1.
The Perfect Opportunity
TRANSFORMING A GRADUATE INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN DEGREE WITH
AFFORDABLE AND OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

2.
Who We Are
Lindsay O’Neill
 Instructional Design Librarian &
Subject Liaison to MSIDT
 Part-time faculty in MSIDT program
 OER librarian by default
Dr. Cynthia Gautreau
 Director of MSIDT
 Long-time faculty in MSIDT
 Associate Professor,
Elementary and Bilingual Education

3.
About California State University, Fullerton
 CSUF has 40,000 students: one of the largest campuses in the 23-campus Cal State system
 Predominantly undergraduate and master's-level programs
 Regional commuter university
 5 miles from Disneyland (as the crow flies)

4.
About the MSIDT program
 MSIDT: Master of Science in Instructional Design and Technology
 Completely online two-year program that uses a cohort model
 Fairly small (but growing!) program: ~100 students total

5.
CSU’s Affordable Learning Solutions
Cal State system-wide push to promote adoption of affordable instructional materials (OER and library
materials!)

6.
Affordable Learning Solutions Ambassadors
2016:
 CSUF received grant money from state of California for training & support (AB 798)
 Director of OET launched first cohort of Affordable Learning Solutions “Ambassadors”
 Funding for faculty for course redesigns!

7.
MSIDT & Affordable Learning Solutions
 MSIDT Director signed up all of her faculty for year-long program!
 Photo of 1st ALS Ambassador class:

8.
ALS Ambassadors Program 2016-17
 Two-day workshop on Affordable/Open learning resources and on Universal Design for Learning
 Ambassadors got $500 for attending training, and $500 more for redesigning their courses within the
next year (2016-17)
 All funded by the state grant

9.
Perfect opportunity!
 Instructional design = systematic design of instruction
 We are all about learning objectives and educational technology!
 Critical instructional design: Practice what we’re teaching!

10.
Video Testimonial – Dr. Gautreau
View via YouTube: https://youtu.be/jUtISUKNRqE

11.
MSIDT & Affordable Learning Solutions
 All MSIDT faculty attended summer workshop
 Additionally, money set aside from state grant to work with third-party OER curator
 Limited OER on instructional design/elearning development
 Two-day workshop was in June 2016, but MSIDT faculty transformed fall courses by the beginning of
the semester at end of August 2016!

12.
Pre-Redesign (Examples)
$39 $200 $25

13.
Post-Redesign
Open Textbook Library +
Library Ebook
Library EbookNot open, but Free
Module from
GCFLearnFree.org
Identical Library Ebook +
Lynda.com

14.
Software: Adobe Captivate
 $300 software purchased for students by campus IT

15.
Not 100% Open. But 100% Zero-Cost!

16.
On that third-party OER curator...
 Ended up not working with them!

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Next step...
 Continue to review course materials and seek OER
 Hope to get on the path to open pedagogy!
◦ Perhaps student-written textbooks and job aids on learning theories and interface design?
◦ Faculty collaborations to write our own texts and create our own supporting materials?

18.
Open Ed Conference Success Story
https://lidtfoundations.pressbooks.com/

19.
Lessons Learned
 Time-intensive to investigate and adopt each title!
 Fast turnaround meant some bumps to implementation

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Takeaways
 Library ebooks put us on the path to fully open but we are not open!
 In any case, no-cost course materials are huge marketing tool for MSIDT program, and much
appreciated by students!
 Continual education: free ≠ open!

21.
Questions?
Lindsay O’Neill
jloneill@fullerton.edu
Slides: jlindsayoneill.com/perfectopp