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

Creative Commons www.creativecommons.org

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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Customized Open Textbook

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

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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!