OER at LCC: A Journey of a Thousand Steps
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This presentation summarizes Lansing Community College's journey with open educational resources over several years. It began in 2015 with a few faculty adopting OER and has grown significantly, with over 150 courses now using OER that have saved students over $1.5 million in textbook costs. The library leads the initiative and various strategies were used to increase awareness and adoption among faculty and students. Assessment of the impact on students shows high satisfaction with OER quality and appreciation for the cost savings. The goal is to reach half of all courses using OER to maximize access and affordability.
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OER at LCC: A Journey of a Thousand Steps
- 1. OER at LCC: A Journey of a Thousand Steps Regina Gong, Librarian and OER Project Manager Lansing Community College Presentation at Marion Technical College, April 26, 2018 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- 2. LCC AT A GLANCE • Located in downtown Lansing • Founded in 1957 • 26,000 students enrolled/year • Faculty started using OER in fall 2015 semester • No grants/stipends/incentives were offered
- 3. Photo by Kate Chikina on Unsplash 2014
- 4. Photo by rawpixel.com on Unsplash
- 5. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
- 7. David Wiley, Lumen Learning Nicole Finkbeiner, OpenStax Nicole Allen, SPARC Una Daly, CCCOER Quill West, Pierce College Lisa Young, Maricopa Millions Preston Davis, NVCC
- 11. Photo by Álvaro Serrano on Unsplash
- 12. Photo by Hide Obara on Unsplash
- 13. Textbook affordability and access Allow faculty exploration and innovation in finding new, better, and less costly ways to deliver quality learning materials to students Goals of the OER Initiative at LCC
- 14. 5 10 4 14 16 12 27 26 11 23 6 101 100 33 150 154 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017 Spring 2018 Courses and Sections Using OER Courses Using OER Sections Using OER
- 15. 5 12 4 46 48 26 74 75 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017 Spring 2018 Faculty Using OER
- 16. $31,700 $54,000 $12,900 $282,500 $255,800 $72,400 $293,200 $370,700 $- $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $300,000 $350,000 $400,000 Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017 Spring 2018 Total Textbook Savings ($100/student)
- 17. $1.5M Photo by Fabian Blank on Unsplash
- 18. BIOL 127 – Cell Biology BIOL 128 – Organismal Biology BIOL 270 - Human Genetics PSYC 200 – Intro to Psychology ECON 201 –Microeconomics ECON 201 – Macroeconomics BIOL 201– Human Anatomy MATH 106 – Math Literacy with Review BIOL 121 – Biol Foundations for Physiology PHYS 200 – Intro Physics w/Applications
- 19. HIST 211 - U.S. History to 1877 HIST 212 - U.S. History: 1877 to Present ENG 121 – Composition I
- 20. OER Authored by LCC Faculty Dr. Matthew VanCleave, Philosophy faculty PHIL 151 - Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.as px?bookId=457
- 21. Dr. Mark Kelland, Psychology faculty Personality Theory: A Multicultural Perspective https://www.oercommons.org/courses/personality- theory-a-multicultural-perspective PSYC 202 - Psychology of Personality OER Authored by LCC Faculty Tao of Positive Psychology https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/19643-tao- of-positive-psychology PSYC 180 – Intro to Positive Psychology
- 24. Photo by Photo by Dan Roizer on Unsplash
- 25. “Thanks to many in this room, LCC is especially aggressive on our OER efforts. My dream is we achieve 50 percent OER results. In other words, students don’t need to buy textbooks for half of our courses because the materials are OER. Mark Kelland continues to champion OER along with Regina Gong. OER is especially beneficial in student success as currently too many students don’t buy textbooks because of the cost. Reducing the cost of textbooks is another part of the overall system which leads to improved student success.” -- Dr. Brent Knight, LCC President
- 26. 5 Focus Areas • Engaged Learning and Student Success • Leadership, Culture and Communication • Community Engagement • Competitiveness and Innovation • Resource Management and Fiscal Responsibility “National trends supported a lot of your suggestions. Open educational resources are a growing movement across the country, and we want to incorporate this fundamental shift toward openness into our campus life.” --Board of Trustees, LCC
- 29. OER Award Program - Round 1 (Fall 2018 implementation) • ENG 098 (formerly AASD 104): Integrated Reading and Writing I • ENG 099 (formerly AASD 105): Integrated Reading and Writing II • AAST 290: Combined Skills Level 4 & 5 • ACAD 101: First-Year Experience • ESOL 050: Reading and Speaking Level 1 and ESOL 055: Grammar and Writing Level 1 • ESOL 070: Reading and Speaking Level 2 and ESOL 075: Grammar and Writing Level 2 • ESOL 090: Reading and Speaking Level 3 and ESOL 095: Grammar and Writing Level 3 • GRMN 121: Elementary German I • GRMN 122: Elementary German II • ISCI 131: Integrated Physical Science • CHEM 161: General Chemistry Laboratory I • CHEM 162: General Chemistry Laboratory II
- 30. OER Award Program - Round 2 (Spring 2019 implementation) Category 2: Revise/Remix Existing OER and/or Creation of Supplemental Materials • ENG 121: Composition I • ENG 122: Composition II • FREN 201: Intermediate French I • HIST 211: United States History to 1877 • HIST 212: United States History 1877-present • PSYC 250: Abnormal Psychology • SOCL 120 (Introduction to Sociology)
- 31. OER Award Program - Round 2 (Spring 2019 implementation) Category 3: Creation/Development of New OER • ENG 121/122: Composition I/ II • GRMN 202: Intermediate German II • RELG 150: Introduction to Religions • SPAN 201/202: Intermediate Spanish I/II
- 32. $1,600,000 Photo by Vitaly on Unsplash
- 33. Student Feedback Survey Our students rate the quality of OER about the same as the quality of textbooks in other courses
- 35. Student Feedback Survey Our students are very likely to register for a course that uses OER
- 37. Student Feedback Survey Our students are grateful for not having to buy their textbooks.
- 38. “I think this is a really great option for the poor starving student. Everybody should have access to education and this really helps level that playing field.” Here’s what our students say about OER: “The use of a free online textbook proves LCC cares about the financial burdens of its students.”
- 39. “College is expensive enough as it is. Lots of kids don't bother or can't afford purchasing new $150 books for every class and it ends up hurting their grade. Free textbooks are good for everyone.” Here’s what our students say about OER:
- 40. Leveraging Partnerships Institutional member of CCCOER OpenStax institutional partner
- 41. down arrow by Misha from the Noun Project Move Up by ImageCatalog from the Noun Project Circle by Xinh Studio from the Noun Project Our Success
- 42. Photo by Diego Jimenez on Unsplash • Implement the OER Award Program to increase OER courses • Encourage & support faculty engagement with open education and pedagogy • Assessment & Efficacy Studies – COUP Framework • Disseminate research studies from Regina’s Open Education Group Research Fellowship 2017-2018 Award • Promote/market OER courses to students • Accessibility of OER • OER publishing platform • Lumen Learning partnership
- 43. “An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.” -Eve Ensler
- 45. What motivates you to advocate for OER? Fibonacci Blue CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- 46. Opened swiss army knife Canon EOS 50D CC0 Public Domain Strategies
- 47. Assemble a team! Free photo: Superheroes, Batman, Wonder Woman - Free Image on Pixabay - 534104
- 48. Collaboration strategies that work • Recruit faculty champions • Work with instructional designers, E-Learning department, Center for Teaching Excellence, Student Life Coordinator • Be friends with Marketing, Public Relations, Media Services • Collaborate with Center for Data Science for impact assessment • Connect with folks outside of your institution
- 49. Learn, learn, learn! Title : Free stock photo of arrows, can, career
- 50. Awareness strategies that work • Create an OER LibGuide • Hold OER faculty workshops • Do presentations at department meetings, Academic Senate, student organizations • Organize OER Summits You have to put in measurable goals based on these strategies
- 51. Be an information hub! © Copyright David Hawgood and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence.
- 52. Do the numbers! How many faculty are currently teaching with OER? How many students are impacted? How much money has been saved? (Standard practice is $100 per textbook) What percentage of students have been impacted? How much savings would be generated if 10% benefited from OER? 20%? By Unknown (Mondadori Publishers)
- 53. Student impact in 2016-2017 2,940 students in OER courses 37,480 unduplicated headcount 7.8% $294,000 saved What would 20% look like? 7,496 x $100/textbook $749,600 saved in one year
- 54. Assessment strategies that work at LCC • Keep tabs of your OER adoption - see http://libguides.lcc.edu/oer/adopt • Publicize and communicate this information College-wide, send to Deans, Provost, President, Board of Trustees • Go beyond textbook cost in your assessment -- COUP framework
- 55. Roadmap to OER Adoption worksheet Title : Free vector graphic: Map, Scroll, Pirate, Treasure - Free Image on Pixabay - 29903 CC0 Public Domain Road Map to OER Adoption
- 56. Photo by Evan Qu on Unsplash Questions? Regina Gong, gongr1@lcc.edu Twitter: @drgong
Editor's Notes
- Located in downtown Lansing and was founded in 1957. LCC is the third largest community college in the state of Michigan and serves students in both credit and noncredit courses. LCC offers more than 230 Associate Degree and Certificate Programs. The College encompasses a service area of 6 counties and serves approximately 20,000 students each year. The College was the first College in the State of Michigan to offer online degrees. LCC offers more than 250 courses online and 26 associate degrees and certificates can be earned through online study.
- It was this year when I started learning about open education. It started when I saw David Wiley’s TedXTalk. It was fascinating to hear his take on open education. As a librarian, I’m all for sharing and free access to information but David put the idea of education is sharing. What resonated with me was that the actions that operationalize the concept of openness are the same. They are acts of generosity, sharing, and giving. The more open we are, the better education will be. Then I saw Nicole Allen in one of the library conference I attended that year where she talked about the changing role of libraries in providing textbook content to our students beyond the course reserves system that we have. I was hooked and I strived to learn a lot about this thing called open educational resources. I read everything I can, listened to every webinar I can on OER (mostly from CCCOER). I read a lot of papers mostly written by David Wiley and John Hilton on OER; faculty and student perceptions of these materials and how using OER have saved our students money and enabled them to have free and unfettered access to learning materials.
- It was at that year when we were doing a new strategic plan under our new Provost. One of the focus areas of the strategic plan was “Competitiveness and Innovation,” When the committee was looking for projects, I pitched in OER. The chair of the committee said that since it was my idea, I should lead it.
- I planted the seed of awareness to every stakeholder on campus—administration, faculty, librarians, staff, students. It was seed after seed of OER planted on every ground on campus. I was hoping at some point the seeds will germinate and grow. I think the most important thing in any OER initiative or in any new campus-wide project for that matter is awareness and training. You cannot “sell” what they don’t know so you need to invest in as number of trainings, workshops, and other professional development that would help your faculty get a clear understanding of OER and how they can use it in their courses.
- Although I’ve been doing faculty workshops, trainings on OER, I feel an outside voice—in particular, the voice of the experts would help amplify the message even more. And perhaps inspire more faculty to use OER. I set out a very ambitious plan of bringing all the big names in OER here at LCC. I wanted it to not only be an LCC event but a statewide event as well. So I organized the first ever OER Summit and invited every CC and higher ed institutions to attend. ALL for FREE. This was held on September 18, 2015.
- The success of our OER Summit inspired a lot of our faculty to try using an OER as their textbook. However, they didn’t have enough time to redesign their course using OER. But a few of our faculty are already using OER for their courses in that Fall 2015 semester. That was the first semester that we piloted courses using OER. We started with only 5 faculty teaching in 5 courses using OER.
- While it was a movement that I led, it became a success because of our faculty champions who came on board. Not all at once but one at ta time just like these individual snowflakes. As I mentioned earlier, we started with 5 but you’ll see that in time, the snowflakes accumulated and started to form a snowball. We were up and running.
- This was the result of the successful strategic plan we implemented during the partnership program. We’ve gained more OpenStax adoptions and other non-OpenStax OER adoptions across many courses. 31% increase in the number of students using OER. Just within the one year of institutional partnership with OpenStax, we’ve realized almost $700K additional textbook cost savings for our students
- We are definitely moving fast. We are accelerating the pace towards the President’s goal of having 50% of courses at LCC use OER. I don’t know if we can accomplish that goal or how long it will take us to get there. But what I know is that while our OER project stemmed from the ground up, we also have a very strong top to bottom support from our College administration and the Board of Trustees.
- Our Board of Trustees approved a resolution to support expanding and accelerating the use of open educational resources, or OER. The resolution designates $500,000 to recognize and reward successful faculty efforts to select, adapt and implement OER textbooks and supplemental materials for the benefit of students.
- The college is piloting an awards program to provide incentives for faculty to convert courses currently using traditional textbooks to OER. The primary goal of the pilot initiative is to reduce educational costs for students by encouraging faculty exploration and innovation in finding new, better and less costly ways to deliver learning materials to students. Faculty applicants may submit proposals in any of these categories: Category 1: Adoption of existing OER material Category 2: Revision or remix of existing OER material and/or creating new supplement material Category 3: Creation and development of new OER materials Applications in categories 1 and 2 for implementation in fall 2018 are due Friday, Nov. 3. Applications in any category for implementation in spring 2019 will open Dec. 1 and be due no later than Jan. 8, 2018. Faculty will be paid between $200 and $3,000 for the work, and teams can work together to create materials.
- A number of teaching faculty applied for the OER award for fall 2018 implementation with the OER Award Committee approving 12 applications involving 28 faculty in 15 courses. All applications are in Category 2: Revise/Remix Existing OER and/or Creation of Supplemental Materials.
- Involves 40 faculty in 14 courses
- A number of teaching faculty applied for the OER award for fall 2018 implementation with the OER Award Committee approving 12 applications involving 28 faculty in 15 courses. All applications are in Category 2: Revise/Remix Existing OER and/or Creation of Supplemental Materials.
- With this OER award, we are projecting an additional savings of $1.6M by fall 2019. We can easily reach $5M savings by then.
- What Have We Learned?
- In 2016, LCC was one of 11 schools chosen to be an OpenStax institutional partner. The partnership allowed us to create a strategic plan that would enable us to increase OER adoptions across many courses.
- The road to accomplish our vision wasn’t as smooth and straight as this. We have our share of bumps, twists, and turns. But the important thing is learning from it and working to make it better.
- Education is a public good Everyone should have equal access to educational materials
- I’d like to conclude my talk by saying that our story is still unfolding. We don’t have a “The End” because there’s still so much more to do. While we are taking from people who have generously shared their knowledge to us by openly licensing their work, we are also trying to give back to this open community through the work our faculty will be doing in their OER projects. Personally, I still have so much more to do. So much more to learn and discover. And definitely more to share. Thank you.