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Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
Open Textbook Project Meeting
Thursday, May 1, 2008, 10 am – 3 pmKrause Center for Innovation
Goals of Meeting
• Host the membership meeting of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
• Discuss Community College Open Textbook Project
• Review OER Faculty Survey results
• Identify next steps
10:00 Welcome and Introductions
10:15 Hewlett Foundation Update
10:25 CCCOER & CCOT: Progress to Date & Goals
10:45 CCCOER Survey Results
11:00 Break
11:10 Connexions Statistics Open Textbook Project
11:45 Working Lunch
12:30 Open Textbook Development & Adoption
1:30 CCCOER Next Steps Identification of Campus OER ChampionsBuilding Faculty Engagement & InvestmentTraining NeedsIdentifying Discipline ExpertsGrowing the Consortium
2:50 Concluding Remarks
AGENDA
Brian Page, 1999, Pics4Learning
The William and FloraHewlett Foundation
• Catherine M. Casserly, Ph.D.
Director Open Educational Resources
• Vic Vuchic Associate Program Officer Open Educational Resources
Community College Consortiumfor Open Educational Resources
• Goal– Identify, create and/or repurpose existing OER as Open Textbooks and
make them available for use by community college students and faculty
• Objective– Seeking the support of faculty to identify, review, evaluate, and make
available high quality, accessible and culturally relevant model Open Textbooks
• Established in July 2007 by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District
• Representatives from over 20 collegesattended the first CCCOER information meeting on July 17, 2007
CCCOER: Progress to Date• Membership
– 64 colleges– CA, MD, NY, WA, NV, Ontario
• Website – cccoer.wordpress.com• OER Survey of 1,203 faculty • Collaboration
– Textbook Summit– Student PIRG– Connexions– Monterey Institute for Technology and Education– Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education– Flat World Knowledge
• Developed faculty self-paced tutorial and credit course about OER– Available online via Connexions and ETUDES NG
• Co-hosted Open Textbook Meeting in Jan 2008• OER presentations at state and national professional meetings
and colleges; participation in California Textbook Summit
Community College Open Textbook Project
• Hewlett Foundation Grant– Feasibility study to provide
high quality, accessible and culturally relevant open textbooks for community college students and faculty through the CCCOER and other academic, noncommercial and commercial partners
Community CollegeOpen Textbook Project
GoalIdentify, organize, and support the production and use of high quality, accessible and culturally relevant Open Textbooks for
community college students
Community CollegeOpen Textbook Project
Goals
• Increase the scope and membership of CCCOER
• Centralize critical Open Textbook information for use by community colleges
• Document a workflow model for producing and maintaining Open Textbooks
• Design and conduct research studies about the benefits of Open Textbooks
• Develop a business plan to increase sustainability
Workflow Summary
• Locate, collect and develop open content• Vet the content
– Quality• Depth, breadth, cultural relevancy, authority of source, etc.
– Technical• Accessibility, interoperability, etc.
• Prepare open content for CC use– Customize, organize, localize, convert for
accessibility, interoperability
• Provide publication and dissemination options
Proposed Workflow for Campuses
• Form Taskforce on campus to address adoption of open textbooks– Curriculum approval– Pedagogical standards– Articulation– Tech support– Bookstore and print shop services – Library– Faculty and department participation– Faculty training in development of OER– Marketing
Proposed Workflow for Campuses
• Foster community of educators who will use and contribute to open content appropriate for use as textbook at community colleges
– Educate campus community about OER and open textbooks
– Provide model Board policies about OER
– Provide model tenure and promotionincentives for faculty to participate in OER
– Provide guide for development and implementation of campus Taskforce to address adoption of open textbooks
What Sustainability and
Business Models
are most viable for the
Community College
Open Textbook Project?
Sustainability
• Unique sustainability challenges of open educational resource projects
• Must find ways to sustain– Production and sharing of
open educational resources– Use and reuse of their open
educational resources by end users
Sustainability• Explore the viability of institutional
and/or student use fees
• Examine the relationship and cost-models for Connexion’s digital university press and the campus
• Bookstores and Printshops as point-of-purchase centers for Open Textbooks
• Identify sources of operating support from states, institutions, foundations and other complementary organizations
“Sustainability is more than funding models.”
~ S. Downes ~
• Quality processes• Technical• Openness, access
and licenses• Staffing• Workflow• Maintenance
CCCOER Survey Results
• 1,203 faculty respondents– 12 Districts and 28 colleges– 66% full-time– Represent wide range of
disciplines
• 91% indicated interest in usingOER materials in their classes
• 34% said they were aware of OER materials in their field
CCCOER Survey Results
• 34% already using OER materials in their classes• Greatest type of OER use reported
– Journals and journal articles– Reference works and materials– Newspaper articles– Images
• 87% likely or very likely to use OER materials if such materials were readily accessible
• 66% interested in helping to produce or identify OER materials
• Support needed for faculty to develop of OER– Training– Guidelines and/or templates– Paid compensation or stipend– Website repository of OER materials
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Connexions Statistics Open Textbook Project
Collaborative Statistics
by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean
OCPS Television,1998, Pics4Learning
Content Review Panel
• Five CCCOER members – Two University of California representatives– Two California State University representatives– Two other experts
• Determine and define the necessary elementsof a model CC Open Textbook– Reading level– Depth and scope – Quality and accuracy– Cultural relevance– Currency– Authority of source
Technical Panel
• Interoperability standards
• Content dissemination processes
• Accessibility
WorkingLunch
K. Hedges, 2007, Pics4Learning
Open Textbook Adoption ExerciseFive Steps to open textbook adoption for your course
Step 1: List keywords based on course objectives or student learning outcomes
Step 2: Search for open content using the keywords
Step 3: Select or create appropriate open content
Step 4: Organize open content; build textbook
Step 5: Get necessary approvals; disseminate
Open Textbook Adoption Tasks• Locate and categorize suitable open content
– Topics by top courses that represent 80% of enrollments– Reading level– Depth and scope
• Evaluate– Quality– Accessibility– Cultural relevance– Currency– Authority– Articulation
• Customize, Remix, Localize and Organize– Interoperability– Accessibility– License type– Cultural relevance
• Disseminate in print and digital formats – Student (DIY) for production of open textbook– Campus bookstore and/or printshop services for production of open textbook– Proprietary services
Next Steps• Identification of
Campus OER Champions
• Building Faculty Engagement & Investment
• Training Needs
• Identifying Discipline Experts
• Growing the Consortium
Kenneth Ransom,, 2000. Pics4Learning
Concluding Remarks
Brian Page,1985, Pics4Learning