The CCCOER advisory meeting held on May 18, 2016, covered various topics including updates on open educational resources (OER) and announcements about new federal educational grants. Key discussions included the OpenStax faculty authoring tool, which enables faculty to create customized textbooks and the successes of institutional partner programs. Upcoming events and conferences related to open education were also highlighted, encouraging participation and collaboration among members.

1. CCCOER Advisory Meeting
May 18, 2016 11:00 am PST
1-888-886-3951(# 331993)

2. Collaborate Window Overview
Audio & Video
Participants
Chat

3. Agenda
• Introductions
• Announcements
• OpenStax College Faculty Authoring Tool
• Traditional Publishers and OER
• Spring Webinars
• Open Conferences
• Open Discussion Time

4. Welcome
New Members Spring 2015
Andrea Milligan
Director of Instructional Technology & Design
Lance Eaton
Coordinator of Instructional Design

5. Welcome
Please Introduce Yourself
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Una Daly,
CCCOER Director
Quill West
CCCOER President
Preston Davis
VP Partnerships
Cynthia Alexander
VP Information Officer
Christie Fierro
VP Community BuildingLisa Young
VP Professional Development

6. Legislative &
Other Announcements
• Sen Al Franken introduces College Access
Act of 2016 (OER is mentioned)
– Co-author with Senator Durbin of the Affordable College
Textbook Act introduced last year
• OpenStax Teams With Knewton To
Introduce Adaptive Learning Into OER

7. Free Community
College Grants
• Obama administration announced $100 million dollars
in competitive grants for Promise Job-Driven Training
Grants
• Help colleges create tuition-free education and job
training programs in partnership with their business
communities.
• Administered by the Department of Labor which has a
CC-BY clause but unclear if this is requirement

8. Faculty Authoring Tool
Nicole Finkbeiner
Associate Director, Institutional Relations

9. Associate Director, Institutional Relations
Nicole Finkbeiner
Peer-reviewed,
quality OER

10. CUSTOMIZED PRINT
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• Partnership between OpenStax, Dover, NASCORP
• Allows faculty to create a book tailor to their class
• Offers low-cost printed and digital copies of the
texts through the campus store
• Add your own content
• Immediate update of associated costs as you build
your book
• Automatic reformatting and new indexes

11. CUSTOMIZED PRINT
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accesyourtextbook.com

12. CUSTOMIZED PRINT
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13. CUSTOMIZED PRINT
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14. CUSTOMIZED PRINT
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15. 15
NEW FREE TEXTBOOKS!
• University (Calc-based) Physics
• Astronomy
• U.S. Government
• Microbiology (with ASM)

16. INSTITUTIONAL PARNTER PROGRAM
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• Free one-on-one consulting to develop a campus
OER strategic plan
• Implementation support from OpenStax and
fellow new program members
• Mentoring and support from current members
• Valued at $20,000, free to selected applicants

17. INSTITUTIONAL PARNTER PROGRAM
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Results:
• 490% increase in students impacted (200% increase at
non-partner schools)
• 392% increase in adoptions (206% increase at non-
partner schools)
Application:
• Due June 15

18. Questions?
nicolef@rice.edu

19. Pearson Op-Ed Discussion
• David Wiley’s Response
– How do we deliver better learning
experiences to more students?
– How do we get the most current, updated
content when we want it?
– How can we drive down costs for students
and for institutions?
http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/4529

20. Spring Conferences
Are you presenting on open education at any conferences,
webinars, events that aren’t listed here? Please share!
Contact Christie Fierro (cfierro@tacomacc.edu) to let us know. We like to keep
up with what our members are doing.
Date Conference Location
May 28-31 NISOD Austin, Texas
June 6-9 Festival of Learning Vancouver, BC
June 15-17 Online Teaching Conference San Diego, CA
Oct 30-2 Quality Matters Portland, OR
Nov 2-4 Open Ed 2016 Richmond, VA
Nov 16-18 OLC Accelerate Orlando, FL

21. OEC Global 2017
• Cape Town, South Africa
– University of Cape Town
• Celebration of 10th Anniversary of Cape
Town Open Education Declaration
– Special events planned
http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/

22. Designing for
Open Pedagogy Webinar
• June 8, 10am PST, 1pm EST
• Faculty Speakers:
• Suzanne Wakim, Biology OER
–Butte College, CA
• Mike Elmore, Political Science OER
–Tacoma Community College, WA
Image: UN Climate Change Meeting, Flickr, 2007, cc-by-nc-nd

23. Una Daly: unatdaly@oeconsortium.org
Quill West: oclquill.west@gmail.com
Thank you for coming!
Open Discussion Time