Regina Gong, Librarian & OER Project Manager

gongr1@lcc.edu; @drgong

http://libguides.lcc.edu/oer

Northeast OER Summit

UMass Amherst

June 14, 2017

Creating Successful OER Institutional

Initiatives with Big Impact

LCC AT A GLANCE

• Located in downtown Lansing

• Founded in 1957

• 26,000 students enrolled/year

• 230+ degree & certificate

programs

• 1st in MI to offer online degrees

• Teaching faculty 90% adjuncts

Textbook affordability

Allow faculty to reinvigorate the way they teach

OER Initiative Goals

• 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

In June 2016, LCC was chosen as an institutional partner of OpenStax

Strategies that work

Meet faculty individually and as a group

• Target program faculty chairs and program

coordinators

• Ask to be included in the agenda during

department meetings

• Don’t forget to bring sign up sheets!

BIOL 127 – Cell Biology

BIOL 128 – Organismal Biology

BIOL 270 - Human Genetics

PSYC 200 – Intro to Psychology

SOCL 120 – Introduction to SociologyECON 201 –Microeconomics

ECON 201 – Macroeconomics

BIOL 201– Human Anatomy MATH 106 – Math Literacy with Review

Continued, ongoing professional development

• Faculty workshops through the Center for Teaching Excellence

• Open Sesame: Using Open Educational Resources (OER) for Teaching and Learning

• OER-Palooza: Let’s Find OER for your Course • So You’ve Chosen an OER, Now what? • Sharing and Collaborating with LCC’s Z-degree Initiative

• OER Summit at LCC

Encourage and turn OER believers into OER champions

“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 (as philosophers like Martha Nussbaum have argued), 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

Encourage and turn OER believers as OER champions

“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

Fall 2015 Spring 2016

Summer

2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017

Summer

2017 Fall 2017

Running

Total

Faculty Using OER 5 12 4 46 48 25 58 198

Courses Using OER 5 10 4 14 16 10 21 80

Sections Using OER 11 23 6 101 100 31 118 390

Students Enrolled 317 540 129 2,825 2,558 746 3,508 10,623

Actual Textbook

Savings (based on new

print book) $63,286.75 $92,077.75 $26,792.50 $351,449.00 $318,974.50 $96,539.00 $511,321.00 $1,460,440

Total Textbook Savings

(no. of students*$100) $31,700 $54,000 $12,900 $282,500 $255,800 $74,600 $350,800 $1,062,300

OER Adoptions Summary

Communicate success college-wide

• Regular feature articles in “The Star”

• Tell story to students via student newspaper

• Participate in professional development days for faculty

• Write President reports to the Board of Trustees

Pursue partnerships & collaborations within and outside of institution

• Library • E-Learning

• Center for Teaching Excellence

• Academic Senate• Center for Data Science• Student Life and Student Leadership Academy

• Open Learning Lab• Michigan Colleges Online• K-12 through #GoOpen MI

Next Steps• More program level OER adoptions

• Work on offering Z-degree starting Fall 2018

• Support adjunct faculty with stipends

• Encourage & support faculty engagement with open education and pedagogy

• Promote/market OER courses to students

• Impact assessment beyond cost savings