Open EducationalResources

and Open Textbooks

forCommunity Colleges

Education for the21st Century

Dr. Martha Kanter, Chancellor, Foothill-De Anza

Dr. Jim Fay, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cerro Coso

Remember this rite of passage?

For many students…

The first testis their ability to afford the textbooks.

Use of OER and open textbooks can replace this scene with …..

What is OER and where did itcome from?

Fundamental ValuesKnowledge should be free

Knowledge should be available anytime, anywhereKnowledge should be accessible to all

Knowledge should be culturally relevant

Where it all beganUniversally Available Library Repositories

MIT OpenCourseWare ProjectCreative Commons

Connexions, Merlot, etc.

Foothill-De Anza Board of TrusteesPolicy on Public Domain Learning Materials

Enacted December 05

Policy on Public Domain Learning MaterialsEnacted December 2005

The Foothill-De Anza Community College District encourages the creation, use, and ongoing maintenance of public domain-based learning materials in accordance with established curriculum standards for educational purposes of the district.

The goals of this policy are to provide students with high quality learning materials that reside in the public domain to augment and/or replace costly textbooks, to create sustainable academic resources for students, faculty and staff, and to provide opportunities for professional growth of district employees involved in these activities.

The Chancellor will provide periodic reports, not less than annually, to the Board that detail the progress made toward accomplishing the goals delineated by this policy.

What areOpen Educational Resources?

• High quality educational content and tools

• Freely available from the internet, anytime, anywhere

• All languages

• Shared

• Usable and re-usable

Benefits•Provides opportunities to share and remix learning materials for customized and localized use

•Fast feedback loop on quality and relevance of learning materials leading to continual improvement and rapid development

Benefits

Lowers the costs of educational materials

for students

Benefits

Gives faculty tools to gain control over

learning content and delivery.

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manuels textbooks

Challenges• Faculty and student

resistance to change

• Limited availability of high quality and comprehensive learning materials in some disciplines

• Inadequate access to high-speed Internet by students

Challenges• Articulation and

transfer issues

• Compliance with accessibility (ADA) requirements

• Printing and computer lab demands on campus by students

• Coordination with campus bookstores

In July 2007 we launched theCommunity College Consortiumfor Open Educational Resources

Joint effort to develop and use open educational resources and open textbooks

in community college courses

cccoer.wordpress.com

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 collegesat first CCCOER information meeting on July 17, 2007

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

OER Survey

OER Survey

CCCOERcan fill this gap

OER Survey

83 colleges

from AZ, C

A,

MD, NY, W

A,

NV, Ontario

…

In Spring 2008, we launched theCommunity College

Open Textbook Project

PURPOSE: To identify, organize, and support the production and use of high quality, accessible and culturally relevant Open

Textbooks for community college students

• Increase Quality

• Increase Access

• Reduce Cost

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

www.collegeopentextbooks.org

Project Partners

Connexions Statistics Open Textbook Project

Collaborative Statistics

by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean

OCPS Television,1998, Pics4Learning

Comparison of Stats Textbooks

Publisher: Wiley Open: Connexions & QOOP

Downloadable version:

$77.50

Downloadable & online versions:

FREE

Printed bound version:

$141.95 new

$110.25 used

Printed bound version:

$31.95 new

ExamplePHYS 4A: General Physics

        

600 pages

Used $125.00  

New $179.00 

OER Resources and Tools

• Tools for locating, organizing, and delivering • Tools for collaboration and development • Discipline-specific sources • U.S. government sources • Institutional repositories and self-archiving

Tools for Locating, Organizing,and Delivering OER

Discipline-specific Sources

Tools for Collaborationand Development

Open Textbook Adoption

• Locate open textbooks for consideration

• Evaluate each textbook for selection

• Customize, remix, and organize selected textbook

• Disseminate in print and digital formats

Create Globally,

Educate Locally

Joel ThiersteinExecutive Director

Statistics Open TextbookNow Available at Connexions

http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/

Collaborative Statistics

by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean

Discover…

Customize…

Adopt…

Learn how to use Connexions as your toolkitto discover, customize, and adopt open textbooks.

Complete Booklet PDF   Text         Get Account PDF Video TextLogin PDF Video Text Set Password PDF Video TextMaintain Account PDF Video Text         Search Connexions PDF Video TextUse Materials PDF Video Text         Check Out Materials PDF Video TextEdit Materials PDF Video TextPublish Materials PDF Video TextUpdate Collections PDF Video TextPublish Collections PDF Video Text      Getting Textbooks PDF Video Text

Evaluate Each Textbook

–Quality–Accessibility–Cultural

relevance–Currency–Authority–Articulation

Self-Paced Tutorial

Disseminate Open Textbooks– Digital formats

– Printed format

– Student (DIY)

– Campus bookstore

– Campus printshop services

– Proprietary services

Faculty Role

• Encourage faculty to develop, locate, review, and and promote OER

– Support sabbaticals for development and modification of open textbooks

– Give credit toward tenure for faculty work on open textbook development

Content Review Panels

• Determine and define the necessary elementsof a model community college Open Textbooks

– Reading level– Depth and scope – Quality and accuracy– Cultural relevance– Currency– Authority of source

OER on Your Campus

• Form a 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

Next Steps• Locate more open

textbooks• Increase participation in

the consortium• Support the faculty• Identify and modify

technical standards appropriate for open textbooks

• Determine process for vetting

• Field-test standards and processes

Kenneth Ransom,, 2000. Pics4Learning