Presentation during the Northeast Regional OER Summit at UMass Amherst as part of a panel of OpenStax institutional partners.

1. Regina Gong, Librarian & OER Project Manager
gongr1@lcc.edu; @drgong
http://libguides.lcc.edu/oer
Northeast OER Summit
UMass Amherst
June 14, 2017
Creating Successful OER Institutional
Initiatives with Big Impact

2. LCC AT A GLANCE
• Located in downtown Lansing
• Founded in 1957
• 26,000 students enrolled/year
• 230+ degree & certificate
programs
• 1st in MI to offer online degrees
• Teaching faculty 90% adjuncts

3. Textbook affordability
Allow faculty to reinvigorate the way they teach
OER Initiative Goals

4. • Started from the bottom up
• Administration support was strong
• Academic Senate resolution on OER passed in
March 2015
• Embarked on extensive OER awareness
• Started offering OER courses in fall 2015
semester
OER Initiative at LCC

5. In June 2016, LCC was chosen as an institutional
partner of OpenStax

6. Strategies that work

7. Meet faculty individually and
as a group
• Target program faculty chairs and program
coordinators
• Ask to be included in the agenda during
department meetings
• Don’t forget to bring sign up sheets!

8. BIOL 127 – Cell Biology
BIOL 128 – Organismal Biology
BIOL 270 - Human Genetics
PSYC 200 – Intro to Psychology
SOCL 120 – Introduction to SociologyECON 201 –Microeconomics
ECON 201 – Macroeconomics
BIOL 201– Human Anatomy MATH 106 – Math Literacy with Review

9. Continued, ongoing professional
development
• Faculty workshops through the Center for Teaching Excellence
• Open Sesame: Using Open Educational Resources (OER)
for Teaching and Learning
• OER-Palooza: Let’s Find OER for your Course
• So You’ve Chosen an OER, Now what?
• Sharing and Collaborating with LCC’s Z-degree Initiative
• OER Summit at LCC

10. Encourage and turn OER believers
into OER champions
“I see this as an issue of access to education and even an
issue of justice. If education is necessary for securing certain
basic human rights (as philosophers like Martha Nussbaum
have argued), then lack of access to education is itself an issue
of justice. Providing high quality, low-cost textbooks is one,
small part of making higher education more affordable and thus
more equitable and just. This open textbook is a contribution
towards that end.”
Dr. Matthew Van Cleave, Professor of Philosophy

11. Encourage and turn OER believers
as OER champions
“Our students are poor and most of them on Pell
grant. When I had to escort two of my students to
the food pantry, I knew I had to change my
textbook to OER and I’m glad I did so maybe you
should too.”
Dr. Sharon Hughes, Professor of Psychology

12. Fall 2015 Spring 2016
Summer
2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017
Summer
2017 Fall 2017
Running
Total
Faculty Using OER 5 12 4 46 48 25 58 198
Courses Using OER 5 10 4 14 16 10 21 80
Sections Using OER 11 23 6 101 100 31 118 390
Students Enrolled 317 540 129 2,825 2,558 746 3,508 10,623
Actual Textbook
Savings (based on new
print book) $63,286.75 $92,077.75 $26,792.50 $351,449.00 $318,974.50 $96,539.00 $511,321.00 $1,460,440
Total Textbook Savings
(no. of students*$100) $31,700 $54,000 $12,900 $282,500 $255,800 $74,600 $350,800 $1,062,300
OER Adoptions Summary

13. Communicate success
college-wide
• Regular feature articles in “The Star”
• Tell story to students via student newspaper
• Participate in professional development days for
faculty
• Write President reports to the Board of Trustees

15. Pursue partnerships & collaborations
within and outside of institution
• Library
• E-Learning
• Center for Teaching Excellence
• Academic Senate
• Center for Data Science
• Student Life and Student Leadership Academy
• Open Learning Lab
• Michigan Colleges Online
• K-12 through #GoOpen MI

16. Next Steps
• More program level OER adoptions
• Work on offering Z-degree starting Fall 2018
• Support adjunct faculty with stipends
• Encourage & support faculty engagement with open
education and pedagogy
• Promote/market OER courses to students
• Impact assessment beyond cost savings