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And the textbook is … free?Intro to Open Educational Resources
Barbara Illowsky, PhD
De Anza College
illowskybarbara@fhda.edu
@DrBSI
OEConsortium Educator ACE Award, 2013
April 29, 2015
Session Outcomes
• At the end of this session, participants should be able to:– Identify what OER are– Explain OER benefits for students and faculty– Search for OER for your courses– Be totally jazzed to incorporate OER into your
courses
Today’s topics
• OER – definition & purposes• Locating high quality OER• Concerns:
Articulation, Quality, Workload, Administrative pressure, Search• Online Ed Initiative – incorporation of
OER & basic skills
Source http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-368
Student View
CCC expenses ≈ $18,005• Tuition & fees ≈ $1220/year• Room & board ≈ $10,962 (living on own)• Textbooks & supplies ≈ $1665/year• Other expenses ≈ $4158/year
$$$$Please Note: The estimates above apply to full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students only. http://testsite.cccco.edu/npc/749/npcalc.htm
Think about:
• How did you choose your textbook?• Is the textbook you use PERFECT?• Do you supplement the publisher
materials at all?• WHY do you supplement the textbook?
Textbooks you use
Pick one textbook for one course:• Cost?• Edition/revision cycle?• Revisions necessary?
Check:• http://www.wlac.edu/Bookstore/index.aspx
• Surprised?
Comparison
OpenStax College: free
Used at over 60 colleges; transfers to CSU & UC
http://openstaxcollege.org
Math 227Buy new: $181.90Rent new: $127.35Buy used: $42.45
Savingsover 7 years
One course, one OER text, one college*:
Estimated student savings of
≈ $2,500,000+• Elementary Statistics using Collaborative Statistics at De Anza College
since 2008-09 academic year• Elementary Statistics using Introductory Statistics at De Anza College
since January 2014
www.hewlett.org
Updated: OER are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.
A Global Perspective:
Educators worldwide are developing a vast pool of educational resources on the Internet, open and free for all to use. These educators
are creating a world where each and every person on earth can access and contribute to
the sum of all human knowledge.
http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/
The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of
higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to
advancing open education and its impact on global education.
http://www.oeconsortium.org/
Creative Commons www.creativecommons.org
• Minimum baseline rights usually allow users to:– Use the textbook without charge– Copy the textbook, with appropriate credit to
the author – Distribute the textbook non-commercially
• Many creators also grant rights to:– Add, remove or alter content in the textbook– Copy and distribute the textbook without
giving credit to the author/creator – Use the textbook commercially
Open License is key!
FREE + LEGAL RIGHTS:
Student Benefits
• Save $
• Multiple reading formats
• Embedded hyperlinks
• Accessibility
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Benefits of OER
☺ Lowers the costs of educational materials for students
☺ Fosters pedagogical innovation and relevance that minimizes“teaching from the textbook”
☺ Gives faculty tools to gain control over learning content and delivery
Benefits (cont.)
☺ Share and remix learning materials for customized and localized use
☺ Fast feedback loop on quality and relevance of learning materials => continual improvement and rapid development
Free access online
Free access offline (PDF)
Accessible via PC + web-enabled handhelds
Print out part or all
Purchase a hard copy
Opportunities for Teachers and Learners - Accessibility
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
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
Opportunities for Teachers and Learners - Use
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Return on InvestmentCost savings to studentsProvides 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
How do I find “decent” OER?Librarians are your
BEST FRIENDS!
• A few main repositories• Colleagues – both in and out of discipline• Conferences – both discipline and OER• Listservs – oerconsortium.org; sparc-
liboer@arl.org • Reviewed content • Create content to supplement
https://www.skillscommons.org/
Repository for TAACCCT grants:Career focused
http://openstaxcollege.org/
• Algebra• Algebra & Trig• Anatomy &
Physiology• Biology• Concepts in Biol.• Chemistry• Economics
• Micro-Economics
• Macro-Economics
• Physics• Pre-calculus• Psychology• Sociology• Statistics• U.S. History
http://openstaxcollege.org/
Currently used in AT LEAST:• 39 CCC• 11 CSU• 2 UC• https://youtu.be/-AdiosVtq84
http://www.coolfored.org/ The three State of California Higher Education Systems are working together to provide you easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks that everyone and anyone can use for teaching and learning.
http://oerconsortium.org/ & http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources &College Open Textbooks
• Repository of reviewed OER• Links to other repositories
http://www.openwa.org/
Open Washington
Let’s look through here….
What if you can’t find full replacement materials?
• LVN faculty in C6• Adopt most• Adopt some & supplement• Create all
Why should we donate time to find and/or write OER?
• Write articles• Attend conferences• Take classes• Join committees• Make presentations• New prep for classes
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Increased student learning!
Lower educational costs!
Happy students!
Happy faculty!
Results
Resources• Open Education Consortium
http://www.oeconsortium.org/
• Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition http://www.sparc.arl.org/
• Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (lower division)http://oerconsortium.org
• http://codlrc.org/OA/texts
Proposal for increasing access and success through online instruction funded through the Governor’s request
$56.9 million over 55 months, starting December 2013
Sponsored by Foothill-De Anza CCD in partnership with Butte College
OEI: Online Edhttp://www.ccconlineed.org
/
Steering Committee Work Groups
Professional Development Consortium Student Services Common Course Management
System Academic Affairs
Basic Skills
Basic Skills Support
In OEI transfer coursesPre-assessment support in CAI
Finding basic skills supportOpen Educational Resources – aim is to find and use these as much as possible
Homegrown modulesLow cost licensing, if budget allows for it
Handbook with URLs to be posted in May
How do YOU join the parties?
Thank you!