Annie Knight and Cherylee Kushida - Open Education Conference, Nov. 18-20, 2015, Vancouver, Canada.

1. Cultivating an OER Pathway
A College-Wide Collaborative Approach
Annie Knight and Cherylee Kushida
Santa Ana College

2. Presentation Overview
● Campus service population and
demographics
● SAC’s OER history
● OER initiatives and cultivation
● Campus partnerships and key
players
● Benefits to new faculty
● Looking ahead
“The renaissance style gardens at Chateau Villandry” is licensed
under CCBY2.0

3. • Located in Southern
California, Orange County
• Fall 2014 Credit Headcount,
18,491
• Ethnically diverse
• Celebrating our Centennial
in Fall 2015!

4. OER at SAC
• Began OER in Fall 2011
• Kaleidoscope Project
• Gates Next Generation
• Seedling approach
• Growing into targeted courses
• Expect to have an OER Pathway soon
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“Germinated seedling.jpg” by Dbxsoul
is licensed under CC-BY-3.0

5. Cultivating OER
• Partnered with Lumen Learning
• Jump start for OER
• Created “template course”
• Funding for development and
sharing (Student Equity)
• Planned for OER Librarian
• Planning Pathways
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“20070212 tomato seedlings” by Jennifer is licensed under CC BY 2.0

9. OER Cultivation cont.
• Formed faculty OER workgroup
• Working with “open” faculty
• Continued Professional development
• Support of Librarian for OER
• Identify OER courses on schedule course
search
• Tracking data on courses and student
savings
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12. OER at SAC
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Flatworld pricing
change affected
faculty usage

13. 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. “

14. OER Librarian - Background and Roles
● Campus OA advocate
● Developing and teaching OA
pedagogy for undergraduate
information literacy course
● Assisting faculty with locating OER
materials for their courses
● Maintaining an OER LibGuide for
faculty
● Collaboratively teaching faculty
development workshops on OER
● Possibly playing a greater role in
instructional integration of OER
OER Libguide: http://libguides.sac.edu/oer_resources

15. OER Librarian Collaboration with Lumen Learning
● OER - SLO mapping for core courses:

16. OER Faculty Work Group
● Academic Senate Work Group
● Members include faculty across
the disciplines with varying
experience and interest in OER
implementation
● Develop OER standards,
guidelines, and best practices
for faculty that align with
institutional and matriculation
curricular requirements
Sample questions from an OER FAQ document currently being
produced by the OER Faculty Work Group (in progress)

17. Helping New Faculty Blossom
● Finding community and mentorship
within a unique group of colleagues
● Establishing good OER habits from the
start
● Learning to be a better advocate for
students
● Contributing to the OER zeitgeist (by
adopting, adapting, and/or authoring
original OER materials) “Close up of white blossom twinleaf flowers” is a public
domain (CCO) image

18. Contact Information
● Cherylee Kushida
Distance Education Coordinator and Professor, Santa Ana College
kushida_cherylee@sac.edu
● Annie Knight
Librarian and Professor, Santa Ana College
knight_annie@sac.edu