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No Money? No Problem! Free Open Educational Resources
The document discusses the challenges of high textbook costs for community college students and advocates for the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) as a solution. It highlights the benefits of OER for both faculty and students, such as cost savings, flexibility, and immediate access to materials. The presentation also outlines initiatives at Lansing Community College to promote OER adoption and resources available for finding language learning OER.
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- 1. No Money? NoProblem! Free Open Educational Resources-Join the Movement MI World Languages Association Annual Conference November 11, 2016 Regina Gong, Librarian and OER Project Manager Lansing Community College
- 2. There’s a problemthat OER are trying to solve.
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- 6. Market Failure 5 major publishershold nearly 90% of the market Source: Turning the Page by James Koch
- 8. • Student PIRGSreleased a groundbreaking report revealing the new face of the textbook monopoly: access codes. • Across institutions and majors, 32% of courses included access codes as required materials. • At campus bookstores, the average cost of an access code alone was $100.24. • In bookstores, only 28% of access codes were offered in unbundled form. Even when acquired directly from the publisher, only 56% of all required access codes were offered without additional materials bundled in, despite federal law requiring materials to be sold separately. Full report at: http://www.studentpirgs.org/reports/sp/access-denied
- 9. Textbook Cost vs.Student Success Source: 2016 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus
- 10. We can dobetter.
- 11. Open Educational Resources(OER) Digitized materials, offered freely and openly for educators and students to use and re-use for teaching, learning, and research.
- 12. Source: The OpenEcosystem by Clobridge Consulting is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License. Open Education is part of an Open Ecosystem
- 13. OER come inmany forms
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- 15. open = free+ permissions
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- 18. puts the “open”in OER
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- 20. Open Content /Open Licenses Source: Tyler.stefanich_Creative_Commons_Swag_Contest_2007_2_(by).jpg found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki / BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
- 21. licenses most open least open (OER) (Not OER) CC licenseimage from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 South Africa license
- 22. • Faculty benefits •Increased flexibility of how you use content and ancillaries • Easy access in many formats • Possibilities of customization, can modify/edit as needed • Student feedback is positive (students are grateful) • Supporting our students (social justice) • Student benefits • Low cost or free • Increased availability • Opportunity to retain the textbook & resources • No heavy, bulky text to tote • Easy to find and access, even before course begins
- 23. Faculty have: Right tocustomize The textbook Students have: Day 1 access to that customized textbook and CHOICE +
- 24. LCC AT AGLANCE • Located in downtown Lansing • 26,000 students enrolled/year • 3rd largest cc in MI • 262 degree & certificate programs • 1,200+ courses • 500 full-time staff & faculty • 1,800 part-time staff & faculty
- 25. • Started bya librarian + some faculty champions • Administration support was crucial at the start • Focused on OER awareness first • No grants for faculty were given • Pilot started in fall 2015 semester OER Initiative at LCC
- 26. Courses Using OER •BIOL127 – All sections •BIOL 128 – All sections •BIOL 270 – 1 section •ECON 201 – All sections •ECON 202 – All sections •GRMN 121 – All sections (50/50) •GRMN 122 – All sections (50/50) HIST 211 – 5 sections HIST 212 – 4 sections MUSC 168 – 1 section PHIL 151 - 3 sections PHIL 153 - 2 sections PSYC 200 – All sections PSYC 202 - (3 sections) SOCL 120 – 10 sections WRIT 121 - 4 sections
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- 31. • Encourage moreOER adoptions • Work on offering Z-degree starting Fall 2018 • Work with faculty to have their own content openly licensed • Support faculty with OER creation through grants • More faculty engagement with open education and pedagogy Source: http://mazeway.com/wp- content/uploads/2012/08/MovingForwardTogether.jpg Moving forward
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- 33. Sources for Language LearningOER Repositories, Collections & Communities
- 34. Evaluation Criteria Match withlearner needs Alignment with curriculum standards Ease of use and accessibility (open formats, ability to download source files) License restrictions (degree of openness) Reputation of author / peer review Community support
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- 36. MERLOT http://www.merlot.org Large collection of languagematerials Ability to Browse by language Curation, peer review, and comments help best resources rise to the top Materials are not necessarily OER
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- 39. OER Commons http://www.oercommons.org/ Languages isunder Arts and Humanities Includes all types of OER Can’t browse by languages.
- 40. https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/mco OER Hub forall 28 community colleges in MI One stop shop for OER searching Collection is growing and curating is ongoing Languages is under Arts & Humanities subject collection
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- 44. Sources for Language LearningOER Language Centers and Institutional Archives
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- 50. Language Open ResourcesOnline (LORO) http://loro.open.ac.uk/
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- 54. Option to findOER materials by discipline
- 55. Source: Social Media& Individual Curation
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- 58. Q&A Period What questionsdo you have about finding OER for language learning or any of the sites shown?
- 61. If you haveany questions please contact Regina Gong,, gongr1@lcc.edu Follow me on Twitter @drgong