Community College OER Showcases: Scottsdale College’s OER Math Program and Tacoma College’s Liberate Project This webinar starts at 1:00 pm (PDT), 4:00 pm (EDT) and will showcase two innovative OER projects at U.S. community colleges in Arizona and Washington State. • Dr. Donna Gaudet, Mathematics Department Chair at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona will share the three-year odyssey of developing and adopting OER for all the math curriculum from arithmetic through pre-calculus. Results presented will include the cost savings and feedback from students on using the new materials. • Quill West, OER Project Director, has lead the Liberate Project at Tacoma Community College in Washington since 2011 promoting OER awareness and adoption among faculty and students. The project saved students an estimated $271,000 in textbook costs in the first nine months and encourages student advocacy in OER selection and adoption.

1. Donna Gaudet, Scottsdale Community College, AZ
Quill West, Tacoma Community College, WA
Una Daly, OpenCourseWare Consortium
March 12, 2014
Community College
Consortium
OER Innovations Panel

2. Welcome!!
• Introduction to OER
• Scottsdale’s OER Math Program
• Tacoma’s Liberate Project
• OCW-CCCOER Community of Practice
• Q & A

3. What are Open Educational
Resources?
U.S. Dept. of Education
– Teaching, learning, and research
resources that reside in the public
domain or have been released under
an intellectual property license that
permits their free use or repurposing by
others.
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cc-by donkyhotey/flickr
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license

4. What is an Open License?
• Free: Free to access online, free to print
• Open: Reuse, Revise, Remix, Redistribute
• Creative Commons: less restrictions than standard
copyright but author retains full rights.

5. Examples
Includes –
• Course materials
• Lesson Plans
• Modules or lessons
• OpenCourseWare (OCW)
• Open textbooks
• Videos
• Images
• Tests
• Software
• Any other tools, materials, or techniques used
to support ready access to knowledge
5adapted from Judy Baker’s ELI 2011 OER Workshop cc-by license

6. CCCOER Mission
• Promote adoption of OER to enhance
teaching and learning
–Expand access to education
–Support professional development
–Voice for open education at community
colleges.
Funded by the William & Flora
Hewlett Foundation

7. 240+ Colleges in 16 states & provinces

8. Open Educational Resources
The Village Approach
Scottsdale Community College
Donna Gaudet
donna.gaudet@scottsdalecc.edu

9. Open Educational Resources
The Village Approach
Scottsdale Community College
Part 1 - Background

10. SCC Math Department -
Transition to Open Educational resources
 OER’s were under development for use in our hybrid and online courses
 Individual faculty increased their use of OER to facilitate classroom
instruction.
 New technologies such as LiveScribe
Pens, SoftChalk, Screencast, MathAS and many more had been utilized.
 In 2011-2012, these efforts resulted in creation of a complete learning
environment for our Introductory, Intermediate and College Algebra
courses.
 Textbook
 Interactive Workbook
 Online Homework Software
 Concept Tutorials
 Online Homework Assistance

11. Open Educational Resources
The Village Approach
Scottsdale Community College
Part 2 - Components

12. Concept
Tutorials
Online HW
Assistance
Interactive
Workbook
Online
Homework
Software
Textbook
Complete Learning Environment

13. Links provided to students for free downloads of workbooks/textbooks

14. MiniLesson Support
Worked solutions to all examples
Answers to You Try Problems
Worked solutions to Practice Problems
Samples tests and lesson reviews
In class activities
Calculator tips
Instructor Manual

15. Open Educational Resources
The Village Approach
Scottsdale Community College
Part 3 - Data

16. Completely open source for Arithmetic
through PreCalculus classes (6 classes)
42+ instructors (full time and adjunct)
65+ sections
6550 students have been impacted so far
with an estimated savings of $655,000
(F12, Sp13, Su13, F13)
Current Status

17. http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1523
SCC/BYU research partnership

18. What did Students Think about OER?
910 students surveyed during Fall 2012 semester
78.1% feel the open materials support adequately the
work that they do outside of class

19. What did Students Think about OER?
910 students surveyed during Fall 2012 semester
76.2% would recommend the open materials to
their classmates

20. How did Students Do?
Percentage of
Students Earning a C
Grade or Better
Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Fall 2012
MAT 09x 62%
(n=790)
67%
(n=704)
51% (n=643)
MAT 12x 60%
(n=748)
63%
(n=721)
62% (n=764)
MAT 15x 65%
(n=448)
64%
(n=388)
65% (n=461)
MAT 182 56%
(n=106)
61%
(n=109)
58% (n=95)
MAT 187 53% (n=72) 48% (n=82) 55% (n=80)
OERPre-
OER
Pre-
OER

21. Survey Question: What additional comments do you have regarding the quality of the
open materials used in your class?” (210/255 (82%) positive)
What did Students Say?
“They were good. Definitely worth not having a massed
produced book for.”
“I never had an open materials class before. It made
work less stressful and learning more enjoyable – didn’t
constantly feel frustrated and was able to look through
notes when I got stuck.”
“The quality was excellent. It really helped my
understanding.”

22. Survey Question: “What additional comments do you have regarding the quality of
the open materials used in your class?” (210/255 (82%) positive)
What did Students Say?
“Buying textbooks is out of date and I think materials
should be inexpensive.”
“I love saving money, I am poor.”
“I like the open materials, textbooks are so expensive
that it makes me not want to buy them.”

23. The Village Approach….
 Our effort would not have been
successful without the work of many
people
 Team approach to materials
development was critical
 Resulting materials were at a higher
level than an individual could do
alone
 Team members participated in areas
of strength (i.e. videos, writing
materials, editing, etc…)

24. Thorns and Roses – A massive department OER effort
Roses
 Cost savings for students
 Department community
building and support
 Energy of the new users
 Support of department and
administration
 Introduction of creative
teaching approaches
Thorns
 Huge amount of
development time
 Maintenance and updates
 Distribution (bookstore!)
 Adjunct faculty buy-in

25. Administrative Commitment
Coordinator positions
MAT082, MAT09x, MAT12x, MathAS
Rotating Development Schedule
Only one major workbook revision per year
Minor edits only to other workbooks
Project Sustainability

26. Start small
Grow slowly
Identify faculty champions
Involve everyone
Gather administrative support
Gather data, modify materials, continue to grow
and learn and improve
OER Implementation Advice

27. SCC Math Blog
sccmath.wordpress.com
Links to Project Materials

28. The Liberated Project
Quill West
OER Project Director
Faculty Librarian

29. GROWING AN OER CULTURE
Or
From Seed to Savings:
How to Save Students Half a Million Dollars on Textbooks.
open.tacomacc.edu tacomacc.edu/open

30. “Tomato seeds in early stages” by SunHappy, CC-BY 3.0 “starting seeds” by ciruculating, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 “20070123 seeds 03” by jspatchwork, CC-BY 2.0
OER, a good idea.

31. “later that spring” by donkeycart, CC-BY-NC 2.0
Find a place to nurture the seedlings.

32. “tomato plants” by kthread, CC-BY 2.0
Build strong roots, but flaunt the “green.”

33. “tomato plant flower” by ali graney, CC-BY 2.0
Students will let you know about blossoms.

34. “tomatoes” by paul goyette, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0
Even if they aren’t ripe, you can show off the fruit.

35. “First tomato, June 2010” by theManWhoSurfedTooMuch, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0
Harvest carefully and at the perfect time.

36. “Mozzarella Basil Tomato Salad” by elmada, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0
Blend your fruit with others’ fruits for the best results.

37. Community College Consortium for
OER
Una Daly
Community College Director
OpenCourseWare Consortium
James Glapa-Grossklag
Dean, College of the Canyons
President, CCCOER Advisory

38. • Find & Adopt open textbook workshops
• Understanding open licenses
• Open textbook development workflow
• Online accessibility
• Faculty and student surveys
• Access to community of
OER practitioners & experts
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39. Spring Webinars
(Wed, 11:00 PT, 3:00 ET)
• 2/5 - Open Textbook and Adoptions
• 3/12 - Community College OER Projects
• 4/9 – OER Impact Research Findings
• 5/14 - Intellectual Property: Open Licensing,
Trademarks, Patents, etc.
Join our Advisory Group to be notified of upcoming
events and participate in our monthly OER chat.

40. Donna Gaudet donna.gaudet@scottsdalecc.edu
Quill West qwest@tacomacc.edu
Una Daly: unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org
James Glapa-Grossklag: James.Glapa-Grossklag@canyons.edu
Thank you for coming!!
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