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CCOTC16: OER Degree Pathways, Certificates, and Courses
This document presents an overview of the adoption and implementation of Open Educational Resources (OER) across various community colleges to enhance degree pathways, reduce costs for students, and improve educational outcomes. It includes insights from multiple college faculty and administrators on successful OER initiatives, collaboration opportunities, and the impact of OER on student success. The summary also highlights the challenges, benefits, and future steps for continuing OER adoption in higher education.
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- 1. Adopting OER forDegree Pathways, Certificates, and Courses Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0 Dana Hester, Citrus College Elliott Jones, Santa Ana College James Glapa-Grossklag, College of the Canyons Una Daly, Open Education Consortium June 16, 2016
- 2. Welcome • Dana Hester, EdD Dean,Social and Behavioral Sciences & Distance Education Citrus College Elliott Jones, DMA Music Professor Director of Choral Music Santa Ana College James Glapa-Grossklag Dean, Educational Tech, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning College of the Canyons
- 3. • Expand awarenessof quality open resources • Support faculty choice and innovation • Improve student success Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) http://oerconsortium.org Come In, We're Open gary simmons cc-by-nc-sa flickr
- 4. 250+ Colleges in21 States & Provinces California Community College Chancellor’s Office
- 5. Collaboration Opportunities • Monthlywebinars • Monthly advisory meetings • Meetups and panels at conferences • Mentoring, research, resource sharing, and grants Image: Open Access Good Practice by JISC, CC-BY-NC-SA
- 6. Open Educational Resources “Openlylicensed learning materials that can be used for teaching, learning, & assessment without cost. They can be modified and redistributed without violating copyright.” Office of Educational Technology, Dept of Education
- 7. California Textbook Affordability Act2015 • Incentive college grants to accelerate adoption of OER to save students money. • Follow-on from SB 1052, 1053 – California OER Council – California Open Online Library (COOL4Ed)
- 8. OER Degrees: Zero-Textbook Cost •OER replaces expensive textbooks for each course in a degree program • Observed results: – Student savings – Faculty engagement – Retention and outcomes improvement • Research and case studies growing
- 9. OER-based Degrees "High ImpactOER Adoption:" by David Wiley, Lumen Learning
- 10. OER-based Degrees "High ImpactOER Adoption:" by David Wiley, Lumen Learning
- 11. "High Impact OERAdoption:" by David Wiley, Lumen Learning
- 13. "High Impact OERAdoption:" by David Wiley, Lumen Learning
- 16. OER Adoption atCitrus College Dana Hester, EdD Dean, Social and Behavioral Sciences & Distance Education
- 17. OER – TAKINGFLIGHT Citrus College Dr. Dana Hester, Dean, Social & Behavioral Sciences and Distance Education
- 18. Getting Buy-In • DECommittee – discussion and agreement to have pilots • Discussion with Bookstore and Print shop managers • Academic Senate • Associated Students
- 19. Moving Beyond DECourses • Providing OER links and encouraging exploration • English and math are working well • Humanities and Sociology are still exploring resources • One faculty created an OER textbook and materials for an Admin. of Justice class (traditional) – students love it!
- 20. Next Steps • Continuediscussions with Academic Senate and Associated Students • Provide professional development to review texts and materials together – interdisciplinary • Document and share adoption process
- 21. Santa Ana’s OERJourney Elliott Jones, DMA Music Professor Director of Choral Music
- 22. • Located inSouthern California, Orange County • Fall 2015 Credit Headcount, 16,612 • Ethnically diverse • Celebrated our Centennial this year!
- 23. OER at SAC •Began OER in Fall 2011 • Kaleidoscope Project (Gates Next Generation grant) • Seedling approach • Growing into targeted courses • Expect to have an OER Degree Pathway soon 23 “Germinated seedling.jpg” by Dbxsoul is licensed under CC-BY-3.0
- 24. What’s Working • Partneringwith Lumen Learning • Jump start for OER • OER Librarian • Create “template course” for department sharing • Funds for development and sharing 24 “20070212 tomato seedlings” by Jennifer is licensed under CC BY 2.0
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- 26. MUS101 • Increased academicfreedom and flexibility • Subject based instead of textbook based • Course materials built around SLO’s • Material available from day one • Obvious financial benefit to students • Adoption of OER Music 101 materials by most of the department faculty 26
- 27. What’s Working cont. •Formed faculty OER workgroup • Discussions with Curriculum Committee • Continued Professional development on OER • Identify OER courses on schedule course search • Tracking data on courses and student savings 27
- 28. Student OER comments: •“The open textbook is much easier to access, instead of being carried to classes its just by a click away that we can use the textbook. “ • “I would like an actual textbook to hold on to rather than the online resource. I find it to be much easier to have. “ • “… it was easy for me to read it on my phone because I always have it with me, plus I would read it in my free time and carrying the book could be hard for me as I always use the bus as transportation. “
- 29. SANTAANA COLLEGE Elliott Jones MusicFaculty Director of Choral Music jones_elliott@sac.edu
- 30. Launching an OERInitiative James Glapa-Grossklag Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning President of the Board, Open Education Consortium @JGlapaGrossklag
- 31. "Remote Marathon" byMarines is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
- 32. Leadership & Vision "Vision"by Mélanie Plante is licensed under CC BY 2.0
- 33. Project Goal(s) • Lowerstudent costs? • Increase faculty collaboration? • Reach a total cost savings number? • Improve learning? " Project 365 #237: 250809 Fingers Crossed!" by pete is licensed under CC BY 2.0
- 34. Top barriers toachieving educational goals? Costs of enrollment and fees 52% Work pressures 60% Costs of books and supplies 75% "Do Not Enter sign (Mexico).svg" by Fry1989 is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Source: 5th Annual Student Survey of Online Classes Spring 2012 Report #271
- 35. ASSOCIATED STUDENT GOVERNMENT ARESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF OPEN TEXTBOOKS WHEREAS, the cost of college textbooks is a prominent affordability issue for students who take on additional loan debt to pay for textbooks, or, undercut their own learning by forgoing the purchase of textbooks; and WHEREAS, open textbooks offer an affordable, comparable and flexible alternative to expensive, commercial textbooks; and WHEREAS, it is the prerogative of faculty to select the course materials that are most appropriate for a class; and WHEREAS, it is appropriate to seek and consider low-and no-cost options, including open textbooks, as long as there is no reduction in educational quality; and WHEREAS, students have a concern about textbook affordability and its impact on student success; and
- 36. Access to textbook onfirst day Free online, low-cost print option Faculty control How to Provide?
- 37. Source: LEAP surveyof College of the Canyons faculty, May 2015 COC faculty say
- 38. COC Academic SenateOER Resolution Whereas, The significant rise in costs of textbooks is a barrier to college attendance, student access, and student success; Whereas, Many colleges are interested in reducing the cost of textbooks to increase student access to necessary course materials; and Whereas, Individual faculty have the Academic Freedom and choice to select instructional materials that may include the adoption of lower cost, high-quality, open educational resources (OER); Resolved, That the Academic Senate of College of the Canyons supports efforts to increase student access to high-quality open educational resources and reduce the cost of textbooks and supplies for students in course sections for which faculty choose to adopt open educational resources to promote student learning and to reduce the cost barriers for students. Resolved, That faculty will maintain the option to choose their own course materials, and to select open educational resources or not.
- 39. Open Textbooks @COC Spring 2016 Fall 2016 SOC 5 courses HIST 4 courses MATH 3 courses WATER 2 courses BIO 1 course BUS 1 course ENGL 1 course MATH +2 courses CHEM 2 courses COUNS 1 course Under review +ENGL COMS HEALTH PHOTO
- 40. OER degree pathway aka ZeroTextbook Cost degree aka ZTC@COC: Sociology ADT
- 41. ZTC@COC Steps toDate LEAP business plan Opening Day presentation Governor’s Office meeting Secured local funding Identified initial degree pathway as SOC Hired college assistant for faculty support Updated Bookstore Committee Requested evaluation plan Issued call for participation to faculty Formed OER advisory committee Presented to: • Board of Trustees • Opening Day • Academic Senate • College Planning Team • Ed Tech Committee • Joint meeting of BOT & ASG • Full Cabinet • Technology Committee Communicate with Bookstore "Steps, Canal Road, Armley" by Tim Green is licensed under CC BY 2.0
- 42. ZTC@COC Next Steps Publicize ASG OER resolution Publicize Academic Senate OER resolution Continue informational workshops Renew faculty survey Submit grant applications • CSU OER funding – June 2016 • CCC ZTC funding – Fall 2016? Solicit faculty participation • SOC ADT IGETC Pathway • GE courses that are on high Hispanic serving list Provide faculty development opportunities • Reading apprenticeship training • Conference attendance • External trainers • Faculty Inquiry Groups Identify OER sections in class schedule (FA 16) Evaluate adoptions
- 43. Practice Openness Do you: •Share with colleagues? • Openly license teaching materials? • Publish in open access journals? • Recognize OER as legitimate scholarly work? • Help students to gain digital literacy? "Mirror" by Yasunari Nakamura is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
- 44. "Berlin Marathon" byakiwitz is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Persistence
- 45. Join the Community •Access to a community of OER experts • Online advisory email list • Professional development • Collaboration opportunities • Online Resources Twitter : @unatdaly, @cccoer http://www.slideshare.net/UnaDaly/ http://oerconsortium.org
- 46. Thank you forjoining us! Questions? Contact Info: Una Daly: unatdaly@oeconsortium.org Dana Hester: DHester@citruscollege.edu Elliott Jones: Jones_Elliott@sac.edu James Glapa-Grossklag: James.Glapa-Grossklag@canyons.edu