This document summarizes an advisory meeting about advancing open education through open educational resources (OER). It discusses announcing upcoming webinars on OER impact research and intellectual property, highlighting a OER pilot project at North Essex Community College that is saving students over $50,000, and listing upcoming conferences where open education will be discussed. The goal is to promote open and equitable access to education through openly licensed teaching and learning materials.
1. advancing formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality
education materials organized as courses.
CCCOER Advisory Meeting
Mar 19, 2014, 2:00 pm Eastern
1-888-886-3951 (Passcode:837846)
3. Agenda
• Happy Spring Break
• Announcements
• Open Education Week Mar 10-15
• North Essex Community College
• Spring CCCOER Webinars
• Spring Conferences and Events
• Next Meeting: April 16
• Open Discussion Time
4. Welcome
Introduce yourself and briefly mention any
challenges or updates.
Your hosts:
– Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director at Open
Courseware Consortium
– Donna Gaudet, Vice-president of CCCOER Advisory Board,
Math Chair at Scottsdale Community College
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7. Announcements
• Low cost and free open textbook bill
introduced in the U.S. House
• SXSWedu Attendees??
• Developmental Ed Conference?
• OpenEd 2014 in DC this Nov
- Proposals due April 25
• Connexions announces new OER editor, to
be unveiled in 2 weeks.
8. Raising Awareness of Open Education
Worldwide Mar 10-15
• Videos, resources, local events, discussion
groups, webinars.
• Social Media promotion
for open education projects.
• Community College Day on Wed, Mar 12
http://openeducationweek.org
9. March 12
OER & Accessibility
• Challenges and Strategies for Promoting
Awareness of Open and Accessible Educational
Resources:
– NFB, CSU-MERLOT, and OCW Consortium
• Accessibility of OERs for Diverse Learners and
Guidelines for Dyslexia in Modern Language
Learning
– Open University and OCW Consortium
10. March 13
Community College OER Day
• Washington's OER Faculty Training and Lane
College's OER Faculty Fellowship Program
• Maricopa Millions district-wide OER Project,
Kaleidoscope Project at Cerritos College, and
Northern Virginia’s OER-based General
Education Program
• Scottsdale College’s OER Math Program and
Tacoma College’s Liberate Project
13.  Textbook Taskforce Fall 2012 started Bill Heineman, VP of
Academic and Student Affairs, as a direct result of student
concerns over high cost and use of textbooks.
 Members include: Faculty, Staff (CIT, Library, Financial Aid,
Learning Accommodations, Advising), Students,
Administrators (VPs), Bookstore Managers, Admin Support
 3 subcommittees formed: Faculty Training and Resource
Development, LibGuides, Student Support
14. Presented the work of the taskforce at Division
Meetings, Student Senate, and Student Affairs
Developed a faculty Libguide – Textbook
alternatives
Financial Aid Lending Library
Student Survey (over 300 responses)
Pilot Project
15.  Secured funding ($5,000) from Academic Affairs Budget
 Put out a call to faculty interested in transitioning to free open-
access, instructor produced, and/or library material in place of
traditional textbooks currently required for their courses.
 $1,000 stipend per course (no cost to students to access materials)
 13 applications
 5 courses were chosen based on based on greatest savings to
students (at least $100 per course x # of seats and sections)
 Project total savings for Fall 2014 semester - $52,876
16.  Faculty training
 Analyze results from student survey
 Faculty presentation of their projects
 Securing funding (additional OER project stipends and
training) NOTE: We just secured another $5,000 from TAA
Grant for Summer 2014
 Create Reusable Learning Objects database at NECC
 Sharing resources and best practices!
18. Spring Webinars
(Wed, 11:00 am PST, 2:00 pm EST)
• April 9 – OER Impact Research Findings from
Community Colleges and Librarians.
• May 14 - Intellectual Property: Open Licensing,
Trademarks, Patents, etc.
• Archived:
– February 5 - Open Textbooks: SUNY Geneseo,
OpenStax College
– March 12 - Community College OER Day
http://oerconsortium.org
19. Advisory Meetings
(3rd Wed, 11:00 am PST, 2:00 pm EST)
We are looking for short project presentations at
these meetings. Please make a suggestion.
• April 16 - Welcome to Delaware County and
Delaware Tech Community Colleges
• May 21 - ???
• Archived
– Jan 22 – College of Southern Maryland
– Feb 19 – OER and Bookstores
– March 19 - North Essex Community College
20. Spring Conferences
Conference Location Date
eLearning 2014 Orlando Feb 15-18
League for Innovation Anaheim Mar 2-5
National Assoc. Developmental Ed Dallas Mar 5-8
Alliance of Distance Educators Palm Springs March 20
Connexions Conference Houston Mar 31- Apr 4
American Association of Community
Colleges
DC April 5-8
Sloan MERLOT ET4 Online Dallas Apr 9-11
OCWC Global Conference Slovenia Apr 23-25
NISOD Austin May 25-28
CCC Online Teaching Conference San Diego June 20-21
21. Thank you for participating!
• Next Advisory Meeting:
Wed, April 16, 2:00 pm (EST)
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