. ZTC@COC Next Steps
 Publicize ASG OER resolution
 Publicize Academic Senate OER resolution
 Continue informational workshops
 Renew faculty survey
 Submit grant applications
• CSU OER funding – June 2016
• CCC ZTC funding – Fall 2016?
 Solicit faculty participation
• SOC ADT IGETC Pathway
• GE courses that are on high Hispanic serving list
 Provide faculty development opportunities
• Reading apprenticeship training
• Conference attendance
• External trainers
• Faculty Inquiry Groups
 Identify OER sections in class schedule (FA 16)
 Evaluate adoptions

43. Practice Openness
Do you:
• Share with colleagues?
• Openly license teaching
materials?
• Publish in open access
journals?
• Recognize OER as legitimate
scholarly work?
• Help students to gain digital
literacy?
"Mirror" by Yasunari Nakamura is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

44. "Berlin Marathon" by akiwitz is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Persistence

45. Join the Community
• Access to a community of OER experts
• Online advisory email list
• Professional development
• Collaboration opportunities
• Online Resources
Twitter : @unatdaly, @cccoer
http://www.slideshare.net/UnaDaly/
http://oerconsortium.org

46. Thank you for joining us!
Questions?
Contact Info:
Una Daly: unatdaly@oeconsortium.org
Dana Hester: DHester@citruscollege.edu
Elliott Jones: Jones_Elliott@sac.edu
James Glapa-Grossklag: James.Glapa-Grossklag@canyons.edu