Presentation to California Community College Chancellor's Office Distance Education Coordinators on December 14, 2012. Presenters: Una Daly, OpenCourseware Community College Outreach Director and James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean at College of the Canyons.

1. Revolution in Learning:
Open Education at Community
Colleges
Una Daly, OpenCourseware Consortium
James Glapa-Grossklag, College of the Canyons
Dec 14, 2012

2. Welcome
– Una Daly, Community College
Outreach Director at Open Courseware
Consortium
– James Glapa-Grossklag, President of
CCCOER Advisory Board;
Dean, College of Canyons
Mike Kirby licensed this image for reuse with Creative Commons.

3. Agenda
• Open Education 101
• True or False ?
• What is OER?
• Why Share?
• Who’s Doing OER?
• Case Studies
• Q&A

4. OpenCourseWare Mission
“Advance formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-
quality education materials organized as courses.”
Nearly 300 institutions in 46 Countries

5. 109+ Community & Technical College
at OCW Consortium

6. CCCOER Mission
• Promote adoption of OER to enhance
teaching and learning
– Expand access to education
– Support professional development
– Advance community college mission
Funded by the William & Flora
Hewlett Foundation

7. Educational Outreach Webinars
• 9/11 Reduce Costs and Improve Outcomes with
Open Textbooks
• 9/25 OER Adopter Communities
• 10/9 OER Faculty Development
• 10/29 OER & Accessibility
• 11/13 MOOCs & Community Colleges
• 12/4 OER & Research
SPRING 2013 WEBINARS TBD
oerconsortium.org

8. CCCOER Goals
• #1 OER Impact Research
• #2 OER Integration into Curriculum
• #3 OER Outreach and Promotion

9. Many Flavors of Open
• Open Educational Resources aka OER
• Open Textbooks
• OpenCourseWare aka OCW
• Massive Open Online Course aka MOOC
• Open Access Journals
• Open Source (Code)

10. True or False?
• All OER is free
• All OER is in the public domain
• Publisher produced material is better
than OER
• Open textbooks hurt bookstores
• eBooks are open textbooks

11. What are Open Educational
Resources?
U.S. Dept. of Education
– 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 or repurposing by others.
cc-by donkyhotey/flickr
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license 11

12. What is an Open License?
• Free: Free to access online, free to print
• Open: Shared, usable and re-usable: licensing that is less
restrictive than standard copyright
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license 12

13. Creative Commons licensing
• Works with existing copyright law
• Promotes sharing
• Internationally recognized
• Author/creator can specify re-uses
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14. Why Practice Openness?
Institutional Mission
“The mission of MIT is to advance
knowledge and …. The Institute is
committed to
generating, disseminating, and
preserving knowledge ….”

15. The Community College Mission

16. Leverage taxpayer funding
English Composition I
• 55,000+ enrollments / year
• x $100 textbook
• = $5.5+ Million every year
Source: Cable Green, The Obviousness
of Open Policy (2011)

17. Who is funding OER?

18. Who is engaged in OER?

19. Case Studies
• Washington’s Open Course Library
• Kaleidoscope Project
• California’s Open Textbook
Initiative
gov.ca.gov

20. Washington’s Open Course Library
A collection of openly licensed (CC-BY) educational
materials for 81 high-enrollment college courses
1.Lower textbook costs for students
2.Improve course completion rates
3.Provide new resources for faculty
Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds CC-BY-
NC-SA

21. • Art Appreciation • Introduction To Oceanography
• Calculus I • Introduction To Philosophy
• Calculus II • Introduction to Physical Geology
• Calculus III • Introduction to Statistics
• Cultural Anthropology • Lifespan Psychology
• Elementary Algebra • Macroeconomics
• Engineering Physics I • Microeconomics
• English Composition I • Music Appreciation
• English Composition II • Physical Anthropology
• General Biology with Lab • Pre-College English
• General Chemistry with Lab I • Precalculus I
• General Chemistry with Lab II • Precalculus II
• General Chemistry with Lab III • Principles of Accounting I
• General Psychology • Principles of Accounting II
• Human Anatomy and Physiology 1 • Public Speaking
• Human Anatomy and Physiology 2 • Research for the 21st Century
• Intermediate Algebra • Technical Writing
• Introduction To Business • Try College / College Success Course
• Introduction to Chemistry (Inorganic) • US History I
• Introduction To Literature I • US History II
• Introduction To Logic • US History III
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22. Kaleidoscope Colleges

23. Student Learning Outcomes
.77 improvement in Intermediate Algebra (4.0 scale)

24. California Open Textbook Initiative
• Develop 50 open textbooks for
highest enrolled courses
• Establish OER repository for storing
and accessing open materials

25. DE OER Experts Share

26. Thank you for coming!!
• Questions?
• Contact Info:
– Una Daly, unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org
– James Glapa-Grossklag, james.glapa-
grossklag@canyons.edu

27. Photo credits:
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