CCCOER webinar: OER Degrees Emerge in Maryland and Texas
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Achieving the Dream launched an OER Degree Initiative in 2016 with 38 colleges in 13 states who are developing entire degree pathways where traditional textbooks have been replaced with open educational resources. Austin Community College and Montgomery Community College are two of the colleges who are participating in this transformation to enhance teaching and learning and share research on the impact on student success and cost. Our speakers will share successes and challenges including topics such as the role of the library, faculty development, marketing oer courses to students, and working with your bookstore. When: Wed, March 29, at 10am PT/ 1pm ET Featured Speakers: From Austin Community College, Texas Dr. Gaye Lynn Scott, Associate Vice President, Academic Transfer Programs Carrie Gits, Head Librarian/Associate Professor From Montgomery College, Maryland: Samantha Streamer Veneruso, Professor of English; Chair, General Studies Program Michael A. Mills, Vice President, Office of E-Learning, Innovation, and Teaching Excellence (ELITE)
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Adopting OER for Pathways, Certificates, & Courses
A panel of members from the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) will share how they are adopting OER for Pathways, Certificates, and Courses at their colleges. CCCOER was founded in 2007 and now composes over 250 colleges in 22 states and provinces. Members collaborate online regularly and in-person at conferences on best practices for OER adoption. This cross-institutional sharing of open educational resources, open practices, open research, and open policies provides a powerful OER advocacy network for community colleges. New members have immediate access to 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 throughout higher education. Audience participation will be welcomed.
Our eLearning Panel will be moderated by Una Daly, CCCOER Director and our panelists include:
Cynthia Alexander, Distance Education Coordinator and Faculty at Cerritos College.
Cynthia leads the Online Teacher Certification program at Cerritos College and was an early adopter of OER in her teaching. The Business management department has also been using OER for over 5-years and OER has spread to many other departments through early efforts on the Kaleidoscope project.
Lorah Gough, Director, Distance Education at Houston Community College
Lorah works with faculty to find and adopt OER and is working to highlight OER in the new HCC strategic plan coming out next year. Two OER committees and the library are all strong partners in this effort.
Cheryl Knight, Instructional Designer at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C)
Cheryl leads the Save 100K project; focused on saving students money so they can concentrate on success. Started with a zero text cost math course and expanded to several disciplines and all 4 campuses in greater Cleveland are now participating.
Jake McBee, Instructional Designer, at North Central Texas College
Jake works on the Rural Information Technology Alliance (RITA) grant, shared by a four-college Texas consortium, building OER-based curriculum for certificates in high-demand information technology areas including networking, mobile apps, and cybersecurity.
Lisa Young, Tri-Chair Maricopa Millions Project;
Faculty Director, Teaching & Learning Center, Scottsdale Community College.
Lisa is tri-chair of the district-wide Maricopa Millions Project started in fall 2013 with the goal of saving $5 Million for students in five years. In two years, they are over 90% to achieving the goals. Maricopa Millions is now planning for zero-textbook pathways in multiple disciplines.
Our eLearning panel moderator will be Una Daly, director of CCCOER.
Student OER Panels and Campus-wide Faculty OER Development
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free and open webinar promoting OER Adoption at colleges through structured, public student-faculty dialogues on costs of textbooks and a campus wide faculty development effort to create awareness of existing open educational resources.
Date: Thur, March 10,
Time: 10 am PST, 1:00 pm EST
Student Voices Panel:
A panel of students from the Pierce College District in Washington will share their thoughtful public dialogues, co-sponsored by the Center for Engagement & Learning, with faculty about lowering textbook costs through OER.
Moderator: Quill West, OER Project Manager, Pierce College District
Campus-wide OER Faculty Development:
Sue Tashjian and Jody Carson co-chairs of the Northern Essex Community College’s (NECC) Textbook Task Force will share how they nurtured a small program on campus to incentivize 5 faculty to adopt OER has grown over the last two years. Through faculty development to help instructors faculty find high-quality open educational resources and additional OER funding, NECC has saved students over $450,000 and growing.
Jody Carson, professor and instructional coach in Center for Instructional Technology
Sue Tashjian, adjunct CIS faculty and Coordinator of Instructional Technology
How OER Can Support Student Equity and Diversity
According to the Glossary of Education Reform, equity refers to the principle of fairness in education. Inequities occur when biased or unfair policies, programs, practices, or situations contribute to a lack of equality in educational performance, results, and outcomes. The development and use of open educational resources has the potential to create equitable learning experiences for all students. Open education is deeply rooted in the belief that teachers have the freedom to develop content that meets the needs of their students.
Join us for this webinar to hear the ways in which colleges can consider issues of equity when designing and delivering OER courses and degree programs. Presenters will share how open educational resources, policies, and practices can support equity and diversity through the development of culturally relevant learning experiences that emphasize inclusion and celebrate diversity.
When: Wed, Nov 15th, at 11am PT/ 2pm ET
Featured Speakers:
Francesca Carpenter: Associate Director, OER Degree Initiative Achieving the Dream
W. Preston Davis, EdD: Director of Instructional Services and Associate Professor, Northern Virginia Community College
Daphnie Sicre, PhD: Asst. Professor, Department of Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts Borough of Manhattan Community College City University of New York
Best Practices for Faculty Development to Promote Adoption of OER
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free and open webinar on best practices for Faculty Development to promote OER adoption. Two librarians who are leading efforts in their states to inform and inspire faculty to adopt OER will be featured.
Open Oregon is a project of the Oregon’s community colleges focused on reducing textbooks costs and open education is gaining momentum as an innovative and long-term solution to the problem. Amy Hofer is the statewide coordinator of these efforts and works with all 17 community colleges in Oregon to help promote these efforts through faculty development and sharing resources centrally.
Lansing Community College held its first OER Summit in fall of 2015. With support from their Provost, Regina Gong and her team organized a statewide event for Michigan community college featuring OER thought leaders from many organizations including CCCOER and also faculty from Lansing Community College. It was an important event to inform and advocate for using open educational resources to reduce costs and expand faculty’s curriculum choices.
Date: Wed, February 10,
Time: 10 am PST, 1:00 pm EST
Featured Speakers:
• Amy Hofer, Coordinator, Statewide Open Education Library Services, Open Oregon
• Regina Gong, Manager of Library Technical Services and Systems, Lansing Community College
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Increasing OER Adoptions with the Community College Consortium for OER
During the past few years, adoptions of open textbooks at community colleges have increased. A key component in many community college adoption campaigns has been participating in communities of practice. Members of the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) will share their successful strategies and tactics for creating a community of practice nationally as well as locally.
Etienne Wenger defines communities of practice as “groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” With over 200 member colleges in 17 states and provinces, CCCOER encourages collaboration between members and invites OER project presentations at their monthly online advisory meetings. Experienced members advise those who are just getting started on OER and best practices are freely shared. Access to a community of college OER experts through the CCCOER listserve makes it easier for new members to find and adopt the highest quality OER available in their disciplines.
Monthly webinars featuring OER leaders at community colleges, universities, and educational organizations around the world keep the community informed of new research findings, OER projects, and open policies. Meetups at regional and national conferences provide an opportunity to share and promote the OER adoption successes of our members with colleagues throughout higher education.
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CCCOER: Faculty and Librarians Selecting High Quality OER Together
Join us for this webinar to hear from librarians and faculty who are working together to support the selection and adoption of high-quality open educational resources to enhance teaching and learning. Leveraging the key role and skill set of librarians for curating high-quality and openly licensed resources can give faculty time to focus on the pedagogical enhancements available through OER adoption in their courses.
When: Wed, Sept 27, at 11am PT/ 2pm ET
Featured Speakers:
Tina Ulrich, Library Director, Northwestern Michigan College
Elizabeth Sonnabend, Adjunct Business Instructor, Northwestern Michigan College.
Dr. Sharon Hughes, Professor of Psychology, Lansing Community College
Regina Gong, Librarian and OER Project Manager, Lansing Community College
CCOTC16: OER Degree Pathways, Certificates, and Courses
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
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• Dana Hester, EdD, Dean, Social and Behavioral Sciences & Distance Education, Citrus College
• Elliot Jones, PhD, Music Professor and Open Textbook Author, Santa Ana College
June 8: Designing for Open Pedagogy with CCCOER
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free and open webinar on Designing for Open Pedagogy. Open Pedagogy was first introduced by Lumen Learning co-founder David Wiley, as a way to capture how the use of OER can change educational practices. He relates that using OER in the same way as traditional textbooks is like driving an airplane down the road – it is missing out on what open can provide for student and teacher collaboration, engagement, and learning.
When: June 8, 10amPST/1pmEST
We will hear from two professors who have not only adopted OER but have redesigned their courses with the principles of open pedagogy. Although reduced cost is what originally attracted them to using OER, involving their students in creating and evaluating OER course materials has significantly increased student engagement and critical thinking and their courses are continually being updated and improved as a result.
Featured Speakers:
• Suzanne Wakim, Biology Faculty Butte College, OER Coordinator
Will share her open course design strategy where students in subsequent semesters build on the work of those before them to create an open textbook and ancillary material. Students discuss and decide on how best to present material in the book, what applications are relevant for each topic, and what materials can help other students learn the course content.
• Mike Elmore, Political Science Faculty, Tacoma Community College
Will share how he has engaged students in collaborative writing of an Introduction to Political Science open textbook. His students report that writing assignments take on new meaning when they realize that other people are going to read their work. Not just repeating what they have read or heard in class, they compare their understanding with their peers and collaborate to present their ideas in the best way possible.
Participant Login Information:
No pre-registration is necessary. Please use the link below on the day of the webinar to login and listen.
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Posted by: Una Daly, Director of Curriculum Design & College Outreach, OEC Consortium, email: unatdaly@oeconsortium.org
Maryland Online OER Day Keynote at UMUC
Una Daly and James Glapa-Grossklag from the Community College Consortium for OER at the Open Education Consortium were keynote speakers for the Maryland Online OER Day held at University of Maryland University College in Largo. Over 150 faculty, staff, and administrators registered for the daylong event held on June 2, 2014.
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Finding & Adopting Open Educational Resources
Faculty who are new to OER may experience difficulty finding an open textbook or other openly licensed materials to adopt for their courses. Searching on your own is time consuming and the choices can be overwhelming. We will hear from a college librarian who helps faculty find and adopt high quality OER to match their course outcomes and the creators of the award winning OER Commons, a freely accessible online library that allows teachers and others to search and discover open educational resources (OER) and other freely available instructional materials.
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for our first fall webinar:
When: Sept 14, 10amPST/1pmEST
Featured Speakers:
Heather Blicher, Online Learning Librarian, Extended Learning Institute, Northern Virginia Community College
Mindy Boland, OER Product and Services Manager, ISKME.org, the creators of OER Commons
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The Who, What, Why, Where, and How of Finding and Adopting High Quality Open Educational Resources
Join us for an interactive workshop on finding and adopting high-quality open educational resources (OER). The cost of a college education continues to rise dramatically and the high price of textbooks has been identified by students as a major barrier to achieving their academic goals.
Hear from faculty in California and other states who have adopted OER to reduce costs for students and enhance teaching and learning. You’ll get a chance to test drive searching for open textbooks in popular OER repositories and gain an understanding of what makes an effective open educational resource. Finally, we’ll brainstorm how to encourage other stakeholders at your college to support successful OER adoptions.
Bring a laptop or tablet and be prepared for some fun teamwork!
Presenter: Una Daly, director Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources.
Finding and adopting oer with CanvasCommons, OpenStax, and Saylor
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free, open webinar on finding the most recently updated open textbooks, open courses, and open educational resources for college. Speakers will share their open collections: how to find content, peer review processes, and strategies for encouraging faculty adoptions to improve teaching and learning and expand access for learners.
Date: Wed, Sept 9,
Time: 10 am PST, 1:00 pm EST
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Kate McGee, Project Director, Canvas Commons
Nicole Finkbeiner, Associate Director of Institutional Relations, OpenStax College
Tanner Huggins, Educational Project Manager, Saylor Academy
Achieving the Dream's OER Degree College Panel
Last June, Achieving the Dream (ATD) announced the largest initiative of its kind to develop degree programs using high quality open educational resources (OER) at 38 community colleges in 13 states. The program is designed to help remove financial roadblocks that can derail students’ progress and to spur other changes in teaching and learning and course design that will increase the likelihood of degree and certificate completion.
Grantee colleges have been busy this summer and fall developing OER courses and planning the delivery of their OER Degree programs with cross-functional teams of stakeholders including faculty, librarians, administrators, and other staff.
Grant partners Lumen Learning, the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER), and SRI International are providing technical assistance, community of practice, and research support to grantees
Come and hear from a panel of four college leaders on their early successes, lesson learned, and challenges ahead in rolling out OER Degree programs to students over the next few years. Topics include fostering faculty and administrator engagement, effective professional development, creating awareness among students, measuring outcomes, and creating sustainable policies.
Panelists:
• Clea Andreadis, Vice-Provost, Bunker Hill College, MA
• Mark Johnson, North Campus Language Arts Department Chair, San Jacinto College, TX
• Cynthia Lofaso, Psychology Professor, Central Virginia Community College, VA
• Carlos Lopez, Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Santa Ana College,
CCCOER May 18 advisory mtg
Please join us for our last spring CCCOER Advisory of 2015-16. In addition to our usual updates, please join us to hear from Nicole Finkbeiner of OpenStax College who will be sharing information about the new authoring platform available free to faculty who want to customize OpenStax textbooks to adopt in their courses.
Date/Time: May 18, 11:00 am PST/2:00 pm EST
Also welcoming Northshore Community College and discussing the recent OP-ED from Pearson and reply by David Wiley on “If OER is the answer, what is the question?"
Building Effective Policies and Practices at Community Colleges with CCCOER
A key component in many successful community college adoption campaigns has been participating in communities of practice (CoP). Members of the CCCOER community of practice from across the US and Canada will share how participating in and leveraging the community activities supports their design of effective open educational practices and policies at their college.
Panelists:
Quill West, Open Education Project Manager, Pierce College District, CCCOER Advisory board president.
Sue Tasjian, Jody Carson, Northern Essex Community College, co-leaders of the Massachusetts Community College Go Open project.
Regina Gong, OER Project Manager, Lansing Community College
Jason Pickavance, Director of Educational Initiatives at Salt Lake Community College
Alisa Cooper, Glendale Community College Faculty, co-chair of the Maricopa Millions OER project.
Educause’s definitive Communities of Practice Design Guide: A Step-by-Step Guide for Designing & Cultivating Communities of Practice in Higher Education (Cambridge, Kaplan, Suter, 2005) identified 4 key activities that support the identified purposes of a CoP:
Develop Relationships and Build Trust
Learn and Develop Practice
Carry Out Tasks and Projects
Create New Knowledge
Each college will share their unique story of promoting the adoption of open educational resources and the benefits and challenges for students and faculty. The Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) is a community of practice focused on promoting OER adoption to expand access to education while enhancing teaching practices and learning outcomes. Through members sharing successful practices and policies in online and open forums such as our monthly webinars and at conferences across the country, best practices can easily be understood and adopted by newcomers. Hear from our member colleges who have designed effective open educational practices and policies and who walk the talk by sharing them with other colleges.
OER Adoption to Scale - Highights from Four States
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free and open webinar on OER Adoption to Scale. A panel of OER college leaders from Arizona, California, Virginia, and Washington states will share how they grew their OER projects into successful multi-disciplinary programs with full OER degree pathways.
Hear about lessons learned from building OER teams of faculty, staff, and students to expand access and improve learning outcomes. There will be time at the end for you to ask questions of the panelists.
Date: Wed, March 9,
Time: 10 am PST, 1:00 pm EST
Featured Speakers:
James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean of Educational Technology, Learning Resources and Distance Learning at College of the Canyons presenting the Social Studies OER Pathway project.
Paul Golisch, CIO & Dean of Information Technology at Paradise Valley College Maricopa County, AZ presenting the district-wide Maricopa Millions Project
Quill West, OER Project Manager at Pierce College District, WA presenting the Pierce Open Pathways degree.
Preston Davis, Director of Instructional Services, ELI at Northern Virginia Community College presenting the OER-based General Education Project.
Richard Sebastian, Director of Teaching and Learning Technologies, the Virginia Community College System presenting the statewide Z-23 Project.
OER Overview Porterville Summer Institute
Why should you care about OER is an overview of OER and the California Open Online Library for Education (cool4ed.org) given for faculty at the Porterville College Summer Institute on May 25, 2015.
Una Daly, CCCOER Director (May 2016)
Understanding Open Licenses with the Remix Card Game
Presentation given at Northern Essex Community College's on Massacuhuetts Go Open Day, June 7, 2016.
The presentation feature a Q & A about basic copyright and licensing and then an opportunity to apply the concepts by playing a card game utilizing open educational resources (content, videos, assessments, etc) to build an open course with a stated learning outcome. Thanks to Quill West, Pierce Community College District, WA for sharing her Remix Card Game.
Adopting OER for Pathways, Certificates, & Courses
A panel of members from the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) will share how they are adopting OER for Pathways, Certificates, and Courses at their colleges. CCCOER was founded in 2007 and now composes over 250 colleges in 22 states and provinces. Members collaborate online regularly and in-person at conferences on best practices for OER adoption. This cross-institutional sharing of open educational resources, open practices, open research, and open policies provides a powerful OER advocacy network for community colleges. New members have immediate access to 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 throughout higher education. Audience participation will be welcomed.
Our eLearning Panel will be moderated by Una Daly, CCCOER Director and our panelists include:
Cynthia Alexander, Distance Education Coordinator and Faculty at Cerritos College.
Cynthia leads the Online Teacher Certification program at Cerritos College and was an early adopter of OER in her teaching. The Business management department has also been using OER for over 5-years and OER has spread to many other departments through early efforts on the Kaleidoscope project.
Lorah Gough, Director, Distance Education at Houston Community College
Lorah works with faculty to find and adopt OER and is working to highlight OER in the new HCC strategic plan coming out next year. Two OER committees and the library are all strong partners in this effort.
Cheryl Knight, Instructional Designer at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C)
Cheryl leads the Save 100K project; focused on saving students money so they can concentrate on success. Started with a zero text cost math course and expanded to several disciplines and all 4 campuses in greater Cleveland are now participating.
Jake McBee, Instructional Designer, at North Central Texas College
Jake works on the Rural Information Technology Alliance (RITA) grant, shared by a four-college Texas consortium, building OER-based curriculum for certificates in high-demand information technology areas including networking, mobile apps, and cybersecurity.
Lisa Young, Tri-Chair Maricopa Millions Project;
Faculty Director, Teaching & Learning Center, Scottsdale Community College.
Lisa is tri-chair of the district-wide Maricopa Millions Project started in fall 2013 with the goal of saving $5 Million for students in five years. In two years, they are over 90% to achieving the goals. Maricopa Millions is now planning for zero-textbook pathways in multiple disciplines.
Our eLearning panel moderator will be Una Daly, director of CCCOER.
Student OER Panels and Campus-wide Faculty OER Development
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free and open webinar promoting OER Adoption at colleges through structured, public student-faculty dialogues on costs of textbooks and a campus wide faculty development effort to create awareness of existing open educational resources.
Date: Thur, March 10,
Time: 10 am PST, 1:00 pm EST
Student Voices Panel:
A panel of students from the Pierce College District in Washington will share their thoughtful public dialogues, co-sponsored by the Center for Engagement & Learning, with faculty about lowering textbook costs through OER.
Moderator: Quill West, OER Project Manager, Pierce College District
Campus-wide OER Faculty Development:
Sue Tashjian and Jody Carson co-chairs of the Northern Essex Community College’s (NECC) Textbook Task Force will share how they nurtured a small program on campus to incentivize 5 faculty to adopt OER has grown over the last two years. Through faculty development to help instructors faculty find high-quality open educational resources and additional OER funding, NECC has saved students over $450,000 and growing.
Jody Carson, professor and instructional coach in Center for Instructional Technology
Sue Tashjian, adjunct CIS faculty and Coordinator of Instructional Technology
How OER Can Support Student Equity and Diversity
According to the Glossary of Education Reform, equity refers to the principle of fairness in education. Inequities occur when biased or unfair policies, programs, practices, or situations contribute to a lack of equality in educational performance, results, and outcomes. The development and use of open educational resources has the potential to create equitable learning experiences for all students. Open education is deeply rooted in the belief that teachers have the freedom to develop content that meets the needs of their students.
Join us for this webinar to hear the ways in which colleges can consider issues of equity when designing and delivering OER courses and degree programs. Presenters will share how open educational resources, policies, and practices can support equity and diversity through the development of culturally relevant learning experiences that emphasize inclusion and celebrate diversity.
When: Wed, Nov 15th, at 11am PT/ 2pm ET
Featured Speakers:
Francesca Carpenter: Associate Director, OER Degree Initiative Achieving the Dream
W. Preston Davis, EdD: Director of Instructional Services and Associate Professor, Northern Virginia Community College
Daphnie Sicre, PhD: Asst. Professor, Department of Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts Borough of Manhattan Community College City University of New York
Best Practices for Faculty Development to Promote Adoption of OER
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free and open webinar on best practices for Faculty Development to promote OER adoption. Two librarians who are leading efforts in their states to inform and inspire faculty to adopt OER will be featured.
Open Oregon is a project of the Oregon’s community colleges focused on reducing textbooks costs and open education is gaining momentum as an innovative and long-term solution to the problem. Amy Hofer is the statewide coordinator of these efforts and works with all 17 community colleges in Oregon to help promote these efforts through faculty development and sharing resources centrally.
Lansing Community College held its first OER Summit in fall of 2015. With support from their Provost, Regina Gong and her team organized a statewide event for Michigan community college featuring OER thought leaders from many organizations including CCCOER and also faculty from Lansing Community College. It was an important event to inform and advocate for using open educational resources to reduce costs and expand faculty’s curriculum choices.
Date: Wed, February 10,
Time: 10 am PST, 1:00 pm EST
Featured Speakers:
• Amy Hofer, Coordinator, Statewide Open Education Library Services, Open Oregon
• Regina Gong, Manager of Library Technical Services and Systems, Lansing Community College
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Increasing OER Adoptions with the Community College Consortium for OER
During the past few years, adoptions of open textbooks at community colleges have increased. A key component in many community college adoption campaigns has been participating in communities of practice. Members of the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) will share their successful strategies and tactics for creating a community of practice nationally as well as locally.
Etienne Wenger defines communities of practice as “groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” With over 200 member colleges in 17 states and provinces, CCCOER encourages collaboration between members and invites OER project presentations at their monthly online advisory meetings. Experienced members advise those who are just getting started on OER and best practices are freely shared. Access to a community of college OER experts through the CCCOER listserve makes it easier for new members to find and adopt the highest quality OER available in their disciplines.
Monthly webinars featuring OER leaders at community colleges, universities, and educational organizations around the world keep the community informed of new research findings, OER projects, and open policies. Meetups at regional and national conferences provide an opportunity to share and promote the OER adoption successes of our members with colleagues throughout higher education.
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What do college students believe is a reasonable cost for class materials? How does the cost of the materials affect them? What recommendations do they have for improving textbook affordability? We will hear from leading researchers what 10,000 public college students in Washington state and 22,000 public college and university students in Florida had to say about the impact of textbook costs on their education.
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) and the Washington Community & Technical Colleges Student Association (WACTCSA) partnered in 2017 to conduct a survey to:
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The Florida Virtual Campus has conducted three surveys since 2010 on the impact textbook costs are having on higher education affordability, success and completion at their public institutions. Key findings include:
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Michelle Huss, Biology Faculty, Portland Community College, OR
Jen Klaudinyi, Faculty Librarian, Portland Community College, OR
Joy Shoemate, Director of Online Learning, College of the Canyons, CA
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Dr. Shawna M. Brandle, Political Science Professor, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York.
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When: Wednesday, November 4, 2020, 12 pm PDT/3 pm EDT
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Alan Levine, Strategy and Engagement Director, Open Education Global
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Open Education gives faculty the academic freedom to find, adapt, and create materials that are focused on how and what their students need to learn and be successful in their courses. It takes time and a different approach to your teaching practice. No longer limited by a commercial textbook’s outline of topic materials and lack of access by a significant percentage of their students, a faculty member can engage their students in more meaningful and effective learning experiences. Hear from faculty, an administrator, and a student who are engaged in this sometimes challenging culture shift to reduce inequity and grow our pedagogical practices.
When: Wednesday, October 14, 2020, 12 pm PDT/3 pm EDT
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Dr. Alisa Cooper, English Faculty, Glendale Community College
Barbara Gooch, Student at Volunteer State Community College and OpenStax Intern
William Hoag, Library Director, Roxbury Community College
Dr. Veronica Howard, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Alaska Anchorage
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Textbook affordability and flexibility is more important than ever in times of shrinking budgets, enrollment concerns, and remote learning. Students’ lives have been disrupted and helping them get back on track to complete their education is critical. Open educational resources significantly reduce student costs and have been shown to improve outcomes particularly for traditionally underserved populations. Open resources also provide flexibility for faculty as they continue to adapt their teaching for unfolding circumstances.
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When: Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 12 pm PDT/3 pm EDT
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Justine Blau, English Lecturer, Lehman College – City University of New York (CUNY)
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Joseph Brenkert, Mathematics Instructor at Front Range Community College
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With proven results of reducing equity gaps, the Governor has proposed doubling the initial $5 million ZTC program to $10 million in FY21, opening this opportunity to more colleges wishing to leverage ZTCs to increase student achievement and reduce equity gaps. Join us to hear from ZTC champions who led the initiative, supporting the faculty who transformed their courses to lower barriers and improve students learning, and ensuring the sustainability of the program. Consider how to integrate a ZTC approach with your distance education, equity, pathways and other student success-centered initiatives. Learn about how students and librarians are poised to play an essential role in the proposed $10 million grant. Finally, learn the critical steps for success and how to assess your college’s readiness for developing ZTC degrees.
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When faculty start using OER, one of the most exciting opportunities that the open license affords is for faculty to customize their courses to fit the needs of their students. In this discussion, we will explore some of the theory and practice around designing engaging, accessible, and inclusive OER courses. We will discuss how using OER can enable faculty to embrace good design principles for student-centered instruction in fully online courses or face-to-face courses, augmented with online components. We’ll discuss the advantages of this approach in our current, COVID-19 world.
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Ben Kohntopp, Instructional Designer – Colorado Community College Online
Sophia Strickfaden, eLearning Technologist – Colorado Community Colleges Online
Scott Robison, Ph.D., Associate Director – Digital Learning and Design, Office of Academic Innovation, Portland State University
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Schools, colleges, and universities have closed their campuses and pivoted to remote instruction in a matter of weeks as the COVID-19 threat became a reality. Student’s lives are being disrupted not only by the adjustment to remote instruction but also due to job loss, family responsibilities, and healthcare needs. Commercial publishers are offering faculty and students one-time “free” instruction materials during the crisis in hopes of gaining new customers. Colleges are now facing big questions about their future including maintaining student enrollment, selecting instructional materials, managing faculty and staff costs, and even how the physical campus might be reconfigured.
Join our panelists to hear how open education has made their campuses more resilient and continues to help with student equity including support for underrepresented populations and students with disabilities. You will hear strategies and talking points for helping stakeholders on your campus understand how open educational resources, prudent fair-use, and open educational practices (pedagogy) support both teaching and learning in the crisis and will continue to contain costs, address student needs, and inspire innovation for the future.
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Tonja Conerly, San Jacinto Community College, Texas
Meredith Jacob, Creative Commons USA at American University Washington College of Law @meredithjacob
Michael Mills, Montgomery College, Maryland
Suzanne Wakim, Butte Community College, California
Quill West, Pierce College District, Washington
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Open Pedagogy is a collection of open practices in the classroom made possible by replacing commercial textbooks with open educational resources. These emerging practices enabled by open content licensing (and an open mindset) involve students in making decisions about their own learning experiences and contributing directly to global knowledge to impact not only other students but generate renewable value outside of the classroom.
Join us to hear about the learning benefits from faculty and students who have participated in open pedagogy projects that were enabled through the adoption of open education resources and open practices. Learn how students working with instructional designers and librarians have begun to help faculty adopt, create and implement open content across their campus.
When: Wednesday, April 8th, 2020 12 pm PDT/3 pm EDT
Featured Speakers:
David Dwork, Mathematics Faculty, Paradise Valley Community College
Jessica Parsons, Open Educational Resource (OER) Specialist, Paradise Valley Community College
Zev Cossin, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Montgomery College
Eduardo Chaves Serrano, student, Zero Hunger Assignment, Montgomery College
Karen Cangialosi, PhD, Professor of Biology, Keene State College
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Matthew Bloom, English Faculty, Faculty-in-Residence OER Coordinator, Scottsdale Community College/Maricopa Community Colleges
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When: Thurs, March 5 noon PST/3pm EST
Open Education Resources (OER) remove cost barriers and provide a better learning experience for students who are unable to afford the required commercial textbooks. Student OER advocates directly understand these benefits and can effectively articulate them to their peers as well as to faculty, administrators, and policymakers.
Come and meet two Student OER Advocates who have led the development of an OER Student Toolkit for using at California higher education institutions to share guidelines and best practices for OER advocacy and development. We’ll also hear from the Director of Affordable Textbooks at US Pirgs on concrete next steps for students to take action on their own campuses.
Featured Speakers:
Cailyn Nagle, Affordable Textbooks Campaign Director, US PIRG
Natalie Miller, former OER Student Advocate Lead, The Michelson 20MM Foundation, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, College of the Canyons, 2018 Global OER Consortium Student Award Recipient
Jenifer Vang, Affordable Learning Solutions Student Ambassador, San Jose State University, former OER Student Advocate Lead, The Michelson 20MM Foundation
CCCOER Presents: Regional Leaders of Open Education
When: Wednesday, March 4, noon PST/3pm EST:
Launched in fall 2019, the Regional Leadership for Open Education (RLOE) initiative was inspired by CCCOER members’ growing need to collaborate across institutional and state boundaries to find solutions for issues impacting OER adoption at diverse, multi-institution systems. Many open education leaders face similar issues of advocacy and implementation beyond their home institution and wish for the opportunity to craft common solutions and eliminate duplication of efforts. Leaders from colleges, universities, library consortia, and government agencies were invited to participate in four workgroups to discuss and build solutions. Each workgroup has developed a focus project for pursuing in 2020 and will share early efforts and invite community feedback
Policy & Strategy: focusing on a bibliography of open education policies and building a video repository of statewide OER policy clips.
Stewardship: focusing on emerging frameworks for stewardship of open education resources and student privacy and data.
Professionalism: focusing on building a matrix of emerging “open education” roles and their associated competencies to better identify training needs.
Sustainability: focusing on building a virtual file cabinet of higher education infrastructure documents/templates integrating open education.
Featured Speakers:
Denise Cote, Reference Librarian, College of DuPage
James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons
Amy Hofer, Coordinator, Statewide Open Education Library Services, Open Oregon
Quill West, Open Education Project Manager, Pierce College District
Lisa Young, Faculty Director, Center for Teaching & Learning, Scottsdale Community College
Moderator: Una Daly, CCCOER Director
Beginning to Open Up: Ideas for Colleges Early in their OER Journey
When: Tuesday, March 3, noon PST/3pm EST
When starting out using OER at your college/institution, it can seem like everyone else is much further along with us OER, and there aren’t any resources for those just starting out. Join us to hear from a panel of educators from smaller colleges and colleges that are new to OER as they discuss how they got started, recent accomplishments, things they would do over, what they wish they knew when starting out, and future plans.
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Looking for resources
Licensing: What can I use? What are the licensing options?
Platforms for creating and publishing
Printing
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Susan Bradley, Dean of Humanities and Behavioral and Social Sciences, Butler Community College
Kelly Carpenter, Library Manager, Lakeshore Technical College
Todd Ellis, Director of Teaching and Learning, Grayson College
Lori Beth Larsen, Instructor, Central Lakes College
Christina Trunnel, TRAILS OER Statewide Coordinator, Montana University System
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Paula Michniewicz, Senior Analyst/Instructional Designer, Co-chair of CSN OER Task Force Committee, College of Southern Nevada
Arizona OER Summit: Connections to Sustain and Grow Open Education
Keynote for DAY 2 of the Arizona OER SUmmit 2020. Emphasizing the importance of connections between people, institutions, organization over the implementation details of technology, licensing, and content for open education growth. Moving from the Maricopa College District to the entire state of Arizona and through the national CCCOER organization and other open education community members in North America to the world. The world view starts with OEGlobal and then internationally to UNESCO's OER 40C Resolution and finally bringing it back to student benefits through an open pedagogy project at Montgomery College and Kwantlen Polytechnical University linking to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
CCCOER Presents: Attributions. Authoring, and OER Platforms
Remixing openly licensed materials from different sources is a hallmark of OER but can make for complicated attributions. The webinar will start with best practices for attribution of curated openly licensed works. Three faculty will then share their experiences authoring and providing attributions of remixed OER in the Pressbooks and Libretexts platforms.
When: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12pm PT/ 3pm ET
Featured Speakers:
Jennryn Wetzler; Assistant Director of Open Education for Creative Commons
Dave Dillon; Author of “Blueprint for Success in College and Career”
Athena Kashyap; English Professor at City College of San Francisco
Heather Ringo; English Professor at Solano College
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Suzanne Wakim, OER, Distance Education, Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) Coordinator; Biology Faculty at Butte-Glenn Community College District
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- 1. OER Degrees Emerging in Maryland & Texas Dr. Gaye Lynn Scott & Carrie Gits, Austin Community College, TX Dr. Michael Mills & Samantha Veneruso Montgomery College, MD March 29, 2017, 10:00 am PST Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0
- 2. Agenda • Introductions • CCCOER Overview • OER Degrees • Montgomery College • Austin Community College & Texas Consortium • Stay in the Loop • Q & A Image Front Page Attribution: What open means to you johndbritton via flickr CC BY-SA
- 3. Welcome Moderator: Una Daly, Director CCCOER Open Education Consortium Dr. Gaye Lynn Scott, AVP Academic Programs Carrie Gits, Head Librarian Austin Community College Dr. Michael Mills, VP eLearning, Innovation, & Teaching Excellence Samantha Veneruso, Faculty and Chair of General Studies
- 4. • Expand access to high- quality open materials • Support faculty choice and development • Improve student success CCCOER Mission http://cccoer.org Come In, We're Open gary simmons cc-by-nc-sa flickr
- 5. 250+ Colleges in 21 States & Provinces
- 6. OER Degrees • Faculty redesign a pathway of existing courses, leading to a degree or a CTE certificate, to use OER Image license: creative beauty cc-by-nc-nd by calexanderson @ flickr
- 7. General Studies Degree Dr. Michael Mills, VP of E-Learning, Innovation and Teaching Excellence Samantha Veneruso, Professor of English Chair, General Studies Innovation Works, Coordinator
- 8. Samantha Streamer Veneruso and Dr. Michael Mills March 29, 2017 Serving Students OER Degrees At Montgomery College
- 10. Project Description • A.A. degree in General Studies with focus on two transfer paths: Psychology and English • 30 courses proposed for development • About 9,000 students in degree each semester, but courses potentially impact about 25,000 • Targeted populations include low-income, first-generation and minority students
- 11. Project Motivation • Desire to access, affordability, and success of students at MC • Decrease time to degree completion by modeling clear transfer paths in terms of course selection and sequencing • Focus on various learning styles while decreasing student costs • Increasing student engagement
- 12. Project Challenges • Finding quality open content • Licensing that is complicated, unclear or inaccurate • Sustainability • Faculty collaboration • Creating optimal schedules for target populations
- 13. Project Implementation • Monthly cross-functional team meetings ‒ Focus on academic concerns, student concerns, research efforts and infrastructure needs ‒ ELITE professional development offerings and faculty champion support ‒ Meeting and updates to various constituencies: Administrators, Chairs, Student Council, Faculty Council
- 14. Project Results • Greater awareness of OER • Scaling infrastructure • Student cost savings ‒ Estimated z-course savings of $340,000 for Spring 2017 • Increased student engagement
- 15. Course Ethnicity SIS Enrollment Avg Interactions All Courses American Indian or Alaskan Native 1,502 44.3 Asian 9,496 57.7 Black or African American 19,850 46.2 Hispanic 1,676 51 Multi-Race 2,624 38.6 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander 853 42.3 Unknown 2,611 45.4 White 23,476 46.4 Course Ethnicity SIS Enrollment Avg Interactions All ZCourses American Indian or Alaskan Native 52 113.93 Asian 492 107.39 Black or African American 801 82.5 Hispanic 75 103.52 Multi-Race 115 83.44 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander 44 89.12 Unknown 136 96.07 White 1049 78.47 Course Ethnicity SIS Enrollment Avg Interactions All Online Courses American Indian or Alaskan Native 132 282 Asian 881 242.2 Black or African American 2,141 212.2 Hispanic 218 296.4 Multi-Race 284 202.9 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander 48 232.8 Unknown 243 245.2 White 2,273 262.3 Course Ethnicity SIS Enrollment Avg Interactions All Online zCourses American Indian or Alaskan Native 11 509.20 Asian 70 407.95 Black or African American 156 542.05 Hispanic 17 396 Multi-Race 25 314.59 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander 2 53.47 Unknown 25 397.09 White 216 575.8
- 17. Samantha Veneruso: samantha.veneruso@montgomerycollege.edu Dr. Michael Mills: michael.mills@montgomerycollege.edu Questions
- 18. Gaye Lynn Scott, Ed.D Associate Vice President, Academic Programs Carrie Gits Head Librarian/Associate Professor Highland Campus Library General Studies AA and AS
- 19. ACC: Who We Are 11 campuses 8 early college high schools 5000 dual credit students
- 20. ACC: Who We Are 6 counties 7000 square miles ~76,000 students annually
- 21. ACC: Who We Are 1 ACCelerator
- 22. Texas Consortium overview OER Degree Initiative Grant
- 23. OER Progress Since June Role of Texas Grant Director OER Progress Since June Communication, communication, communication Course tracking/scheduling Recruitment Budget
- 24. OER Progress Since June Role of Librarians OER Progress Since June OER LibGuide OER Team of Librarians Faculty Training One - One Consultations Department meetings OER identification and vetting
- 25. Surprises/Benefits: Broader understanding CC licensing / OER = improved creation, adoption, collaboration Expect the Unexpected
- 26. Surprises/Benefits: Broader understanding CC licensing / OER = improved creation, adoption, collaboration Faculty realization they “might” have already been using OER engagement among the consortium institutions Expect the Unexpected
- 27. Challenges: Research Partner Persuading the reluctant Logistics Communication Expect the Unexpected
- 28. More challenges: Ancillaries Questions of quality / rigor Vendors desire to “work with us” OER “textbook” adoption Expect the Unexpected
- 29. Next On The OER Horizon Pairing subject librarians, instructional designers, and area faculty together Identifying faculty lead for the initiative College wide policy development
- 30. Next On The OER Horizon Tagging OER course sections in registration system Sustainability - funding the future – fees – stipends, release time for faculty Awareness/PR Campaign
- 31. Questions? Thank you! Gaye Lynn Scott gls@austincc.edu Carrie Gits carrie.gits@austincc.edu
- 32. Stay in the Loop • Upcoming Conferences – OpenEd 17 – submissions due Fri, Mar 31 – See our website under “Get Involved” • OER Degree Research – April 12 – SRI International will report on methodology and preliminary findings. http://cccoer.org
- 33. Thank you for coming and Happy Open Education Week !! Contact Info: Una Daly: unatdaly@oeconsortium.org Questions? cccoer.org