Regina Gong, Librarian & OER Project Manager
Lansing Community College
[email protected]; @drgong
http://libguides.lcc.edu/oer
SEMLOL Fall 2017 Meeting
Detroit, MI
November 3, 2017
Librarians as Leaders and Partners in OER Initiatives
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Let me tell you a story first…..
Affordability is a problem
This was how my journey to OER started….
Source: https://studentpirgs.org/sp/our-textbooks-research
Finding 1: High textbook costs continue to deter
students from purchasing their assigned materials –
despite concern for their own grades.
• 65% of all respondents said that they had decided
against buying a textbook because it was too
expensive.
Finding 2: High textbook costs have ripple effects on
other academic decisions.
• Nearly half of all students surveyed said that the
cost of textbooks impacted how many/which classes
they took each semester.
Finding 3: Students believe that hard-copy optional,
free online alternatives to the traditional textbook
would improve their performance.
• 82% of students felt they would do SIGNIFICANTLY
BETTER in a course if the textbook was available
free online and buying a hard copy was optional.
Florida Virtual Campus:“2016 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey” (CC BY 4.0)
Source: Covering the Cost, 2016 t by the Student Public Interest Research Groups (Student PIRGs) www.studentpirgs.org/textbooks
High textbook prices have a disproportionate
impact on students at community college
Market Failure
Market Failure
5 major
publishers hold
nearly 80% of
the market
Source: Turning the Page by James Koch
We’ve talked about the
problem.
Now the solution….
Source: https://www.aei.org/publication/wednesday-afternoon-links-30/
Source: https://www.aei.org/publication/wednesday-afternoon-links-30/
Impact of OER
Open Educational Resources (OER)
“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 and re-purposing by others."
~William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Open Educational Resources
Any kind of teaching materials – textbooks, syllabi, lesson plans, videos, readings, exams,
images, simulations, full courses, games, lectures
Open Educational Resources
• Free and unfettered access
• Perpetual, irrevocable 5R permissions
• Make and own a copyRetain
• Use in a wide range of waysReuse
• Adapt, modify, and improveRevise
• Combine two or moreRemix
• Share with othersRedistribute
The 5Rs
OER = Free + Permissions
puts the “open” in OER with total
number of CC licensed works now at
1.2 billion in 2016
Data from the State of the Commons report https://stateof.creativecommons.org/
licenses
most
open
least
open
Source: CC license image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 South Africa license
“Faux-pen”
Free (possibly gated) access
Why is OER part of the library’s mission?
• Commitment to access and sharing knowledge
• Familiarity with the publishing industry and copyright
• We work closely with faculty
• Our collections support academic programs, courses, curriculum
Librarians as OER leaders
• We are experts at locating and evaluating resources
• We can find OER that align with those objectives, and assess
the effectiveness of the OER throughout the course
• We understand instructional design and know how to work
with faculty to write learning objectives
• Librarians have expertise in open access, copyright, Creative
Commons licensing, publishing can even help faculty create
and share OER
• We are trusted
Photo by Casey Horner on Unsplash
How can OER benefit your institution?
Increase access
Save money
Improves student success
Empower faculty
Invigorates pedagogy
Can be scaled to benefit more
LCC AT A GLANCE
• Located in downtown Lansing
• Founded in 1957
• 26,000 students enrolled/year
• Teaching faculty 90% adjuncts
• Faculty started using OER in fall
2015 semester
• No grants/stipends/incentives
were offered
• Started from the bottom up
• Administration support was strong
• Academic Senate resolution on OER passed in
March 2015
• Embarked on extensive OER awareness
• Started offering OER courses in fall 2015
semester
OER Initiative at LCC
Textbook affordability
Allow faculty exploration and innovation in finding new,
better, and less costly ways to deliver quality learning
materials to students
OER Initiative Goals
Fall 2015 Spring 2016
Summer
2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017
Summer
2017 Fall 2017
Running
Total
Faculty Using OER 5 12 4 46 48 26 74 215
Courses Using OER 5 10 4 14 16 12 27 88
Sections Using OER 11 23 6 101 100 33 150 424
Students Enrolled 317 540 129 2,825 2,558 724 3,724 10,817
Actual Textbook
Savings (based on new
print book) $63,286.75 $92,077.75 $26,792.50 $351,449.00 $318,974.50 $90,642.50 $470,718.25 $1,413,941.25
Total Textbook Savings
(no. of students*$100) $31,700 $54,000 $12,900 $282,500 $255,800 $72,400 $372,400 $1,081,700
OER Adoptions Summary
OER adopters OER creators
OER Authored by LCC Faculty
Dr. Matthew Van Cleave, Philosophy faculty
Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=457
Dr. Mark Kelland, Psychology faculty
Personality Theory: A Multicultural Perspectivehttps://www.oercommons.org/courses/personality-theory-a-multicultural-perspective
OER Authored by LCC Faculty
Tao of Positive Psychologyhttps://www.oercommons.org/authoring/19643-tao-of-positive-psychology
OER OEP
Open Learning Lab
Domain of One’s Own
Renewable assignments
Leveraging Partnerships
Institutional member of CCCOER
OpenStax institutional partner
Strategies that work
•Meet faculty individually and as a group
•Continued, ongoing professional development
•Encourage and turn OER believers into OER champions in your campuses
“I see this as an issue of access to education and even an issue of justice. If education is necessary for securing certain basic human rights, then lack of access to education is itself an issue of justice. Providing high quality, low-cost textbooks is one, small part of making higher education more affordable and thus more equitable and just. This open textbook is a contribution towards that end.”
Dr. Matthew Van Cleave, Professor of Philosophy
OER Textbook Author “Intro to Logic and Critical Thinking”
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=457
“Our students are poor and most of them on Pell grant. When I had to escort two of my students to the food pantry, I knew I had to change my textbook to OER and I’m glad I did so maybe you should too.”
Dr. Sharon Hughes, Professor of Psychology
Adopted OpenStax Psychology
•Meet faculty individually and as a group
•Continued, ongoing professional development
•Encourage and turn OER believers into OER champions
•Communicate success college-wide and beyond
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2017/07/26/midwest-community-college-pushes-widespread-use-oer
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2017/08/15/lansing-community-college-cutting-costly-textbooks/551936001/
http://web.lcc.edu/lookout/2017/10/20/oer-helps-students-save-on-books/
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Appointments-Resignations/241331
http://openedgroup.org/fellowship
•Meet faculty individually and as a group
•Continued, ongoing professional development
•Encourage and turn OER believers into OER champions
•Communicate success college-wide
•Pursue partnerships and collaborations within & outside of your institution
Photo by Fredo Figaredo on Unsplash
http://libguides.lcc.edu/oer/award
$1,600,000
Image source: https://unsplash.com/search/money?photo=OCrPJce6GPk
Photo by Tony Wallström on Unsplash
OER AS A SOCIAL JUSTICE
ISSUE
More than just textbook affordability
• How will they get to class if they can’t afford gas money or a bus
pass?
• How will they afford childcare on top of tuition fees?
• How will they focus on their homework if they haven’t had a square
meal in two days or if they don’t know where they will be sleeping
that night?
• How will their families pay rent if they cut back their work hours in
order to attend classes?
• How much more student loan debt will they take on for each
additional semester it takes to complete all of their required
classes?
• How will they obtain the credit card they need to purchase an
access code?
• How will they regularly access their free open textbook if they don’t
own an expensive laptop or tablet?
• Will they be able to read their Chemistry textbook given their vision
impairment?
• Will their LMS site list them by their birth name rather than their
chosen name, and thereby misgender them?
• Will they have access to the knowledge they need for research if
their college restricts their search access or if they don’t have Wi-Fi
or a computer at home?
• Are they safe to participate in online, public collaborations if they
are undocumented?
• Is their college or the required adaptive learning platform collecting
data on them, and if so, could those data be used in ways that
could put them at risk?
Are you prepared, ready, & willing to lead the OER initiative in your
campuses?
YES or NO or Maybe?
Image source: https://unsplash.com/collections/167234/questions?photo=i--IN3cvEjg
Regina Gong, [email protected] ; @drgong
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