Lisa Young, Faculty Director, Teaching and Learning Center Sian Proctor, Geology & Sustainability, Faculty Paul Golisch, Dean & CIO, Adjunct Math Faculty

1. Maricopa Millions OER Project
Lisa Young
Faculty Director,
Teaching and
Learning Center
Paul Golisch
Dean & CIO
Adjunct Math Faculty
Sian Proctor
Geology &
Sustainability
Faculty

2. Where is Maricopa County?
Phoenix,
Arizona

3. Maricopa Millions Overview
Click here to see one minute video
overview

4. Genesis of the Maricopa OER
Project
sccmath.wordpress.com
We saved our
students over
$260,000 in just
one year!
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5. Image by fuzzmgoo
Image by Luxamart
 Collaborative teams of Faculty
 Multi-college proposals encouraged
 Evaluated by Steering Team
 Peer-reviewed Course
Materials

6. Executive Vice
Chancellor &
Provost
College
President
2 Deans of
Instruction
9 Faculty Library Faculty
Instructional
Designers
IT Personnel
OER Tri-Chairs
Maricopa Millions Project
Steering Team

7. Progress Toward the Goal

8. Proposals and Awards per
Phase

9. Awards Per Campus

10. Range of Prefixes Awarded
Not in the top 25
highest enrollment
prefixes.

11. Faculty View of Maricopa
Millions

12. Please describe what you like the
MOST about the Maricopa Millions
Project.
Knowing the OER/Millions project is
helping students save money on
textbook costs and lowering their
overall cost of education. Any such cost
reduction can increase the likelihood
students will continue their education.
Lisa, Paul, and Rob were very
accessible, positive, and
encouraging. They were very
proactive about meeting with us at
certain points throughout the process.
Collaboration &
support (some
money was nice,
as well).

13. Please describe what you like the
LEAST about the Maricopa Millions
Project.It's not really a 'dislike' - going through the OER
process does require you to re-think and re-look
at how content is developed and how students
respond and learn. That is a good thing but very
time consuming!
I believe that the whole issue of Americans with
Disabilities Act considerations was the weak point.
As instructors, we were given an overview, but
there was no process for formal way to go
about ensuring our work met ADA
requirements. Discipline instructors are not
experts in that kind of stuff, and in my experience
there was not adequate support from the campus
The amount of work
writing a text book is
worth way more than we
are paid.

14. Please describe how your STUDENTS
have responded to your OER materials.
We are still piloting the textbook so all our
feedback is not in yet but so far students
really like having the resources readily
available and customized specifically
for their course.
They love free, especially when the
school prints articles for them; they
liked not lugging around a textbook;
they liked interesting articles that they
could relate to.
They are actually using the
book for a change and like
it very much. Also like not
having to buy a 200 dollar
book.

15. classes.sis.maricopa.edu

16. Cross-Institutional OER Adoption Results
78%
93%
74%
85%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
C or Better Completion
As submitted to Computers in Education Nov 2014:
4,909 open course students, 11,818 traditional course students, 50 different undergraduate courses, 130 teachers, 8 institutions.
Method: Quasi-experimental design with: Propensity Score Matching, Post Test Only. Dependent variables: Completion; C or Better; Credits
Enrolled This Term; Next Term, Independent variable: Textbook condition, 3 covariates: including age, gender, and race.
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Current
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Credits
Next Term
Credits
Open Courses Traditional Courses

17. How Far Have We Come?
Pnautilus, 2011 CC-SA

18. Source: Babson survey (Sponsored by Hewlett and Pearson)

19. External Partners/Collaborators
 CCCOER (Community Colleges)
 Virginia CC System
 Washington State
 Oregon & California
 Creative Commons
 OpenStaxCollege
 Saylor
 Lumen Learning

20. Next Steps - OER Degree
One
College
One State
23 Colleges
20-30
Colleges/Syst
ems

21. OER Training Sessions

22. Halfway to our New Goal!
Shunsuke1 2008 CC-BY-SA

23. Questions??
Questions?
@MaricopaOER Video editing and graphic design by
Sam Fraulino