Presentation on OER and open textbooks at the Michigan Education Association (MEA) Professional Issues in Higher Education Conference.

1. Open Educational Resources
(OER): An Alternative to the High
Cost of Publisher Textbooks
Regina Gong, Librarian and OER Project Manager
Dr. Sharon Hughes, Professor of Psychology
Lansing Community College
2017 Professional Issues in Higher Education Conference
Michigan Education Association (MEA)
October 20, 2017

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3. LCC AT A GLANCE
• Located in downtown Lansing
• Founded in 1957
• 26,000 students enrolled/year
• Teaching faculty 90% adjuncts
• Faculty started using OER in fall
2015 semester
• No grants/stipends/incentives
were offered

4. Open Educational Resources (OER)
“Teaching, learning, and research resources that
reside in the public domain or have been released
under an intellectual property license that permits
their free use and re-purposing by others."
~William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

5. OER have open licenses (Creative Commons)
that allows you to:
•Retain
•Reuse
•Revise
•Remix
•Redistribute

6. OER come in many forms:
• open textbooks
• full courses
• modules
• syllabi
• lectures
• homework assignments
• quizzes
• lab activities
• games
• simulations

7. OER > Cost savings

8. OER = Free + Freedom

9. licenses
most
open
least
open
Source: CC license image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 South Africa license

10. Textbook affordability
Allow faculty exploration and innovation in finding new,
better, and less costly ways to deliver quality learning
materials to students
OER Initiative Goals

11. • Started from the bottom up
• Administration support was strong
• Academic Senate resolution on OER passed in
March 2015
• Embarked on extensive OER awareness
• Started offering OER courses in fall 2015
semester
OER Initiative at LCC

12. Photo by Autumn Mott on Unsplash
Time for change

13. https://flic.kr/p/dBfmng
Switching to OER

14. What did we do to make it happen?
•OER Librarian helped in finding materials

15. OER Reviewed by Faculty
1. Psychology (OpenStax) -
https://openstax.org/details/books/psychology
2. Introduction to Psychology -
http://www.saylor.org/books/#PtoZ
3. Introduction to Psychology (BC Campus OpenEd) -
http://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=Psychology
4. NOBA Project - http://nobaproject.com/
5. Introduction to Psychology (University of Minnesota Open
Textbook Library) - http://open.lib.umn.edu/intropsyc/

16. What did we do to make it happen?
•OER Librarian helped in finding materials
•Faculty buy-in and involvement in the process
•Rubric development

19. What did we do to make it happen?
•OER Librarian helped in finding materials
•Faculty buy-in and involvement in the process
•Rubric development and process
•Narrowing our choice & faculty agreement

20. https://openstax.org/details/books/psychology

21. • Process of
changing
textbooks (in
general)
• Some faculty were
not that
enthusiastic with
the switch
• Obtaining hard
copies for faculty

22. MCO OER Grant Recipient – Adoption Category
Dr. Sharon Hughes, Professor of Psychology
Richard Coelho, Adjunct Professor
Vaughn Vowels, Adjunct Professor
PSYCH 203 (Social Psychology)
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=74

23. https://lcc.edu/resources/oer/

25. 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

26. Dr. Mark Kelland, Professor of Psychology
• PSYC 202: Psychology of Personality
• PSYC 180: Positive Psychology
LCC Faculty Created OER
Dr. Matthew Van Cleave, Philosophy faculty
• PHIL 151: Intro to Logic and Critical Thinking

27. LCC Faculty Created OER Coming Soon
Spanish 121 and 122 – Elementary Spanish I and II
Open textbooks for the Fashion Program
Remix of American Yawp and OpenStax History
Lab Manuals for Human Anatomy and Chemistry
Interactive games, homework, and assignments for OpenStax Biology

28. Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017
Faculty Using OER 5 12 4 46 48 26 74
Courses Using OER 5 10 4 14 16 12 27
Sections Using OER 11 23 6 101 100 33 150
Students Enrolled 317 540 129 2,825 2,558 724 3,724
Actual Textbook Savings
(based on new print book) $ 63,286.75 $ 92,077.75 $ 26,792.50 $ 351,449.00 $ 318,974.50 $ 90,642.50 $ 470,718.25
Total Textbook Savings (no.
of students*$100) $ 31,700 $ 54,000 $ 12,900 $ 282,500 $ 255,800 $ 72,400 $ 372,400
OER Adoption Summary

29. Photo by Aidan Bartos on Unsplash
$ 1,081,700

30. Evaluation and Feedback

31. Evaluation and Feedback

32. Evaluation and Feedback

33. Evaluation and Feedback

34. Evaluation and Feedback

35. Evaluation and Feedback

36. Evaluation and Feedback

37. Evaluation and Feedback

38. Evaluation and Feedback

39. “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:

40. “I've always been bitter about buying a
textbook that I only need to use maybe 700
words (total) throughout the semester. This is
so much better.”
Here’s what our students say about OER:

41. “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:

43. http://libguides.lcc.edu/oer/award

44. $1,600,000
Image source: https://unsplash.com/search/money?photo=OCrPJce6GPk

45. Photo by Tiago Aguiar on Unsplash
• Implement the OER Award Program to increase more courses using
OER
• 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
Our Road Ahead

46. Image source: https://unsplash.com/collections/167234/questions?photo=i--IN3cvEjg
Regina Gong, gongr1@lcc.edu ; @drgong
Sharon Hughes, hughess@lcc.edu