1) The document discusses open educational resources (OER) which are freely accessible teaching and learning materials that can be reused and adapted without cost. 2) Studies have shown that students using OER have lower withdrawal rates, higher pass rates, and greater retention compared to commercial textbooks. 3) Lansing Community College has been increasing its adoption of OER, with over 300 courses now using OER, saving students over $2.2 million in textbook costs.

1. Supporting Student
Success With OER
Regina Gong, OER Project Manager
Lansing Community College @drgong
http://libguides.lcc.edu/oer
Student Success Summit
Western Michigan University, October 31, 2018
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

2. Open Educational Resources
(OER)
“Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning and
research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise –
that reside in the public domain or have been released under
an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation
and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions."
~William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

3. Source: http://bit.ly/NeumannCCBY

4. OER make it possible to:
•Have free and unfettered access to learning
materials on day one of class.
•Save money for students.
•Improve student success (retention,
completion, GPA).
•Increase opportunity for faculty creativity,
collaboration, and innovative teaching.

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

6. education is sharing

7. Why use OER?
• Provides faculty with more choices for their courses.
• Allows for permission-free editing and adaptation.
• Prevents faculty from being locked into a particular
system or platform.
• Eliminate textbook cost as barrier to student success.

8. OER > Cost savings

9. Free OER

10. OER = Free + Freedom

11. Open License
a type of license that grants permission to
access, re-use and redistribute a work with
few or no restrictions.
www.creativecommons.org

12. Graphic from http://tlinnovations.populr.me/copyright
Limits and regulates
sharing

13. • Copy
• Mix
• Share
• Keep
• Edit
• Use
The 5Rs:
1. Retain
2. Reuse
3. Revise
4. Remix
5. Redistribute

15. 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

16. OER is about access and equity.

19. Source: Florida Virtual Campus: 2016 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey

20. Source: Covering the Cost, 2016 t by the Student Public Interest Research Groups (Student PIRGs)
www.studentpirgs.org/textbooks
High textbook prices have a disproportionate
impact on students at community college

21. Florida Virtual Campus
Survey Results
22,000+ students in FL across
all higher education institutions

22. So what are we using here
at LCC?

23. 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 SOCL 120 – Intro to Sociology BIOL 121 – Biol Foundations for
Physiology
PHYS 200 – Intro Physics
w/Applications

24. HIST 211 - U.S. History to 1877
HIST 212 - U.S. History: 1877 to Present
ENG 121 – Composition I

25. OER Authored by LCC Faculty
Dr. Matthew Van Cleave, Philosophy faculty
PHIL 151 - Introduction to Logic and Critical
Thinking
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.as
px?bookId=457

26. 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

27. Coming soon
OPEN ESL
textbooks
Foreign
Language OER
– German,
French, Spanish
Intro to
Philosophy
Public Speaking

28. Let’s look at our adoption
figures

29. OER Adoptions at LCC
5 10
4
14 16 12
27 26 22
49
11
23
6
101 100
33
150 154
60
299
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017 Spring 2018 Summer 2018 Fall 2018
Courses and Sections Using OER
Courses Using OER Sections Using OER

30. OER Adoptions at LCC
5
12
4
46 48
26
74 75
41
136
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017 Spring 2018 Summer 2018 Fall 2018
Faculty Using OER

31. Students Impacted by OER
317
540
129
2,825
2,558
724
3,724 3,711
1,177
5,989
-
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
7,000
Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017 Spring 2018 Summer 2018 Fall 2018
Students Enrolled

32. Textbook Costs Savings
$31,700
$54,000
$12,900
$282,500
$255,800
$72,400
$293,200 $371,100
$117,700
$598,900
$-
$100,000
$200,000
$300,000
$400,000
$500,000
$600,000
$700,000
Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017 Spring 2018 Summer 2018 Fall 2018
Total Textbook Savings ($100/student)

33. $2.2M
Photo by Fabian Blank on Unsplash

34. OER and student success

35. OER Efficacy Research
• Studies show that students assigned OER have
lower withdrawal and drop rates;
• More likely to pass with a C or better;
• Higher persistence and retention rates.

36. Course
Performance
PerformanceSample Size
66 Same
605 Same
690 Maybe better
1393 N/A
1295 Maybe better
1400 Same
478 Same
1274 Sometimes better
4909 Sometimes better
95 Sometimes better
Study
Lovett et al. (2008)
Bowen et al. (2012)
Hilton &Laman (2012)
Feldstein et al. (2012)
Pawlyshyn et al.(2013)
Hilton et al. (2013)
Allen et al. (2015)
Robinson (2015)
Fischer et al. (2015)
Jhangiani et al. (2015)

37. Hilton et al. (in press)
Commercial vs. OER

38. OER and the state of MI

39. https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/mco

41. https://goopenmichigan.org/

42. Multi-state collaboration
• OER State Policy and Implementation Summit for Midwestern Higher
Education Compact (MHEC) states.
• MHEC is a legislatively-created agreement among the 12 Midwestern
states to work together to further higher education within the region. The
member states of the Compact are: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South
Dakota, and Wisconsin.
• Attendees will form a state OER action team which will assess the current
scope and level of OER usage in their respective states and craft a plan to
coordinate OER efforts within their states.

44. Get involved
SPARC OER Forum
CCCOER Listserv
Twitter
Open Textbook Network
Open Education Conference
Open Education Week
OA Week

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