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Leslie Kennedy, EdDAL$ Director, CO

Fred NeelyAL$ Outreach, CO

Naomi MoyLibrarian Extraordinaire

Dominguez Hills

Curating Open and Affordable Course Content

Workshop

• Background on AL$• Discovering and selecting open and affordable

content

• Learning Outcome– Evaluate and select from at least four strategies

for curating open and affordable course content for your course(s)

• 60,000 title Choices for students

• 8 publishing partners and affiliates

• Over $4.5 M savings and counting

CSU Rent Digital Program

Bookstores

Adaptive Learning Software

● Personalized learning● Café Learn

● McGraw Hill LearnSmart

● Adapt Courseware

● Cengage

● MacMillan

Custom Publishing Services

Redshelf.com XanEdu.com Softchalk.com

Library Resources

Library Resources

Potential OER Resources

Journal of Online Learning and Teaching

Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Open CourseWare

Open Chemistry, Open Courseware, UC Irvine

Open Collections Program, Harvard

Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative

Center for Open and Sustainable Learning, Utah State University

Rice University OpenStax College

MIT OpenCourseware Project

Open University UK

UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

African Virtual University

MERLOT.ORG

http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

A professor has been using a textbook for several terms and is looking for engaging and supporting material.

or

You want to find relevant materials quickly in MERLOT.

Type ISBN of

your chosen

textbook and find related OER

OER Finder Widget

ISBN Finder

You are considering an open textbook because of the quality content and the

affordability.

In particular, you like their potential

ancillary materials.

You are looking for a new text that has been selected and reviewed by higher education faculty.

Participating AL$ Faculty

Saving students money with low or no cost course materials

Participating CSU Campuses

279 FacultyMade Digital Choices

~ 6,900+ Students Enrolled

$650,000 Savings inOne term

Steve Stewart: SOCI 301

➢ Savings to students overall.

- 130 students have saved approximately $15 each from

online book. = Savings $1950.

- 130 students will save approximately $85 each from using a

textbook 2-3 versions back. = Savings $11,050.

- 130 students able to access articles from The Economist via Bb Learn.

Copyright clearance savings approximately $20 each. = Savings $2600.

- Total Savings = $15,600 every semester.

“CALMED” Course Example – WMST 303

WMST 303: Education, Race and Gender, Dr. Natalie Wilson

• Reconstructing Gender $90.26• Troubling Education $49.95• Teaching to Transgress $21.36• Total: $161.50

CALMED course • Breaking Bad Habits of Race and

Gender 24.95• Pearson Custom Book 24.65• OER videos, websites, and

organizational publications (eg FMF’s report on gender equity and education)

• Library Materials including Course Reserves, journal articles, and Media Library Holdings

• Total: $49.60Savings: $111.90 (x40 students = $4,467)

2/21/2014 Instructional Development Services - CSUSM 28

Cougars Affordable Learning Materials (CALM)

What the CSU San Marcos Students Are Saying…

“I would use eBooks. I think they would be easier to use and to do homework with.” – Annette, Kinesiology

“EBooks help me because I have to pay for rent and food so that money I saved helped me go towards that.” –Alyssa, Economics (graduate student)

“I wish it was offered more by my teachers.” –Kevin, Entertainment Marketing

“More spending more stress, less spending less stress.” – Andrew, Philosophy

“You won't stress about working to get more money to pay everything off.” –Alex, Electrical Engineering

"The library reserve is great when I'm on campus and don't want to carry my book to school. I can check it out and study or do homework for a while.“ –Kim, Architecture

ALS “Featured Faculty” @ Cal Poly Pomona

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Mark Stoner, Ph.D., Professional Communication Studies

Sacramento State

Open Resources for ComS 5 The Communication Experience

Main text from Flatworld Knowledge publishing

Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies, v. 1.0

Secondary text from Wikibooks

Survey of Communication Study

State of California LegislatureSenate Bill 1052: CA OER council

• Bill to address textbooks’ price inflation

• Establishes the CA OER Council

• Select free or affordable textbooks for 50 high impact courses

• High impact = High enrollment, quality, availability

• Establish a peer-review process

•Increase awareness and adoption among faculty

• Identify high impact courses for which open textbooks are not available, or if the current open textbook options require improvement

State of California LegislatureSenate Bill 1053: COOL4ED

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18 courses selected with peer-reviewed free or affordable textbooks

Goal:50 courses selected with free or affordable textbooks

150 curated, free or affordable textbooks

450 faculty reviews

Faculty eTextbook Reviews

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Faculty Showcases

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Find open or affordable textbooks, and other open educational resources.

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http://tiny.cc/findTextbook

ActivityFind an OER for your course.

Method 1

Use the find tool in COOL4ED to look for:1) Open textbooks or,2) other open educational resources.

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Information provided by the authorsInformation provided by others

http://tiny.cc/findTextbook

ActivityFind an OER for your course.

Method 1Use the find tool in COOL4ED to look for:1) Open textbooks or,2) other open educational resources.

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http://tiny.cc/advancedFind

Select Open Textbook

ActivityFind an OER for your course.

Method 2Use the Advanced Search tool in MERLOT to look for:1) Open textbooks or,2) other open educational resources.

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Mandatory term. It will find all the material that can be used for free

Common terms in the Open Educational Resources

movement

Subject matter in the title or anywhere else Words to refine the search

"creative commons" "open textbook" intitle:microeconomics introduction

textbook microeconomics advanced

oer

eBook

resources

education

Search recommendations: intitle, site, and the use of quotation marksExamples:

“creative commons” “open textbook” intitle:microeconomics “creative commons” “open textbook” microeconomics“creative commons” “open textbook” intitle:microeconomics introduction “creative commons” oer intitle:microeconomics“creative commons” resources intitle:microeconomics “creative commons” education intitle:microeconomics

ActivityFind an OER for your course.

Method 3Use a refined search in Google to look for:1) Open textbooks or,2) other open educational resources.

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Diego Bonilla, PhD. Professor, Communication Studies, Sac State

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Affordable Learning Solutions MyOpenMath

ALS: Open Educational Resources by College OER Commons

BC Campus Open Ed OER Research Hub

Open Textbook Library Open Course Library

California Open Source Textbook Project Open Courseware Consortium

CMU Open Learning Initiative Open Professionals Education Network

College Open Textbooks OpenStax

Connexions OpenTextBookStore

Creative Commons Search Saylor Foundation

Lumen Learning The Orange Grove

Merlot UMN Open Academics

MerlotX Affordable Learning Georgia

Other portals/repositories/directories of Open Educational Resources

ActivityFind an OER for your course.

Method 4Look for an open educational resource by browsing specialized directories/repositories

affordablelearningsolutions.org