Students have a valuable role to play in advocating for open education as well as the creation and revision of OER. Join us to hear from faculty, a student, and several administrators on how student collaboration has helped advanced their OER initiatives and contributed to student digital literacy. College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, California, will share how their extended OER team hires students who work with faculty to find and format OER for inclusion in OER courses. Trudy Radtke, a former College of the Canyons student, had this to say about how OER helped her, “I come from a low-income family and could not purchase all of the necessary textbooks for my first two years of college. In an attempt to supplement my learning I would research my class topics online; I used many OER materials to successfully compensate for the textbooks I could not afford.” English instructor Laurie Coleman and Digital & OER Coordinator Phillip Anaya from Alamo Colleges in Texas will share how their Alamo Open initiative provides students with information on finding courses that use OER and free instructional materials. This reduction in cost helps their students to stay in school and stay more engaged in their classes as they no longer have to do without textbooks or drop classes due to financial reasons. Librarian Megan Dempsey, Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC), New Jersey will share how they have collaborated with their student government to promote OER. In the fall 2017 semester, the RVCC Student Government Association signed a resolution to raise awareness about the cost of textbooks and encourage faculty to adopt open educational resources. When: Wednesday, May 9th, 11am PT/ 2pm ET Featured Speakers: Brian Weston, Director, Distance and Accelerated Learning, College of the Canyons Trudy Radtke, OER Assistant, Distance & Accelerated Learning, College of the Canyons Phillip Anaya, Digital & OER Coordinator, Alamo Colleges Laurie Coleman, College OER Coordinator/Professor of English, San Antonio College Megan Dempsey, Librarian, Raritan Valley Community College, New Jersey

1. The Importance of Student Collaboration in
OER Projects
May 9, 2018, 11:00 am PST
Welcome to
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2. Agenda
• Introductions
• CCCOER Overview
• Trudi Radtke & Brian Weston, College of the Canyons
• Phillip Anaya & Laurie Coleman, Alamo Colleges
• Megan Dempsey, Raritan Valley Community College
• Q & A
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3. Moderator: Una Daly
Director of CCCOER
Presenters
Brian Weston
Director, Distance and
Accelerated Learning
College of the Canyons
Trudi Radtke
OER Assistant, Distance &
Accelerated Learning
College of the Canyons
Phillip Anaya
Digital & OER Coordinator
Alamo Colleges
Laurie Coleman
College OER
Coordinator/Professor of
English
San Antonio College
Megan Dempsey
Library Chair/Instructional
Services Librarian
Raritan Valley Community
College

4. • Expand awareness & access to high-
quality OER
• Support faculty choice & development
• Improve student success
CCCOER Mission

5. Membership 2018 Map
http://cccoer.org/Member
65 CCCOER-OEC Members, 11 Systemwide Memberships, 28 U.S. States

6. The Importance of Student
Collaboration in OER Projects
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● Awareness
● Collaboration and Creation
● Student advocacy

7. Phillip Anaya
Digital & OER Coordinator
Alamo Colleges
Laurie Coleman
College OER Coordinator,
Professor of English
San Antonio College

8. ● Charge from Chancellor and
Board 2014-2015
● AC IM Guidelines Committee
● SAC President and VP support
● AtD grant recipient
● OpenStax partnership
● Charge from SAC VP
● Taskforce created
● Replicate across Alamo Colleges

9. ● Branding
● Websites
● Replicate SAC
model across
Alamo Colleges

10. ● Identifying AlamoOPEN
“no-cost” courses in
schedule of classes​
● Identify student choices​
● Cost savings for students

11. Student outreach events
• What would you do
with $$ spent on
textbooks?
• Used Textbook Graveyard

12. Brian Weston
Director, Distance and
Accelerated Learning
Trudi Radtke
OER Assistant, Distance
& Accelerated Learning

14. Why emphasize student
collaboration
in the creation of OER
textbooks?
Because students understand the
needs of students!
When students have a voice,
learning is achieved.

15. Student collaboration
promotes student buy-in and
ensures that these textbooks
are created
with students in mind.

16. Students offer unique
insight into each of
these three criteria
➢ Affordable
➢ Easy to Use &
Understand
➢Stylistic / Design
Conscious
A “sticky”
textbook is:

17. 1. Affordable
Educators understand
the FREE aspect of
OER, but do students?

18. 2. Ease of use
Easy to
find
Easy to
understand

19. 3. Style /Design
When students
collaborate on OER
projects they get the
chance to help design the
kind of textbook they
would like to read!

20. OER
Creation
Student
Collaboration

21. Student Team
Where to look?
What to find?
Student Focus Group

22. Megan Dempsey
Library Chair/Instructional Services
Librarian
Raritan Valley Community College

23. What are we missing?
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24. Encourage
student
advocacy. . .

25. . . . but let
them speak
for themselves
★ Visited faculty offices and asked for signatures
★ #textbookbroke campaign outside bookstore
★ SGA president advocating with administration
★ SGA resolution
★ Pushing for list of OER courses & designation

26. WHEREAS, research conducted by the College Board has found that average student spends $1200 per year on textbooks,
WHEREAS, the price of textbooks has risen at four times the rate of inflation in the past two decades,
WHEREAS, the cost of college textbooks is often a major affordability issue for students, who take on additional loan debt to pay for
textbooks, or undercut their own learning by forgoing the purchase of textbooks;
WHEREAS, textbook publishers have not responded adequately to the concerns of student faculty, and other stakeholders,
WHEREAS, an ‘open textbook’ is defined as an: online, free to access, easy to share, and affordable to print textbook written by
education professionals under an open license
WHEREAS, open textbooks offer an affordable, comparable and flexible alternative to expensive, commercial textbooks:
WHEREAS, it is the prerogative of faculty to select the course materials that are most appropriate for a class;
WHEREAS, it is appropriate to seek and consider low- and no-cost options, including open textbooks, as long as there is no reduction
in quality;
WHEREAS, faculty and students both share a concern about textbook affordability and its impact on student success;
SGA's Resolution in Support of
Open Textbooks
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Raritan Valley Community College's Student Government Association
supports the use of open textbooks.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Raritan Valley Community College's Student Government Association
encourages faculty to consider open textbooks and other low-cost course materials when selecting
textbooks.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Student Government Association encourages Raritan Valley
Community College to offer support to faculty to consider and adopt open textbooks, when
academically appropriate.

27. Stay in the Loop
• Upcoming Conferences
– OpenEd 2018, October 10-12
– See our website under “Get-Involved”
• Stay in touch thru Community Email
-- https://www.cccoer.org/community-email/
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http://cccoer.org

28. June 13th Webinar
Open Platforms: What, Why, and Whose?
Speakers:
• Nicole Finkbeiner, OpenStax
• Quill West, Pierce College District
Registration available here:
https://www.cccoer.org/2018/01/23/cccoer-spring-2018-webinars/

29. Questions?
Contact Info:
Brian Weston - Brian.weston@canyons.edu
Phillip Anaya - panaya@alamo.edu
Laurie Coleman - lcoleman@alamo.edu
Megan Dempsey - megan.dempsey@raritanval.edu
@unatdaly -- unatdaly@oeconsortium.org
Thank you!