OTC 2013: Opening Up Learning with the Community College Consortium for OER Panel
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Cynthia Alexander, Cerritos CollegeKatie Datko, Pasadena City College
James Glapa-Grossklag, College of the CanyonsDr. Barbara Illowsky, De Anza College & CCCCO
Una Daly, OpenCourseWare Consortium
Opening up Learning:
Open Textbooks, Open Online Courses,
OER Repositories
Community College OER Panel
Welcome fromCommunity College Consortium
for OER
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Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director
OCW Consortium
James Glapa-GrossklageDean, College of the Canyons
President CCCOER Advisory Board
Agenda
• Community College Consortium• Pasadena City College, Integrating
OER • College of the Canyons OER Projects• Cerritos College Kaleidoscope Project• Chancellor’s Office and Open Textbooks
at De Anza College • Q & A
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.
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cc-by donkyhotey/flickr
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license
Examples
Includes –
• Course materials• Lesson Plans• Modules or lessons• OpenCourseWare (OCW)• Open textbooks• Videos• Images• Tests• Software• Any other tools, materials, or techniques used
to support ready access to knowledge
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Community College Consortium
for OER
Dr. Martha Kanter
U.S. Undersecretary of Education
• Founded at Foothill-De Anza College District in 2007
• Joined OCW Consortium 2011
• Growth to 200+ colleges in North America
Funded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
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
200+ Community & Technical Colleges12 States & 1 Province
Integrating OER from the Ground up
Katie DatkoInstructional Designer
Faculty Development
CHALLENGES OF OER INTEGRATION
Katie DatkoPasadena City College
PCC DISTANCE EDUCATION COURSES
Developed by individual faculty
Often ‘stand-alone’ courses (not a pathway or degree)
Reliant on publisher content Perception: ease of use (‘plug-
and-play’) Fully built for online
environment Free for faculty but little
awareness of total additional cost to student
Previously DE courses were:
PCC DISTANCE EDUCATION COURSES
Developed with DE Department
Pathway or degree programs
Faculty training options: 4 @One courses Semester-long in-house Institute (cohort model) Facilitator training (cohort model)
PCC retains rights to content Goal Make available under Creative Commons
license
‘Model’ DE Courses
CHALLENGES TO USING OER @ PCC
Limited exposure to and understanding of OER
Perception of what constitutes ‘academic’ text
No campus-wide plan/policy for OER adoption
BEGINNING STEPS…1. Vet, review & compile OER resources for faculty (
http://online.pasadena.edu/faculty/coursecontent/)
2. ‘De-incentivize’ use of Publisher Packs Model Courses being developed for the College can only use
a limited percentage of ePublisher Content
3. Require the integration of original instructor-content, PCC library-supported materials and/or OER in Model Courses (SB 1052: California Open Education Resources Council; SB 1053: California Digital Open Source Library)
4. Actively network with the OER Community & participate in awareness-raising activities across campus such as Open Education Week
FUTURE PLANS/GOALS
Showcase faculty currently using OER or developing openly licensed content
Use shared governance to create recommendations for OER adoption Ideal: Textbook Zero model for online/hybrid PCC GE
Pathway courses Real: Supplemental course content is OER
Work with key stakeholders to develop comprehensive plan for College-wide OER adoption
Presentation Images: Guilia Forsythe
OER at College of Canyons
James Glapa-GrossklagDean, Distance Learning
OCWC Board Member
President of CCCOER Advisory Board
• Playlists• Open Textbooks• Local repository
OER Playlists
We gratefully acknowledge the support of a U.S. Department of Education FIPSE (Fund for Improvement of Post Secondary Education) Special Focus grant
What is a Playlist?
Introductory text, learning
outcomes, unit objectives, etc.
Website with
text/articles
MediaTransition text
Another website
article/text
Transition text
Open Textbooks
• Water Technology• Sociology• Statistics
115 classes = $400,000 student savings per year
Local Repository
• 0 520 objects in 3 years• Pros• Cons
Lessons Learned
Kaleidoscope Project
Dr. Cynthia AlexanderEducational Technology Professor
Department Chair
Cerritos College Involvement with Kaleidoscope Project
Open Content
The Kaleidoscope Project commits to use only open educational resources (OER) in its course
designs.
Project Goals
• Eliminate textbook costs as an obstacle to student success
• Increase student success through assessment-driven enhancement of an OER curriculum that addresses at-risk students’ learning needs
• Create a community that will collaboratively evaluate and improve open course designs based on student learning results
Faculty Deliverables
• Outcome-centered course designs
• With common assessments
• Deliver, analyze, improve, share
• Using best of existing OER
Phase I
• Pilot Fall 2011/Enhancements implemented Spring 2012– Cerritos – Writing, Business Management, Geography (Adopt-
Reading)– Chadron – Reading, Writing, English Comp (Adopt - Chemistry and
Geography)– Mercy – Reading (Adopt - Math and Writing)– Palo Verde – Business Management, Geography (Adopt –
Engineering)– Santa Ana – English Comp– Santiago College – Math, Biology– College of the Redwoods – Reading, Math, Chemistry, Biology,
Psychology– Tomkins Cortland – Math, Biology, Psychology
Business
Biology
Geography
Beg Algebra
Inter Algebra
Psychology
Dev. Reading
Dev. Writi
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English Comp
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Student Success Results
Historical Success Fall 2011 Spring 2012
+14%+16%
+49% +164% +33%
+95%
+35%
Course Availability
• Courses developed – fully OER• Available to everyone• http://www.project-kaleidoscope.org/courses
/
Phase II
• 20 additional courses (25 including math sequence courses)– History– Fine Arts– Earth Science– English Composition– Economics– Teaching– Computer Science
California OER Initiatives
Dr. Barbara IllowskyMath Instructor and open textbook co-author
CCCCO Basic Skills & OER
California Open Textbook Laws (2012)
Joint responsibility:
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Open Educational Resources Council (SB 1052)
• Establish the California Open Education Resources Council under ICAS
• Determine list of 50 lower division courses
• Establish a competitive request-for-proposal process
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Digital Open Source Library (SB 1053)
Creates the California Digital Open Source Library to serve as a statewide repository for high-quality digital open source textbooks and related materials
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1053
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OER Enhances Academic Freedom
• Provides faculty with more choices for their courses
• Allows for permission-free editing and adaptation
• Promotes customization• Eliminates forced revisions
OER: Saves $$$
Amazon $171.25 hardcopy Web - $0POD - $26.20 + SH
Wiley & Sons Connexions
De Anza College student savings…
One course, one OER text, one college*:
Estimated student savings of over
$1,000,000
• Elementary Statistics using Collaborative Statistics at
De Anza College since 2008-09 academic year
Return on Investment• Cost savings to students• Provides faculty with opportunities to share
and remix learning content for customized and localized use • Supports low-cost crowd-sourcing of content
translation to other languages
• Fast feedback loop on quality and relevance of learning content • Supports continual and improvement and rapid
development • Supports greater diversity of peer reviewers
Opportunities for Teachers and Learners - Use
Tailored content
Students and teachers as co-creators of knowledge
Enhanced engagement and interaction with materials
Increased student-student, teacher-teacher, and teacher-student communication around curriculum
Navigate and view content with ease
Modify, mix and remix content to meet individual and classroom needs
Communicate with peers around content
Join workgroups with peers around content
Join Community Colleges at OCW Consortium
• Information: Stay in the loop on issues in open education.
• Collaboration: Participate in community, attend webinars, join our advisory board.
• Collective Visibility: Gain global exposure through OCWC’s website and shared media
• Direction: Provide direct input to OCWC’s focus on community colleges.
Stay in the Loop
• Upcoming Conferences- Open Education Conference (Nov 6-8)
• CCCOER Advisory group meets monthly– http://oerconsortium.org
• Monthly Free PD Webinars– Archived for later viewing
Questions and Comments
Contact Information Una Daly, [email protected]
James Glapa-Grossklag, [email protected]
Barbara Illowsky, [email protected]
Katie Datko, [email protected]
Cynthia Alexander, [email protected]