The document summarizes findings from workshops held with Boston Public School teachers to introduce them to OpenCourseWare collections from MIT, Tufts University, and UMass Boston. The key findings were that while teachers were interested in the materials, they needed more support and guidance on how to integrate and remix OpenCourseWare content into their own lesson plans. Follow up surveys found that teachers made use of the materials after the workshops and found Google Docs and other collaboration tools introduced in the workshops to be helpful. The document proposes several opportunities for OpenCourseWare consortiums to better support teacher adoption, such as developing curriculum tools and hosting online communities for sharing best practices.

1. What Do Teachers Want? Reusing OCW in the High School Classroom ©, UMass Boston photo credit: Harry BrettEileen McMahon, UMass Boston OCW, Senior Instructional Designer eileen.mcmahon@umb.eduCheryl Siegel, MIT OCW, Department Liaisoncsiegel@mit.edu Robbin Smith, Tufts OCW, OCW Editor/Curricular Content Specialist robbin.smith@tufts.edu1

2. What Do Teachers Want? Reusing OCW in the High School ClassroomTopics we’ll cover:Summer workshops with BPS Teachers

3. Our OCW collections

4. Workshops discoveries

5. Results from follow-up survey

6. Action Items for OCWC2

7. OCW for BPS Workshops OverviewThree day workshops were held in July 2010 at UMass Boston campus Over 30 attendees 75% were teachers 30% of the teachers taught Science, Math or Technology subjects 25% Guidance counselors /administrators 95% of attendees had limited previous knowledge of subjects presented in the workshop Workshop funding made possible by the Boston Foundation as part of a grant awarded to UMass Boston3

8. MITOpenCourseWare• 2,055Syllabi & reading lists• 17,531 lecture notes• 9,460 assignments• 980 exams• 705 projectsMany include:• Audio/video (~60)• Complete texts (~30)• Simulations/animationshttp://ocw.mit.edu

9. EducatorsMITOpenCourseWareEducator Use5

10. MIT Highlights for High SchoolLaunched Nov. 28, 2007

11. Organizes ~70 introductory courses

12. Maps ~2,600 resources to U.S. AP curriculum

13. Provides materials to inspire STEM study http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school6

14. Tufts OpenCourseWareOfficial launch June 20051 FT staff with support from Technology for Learning in the Health Sciences departmentFocus on health sciences coursesSustaining member of OCWCReflection of Tufts’ commitment to open access content, furthering Tufts’ mission of knowledge sharing as part of its non-profit objective and leadership in civic engagement for global active citizenship.7Copyright 2005 G. Kaurfman TUSVM. From Zoological Medicine homepage." Published in Tufts OpenCourseWare (2005-2011). http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/60/Coursehome. (Retrieved 4/18/11). Reproduced with permission of the author and publisher. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

15. Who Uses TuftsOCW and Why Statistics from our 2010 Pop-up Survey8

16. Ranking Tufts OCW Statistics from our 2010 Pop-up SurveyRatings to survey statements consistently > 4.0 (1, lowest - 5, highest) Tufts OCW has/will increase my interest in learning about a particular topicTufts OCW has/will help me supplement my existing knowledge about a topicTufts OCW website has/will increase my awareness of Tufts' academic programsI have/will have discussions with colleagues about specific materials or topics from the Tufts OCW websiteI have/will recommend the Tufts OCW website to others9Copyright 2005 G. Kaufmann, TUSVM. From Zoological Medicine homepage." Published in Tufts OpenCourseWare (2005-2011). http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/5/Coursehome. (Retrieved 4/18/11). Reproduced with permission of the author and publisher. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License

17. Consists of 42 graduate and undergraduate courses Launched in 2007About 12 courses added to the collection each yearTeam consists of 1 staff member working quarter time and 3 work study students78,659 unique visitors in 2010 10UMass BostonOpenCourseWare

18. Topics Covered in Teacher Workshops: General Intro. to OpenCourseWare - What it is and why it's usefulCreative Commons License - What it is why it's important to anyone who is developing curriculumGuided Tour of several OpenCourseWare collections Strategies for integrating OCW into the high school classroom workshop and for advising students Guidelines for reusing and remixing curriculum materials found online and for managing and sharing own original materials online Managing OCW materials with Web 2.0 tools such as Zotero, & delicious Creating Curriculum with Google Docs 11

19. Workshop Observations 12©, UMass Boston photo credit: Harry Brett

20. What parts of OCW that you saw today would you most likely use in your classroom?13

21. What additional materials or support would you need to use OCW in your teaching?14

22. Workshop FindingsPresented with OCWC collections teachers were not sure how they would reuse OCW materialsCreating curriculum with OCWC materials is not easy for teachersMost teachers are not familiar with the tools necessary to reuse OCW materialsTeachers need more resources to guide and support their use of OCW15

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24. Follow-up Data from Workshop ParticipantsSurveyed nine months after attending the workshop, 75% of teachers who responded said that they made use of OpenCourseWare materials in their classroomsGoogle docs ranked as the top new tool they were introduced to in the summer workshopsOn a scale of 1-5 (with 1 being easy to reuse and 5 being difficult) they gave OCWC materials a 317

25. Opportunities for OCWCOrganize more workshops to train teachers how to reuse and remix OCW materialsCreate OCWC content in a modular way so it’s easier to remixDevelop tools for remixing curriculumSponsor more research on how teachers remix OCWC materialsDevelop mobile applications for reusing and remixing OCWC materials18

26. Opportunities for OCWC (cont.)Create curriculum development center for OCWC that might contain: Showcase of curriculum that has reused and remixed from OCWC materials

27. Showcase best practices for using OCWC

28. Provide links to OCWC recommended tools for remixing curriculum

29. Create OCWC YouTube channel for all videos created by consortium forum for educators who are reusing materials