California community colleges may apply for up to $50,000 to promote use of open educational resources (OER) to replace expensive textbooks and lower costs for students. The Textbook Affordability Act of 2015 (AB 798) makes funds available for faculty and staff professional development and technology support to create awareness and promote adoption of OER. The California Open Online Library (COOL4ed) was established to select open textbooks for the 50 highest enrolled college courses. It also contains faculty peer reviews and syllabi and sample activities used by faculty adopters. Come to this session to learn how colleges can apply by June 30, 2016. COOL4ed and other open, online repositories will be demonstrated to find high-quality openly licensed materials for ICT courses. Una Daly, Director of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources.

1. Reducing Costs for ICT Majors
California Affordability Textbook Act 2015
Una Daly, Open Education Consortium
Winter ICT Educator’s Conference 2016
January 7
Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0

2. Welcome
Una Daly
Director Curriculum Design & College Outreach
Open Education Consortium

3. Agenda
• Introductions
• Open Education Overview
• Affordability Textbook Act 2015
• Prior OER Legislation
• How to find OER for ICT
• Getting ready for the RFP

4. • 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

5. 250+ Colleges in 21 States
& Provinces
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

6. Textbook Costs Rise 6% Annually

7. • 65% choose to not
buy textbook
• 94% report concern
that grades affected
• 48% take fewer or
different classes
Student Impact
CC BY Center of Public Interest Research
January 2014

8. Solution:
Open Educational Resources
• Online access to textbook on first
day of class
• Free online, low-
cost print option
• Faculty can adapt for students
Licensed for re-use by
OpenSourceWay

9. Open Educational Resources
Teaching, learning, & research resources
in the public domain or
intellectual property license that permits
free use or repurposing by others.
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
and U.S. Department of Education

10. Creative Commons Licenses
Simple, standardized way to grant copyright
permissions
Adapted from Ronda Neugebauer
Slidesshare
Permission: Attribute Commercial? Share alike?
http://creativecommons.org

11. Publisher: Green Tea PressAmazon Prices
Paperback: $137. 99
Kindle: $120.25
Paperback: $40.00
PDF, HTML - $0
Traditional vs. Open Textbook

12. Open Textbook Initiatives
2012, 2015
•

13. Textbook Affordability Act 2015
• Creates OER Adoption Incentive Program
– $3 million in grants (Bonilla, AB 798)
– Community Colleges and State Universities
• Follow-on from SB 1052, 1053
– California OER Council
– California Open Online Library (COOL4Ed)

14. Make college more affordable by promoting use
of high-quality open educational resources
for 50 highest impact college courses.
SB 1052, 1053 signed by Governor Brown September 2012
Open Textbook Legislation 2012
Image: http://gov.ca.gov

15. CA OER Council
• 3 Faculty from UC, CSU, and CCC
• Select open textbooks for 50 highest impact
courses and manage peer review process.
• Survey faculty, students to monitor success
http://icas-ca.org/coerc

16. Geography
History
Kinesiology
Math
Music
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Spanish
Statistics
Accounting
Art History
Biology
Business
Chemistry
Child Development
Communications
Computer Science
Economics
Education
English
Electronic Media
Top 50 Courses

17. Top 50 Course Adoption Info
http://coolfored.org

18. Course Showcase:
COMP 122 Programming Concepts & Methodology I

19. Textbook Peer Review

20. Textbook Affordability
Act 2015
• Authored by Senator Bonilla and creates
the OER Adoption Incentive Program
• Direct grants to Community Colleges and
California State Universities to accelerate
adoption of OER with emphasis on
existing COOL4Ed resources.

21. OER Adoption Incentive Program
• Provide incentives and reward campus, staff,
and faculty efforts to accelerate the adoption
of open educational resources.
• Grants up to $50,000 per campus during initial
application period Jan-June 2016
• Bonus grants may be available in subsequent
years to existing grantees who meet or exceed
their savings goals.

22. Application Requirements
Local Academic Senate must:
1. Adopt OER resolution to increase student
access and reduce the cost of textbooks
and supplies
2. Develop OER plan,in collaboration with
students and campus administration, of
campus’s commitment and readiness to
effectively use grant funds to support
faculty OER adoption.

23. OER Resolution
Adopt campus resolution to increase student
access to high quality open educational
resources and reduce the cost of textbooks
and supplies
With OER resolution, develop the OER Plan.

24. OER Plan Components
• Faculty chosen courses for which OER will be
adopted by academic department
• Technological or staff support to increase
awareness and adoptions of OER.
• How campus will make OER available to
students on and off campus including
hardcopies

25. By Academic Department
• Number of affected course sections
– Percentage student savings in each section
– OER enrichment in faculty development
– Method of OER distribution to students

26. Cost Savings
• Commit to achieving 30% or more cost
savings for books or supplies in at least 10
sections.
% Cost Savings =
Decrease in Cost / Previous Semester’s Cost

27. Publisher: Green Tea PressAmazon Prices
Paperback: $137. 99
Kindle: $120.25
Paperback: $40.00
PDF, HTML - $0
E.g. Cost Savings equals 70%

28. Grant Amount Request
• Total is less than or equal to
– $1000 x # of course sections adopting OER
for books and supplies with a savings of 30%
or more.
• Minimum is 10 sections or $10,000
• Maximum is 50 sections or $50,000

29. Grant Fund Usage
• Faculty professional development to create
awareness and find high-quality OER
• Professional development for staff involved in
providing OER to students
• Technology support for student, faculty, staff in
support of campus OER resolution
• All new OER developed and adopted shall be added
to the California Open Online Library (COOL4Ed)

30. Finding OER for ICT
•

31. Saylor Academy
• Full degree program: Computer Science
and Business Administration
• Courses are developed by faculty and
instructional designers reusing OER.
• All materials are openly licensed for
faculty and student usage.

32. Saylor Academy
Computer Science
• CS107 C++ Programming
• CS201 Elementary Data Structures
• MA101 Single-Variable Calculus I
• CS202 Discrete Structures
• CS301 Computer Architecture
• CS302 Software Engineering
• CS303 Algorithms
• CS401 Operating Systems
• CS402 Computer Communications and Networks
• CS403 Introduction to Modern Database Systems
• CS404 Programming Languages
• CS405 Artificial Intelligence

33. Open Textbook Library
• Computer Science and Information
Systems open textbooks with peer
reviews.
http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

34. Next Steps
• OER Adoption Incentive Program RFP
announcement is March 2nd
• Proposals are due on or before June 30,
2016
• Join the CCCOER email list to stay in the
loop.

35. Affordable Textbook
Initiatives Day: March 2nd
• Sponsored by California State University and Online
Learning Consortium at LAX Crowne Plaza Hotel
• Overview of California affordable textbook
initiatives and how to apply for grant funding.
• Assessing benefits for students, faculty, and the
institution.
• How to sustain the institutional capacity for OER
adoption.

36. Join the CCCOER Network
• Webinars on “How to Apply” and “How to
Find High-quality OER”
• Peer support forum
• Email us at cccoer@oeconsortium.org

37. Thank you for coming!
Contact Info:
Una Daly: unatdaly@oeconsortium.org
Questions?