Looking at the Open Education opportunities for California Community Colleges with a specific focus on Palomar College.

1. Una T. Daly
Feb 28, 2017
Exploring Open Educational
Resources (OER)
Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0

2. Welcome, please introduce
yourself!
Una Daly, MA
Director, CCCOER
Instructional Design
@ONE Project, Foothill College
http://cccoer.org

3. • Adoption of high-quality open
educational resources
• Faculty choice & development
• Student success
Community College Consortium
for OER
http://cccoer.org
Image: Come In, We're
Open by Gary
Simmons cc-by-nc-sa
flickr

4. 250+ Colleges in 21 States
& Provinces
California
Community
College
Chancellor’s
Office

5. Agenda
• Quiz Show
• Solution to the Problem
• OER Sites
– Cool4Ed
– OpenStax College
• Questions

6. Open Education Resource
(OER) Quiz

7. By what % have textbook prices
risen in the last 12 years?
❑Less than 50%
❑50-75%
❑Over 80%

8. Source: Government Accountability Office, June 2013, College Textbooks Report

9. Student Impact
• 48% take fewer classes
or different classes
• 65% choose to not buy
textbook
• 94% report concern that
grades affected
Source: Fixing the Broken Textbook Market,
2014
Survey of 2039 students at 156
campuses across 33 states

10. All open educational
resources are in the public domain.
❑True
❑ False

11. Open Educational Resources
Freely available materials that can be
downloaded, edited and shared to better
serve all students.
• Providing range of high quality resources
• Allowing faculty great academic freedom
• Lowering costs for students.

12. Examples
• Lesson plans
• Open Courseware
• Open textbooks
• Videos
• Images
• Tests
• Software
• Tools, materials, or techniques to access
knowledge freely

13. Creative Commons Licenses
Simple, standardized way to grant copyright
permissions
http://creativecommons.org
Permission: Attribute Commercial? Share alike?

14. Over 1 Billion Licensed Works

15. eBooks are the same as open
textbooks?
❑True
❑ False

16. ebook vs. Open Textbooks
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ethan-senack/etextbooks-vs-open-
textbo_b_8547630.html
Feature eBooks
Open
Textbooks
PRINTING Some printing
restrictions
No printing
restrictions
DEVICES Restriction on how
many devices can
access
Can load on any
number of devices
EXPIRATION Many expire after one
or two semesters
You can retain a
copy indefinitely
PRICE Varies greatly and no
resale value of hard
copy
Free online and
usually $20-60 for
hard copy

17. Solution:
Open Educational Resources
• Online access to textbook on first
day of class.
• Free online, low-
cost print option
• Faculty can adapt for students
Licensed for re-use by OpenSourceWay

18. Cost Savings
H-M Harcourt OpenStax
ebook Rent $111.85, Buy: $178.99
Print Copy: $232. 98 (new)
ebook – FREE, ibook $4.99
Print Softbound: $55.00
©All rights reserved

20. Check your Bookstore
http://www.bkstr.com/palomarstore/shop/textbooks-and-course-materials

21. Faculty Choice
• No more covering extra chapters because
book is so expensive
• No requirement to change
versions every few years.
• Customize instructional materials to match
students and course outcomes.
• Many open textbooks have ancillaries
Image: faculty meeting fun by alex ragone cc-by-nc-sa

22. CA State Funding Available
• Textbook Affordability Act of 2015
• $5 Million for Community College
OER Degree programs approved
2016-17 state budget

23. California’s
Zero-Textbook-Cost (ZTC) Degree
All existing courses in a pathway completely
eliminate conventional textbook costs
▪ Associate degrees
▪ Career Technical Education (CTE)
certificates

24. CA ZTC: Grant Cycle One
• 5 Implementation grants awarded
❑ 2 Associate degrees
❑ 3 CTE certificates
• 18 Planning grants awarded
• Performance Period: Jan-Dec, 2017

25. CA ZTC: Grant Cycle Two
• RFA release mid-2017
• 18-21 Implementation grant awards
estimated
• Performance period 2018

26. Peer Reviewed OER Sites

27. 50 Highest Impact College Courses
Geography
History
Kinesiology
Math
Music
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Spanish
Statistics
Accounting
Art History
Biology
Business
Chemistry
Child Development
Communication
Computer Science
Economics
Education
English
Electronic Media
http://cool4ed.org

28. Peer Reviewed Open Textbooks
http://cool4ed.org/courseshowcase.html

29. Faculty Adoption Showcases
http://cool4ed.org/facultyshowcase.html
• Course description
• Syllabus
• Open textbook
• Ancillaries
• Sample assignment
• Student feedback
• Lessons learned
• Faculty/college profile

30. $13 MILLION+ SAVED!
http://openstax.org/subjects
Foundation funded, peer reviewed open textbooks
for top 25 courses. Ancillaries available.

31. College Bookstores
•Textbook information hub on campus
•Ask them to participate
•Print copies
Lower Columbia College Flickr CC-BYNCND

32. Student Access
• What formats do students want?
• How to distribute?
– Digital
– Print copies
• Inform the library and IT help desk
https://vimeo.com/78298095

33. Remix OER?
• Formatting
• 508/ADA Accessibility
• Licensing
33
"DJ SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE" by Spangdahlem
Air Bas. Licensed under Public Domain via
Commons -

34. OER Research
• California OER Council White Paper
• Washington’s SBCTC Faculty OER Usage
Study
• Open Education Group at BYU
• OER Research Hub at Open University
• Babson’s Opening the Textbook Report
(2016)

35. Released April 1, 2016
Permalink for online version: http://tinyurl.com/WPOERAdoption040116
Printable PDF with Appendices: http://tinyurl.com/WPOERPrintVersion2
Video Synopsis: https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=vwVIrv0iSgE

36. 16 faculty shared
perceptions about their use of OER
• 12 of 16 faculty rated the OER textbook
equivalent or superior to the traditional textbook
for the course.
• Faculty were concerned about support materials
(PowerPoints, Test banks) available for OER
textbooks.
– 50% felt that the support materials lacked quality.
– 25% of faculty felt that implementing the support
materials took a significant amount of time.

37. 13 Peer Reviewed Studies
of OER Efficacy
http://openedgroup.org/
"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John
Hilton III, Open Education Group

38. 119,720 Students
http://openedgroup.org/
"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John
Hilton III, Open Education Group

39. 95% Same or Better Outcomes
http://openedgroup.org/
"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John
Hilton III, Open Education Group

40. Join our Community
• Access to a community of OER experts
• Community email list
• Monthly online professional development
• Collaboration opportunities
• Online Resources
Twitter : @cccoer
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