Una Daly, CSU Chancellor’s OfficeOct 24, 2014

Discover Free & Open Educational Resources with the California Open

Online Library (COOLforEd)

Leveraging Technology To Support Students, Faculty & Staff 2014

Welcome

Una DalyOER Library Services Manager, Chancellor’s OfficeCalifornia State University

OER Quiz

• Textbook prices have risen less than 50% in 10 years.

• eBooks = Open Textbooks

• Open Educational Resources (OER) are Public Domain

Agenda• OER 101• The Legislation

– Why– What

• Faculty OER Council• Faculty Survey Results• Digital Open Source Library• Faculty Adoption OER Portfolios• Getting involved

Textbooks Rising 6% per year

• 65% choose to not buy textbook

• 94% report concern that grades affected

• 48% take fewer classes or different classes

Student Impact

CC BY Center of Public Interest Research

Education is about Sharing

• Teachers share knowledge freely

• Students share

their understanding

• Teachers share

with each other

Source: David Wiley, Why be Open, slideshare 2012

Image: Engineering Expo 10, licensed by Westpoing CC-BY-NC-ND

Solution: Open Educational Resources

• Online access to textbook on first

day of class

• Free online, low-

cost print option

• Faculty can adapt for students

Licensed for re-use by OpenSourceWay

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 free use or repurposing by others.

Image license: cc-by donkyhotey/flickr

10CC BY NC redjar flickr

But how to set the content free?

Use an Open License

• Free: Free to access online, free to print

• Open: Shared, usable and re-usable

• Creative Commons: fewer restrictions than standard copyright but author retains full rights

Creative Commons Licenses

Simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions

Adapted from Ronda Neugebauer Slidesshare

Permission:Attribute-

BYNon-

Commercial? Share alike?

http://creativecommons.org

Publisher: Wiley & Sons Publisher : OpenStax College Amazon $167. 19 Digital Access - $0

Softbound: $34.31

Traditional vs. Open Textbook

Goal: Make college more affordable by promoting use of high-quality open educational

resources for 50 highest enrolled college courses.

SB 1052, 1053 signed by Governor Brown September 2012

California Open Textbook Legislation

Image: http://gov.ca.gov

California Open Textbook Legislation

• SB 1052– Open Educational Resources Council

(California Faculty OER Council)

• SB 1053 – Digital Open Source Library

(COOLforEd)

California Faculty OER Council

• Established by the Intersegmental Academic Senate (ICAS)– 3 faculty appointed from each system and non-

voting chair = 10 members

• Council Tasks– Identify 50 highest impact courses– Survey faculty and students for awareness– Establish peer review rubric for open textbooks– Manage peer review panels for open textbooks

http://icas-ca.org/coerc

CERC – California Open Educational Resources Council

Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator

Faculty Survey: By Institution1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14

CSSA June 2014

CORC – California Open Educational Resources Council

Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator

Faculty Survey: Awareness 1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14

CSSA June 2014

CORC – California Open Educational Resources Council

Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator

Faculty Survey: Peer Review1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14

CSSA June 2014

Council

Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator

Faculty Survey: Cost Reduction1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14

CSSA June 2014

California Open Online Library(COOLforEd)

• Digital collection of curated open textbooks, peer reviews, accessibility info, and faculty adoption showcases

• Administered by the California State University System

Image: Licensed cc-by 3.0 OpenSourceWay

http://coolfored.org

Find Open Textbooks

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Accessible Open Textbooks

• 11% U.S. postsecondary students report disability, AIM Commission Report, 2011

• Many experience accessibility barriers, AIM Commission Report, 2011

• Formats and accessibility information is being consolidated and will be available in COOLforEd

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Faculty OER Showcases

• Open textbook adopted– Savings, accessibility

• Course description– Teaching and learning impacts

• Adoption process at institution– Student feedback

Faculty Showcases To Date

• Biology• Chemistry• Economics• History• Math• Public Speaking• Sociology• Statistics

Faculty Showcase: SociologyCollege of the Canyons

Faculty Showcase: SpeechCalifornia State University Sacramento

Faculty Showcase: PhysicsUniversity of California, Davis

Faculty Showcase: StatisticsLake Tahoe Community College

Course Showcases: open textbooks with peer reviews coming soon

Getting Involved: California Faculty• Request to peer review in your discipline

or recommend an open textbook– http://icas-ca.org/faculty-survey

• Faculty OER Adopters – contact us to be featured in a showcase.– cool4ed@cdl.edu

• Encourage students to take survey– http://icas-ca.org/student-survey

• Like the California OER Council – https://www.facebook.com/

CaliforniaOpenEducationalResourcesCouncil

Image: Licensed cc-by 2.0 Photologue_np on flickr

Image: Licensed cc-by-nc-sa Karl Nilsson on flickr

Thank you!

Contact InformationUna Daly udaly@calstate.edu

Leveraging Technology To Support Students, Faculty & Staff 2014