Presentation at the Online Teaching Conference Jun 18, 2015 in San Diego, CA:
The cost of textbooks has been identified as a major barrier for students completing their education. Colleges seeking to increase student retention and success are promoting the use of open educational resources and open textbooks to reduce costs and improve pedagogy. A key strategy for college adoption campaigns has been participating in communities of practice. Members of the Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) will share their best practices and other tactics for nurturing a national community of practice focused on open education.
Etienne Wenger defines communities of practice as “groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” With over 250 member colleges in 19 states and provinces, CCCOER encourages collaboration between members and invites OER project presentations at monthly online meetings. Experienced members advise those who are just getting started on OER and best practices are freely shared. Access to a community of college OER experts through our advisory listserve allows new members to quickly find and adopt the highest quality OER available. Meetups at regional and national conferences provide an opportunity to share and promote the OER adoption successes of our members with colleagues in higher education.
Hear from this panel of OER experts about how they promote open textbooks and OER adoption at their colleges:
Una Daly, Director of CCCOER and Curriculum Design at the Open Education Consortium. Panel facilitator.
Katie Datko: Interim Associate Dean of Distance Education and Instructional Designer, Pasadena City College.
James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean of Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons, President of CCCOER Advisory
Barbara Illowsky: Dean of Basic Skills & OER, CCC Online Ed Initiative and Mathematics professor at De Anza College.
Cherylee Kushida: Distance Education Coordinator and Computer Science professor at Santa Ana College.
The iterative engagement between curation and evaluation in an open research ...SarahG_SS
Presentation at the African Virtual University (AVU) in Nairobi, Kenya in July 2015. This practice-based presentation outlines the iterative engagement between ROER4D’s curation strategy and evaluation of this project objective, and analyses how this facilitates development of the evaluation plan. Opportunities and challenges of developing and evaluating a curation strategy for such a large-scale open research project are also highlighted.
Ethics, Openness and the Future of LearningRobert Farrow
What difference does openness make to ethics' This session will examine this question both from the perspective of research into OER and the use of open resources in teaching and learning. An outline of the nature and importance of ethics will be provided before the basic principles of research ethics are outlined through an examination of the guidance provided by National Institutes of Health (2014) and BERA (2014). The importance and foundation of institutional approval for OER research activities is reiterated with a focus on underlying principles that can also be applied openly.
I argue that with a shift to informal (or extra-institutional) learning there is a risk that we lose some clarity over the nature and extent of our moral obligations when working outside institutional frameworks – what Weller (2013) has termed "guerilla" research activity. Innovations of this kind could be free of licensing permissions; they could be funded by kickstarter or public-private enterprise; or they could reflect individuals working as data journalists. But we might also speak of "guerilla" education for innovations taking place on the fringes of institutional activity – from using social media to going full-blown "edupunk" (Groom, 2008). These innovations which employ variants of opennesss can also bring out morally complex situations.
I show how the principles underlying traditional research ethics can be applied openly while noting that, whether working within or outside institutions, there is almost no existing guidance that explains the ethical implications of working openly. Similar issues are raised with MOOC, which operate outside institutions but while drawing on institutional reputations and values. With this in mind I sketch out scenarios we are likely to encounter in the future of education:
- Issues around privacy, security and big data
- Intellectual property conflicts
- Ensuring fair treatment of class students and equivalent online students
- Meeting obligations to content creators
- The ethical status of MOOCs and their obligations to their students
- Moral dimensions of open licenses
- The ethics of learning analytics and the data it produces
I argue that, while models for ethical analysis have been proposed (e.g. Farrow, 2011) more attention should be paid to the ethics of being open. I conclude with an examination of the idea that we have a moral obligation to be open, contrasting prudential and ethical approaches to open education. At the heart of the OER movement, I argue, is a strong moral impulse that should be recognized and celebrated rather than considered the preserve of the ideologue: openness is not reducible to lowering the marginal cost of educational resources. Openness is a diverse spectrum and to leverage its true potential we need to reflect deeply on how technology has the power to challenge the normative assumptions we make about education.
The growing adoption of open educational resources (OER) has identified the need for easy-to-use authoring platforms for the development and delivery of openly licensed digital content. Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for this free, open webinar on authoring platforms that support faculty authoring and adaption of open educational resources and institutional delivery of these resources.
Our speakers will share platforms used by faculty to develop open textbooks and deliver openly licensed digital content to faculty and students in an easy and accessible manner.
Date: Wednesday, April 8
Time: 10 am PST; 1:00 pm EST
Featured speakers:
Clint Lalonde, Open Education Manager, BCcampus
Judy Einstein, VP Business Development and Etienne Pelaprat, User Experience Director, Courseload Inc.
Domi Enders, Founder and CEO, Open Assembly
The iterative engagement between curation and evaluation in an open research ...SarahG_SS
Presentation at the African Virtual University (AVU) in Nairobi, Kenya in July 2015. This practice-based presentation outlines the iterative engagement between ROER4D’s curation strategy and evaluation of this project objective, and analyses how this facilitates development of the evaluation plan. Opportunities and challenges of developing and evaluating a curation strategy for such a large-scale open research project are also highlighted.
Ethics, Openness and the Future of LearningRobert Farrow
What difference does openness make to ethics' This session will examine this question both from the perspective of research into OER and the use of open resources in teaching and learning. An outline of the nature and importance of ethics will be provided before the basic principles of research ethics are outlined through an examination of the guidance provided by National Institutes of Health (2014) and BERA (2014). The importance and foundation of institutional approval for OER research activities is reiterated with a focus on underlying principles that can also be applied openly.
I argue that with a shift to informal (or extra-institutional) learning there is a risk that we lose some clarity over the nature and extent of our moral obligations when working outside institutional frameworks – what Weller (2013) has termed "guerilla" research activity. Innovations of this kind could be free of licensing permissions; they could be funded by kickstarter or public-private enterprise; or they could reflect individuals working as data journalists. But we might also speak of "guerilla" education for innovations taking place on the fringes of institutional activity – from using social media to going full-blown "edupunk" (Groom, 2008). These innovations which employ variants of opennesss can also bring out morally complex situations.
I show how the principles underlying traditional research ethics can be applied openly while noting that, whether working within or outside institutions, there is almost no existing guidance that explains the ethical implications of working openly. Similar issues are raised with MOOC, which operate outside institutions but while drawing on institutional reputations and values. With this in mind I sketch out scenarios we are likely to encounter in the future of education:
- Issues around privacy, security and big data
- Intellectual property conflicts
- Ensuring fair treatment of class students and equivalent online students
- Meeting obligations to content creators
- The ethical status of MOOCs and their obligations to their students
- Moral dimensions of open licenses
- The ethics of learning analytics and the data it produces
I argue that, while models for ethical analysis have been proposed (e.g. Farrow, 2011) more attention should be paid to the ethics of being open. I conclude with an examination of the idea that we have a moral obligation to be open, contrasting prudential and ethical approaches to open education. At the heart of the OER movement, I argue, is a strong moral impulse that should be recognized and celebrated rather than considered the preserve of the ideologue: openness is not reducible to lowering the marginal cost of educational resources. Openness is a diverse spectrum and to leverage its true potential we need to reflect deeply on how technology has the power to challenge the normative assumptions we make about education.
The growing adoption of open educational resources (OER) has identified the need for easy-to-use authoring platforms for the development and delivery of openly licensed digital content. Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for this free, open webinar on authoring platforms that support faculty authoring and adaption of open educational resources and institutional delivery of these resources.
Our speakers will share platforms used by faculty to develop open textbooks and deliver openly licensed digital content to faculty and students in an easy and accessible manner.
Date: Wednesday, April 8
Time: 10 am PST; 1:00 pm EST
Featured speakers:
Clint Lalonde, Open Education Manager, BCcampus
Judy Einstein, VP Business Development and Etienne Pelaprat, User Experience Director, Courseload Inc.
Domi Enders, Founder and CEO, Open Assembly
Professional Development Programme on OER-based e-learningPat Toh
Open Educational Resources have emerged as one of the most innovative teaching and learning tools as well as a cost-effective mechanism to improve the quality of educational offerings by optimising the use of available resources. While OER can be used by any student to learn on his/her own, universities (especially Open Universities) that depend on printed distance learning materials can now use the OERs to offer their courses and programmes and thereby reduce the development time of courses and programmes, and also reduce the cost of launching new programmes. However, not many institutions are in a position to actually develop OERs that can be used effectively for teaching and learning in the digital environment.
The Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), realising the need for professional development of teachers, has developed this professional development programme on OER-based eLearning to promote the use of OER in educational institutions.
The programme has been developed as part of the institutional capacity building for OER-based eLearning at Wawasan Open University (WOU), Penang. Faculty members of WOU and several other institutions in Asia have contributed to the development of the contents. The modules are learning outcomes of the participants in three workshops supported by CEMCA.
Starting where we are, moving through changes open education is bringing at institutional, national, regional and international levels, and how we can continue to strengthen open education and its positive impacts
Using Twitter to build online learning communitiesOlivia Kelly
A presentation for OU Associate Lecturers given at a staff conference in April 2018. Looks at current research on how Twitter can be used as a tool to build an online learning community between ALs and students and among ALs.
Making MOOCs and changing open educational practicesROER4D
Making MOOCs and changing open educational practices
Laura Czerniewicz, Andrew Deacon, Sukaina Walji, Michael Glover
9 March 2017
Presentation at Open Education Global Conference 2017
Critical issues in contemporary open education researchRobert Farrow
This presentation outlines some key considerations for researchers working in the fields of open education, OER and MOOC. Key lines of debate in the open education movement will be described and critically assessed. A reflective overview of the award-winning OER Research Hub project will be used to frame several key considerations around the methodology and purpose of OER research (including 'impact' and 'open practices'). These will be compared with results from a 2016 OER Hub consultation with key stakeholders in the open education movement on research priorities for the sector. The presentation will conclude with thoughts on the potential for openness to act as a disruptive force in higher education.
Engaging with audiences early: the role of social media and networks in deve...ROER4D
Engaging with audiences early:
the role of social media and networks in developing a communications strategy for a global research project
Association of Business Communications (ABC) Regional Conference, Cape Town,
6-8 Jan 2016
Intro to and overview of Open Educaiton with an empnasis on the Why, from philosophical to economic arguments. Practicing what we preach - this is a mash-up using openly licensed presentations from other open education advocates along with original ones (and lots of pics). All licenses (except screenshots) are attached to the relvant slides. Any questions, just contact us at feedback@oeconsortium.org.
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams' Keynote presentation slides for 2nd Regional Symposium on Open Educational Resources (OER). Presentation title: Degrees of ease: Adoption of OER, Open Textbooks and MOOCs in the Global South
Presentation for the Open Education Week about the State of Open Education global and TU Delft on Monday 9th of March 2015 for the Open Education Week Seminar at TU Delft
Slides produced by OER Hub used to accompany moderated discussion of research priorities at the Open Education Global 2016 conference.
Contribute to this consultation by completing the very short form at http://tinyurl.com/2016ora
Developing a communications strategy for ROER4D - insights for the South Afri...ROER4D
Developing a communications strategy for ROER4D - insights for the South African Institute for Distance Education
Seminar presented by Sukaina Walji, 22 May, 2017, Johannesburg
California Community College Faculty Motivation and Reflection on Open Textbo...Una Daly
Interviews were conducted with twelve faculty members at community colleges in California who adopted open textbooks in their teaching practice for one academic term or longer. The interviews queried faculty on motivation to undertake the adoption, pedagogical considerations, student savings and feedback, and support from other campus stakeholders.
Faculty were asked how their teaching and student learning was affected as a result of adopting an open textbook in their course. Specifically they were asked if they were collaborating more with other faculty members and whether they were now using a wider range of instructional materials in their courses. With regards to student learning, they were asked if they believed that student learning had improved or whether student retention had improved as a result of the adoption of an open and free textbook. Any unanticipated outcomes that had resulted from the adoption either in their own practice or with students was also queried.
In addition to the faculty and students, other stakeholders on campus are often involved in the decision and process to adopt an open textbook. College initiatives or pilot programs to increase access and equity were sometimes the instigators for making the change and other times it was strictly a faculty decision. Library, instructional design, and bookstore staff were other stakeholders who played roles in the adoption process.
Attend this presentation to better understand the motivations of college faculty who adopt open textbooks and how it affected their teaching practice. Hear about the challenges they encountered and any unexpected outcomes. Learn what students had to say about using open textbooks in the classroom and how it affected their learning and ability to be successful.
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, (the Principal Investigator of the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project) and Andrew Deacon, from the Centre for Innovation for Learning and Teaching (CILT), presented a short seminar for the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Cape Town on OER and MOOCs.
Grainne Conole and Terese Bird presented this in a webinar for Open Education Week 2014, on 14th March 2014. The webinar is an activity of the eMundus EU-funded project about virtual mobility and open educational partnerships.
The iterative engagement between curation and evaluation in an open research ...ROER4D
The iterative engagement between curation and evaluation in an open research project: A utilization-focused approach Presentation for the AVU Conference 1-3 July 2015 by Sarah Goodier
Professional Development Programme on OER-based e-learningPat Toh
Open Educational Resources have emerged as one of the most innovative teaching and learning tools as well as a cost-effective mechanism to improve the quality of educational offerings by optimising the use of available resources. While OER can be used by any student to learn on his/her own, universities (especially Open Universities) that depend on printed distance learning materials can now use the OERs to offer their courses and programmes and thereby reduce the development time of courses and programmes, and also reduce the cost of launching new programmes. However, not many institutions are in a position to actually develop OERs that can be used effectively for teaching and learning in the digital environment.
The Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), realising the need for professional development of teachers, has developed this professional development programme on OER-based eLearning to promote the use of OER in educational institutions.
The programme has been developed as part of the institutional capacity building for OER-based eLearning at Wawasan Open University (WOU), Penang. Faculty members of WOU and several other institutions in Asia have contributed to the development of the contents. The modules are learning outcomes of the participants in three workshops supported by CEMCA.
Starting where we are, moving through changes open education is bringing at institutional, national, regional and international levels, and how we can continue to strengthen open education and its positive impacts
Using Twitter to build online learning communitiesOlivia Kelly
A presentation for OU Associate Lecturers given at a staff conference in April 2018. Looks at current research on how Twitter can be used as a tool to build an online learning community between ALs and students and among ALs.
Making MOOCs and changing open educational practicesROER4D
Making MOOCs and changing open educational practices
Laura Czerniewicz, Andrew Deacon, Sukaina Walji, Michael Glover
9 March 2017
Presentation at Open Education Global Conference 2017
Critical issues in contemporary open education researchRobert Farrow
This presentation outlines some key considerations for researchers working in the fields of open education, OER and MOOC. Key lines of debate in the open education movement will be described and critically assessed. A reflective overview of the award-winning OER Research Hub project will be used to frame several key considerations around the methodology and purpose of OER research (including 'impact' and 'open practices'). These will be compared with results from a 2016 OER Hub consultation with key stakeholders in the open education movement on research priorities for the sector. The presentation will conclude with thoughts on the potential for openness to act as a disruptive force in higher education.
Engaging with audiences early: the role of social media and networks in deve...ROER4D
Engaging with audiences early:
the role of social media and networks in developing a communications strategy for a global research project
Association of Business Communications (ABC) Regional Conference, Cape Town,
6-8 Jan 2016
Intro to and overview of Open Educaiton with an empnasis on the Why, from philosophical to economic arguments. Practicing what we preach - this is a mash-up using openly licensed presentations from other open education advocates along with original ones (and lots of pics). All licenses (except screenshots) are attached to the relvant slides. Any questions, just contact us at feedback@oeconsortium.org.
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams' Keynote presentation slides for 2nd Regional Symposium on Open Educational Resources (OER). Presentation title: Degrees of ease: Adoption of OER, Open Textbooks and MOOCs in the Global South
Presentation for the Open Education Week about the State of Open Education global and TU Delft on Monday 9th of March 2015 for the Open Education Week Seminar at TU Delft
Slides produced by OER Hub used to accompany moderated discussion of research priorities at the Open Education Global 2016 conference.
Contribute to this consultation by completing the very short form at http://tinyurl.com/2016ora
Developing a communications strategy for ROER4D - insights for the South Afri...ROER4D
Developing a communications strategy for ROER4D - insights for the South African Institute for Distance Education
Seminar presented by Sukaina Walji, 22 May, 2017, Johannesburg
California Community College Faculty Motivation and Reflection on Open Textbo...Una Daly
Interviews were conducted with twelve faculty members at community colleges in California who adopted open textbooks in their teaching practice for one academic term or longer. The interviews queried faculty on motivation to undertake the adoption, pedagogical considerations, student savings and feedback, and support from other campus stakeholders.
Faculty were asked how their teaching and student learning was affected as a result of adopting an open textbook in their course. Specifically they were asked if they were collaborating more with other faculty members and whether they were now using a wider range of instructional materials in their courses. With regards to student learning, they were asked if they believed that student learning had improved or whether student retention had improved as a result of the adoption of an open and free textbook. Any unanticipated outcomes that had resulted from the adoption either in their own practice or with students was also queried.
In addition to the faculty and students, other stakeholders on campus are often involved in the decision and process to adopt an open textbook. College initiatives or pilot programs to increase access and equity were sometimes the instigators for making the change and other times it was strictly a faculty decision. Library, instructional design, and bookstore staff were other stakeholders who played roles in the adoption process.
Attend this presentation to better understand the motivations of college faculty who adopt open textbooks and how it affected their teaching practice. Hear about the challenges they encountered and any unexpected outcomes. Learn what students had to say about using open textbooks in the classroom and how it affected their learning and ability to be successful.
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, (the Principal Investigator of the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project) and Andrew Deacon, from the Centre for Innovation for Learning and Teaching (CILT), presented a short seminar for the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Cape Town on OER and MOOCs.
Grainne Conole and Terese Bird presented this in a webinar for Open Education Week 2014, on 14th March 2014. The webinar is an activity of the eMundus EU-funded project about virtual mobility and open educational partnerships.
The iterative engagement between curation and evaluation in an open research ...ROER4D
The iterative engagement between curation and evaluation in an open research project: A utilization-focused approach Presentation for the AVU Conference 1-3 July 2015 by Sarah Goodier
"OER Research Hub Overview" was presented by Beck Pitt at Thompson Rivers University (TRU), Kamloops, B.C. Canada on 26 May 2015.
This presentation was developed from the slide deck created and presented by Bea de los Arcos at Open Education Global in Banff and OER15 with the addition of slides and content focused on open textbook research.
OER, Open Access and Scholarship in Portuguese Higher EducationPaula Cardoso
Presentation at OpenEd14, Washington, November 19-21, 2014.
PhD research at the Open University of Lisbon, supported by GO-GN (Global OER Graduate Network).
For a political economy of open educationRichard Hall
My presentation at Open Education: Condition Critical, 20 November 2014. See: http://www.richard-hall.org/2014/11/19/for-a-political-economy-of-open-education/
Using the work of the OER Research Hub at the Open University, different types of OER users are identified. The different strategies for reaching these audiences are considered
OpenEd 2014 -- Powering Personalized Learning with OERJonathan Mott
To fully realize the potential of OER to transform learning, it must be mapped to learning goal frameworks and delivered in personalized learning contexts.
2nd Regional Symposium on Open Educational Resources:
Beyond Advocacy, Research and Policy
24 – 27 June 2014
Sub-theme 3: Content
OUJ MOOC Platform: A Case Study of Japanese MOOC Platform
Tsuneo Yamada
FarnsUY is the most reliable source of objective market information for individual and institutional foreign investors considering agribusiness investment opportuninities in the Oriental Republic of Uruguay.
Open licensing of instructional materials such as textbooks, videos, and other related resources makes possible free sharing and remixing which reduces cost barriers for students. Creative Commons provides the legal infrastructure for easily sharing creative works including instructional materials but how do the different creative commons licenses indicate a resource can be re-used. Join us for an interactive session of playbook license scenarios where you can test your knowledge of the allowed OER re-use based on license type.
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for our October webinar:
When: Oct 12, 10amPST/1pmEST
Featured Speakers:
Quill West, OER Program Manager, Pierce College District
Cable Green, Director of Open Education, Creative Commons
FarmsUY Información y Servicios para ProductoresFarmsUY
FarmsUY es el sitio web en inglés de Blasina y Asociados diseñada para educar e informar a la audiencia global del gran crecimiento y de las oportunidades que existen en el ámbito de agronegocios de Uruguay. FarmsUY presenta noticias y eventos actuales en relación con ganado vacuno uruguayo, cultivos y exportaciones además de versiones en inglés de nuestros reportes semanales: Ganadería.uy y Conexión Agropecuaria. La clave del exitoso ranking del sitio web en cuanto a los principales motores de búsqueda es la abundancia de contenido original focalizado en los agronegocios en Uruguay.
Presentation of OER Degrees and Zero Textbook Cost Degrees nationally including Achieving the Dream's OER Degree Initiative, California's ZTC degree, and Tidewater and Northern Virginia Community College in Virginia.
Preparing Instructors to Teach Online: Two Faculty Development ModelsKathy Keairns
Two directors of online learning, one from a Colorado Community College and one from a private university in Denver, share their faculty development models. Presented at the 2013 eLearning Consortium of Colorado annual conference in Breckenridge, Colorado.
Open Education Week: Community College OER Innovation PanelUna Daly
Presentation from Open Education Week, March 13, 2013
From a "Basic Arithmetic MOOC” to an “OER-based General Education Certificate”, learn about the innovation at our two-year public colleges and how to best support institutional adoption of OER at your college.
Website: http://oerconsortium.org
How to participate
Webinar time: 19:00-20:00 GMT/UTC
Webinar language: English
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When prompted, please enter first and last name, email address, and screen name and click on the Connect button to proceed to webinar.
Speakers
Una Daly
MA, Community College Outreach, OpenCourseWare Consortium
Dr. Wm. Preston Davis
Director of Instructional Services, ELI, Northern Virginia Community College
Dr. Donna Gaudet
Math Professor, Scottsdale Community College, Arizona
Quill West
OER Project Director, Tacoma Community College, Washington
CCCOER OTC Faculty Panel: The Benefits and Challenges of Adopting Open Educat...Una Daly
CCCOER Faculty Panel: The Benefits and Challenges of Adopting Open Educational Resources (OER)
Hear from faculty who have developed and adopted open textbooks, open courseware, and open resources to lower costs and improve teaching and learning. Topics include adopting and customizing a psychology open textbook, developing an open online course for administration of justice remediation, and collaborative development of a “how-to-learn-online” course utilizing only existing OER. Attendees will also find out how their college can become involved in the open education movement and participate in the Community College Consortium (CCCOER) at the OpenCourseWare Consortium to share lesson learned and find partners for collaboration.
Cynthia Alexander, Educational Technology Professor, Cerritos College
Michelle Pilati, Psychology Professor, Rio Hondo College
Lisa Storm, Administration of Justice Professor, Hartnell College
Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director, OpenCourseWare Consortium
Five Minute Idea Exchange for Teaching and Learning in Higher EducationD2L
Learn about the information about the new Learning Technology Coaches program at the University of Calgary, the results of a mandatory online student orientation at Portland Community College, and a quick way to embed an audio player inside the Brightspace platform.
Watch the webinar here: http://bit.ly/1RUTH9X.
Jan 29 using oer for workforce developmentUna Daly
Please join CCCOER on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 10:00 am (Pacific time) for a webinar on finding, developing, and adopting OER for workforce training and job search skills at community colleges. This webinar will feature three projects that are actively engaged in developing and promoting free and open resources to expand student access and improve career opportunities.
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The Saylor Foundation – Their Clinton Global Initiative project to provide open and free career skills training to disconnected youth and adult learners through the creation of multiple professional development modules will be shared. Courses available on on their website as well as options for mobile learners through iTunes will be shown.
Twenty Millions Minds Foundation - Their work with community college faculty to develop open textbooks for the allied health professions including nursing and physical therapy will be shared. Innovative approaches such as faculty hackathons for digital content development will be discussed.
KQED Education - The work voice video series featuring ESL students in Silicon Valley who have achieved new careers through programs and skills received at community colleges will be shared. Additional lesson plans for faculty who work with ESL students will be shown.
Flipping Not Flopping: Infusing Active Learning in Online and Blended CoursesJason Rhode
In this keynote session by Jason Rhode at the St. Mary's University of Minnesota Fall Faculty Conference on 9/19/14, we considered how the flipped delivery model aligns to online and blended course designs. Jason Rhode shared tips and best practices for designing engaging and interactive online and blended courses that incorporate a flipped methodology. Additionally, we explored practical steps for embracing e-communications in developing a virtual learning community that facilitates active learning. More info about the session and links to provided resources are available at http://jasonrhode.com/smumn14
Community College Consortium OER Panel eLearning 2013Una Daly
Community College Consortium Colleges OER Panel at eLearning 2013. Featuring Jean Runyon, Anne Arundel CC, Carol Laman, Houston CC, Kathryn Rhodes, Roane State CC, James Glapa-Grossklag, College of the Canyons, Una Daly, Open Courseware Consortium
Webinar: Five-Minute Idea Exchange for Teaching and Learning with Brightspace...D2L Barry
Webinar from November 3, 2015 for the Brightspace Teaching & Learning Community. Presenters: Kari Frisch, D’Arcy Norman, Jim Dye, George Kroner, Brandon Ballentine, Barry Dahl, Greg Jorgensen, Audrey Williams, and Andy Freed
OER Adoption to Scale - Highights from Four StatesUna Daly
Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free and open webinar on OER Adoption to Scale. A panel of OER college leaders from Arizona, California, Virginia, and Washington states will share how they grew their OER projects into successful multi-disciplinary programs with full OER degree pathways.
Hear about lessons learned from building OER teams of faculty, staff, and students to expand access and improve learning outcomes. There will be time at the end for you to ask questions of the panelists.
Date: Wed, March 9, Time: 10 am PST, 1:00 pm EST
Featured Speakers:
James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean of Educational Technology, Learning Resources and Distance Learning at College of the Canyons presenting the Social Studies OER Pathway project.
Paul Golisch, CIO & Dean of Information Technology at Paradise Valley College Maricopa County, AZ presenting the district-wide Maricopa Millions Project
Quill West, OER Project Manager at Pierce College District, WA presenting the Pierce Open Pathways degree.
Preston Davis, Director of Instructional Services, ELI at Northern Virginia Community College presenting the OER-based General Education Project.
Richard Sebastian, Director of Teaching and Learning Technologies, the Virginia Community College System presenting the statewide Z-23 Project.
CCCOER Presents: Models for Transforming Cassrooms to be Equitable and Antira...Una Daly
Many college faculty and staff have been engaged in making their institutions more accessible, inclusive, and equitable through the adoption of OER and open educational practices. One year ago, the need for this work became even more apparent as educators began to recognize that the structural racism deeply embedded in our society was in fact very evident in higher education as well. We invite you to hear from three college professors and the program staff who supported them in moving from the desire to make their classrooms more equitable and antiracist to taking concrete actions to do so.
Environmental Science Professor Jalal Ghaemghami and Librarian Ted (Totsaporn) Intarabumrung will share their open education work at Roxbury College.
Librarian Jen Klaudinyi, creator of the Oregon Equity and Open Education program, and Biology Professor Michelle Huss will share details of the cohort program and how a Biology course was transformed.
Joy Shoemate, Open for Antiracism Course Facilitator (OFAR) and Business Professor Debra Crumpton will share information about the OFAR program and the transformation of the Introduction to Business Class.
Panelists:
Debra J. Crumpton, Professor, Business & Business Technology, Sacramento City College, CA
Jalal Ghaemghami, Professor, Environmental Science, Roxbury Community College MA
Michelle Huss, Biology Faculty, Portland Community College, OR
Jen Klaudinyi, Faculty Librarian, Portland Community College, OR
Joy Shoemate, Director of Online Learning, College of the Canyons, CA
Moderators:
Ted (Totsaporn) Intarabumrung, Coordinator of Library Services, Roxbury Community College, MA
Una Daly, CCCOER Director, Open Education Global
CCCOER Presents: Professional Development Resources for OER Adoption and Crea...Una Daly
Do you, or the faculty and staff you work with, need more help getting started with OER adoption and creation? In this webinar, we will talk with experienced open education practitioners and trainers who will share free and inexpensive professional development resources and opportunities. We’ll explore resources that can be adapted to train faculty and staff at your institution.
When: Wednesday, May 12, 12 pm PDT/3 pm EDT
Panelists:
Cheryl Cuillier, Open Education Librarian, University of Arizona
Shanna Hollich, Interim Director of Library Services, Wilson College
Ursula Pike, Associate Director, Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas (DigiTex)
K-12 and Community Colleges Collaborations on OERUna Daly
Open Educational Resources (OER) can make education more equitable and inclusive at any level of education, but what does effective collaboration between K-12 and Higher Education look like? Hear from a panel of K-12 and community college educators as they share the benefits and challenges of transforming learning with open practices and open content that is adaptable by teachers and students. The topic of why and how faculty can work together across school sectors to support students in their local community will be explored.
When: Wednesday, April 14, 12 pm PDT/3 pm EDT
Panelists:
Amelia Brister, Director of Library and Learning Resources at Louisiana Delta Community College
Emily Frank, Affordable Learning Administrator, LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
Teri Gallaway, Executive Director and Associate Commissioner, LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
Kristina Ishmael, Sr. Research Fellow, Teaching, Learning, & Tech, New America
Dan McDowell, Director, Learning & Innovation, Grossmont Union High School District
Moderator:
Matthew Bloom, English Faculty, former Faculty-in-Residence OER Coordinator, Scottsdale Community College/Maricopa Community Colleges
Open for AntiRacism: The Math Equity ToolkitUna Daly
This webinar will introduce A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction, a toolkit of resources that were developed by math teachers, coaches, professional development providers, and language development specialists to support teachers in their journey towards anti-racist instruction. Stride 1, Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction, is the focus which provides educators with a framework and a learning cycle to transform traditional approaches to anti-racist practices.
Speakers:
Dani Wadlington, Master Math and West African Dance Teacher, Quetzal Consulting
Rachel Ruffalo, Director of Educator Engagement at Education Trust-West
CCCOER Presents: Inclusive Course Design and MaterialsUna Daly
Faculty Showcase: Inclusive Open Course Design and Materials
Feb 10, 2021
The OER movement is deeply rooted in ensuring equitable access to information; but there is more we can do to help increase equity, diversity, and inclusion in our course resources. Join us for a showcase of how faculty are making their course design and teaching materials more inclusive. Faculty from the humanities, social sciences, and STEM disciplines will present. Their projects range from a digital storytelling assignment for an anthropology course to adding LGBTQ+ information and experiences to a human biology textbook.
Featured Speakers:
Amy Carattini, Anthropology Faculty, Montgomery College, Maryland USA
Mandeep Grewal, Biology Professor, Butte College, California USA
Lori-Beth Larsen, English and Reading Faculty, OER Lead, Central Lakes College, Minnesota USA
Moderator:
Suzanne Wakim, Coordinator of Open Educational Resources, Student Learning Outcomes, and Distance Education at Butte College District
Integrating Antiracist Pedagogy into Your ClassroomUna Daly
This webinar will focus on how to integrate anti-racist pedagogy into your course both through classroom practices and the selection and updating of instructional materials. Professor Alisa Cooper, co-author, of the Anti-racist Discussion Pedagogy Guide, will share how instructors can prepare themselves and their students to conduct authentic discussions that support perspectives from traditionally underrepresented voices. Professor Shawna Brandle, author of It’s (Not) in The Reading: American Government Textbooks’ Limited Representation of Historically Marginalized Groups will share her research on why and how to evaluate and update openly licensed instructional materials to be anti-racist.
Speakers:
Dr. Alisa Cooper, English Professor, Glendale Community College, Maricopa College District, Arizona
Dr. Shawna M. Brandle, Political Science Professor, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York.
When: Jan 22, 2021 12:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
CCCOER Presents: Navigating the Virtual Open Education ConferencesUna Daly
In November, two conferences for engaging and sharing with others who are passionate about open education (OpenEd20 and OEGlobal 2020) are happening online, in back-to-back weeks. Join us for this pre-conference webinar to hear about the varied highlights, approaches, and how to avoid burnout while learning, connecting, and enjoying social interactions. Presenters include planners from both conferences who will share the inspiration and aspirations for these conference experiences.
When: Wednesday, November 4, 2020, 12 pm PDT/3 pm EDT
Featured Speakers:
Open Education Conference 2020
Amy E. Harris Tan, Dean – English and Communications, Houston Community College
Lee Miller, Director of Innovation and Compliance, Center for Innovation and Excellence, Barton Community College
OEGlobal 2020
Susan Huggins, Director of Communications, Open Education Global
Alan Levine, Strategy and Engagement Director, Open Education Global
Moderator:
Una Daly, Director of CCCOER, Open Education Global
CCCOER Presents: Culture Shift to Academic FreedomUna Daly
Open Education gives faculty the academic freedom to find, adapt, and create materials that are focused on how and what their students need to learn and be successful in their courses. It takes time and a different approach to your teaching practice. No longer limited by a commercial textbook’s outline of topic materials and lack of access by a significant percentage of their students, a faculty member can engage their students in more meaningful and effective learning experiences. Hear from faculty, an administrator, and a student who are engaged in this sometimes challenging culture shift to reduce inequity and grow our pedagogical practices.
When: Wednesday, October 14, 2020, 12 pm PDT/3 pm EDT
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Alisa Cooper, English Faculty, Glendale Community College
Barbara Gooch, Student at Volunteer State Community College and OpenStax Intern
William Hoag, Library Director, Roxbury Community College
Dr. Veronica Howard, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Alaska Anchorage
Moderator:
Matthew Bloom, English Faculty, Faculty-in-Residence OER Coordinator, Scottsdale Community College/Maricopa Community Colleges
Reducing Equity Gaps & Creating Reliency with OERUna Daly
Textbook affordability and flexibility is more important than ever in times of shrinking budgets, enrollment concerns, and remote learning. Students’ lives have been disrupted and helping them get back on track to complete their education is critical. Open educational resources significantly reduce student costs and have been shown to improve outcomes particularly for traditionally underserved populations. Open resources also provide flexibility for faculty as they continue to adapt their teaching for unfolding circumstances.
Join the Midwestern Higher Education Compact as they host the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) to hear how higher education institutions can work together on open education policy, professionalism, stewardship, and sustainability across regional and state boundaries to find solutions to common challenges. CCCOER is leading conversations with regional leaders of open education (RLOE) to support statewide and national projects for expanding access while creating resilience and sparking innovation at institutions of higher education.
Presenters: Denise Cote, PhD, Librarian, College of DuPage; and Una Daly, MA, Director, CCCOER
We’re starting the academic year with a critical discussion that so many educators are struggling with right now. How can we use OER to advance inclusion, address systemic racism, and give a voice to the life experiences of underrepresented people?
Join us for this webinar to find out about emerging practices for transforming your instructional materials and practices featuring a librarian, an instructional coach, and a faculty member. Topics range from sourcing images to reflect your students’ culture and identity, reforming your syllabus towards inclusion, and converting your classes to include viewpoints that reflect varied cultural and gendered identities.
When: Wednesday, September 16, 2020, 12 pm PDT/3 pm EDT
Featured Speakers:
Justine Blau, English Lecturer, Lehman College – City University of New York (CUNY)
Heather Blicher, Coordinator of Library Services at Reynolds Community College
Joseph Brenkert, Mathematics Instructor at Front Range Community College
Moderator:
Suzanne Wakim, Coordinator of Open Educational Resources, Student Learning Outcomes, and Distance Education at Butte College District
California ZTC Degrees Panel: Past, Present, and FutureUna Daly
Online Teaching Conference 2020: Twenty-six California Community Colleges embarked on a journey to create thirty-four Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Degrees to dramatically reduce the financial burden of earning an associate degree or career technical education certificate. More than 20,000 students over three years would benefit from this approach to eliminating the barrier of textbook costs. Data collected from participating colleges show that all students in ZTC pathways did better than those in non-ZTC courses, and that traditionally underserved populations did even better.
With proven results of reducing equity gaps, the Governor has proposed doubling the initial $5 million ZTC program to $10 million in FY21, opening this opportunity to more colleges wishing to leverage ZTCs to increase student achievement and reduce equity gaps. Join us to hear from ZTC champions who led the initiative, supporting the faculty who transformed their courses to lower barriers and improve students learning, and ensuring the sustainability of the program. Consider how to integrate a ZTC approach with your distance education, equity, pathways and other student success-centered initiatives. Learn about how students and librarians are poised to play an essential role in the proposed $10 million grant. Finally, learn the critical steps for success and how to assess your college’s readiness for developing ZTC degrees.
CCCOER Presents: User Friendly OER Course Design for Remote and F2F LearningUna Daly
When faculty start using OER, one of the most exciting opportunities that the open license affords is for faculty to customize their courses to fit the needs of their students. In this discussion, we will explore some of the theory and practice around designing engaging, accessible, and inclusive OER courses. We will discuss how using OER can enable faculty to embrace good design principles for student-centered instruction in fully online courses or face-to-face courses, augmented with online components. We’ll discuss the advantages of this approach in our current, COVID-19 world.
When: Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 12 pm PDT/3 pm EDT
Featured Speakers:
Ben Kohntopp, Instructional Designer – Colorado Community College Online
Sophia Strickfaden, eLearning Technologist – Colorado Community Colleges Online
Scott Robison, Ph.D., Associate Director – Digital Learning and Design, Office of Academic Innovation, Portland State University
Open Education Resilience in Crisis and BeyondUna Daly
Schools, colleges, and universities have closed their campuses and pivoted to remote instruction in a matter of weeks as the COVID-19 threat became a reality. Student’s lives are being disrupted not only by the adjustment to remote instruction but also due to job loss, family responsibilities, and healthcare needs. Commercial publishers are offering faculty and students one-time “free” instruction materials during the crisis in hopes of gaining new customers. Colleges are now facing big questions about their future including maintaining student enrollment, selecting instructional materials, managing faculty and staff costs, and even how the physical campus might be reconfigured.
Join our panelists to hear how open education has made their campuses more resilient and continues to help with student equity including support for underrepresented populations and students with disabilities. You will hear strategies and talking points for helping stakeholders on your campus understand how open educational resources, prudent fair-use, and open educational practices (pedagogy) support both teaching and learning in the crisis and will continue to contain costs, address student needs, and inspire innovation for the future.
When: Wednesday, May 6th, 2020 12 pm PDT/3 pm EDT
Featured Speakers:
Tonja Conerly, San Jacinto Community College, Texas
Meredith Jacob, Creative Commons USA at American University Washington College of Law @meredithjacob
Michael Mills, Montgomery College, Maryland
Suzanne Wakim, Butte Community College, California
Quill West, Pierce College District, Washington
Faculty and Students Share about Open PedagogyUna Daly
Open Pedagogy is a collection of open practices in the classroom made possible by replacing commercial textbooks with open educational resources. These emerging practices enabled by open content licensing (and an open mindset) involve students in making decisions about their own learning experiences and contributing directly to global knowledge to impact not only other students but generate renewable value outside of the classroom.
Join us to hear about the learning benefits from faculty and students who have participated in open pedagogy projects that were enabled through the adoption of open education resources and open practices. Learn how students working with instructional designers and librarians have begun to help faculty adopt, create and implement open content across their campus.
When: Wednesday, April 8th, 2020 12 pm PDT/3 pm EDT
Featured Speakers:
David Dwork, Mathematics Faculty, Paradise Valley Community College
Jessica Parsons, Open Educational Resource (OER) Specialist, Paradise Valley Community College
Zev Cossin, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Montgomery College
Eduardo Chaves Serrano, student, Zero Hunger Assignment, Montgomery College
Karen Cangialosi, PhD, Professor of Biology, Keene State College
Moderator:
Matthew Bloom, English Faculty, Faculty-in-Residence OER Coordinator, Scottsdale Community College/Maricopa Community Colleges
Open Education Week: Students and OER AdvocacyUna Daly
When: Thurs, March 5 noon PST/3pm EST
Open Education Resources (OER) remove cost barriers and provide a better learning experience for students who are unable to afford the required commercial textbooks. Student OER advocates directly understand these benefits and can effectively articulate them to their peers as well as to faculty, administrators, and policymakers.
Come and meet two Student OER Advocates who have led the development of an OER Student Toolkit for using at California higher education institutions to share guidelines and best practices for OER advocacy and development. We’ll also hear from the Director of Affordable Textbooks at US Pirgs on concrete next steps for students to take action on their own campuses.
Featured Speakers:
Cailyn Nagle, Affordable Textbooks Campaign Director, US PIRG
Natalie Miller, former OER Student Advocate Lead, The Michelson 20MM Foundation, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, College of the Canyons, 2018 Global OER Consortium Student Award Recipient
Jenifer Vang, Affordable Learning Solutions Student Ambassador, San Jose State University, former OER Student Advocate Lead, The Michelson 20MM Foundation
CCCOER Presents: Regional Leaders of Open EducationUna Daly
When: Wednesday, March 4, noon PST/3pm EST:
Launched in fall 2019, the Regional Leadership for Open Education (RLOE) initiative was inspired by CCCOER members’ growing need to collaborate across institutional and state boundaries to find solutions for issues impacting OER adoption at diverse, multi-institution systems. Many open education leaders face similar issues of advocacy and implementation beyond their home institution and wish for the opportunity to craft common solutions and eliminate duplication of efforts. Leaders from colleges, universities, library consortia, and government agencies were invited to participate in four workgroups to discuss and build solutions. Each workgroup has developed a focus project for pursuing in 2020 and will share early efforts and invite community feedback
Policy & Strategy: focusing on a bibliography of open education policies and building a video repository of statewide OER policy clips.
Stewardship: focusing on emerging frameworks for stewardship of open education resources and student privacy and data.
Professionalism: focusing on building a matrix of emerging “open education” roles and their associated competencies to better identify training needs.
Sustainability: focusing on building a virtual file cabinet of higher education infrastructure documents/templates integrating open education.
Featured Speakers:
Denise Cote, Reference Librarian, College of DuPage
James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning, College of the Canyons
Amy Hofer, Coordinator, Statewide Open Education Library Services, Open Oregon
Quill West, Open Education Project Manager, Pierce College District
Lisa Young, Faculty Director, Center for Teaching & Learning, Scottsdale Community College
Moderator: Una Daly, CCCOER Director
Beginning to Open Up: Ideas for Colleges Early in their OER JourneyUna Daly
When: Tuesday, March 3, noon PST/3pm EST
When starting out using OER at your college/institution, it can seem like everyone else is much further along with us OER, and there aren’t any resources for those just starting out. Join us to hear from a panel of educators from smaller colleges and colleges that are new to OER as they discuss how they got started, recent accomplishments, things they would do over, what they wish they knew when starting out, and future plans.
Topics:
Looking for resources
Licensing: What can I use? What are the licensing options?
Platforms for creating and publishing
Printing
Zero Cost vs. Low Cost
Featured Speakers:
Susan Bradley, Dean of Humanities and Behavioral and Social Sciences, Butler Community College
Kelly Carpenter, Library Manager, Lakeshore Technical College
Todd Ellis, Director of Teaching and Learning, Grayson College
Lori Beth Larsen, Instructor, Central Lakes College
Christina Trunnel, TRAILS OER Statewide Coordinator, Montana University System
Moderator:
Paula Michniewicz, Senior Analyst/Instructional Designer, Co-chair of CSN OER Task Force Committee, College of Southern Nevada
Arizona OER Summit: Connections to Sustain and Grow Open EducationUna Daly
Keynote for DAY 2 of the Arizona OER SUmmit 2020. Emphasizing the importance of connections between people, institutions, organization over the implementation details of technology, licensing, and content for open education growth. Moving from the Maricopa College District to the entire state of Arizona and through the national CCCOER organization and other open education community members in North America to the world. The world view starts with OEGlobal and then internationally to UNESCO's OER 40C Resolution and finally bringing it back to student benefits through an open pedagogy project at Montgomery College and Kwantlen Polytechnical University linking to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
CCCOER Presents: Attributions. Authoring, and OER PlatformsUna Daly
Remixing openly licensed materials from different sources is a hallmark of OER but can make for complicated attributions. The webinar will start with best practices for attribution of curated openly licensed works. Three faculty will then share their experiences authoring and providing attributions of remixed OER in the Pressbooks and Libretexts platforms.
When: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12pm PT/ 3pm ET
Featured Speakers:
Jennryn Wetzler; Assistant Director of Open Education for Creative Commons
Dave Dillon; Author of “Blueprint for Success in College and Career”
Athena Kashyap; English Professor at City College of San Francisco
Heather Ringo; English Professor at Solano College
Moderator:
Suzanne Wakim, OER, Distance Education, Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) Coordinator; Biology Faculty at Butte-Glenn Community College District
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Students, digital devices and success - Andreas Schleicher - 27 May 2024..pptxEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents at the OECD webinar ‘Digital devices in schools: detrimental distraction or secret to success?’ on 27 May 2024. The presentation was based on findings from PISA 2022 results and the webinar helped launch the PISA in Focus ‘Managing screen time: How to protect and equip students against distraction’ https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/managing-screen-time_7c225af4-en and the OECD Education Policy Perspective ‘Students, digital devices and success’ can be found here - https://oe.cd/il/5yV
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
The Art Pastor's Guide to Sabbath | Steve ThomasonSteve Thomason
What is the purpose of the Sabbath Law in the Torah. It is interesting to compare how the context of the law shifts from Exodus to Deuteronomy. Who gets to rest, and why?
We all have good and bad thoughts from time to time and situation to situation. We are bombarded daily with spiraling thoughts(both negative and positive) creating all-consuming feel , making us difficult to manage with associated suffering. Good thoughts are like our Mob Signal (Positive thought) amidst noise(negative thought) in the atmosphere. Negative thoughts like noise outweigh positive thoughts. These thoughts often create unwanted confusion, trouble, stress and frustration in our mind as well as chaos in our physical world. Negative thoughts are also known as “distorted thinking”.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
How to Split Bills in the Odoo 17 POS ModuleCeline George
Bills have a main role in point of sale procedure. It will help to track sales, handling payments and giving receipts to customers. Bill splitting also has an important role in POS. For example, If some friends come together for dinner and if they want to divide the bill then it is possible by POS bill splitting. This slide will show how to split bills in odoo 17 POS.
Community College Consortium for OER Panel: Increasing Student Retention and Success with Open Educational Resources.
1. Panel Discussion:
Increasing Student Retention and
Success with Open Educational
Resources
Thurs, June 19, 2:15 pm
Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0
2. Agenda
• Introductions
• Open Education Overview
• Marketing OER
• OER at Santa Ana College
• OER in Online Education Initiative (OEI)
• Launching an OER Initiative
• Q & A
3. Welcome Everyone!
3
Una Daly
CCCOER Director
Open Education Consortium
James Glapa-Grossklag
Dean Ed Tech, Learning Resources &
Distance Learning
College of the Canyons
Barbara Illowsky
Dean of Basic Skills & OER
Online Education Initiative
Cherylee Kushida
Distance Ed Coordinator
Santa Ana College
Katie Datko
Interim Dean Distance Learning
Pasadena City College
4. What is Open Education?
• The open sharing of digital learning
materials, tools, and practices that
ensures free access to and legal
adoption of learning resources
.
5. Cost Savings
Publisher: Wiley & Sons Publisher : OpenStaxCollege
Amazon $135
Bookstore $150
Digital Access - $0
Hardcopy: $30-55
6. Community of Practice
A group of people who share a
concern or a passion for something
they do and learn how to do it better
as they interact regularly.
Etienne Wenger
7. Increasing
Cross-Institution Collaboration
• “Universities are joining consortia to
combine resources or to align themselves
strategically with innovation”
• “Emerging consortia are founded with the
express purpose of helping institutions
continuously adopt best practices for
digital learning”
New Horizon Report 2015
Longterm Trend: Driving Ed Tech Adoption for next 5 yrs
8. Community of hundreds of higher education
institutions & organizations committed to advancing
open education and its impact globally.
Open Education Consortium
9. • Expand access to high-
quality open resources
• Support faculty choice
and development
• Improve student success
Community College Consortium
for OER (CCCOER)
http://oerconsortium.org
Come In, We're Open gary simmons
cc-by-nc-sa flickr
12. Webinars Spring 2015
• Feb 11: A Review of OER Research
• March 9 : Open MOOCs at Scottsdale
• March 11: The Z-degree Programs at
NOVA and Tidewater
• April 8: OER Publishing Tools
• May 13: College OER Projects in
Arizona, California, & Minnesota
13. Join our Community
• Access to a community of OER experts
• Online advisory email list
• Professional development
• Collaboration opportunities
email:cccoer@oeconsortium.org
15. PCC Context
Online Model Course
Program
– 8-Week accelerated fully
online courses
– 8 Courses developed; 5
in development
– Shared Curriculum
• Content
• Assessments
– PCC owns copyright to
course materials
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10
29
141
57
111
115
57
118
39
131
252
134
169
180
134
S P R I N G
2 0 1 3 1
S U M M E R
2 0 1 3
F A L L
2 0 1 3
S P R I N G
2 0 1 4
S U M M E R
2 0 1 4
F A L L
2 0 1 4
S P R I N G
2 0 1 5
S U M M E R
2 0 1 5
PCC ONLINE MODEL
COURSES
Model Course Sections Total Fully Online Sections
20. Promotion
Current:
• Distance Education Department
– Direct outreach to lead faculty
– Announcements & news items
– Advocacy
Future:
• Showcase faculty currently using OER
• Use shared governance to create recommendations for OER
adoption
– Ideal: Textbook Zero or affordable materials for Model Courses
– Real: Supplemental course content is OER
• Work with key stakeholders to develop comprehensive plan for
College-wide OER adoption
22. Faculty Comments
…not having a textbook is no
longer a barrier to access. I feel
that this helps us provide a
more level playing field for
students. The textbook is
thorough, and interactive. I
have not had one single
complaint from a student.
The main advantage is the cost. I think this is
PRIMARY for community college students
and students in general. The other
advantage is the ease of use particularly for
students who are consciously already using
the technology in online classes.
More engaging. Students can learn
using interactive slide shows and test
their knowledge with various objects
like Crosswords.
23. Student Comments
I wish all the other courses used softchalk* as a way
to provide further information. I feel like it
condenses it down to the important things that we
need to know without all the filler words.
I liked the softchalk* and self-testing assignments.
It really helped me retain information better.
*OER materials are built into courses
using this tool
24. OER at Santa Ana College
Cherylee Kushida
Distance Education Coordinator
25. • Located in Southern
California, Orange
County
• Fall 2014 Credit
Headcount, 18,491
• Ethnically diverse
• Celebrating our
Centennial in Fall
2015!
26. 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 Pathway
soon
26
“Germinated seedling.jpg” by Dbxsoul is licensed under CC-BY-3.0
27. What’s Working
• Partnering with Lumen
Learning
• Jump start for OER
• OER Librarian
• Create “template course” for
department sharing
• Funds for development and
sharing
27
“20070212 tomato seedlings” by Jennifer is licensed under CC BY 2.0
28. What’s Working cont.
• Formed faculty OER workgroup
• Working with “open” faculty
• Continued Professional
development on OER
• Identify OER courses on schedule
course search
• Tracking data on courses and
student savings
28
32. 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. “
34. The Online Education Initiative (OEI) is a
collaborative effort among California
Community Colleges (CCCs) to increase
student success and completion by
working together to increase access to
quality online courses and support
services for students.
http://ccconlineed.org/
35. OER in OEI at OTC
Basic Skills Support
Handbook: http://bit.ly/1EdTSVE
OEI:http://CCCOnlineEd.org
Course Materials Support
Information about open textbooks, support
materials, colleagues http://cool4ed.org/
Creative Commons Licensed
Materials
All materials produced under this grant will be CC
BY licensed
37. Example – Library
Assignment: write a paper with two
references
Problem: student does not know how to use
online libraries and cannot get to school when
the on-campus library is open
Solution: “Need help? Press here.”
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/55
38. Example - Reading
Assignment: read Chapters 1 – 4 of the text
Problem: student has basic skills need in
active reading
Solution: “Need help reading? Press here.”
https://lumen.instructure.com/courses/63104/pages/introductio
n-to-active-reading?module_item_id=952338
39. Example - Writing
Assignment: write an x-page paper
Problem: student does not know the formatting
requirements in writing and has not yet taken
English composition
Solution: “Need help with formatting? Press
here.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdAfIqRt60c&list=PL8F43A
67F38DE3D5D
40. Example - Writing
Assignment: write an x-page paper
Problem: student does not understand
difference between plagiarism and quoting
sources
Solution: “How to quote? Press here.”
https://lumen.instructure.com/courses/63104/pages/plagiarism-
3?module_item_id=952312
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/3/33/
42. Example – Mathematics (ECON)
Economics assignment: find the equilibrium
point for a supply/demand problem
Problem: student does not remember how to
find intersection point of two lines
Solution: “Need help? Press here.”
4-minute video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he5HPPIIdVY
43. Example – Mathematics (PSYCH)
The average IQ score on an IQ test is 100. Standard deviations describe how data
are dispersed in a population and give context to large data sets. The bell curve uses
the standard deviation to show how all scores are dispersed from the average score
(Figure). In modern IQ testing, one standard deviation is 15 points. So a score of 85
would be described as “one standard deviation below the mean.” How would you
describe a score of 115 and a score of 70? Any IQ score that falls within one
standard deviation above and below the mean (between 85 and 115) is considered
average, and 82% of the population has IQ scores in this range. An IQ score of 130
or above is considered a superior level. ** From Psychology by OpenStax
College, CC BY
Solution:
“Need help?
Press here.”
http://cnx.org/contents/30189442-
6998-4686-ac05-
ed152b91b9de@17.38:40/Introductor
y_Statistics
44. Launching an OER Initiative
James Glapa-Grossklag
Dean, Educational Technology, Learning
Resources, and Distance Learning
President, Open Education Consortium
46. 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
47. At My College?
Does the price of a textbook does
influence your choice of a class?
41%
Which type of textbook do you
prefer?
Used books 66%
Free/low cost ebooks 53%
Rental books 52%
New books 18%
"your choice!" by Martin Fisch is licensed under CC BY-SA
4.0
Source: 6th Annual Student Survey of Online Classes Fall 2013
Report #286
48. Project Goal(s)
• Lower student costs?
• Increase faculty
collaboration?
• Reach a total cost
savings number?
• Improve learning?
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49. Understand Stakeholders
How do faculty and students
• Create content?
• Find content?
• Share content?
• Interact with content?
• Interact with each other?
52. Practice Openness
Do you:
• Share ideas with colleagues?
• Openly license teaching
materials?
• Publish in open access
journals?
• Recognize OER as legitimate
scholarly work?
• Help students to gain digital
literacy?
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56. Thank you for coming!
Una Daly : unatdaly@oeconsortium.org
Katie Datko : cadatko@pasadena.edu
James Glapa-Grossklag: James.Glapa-Grossklag@canyons.edu
Barbara Illowsky: illowskybarbara@fhda.edu
Cherylee Kushida: Kushida_Cherylee@sac.edu
Questions?
57. Panel Questions
• Each of you has an OER project at your institution…and OER projects can differ
quite a bit from one institution to another. How would you describe your
project as an elevator pitch?
• What strategies do you use to get faculty involved?
• What types of resistance or hesitancy do you encounter from faculty and how
do you overcome this?
• What do you hear from students? Do you involve students in the project?
• What benefits does OER bring to your institution?
• How do you find resources and share ideas? (Opportunity to promote CCCOER
as our community of practice.)