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Community of Practice for OER Degrees Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0 Una Daly, CCCOER January 31, 2017
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Community of Practice for OER Degrees
Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0
Una Daly, CCCOERJanuary 31, 2017
Welcome
Una Daly, CCCOER Director Instructional Designer
http://cccoer.org
300+
Open Education Consortium
Leading global network of hundreds of higher education institutions & organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact globally.
• Expand adoption of open educational resources
• Support faculty choice and innovation• Improve student success
Mission
http://oerconsortium.org
Come In, We're Open gary simmons cc-by-nc-sa flickr
250+ Colleges in 21 States & Provinces
http://cccoer.org
California Community College
Chancellor’
Office
CCCOER
• Monthly webinars
• Community email list
• Workshops, resource sharing, case studies, grants …
• Meetups and panels at conferencesImage: Open Access Good Practice by JISC, CC-BY-NC-SA
OER Quiz
By what % have textbook prices risen in the last 12
years?
❑Less than 50%❑50-75%❑Over 80%
Source: Government Accountability Office, June 2013, College Textbooks Report
Student Impact
• 48% take fewer classes or different classes
• 65% choose to not buy textbook
• 94% report concern that grades affected
Source: Fixing the Broken Textbook Market, 2014
Survey of 2039 students at 156 campuses across 33
states
Open Educational Resources are Public Domain
❑True❑ False
Open Educational ResourcesTeaching and learning resources
in the PUBLIC DOMAIN OR
containing an intellectual property license to allow free use and
repurposing
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Examples
• Lesson plans• Open Courseware• Open textbooks• Videos• Images• Tests• Software• Tools, materials, or techniques to access knowledge freely
What is an OER Degree?
❑ OER is the subject of study
❑ the major courses use OER
❑ all required courses use OER
A degree in which:
OER Degree Definition• Faculty have redesigned a pathway of existing courses, leading to a degree or a CTE certificate, to use OER
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A Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree is an OER Degree?
❑True❑False❑Maybe
Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree
• Free may not be open.
OER-based Degrees
"High Impact OER Adoption:" by David Wiley, Lumen Learning
OER-based Degrees
"High Impact OER Adoption:" by David Wiley, Lumen Learning
Built a team of faculty, librarians, designers, IT staff, administrators
dedicated to student success
• $3 million savings in three years• 5% increase in student outcomes first
year
https://www.cccoer.org/casestudy/zeli-oer-degree-initiative/
OER Degree Goals
• Affordability and access• Courses redesigned to enhance learning
• More faculty choices• Increased student engagement & success
• Growing open course repositories
• E.g. Northern Virginia’s Community College ELI OER-based degree faculty, student, staff: https://vimeo.com/103248028
• 38 colleges in 13 states developing associate degrees and CTE certificates using only OER.
Achieving the Dream’s OER-based Degree
• All participating colleges share efficacy results and faculty, student feedback.
• Research partner colleges provide student savings and institutional costs
Efficacy and Cost of OER
California Textbook Affordability Act 2015 (AB 798)• Incentive college grants to accelerate
adoption of OER to save students money.
• Follow-on from SB 1052, 1053– California OER Council– California Open Online Library
(COOL4Ed)
California’s Zero-Textbook-Cost (ZTC) Degree
All existing courses in a pathway completely eliminate conventional textbook costs
Associate degrees
Career Technical Education (CTE) certificates
CA ZTC: Grant Cycle One• 5 Implementation grants awarded
3 Associate degrees 2 CTE certificates
• 18 Planning grants awarded
• Performance Period: Jan-Dec, 2017
ZTC Degree Colleges 2017
• College of the Canyons• Mira Costa Community College• San Diego College District• San Jose City College• West Hills, Lemoore
CA ZTC: Grant Cycle Two • RFA release mid-2017
• 18-21 Implementation grant awards estimated
• Performance period 2018
Emerging Case Studies
• Tidewater College• NOVA Community College• Pierce College District• San Jacinto College
Motivations• Enhance affordability for students• Increase access for underrepresented students
• Improve overall completion rate
Challenges
• Build expertise quickly• Faculty recruitment• Classroom infrastructure• Marketing to students• Sustaining work post-grant
INTRO ResearchINcreased Tuition Revenue (thru) OER• Decrease in drop rates allows college to
retain tuition revenue that otherwise would be refunded.
• Retained revenue can create a sustainable funding model to support ongoing and expanded efforts for OER degrees
Spring 2017 Webinars
•Feb 14: OER Authoring Platforms•Mar 1: Marketing OER Programs to Students
•Mar 29 : OER Degree Showcases•Apr 12 : OER Research•May 10: OER Vetting: Quality, Accessibility, & Copyright
•June 14: OER Sustainability
Join our Community
• Access to a community of OER experts• Online advisory email list• Regular professional development • Collaboration and showcase opportunities• Present with us at national conferences• Online resources
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