Board of Trustees PresentationBoard of Trustees Presentation

2009 Report onOpen Educational

Resources

Dr. Judy Baker

February 2, 2009

Open Educational Resources

OER at FHDA

International survey about faculty and OER

Community College Consortium for OER

Hewlett Foundation Open Textbook Project Grant

Statistics Open TextbookStatistics Open Textbook

Collaborative Statistics by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean

Long-term effort by authors to make their statistics textbook more affordable Available at Connexions http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/

Adopters ofCollaborative Statistics

Fall 2008De Anza College

Yatman Au Young

Nadia Bensidi

Lenore Desillets

Harmon Dhaliwal

Janice Hector

Renuka Kapur

Charles Klein

Lisa Markus

Kathryn Plum

Rupinder Sekhon

Frank Snow

San Diego Mesa College

SUNY Purchase

CSU Dominguez Hills

Winter/Spring 2009De Anza 2009

Roberta Bloom

Barbara Illowsky

Vladimir Logvenenko

Lorraine Moen

Diane Mathios

Sacramento City College

Los Rios College

University of Toledo

Frederick Community College

Estimated savings of $87,040 forDe Anza students each quarter

De Anza CollegeDe Anza College

Math instructor, Rupinder Sekhon

Adopted his own Applied Finite Mathematic open textbook instead of adopting a $120 traditional textbook

Represents $120 potential savings for each De Anza College student

Estimated total savings of $4,800 each quarter for De Anza College students

Foothill CollegeFoothill College

Open textbook recommended for ENG 48B: American Literature in the Gilded Age

English instructor, Scott Lankford

CCCOER Survey ResultsCCCOER Survey Results

1,203 faculty respondents12 Districts and 28 colleges66% full-timeRepresent wide range of disciplines

91% indicated interest in using OER materials in their classes34% said they were aware of OER materials in their field66% interested in helping to produce or identify OER materialsSupport needed for faculty to develop of OER

TrainingGuidelines and/or templatesPaid compensation or stipendWebsite repository of OER materials

Community College ConsortiumCommunity College Consortiumfor Open Educational Resourcesfor Open Educational Resources

Joint effort to develop and use open educational resources and open textbooks

in community college courses

Launched July 2007

85 colleges

from AZ, C

A, FL,

IA, ID, M

D, NV,

NY, OH, T

X,WA,

Ontario

RecognitionRecognition

Recipient of the 2008 Technology Focus Award from the California Community Colleges System Office

California Mathematics Council Community Colleges (CMC3) unanimously passed a resolution in support of CCCOER in May 2008

October 2008, Volume 9, Number

Summer 2008A Culture of Shared KnowledgeDeveloping a Strategy for Low-Cost Textbook AlternativesAug. 12

Open Textbook Meets Community Colleges April 29Online Texts for Community College Students

April 29, 2008Community College Open-Textbook Project Gets Under Way

Media Coverage and Published Articles

August 17, 2008Digital books become more appealing

January/February 2009It Takes a Consortium to Support Open Textbooks

WebsiteWebsitecccoer.wordpress.com

Open TextbooksOpen Textbooks

Over 200 open textbooks identified, catalogued, and listed on CCCOER site

and in MERLOT Collection

OER Training & PresentationsOER Training & Presentations

Foothill College one-unit course, LINC 215

Conferences

Sloan-C 2008 International Symposium

Open Ed 2008 Conference

2008 CIT, League for Innovations in Community Colleges

Association of Community College Trustees (presentation by Hal Plotkin)

Community College League of California Annual Convention

California Mathematics Council Community Colleges annual conference

Colleges campuses including FHDA District Opening Day

Online tutorials (Connexions, @ONE webinar & Etudes)

Hewlett Foundation GrantOpen Textbook Project

Increase scope and membership of CCCOER

Centralize Open Textbook information

Document work flow model

Design and conduct research studies

Develop sustainability plan

Project Partners

Next StepsNext Steps

Identification of Campus OER Champions

Building Faculty Engagement & Investment

Training Needs

Identifying Discipline Experts

Growing the Consortium

Kenneth Ransom,, 2000. Pics4Learning

Timeline to Success

Winter 2009

Foster faculty interest in OERPresentations and trainingsSubmit grant proposals

Spring 2009

Offer OER trainingIdentify faculty OER championsPlan new faculty survey

Measures of Success

Outcomes by 2010

Increased number of:Colleges with membership in CCCOER

Faculty trained in OER use and development

Open Textbooks used by faculty

Open Textbooks developed by faculty

Train-the-Trainer coordination with Student PIRGs