2009 Report on Open Educational Resources JUDY Dr. Judy Baker February 2, 2009

Open Educational Resources OER at FHDA International survey about faculty and OER Community College Consortium for OER Hewlett Foundation Open Textbook Project Grant BARB

Statistics Open Textbook Collaborative Statistics by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean Long-term effort by authors to make their statistics textbook more affordable Available at Connexions http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/ http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/ Initial Outcomes An open textbook collaboration between CCCOER and Connexions (http://cnx.org), Collaborative Statistics, is now freely available online on the Connexions website (http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/). Collaborative Statistics is also available at low cost in a print (bound) version, shipped from print-on-demand vendor (and Connexions partner) QOOP Inc. (http://www.sqoop.com/corp_libraries/CNX/collaborativeStatistics.php). De Anza College professor, Illowsky and recently retired De Anza College mathematics professor, Dean were motivated to make their Collaborative Statistics textbook available via an open license in Connexions in order to lower textbook costs for students, and provide more instructional options for teachers. Already, nearly a dozen instructors at community college campuses in California have selected the Collaborative Statistics textbook for their statistics courses this fall. The anticipated enrollment in these courses is more than 700 students. Additional university faculty in New Mexico and New York plan to customize and/or adopt the textbook for Spring 2009 courses. Also, several faculty have already volunteered to contribute additional content for the Collaborative Statistics textbook (e.g., Minitab instructions and homework problem sets); the latter will be edited for inclusion by the Collaborative Statistics textbook authors, Illowsky and Dean. An open statistics course developed by Illowsky and Dean, freely available from Sofia (http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery/statistics/index.html) is closely aligned with the Collaborative Statistics textbook. The open statistics course at Sofia includes lesson plans, videotaped lectures, suggested homework, quizzes, and exams. 3

Adopters of Collaborative Statistics Fall 2008 De Anza College Yatman Au Young Nadia Bensidi Lenore Desillets Harmon Dhaliwal Janice Hector Renuka Kapur Charles Klein Lisa Markus Kathryn Plum Rupinder Sekhon Frank Snow San Diego Mesa College SUNY Purchase CSU Dominguez Hills University of Colorado Winter/Spring 2009 De Anza 2009 Roberta Bloom Barbara Illowsky Vladimir Logvenenko Lorraine Moen Diane Mathios Andrew Phelps Sacramento City College Los Rios College University of Toledo Frederick Community College Arkansas Tech University Yatman Au Young De Anza College Fall 2008 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Nadia Bensidi De Anza College Fall 2008 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Roberta Bloom De Anza College Spring 2009 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Ann Commito Frederick Community College Spring 2009 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Lenore Desillets De Anza College Fall 2008 Harmon Dhaliwal De Anza College Fall 2008 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Janice Hector De Anza College Fall 2008 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Barbara Illowsky De Anza College Spring 2009 Collaborative Statistics (col10522), Teacher's Guide (col10547), Supplementary Course Materials (col10586) Renuka Kapur De Anza College Fall 2008 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Charles Klein De Anza College Fall 2008 Collaborative Statistics (col10522 Vladimir Logvenenko De Anza College Spring 2009 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Lisa Markus De Anza College Fall 2008 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Miriam Masullo SUNY Purchase Fall 2008 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Diane Mathios De Anza College Winter 2009 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Ginni May Los Rios Spring 2009 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Lorraine Moen De Anza College Winter 2009 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Kathryn Plum De Anza College Fall 2008 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Rupinder Sekhon De Anza College Fall 2008 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Frank Snow De Anza College Fall 2008 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Mary Teegarden San Diego CCD Fall 2008 Collaborative Statistics (with edits: Teegarden) (col10561) Pat Hanscom San Diego Mesa College Spring 2009 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Terry McGlynn CSU Dominguez Hills Fall 2008 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Craig Seeley University of Toledo Spring 2009 Collaborative Statistics (col10522) Developed new Connexions Module: Adoption and Usage. This module is designed to track the various versions and derived copies of Collaborative Statistics, at http://cnx.org/content/m18261/latest/ The Connexions content team has finished its work on the Collaborative Statistics project.  3 collections (246 modules) published and available: Collaborative Statistics (textbook): http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/ Collaborative Statistics Supplemental Course Materials (Sofia content): http://cnx.org/content/col10586/latest/ Collaborative Statistics Teacher's Guide: http://cnx.org/content/col10547/latest/ Collaborative Statistics featured prominently in media, including: Creative Commons site. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/lessig-letters/2008/12/03/11112 e-textbooks -- Can they help? http://voices.washingtonpost.com/x-equals-why/2008/12/e-text_books_-_could_they_help.html Technophobiac blog.  Posting includes interviews with Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean http://news.technophobiac.com/2008/12/04/collaborative-statistics-%e2%80%94-an-open-textbook%c2%a0model/ Open Educational Resources - panel session, See http://learntechgalway.blogspot.com/2008/12/open-educational-resources-panel.html Estimated savings of $87,040 for De Anza students each quarter

De Anza College Math instructor, Rupinder Sekhon Adopted his own Applied Finite Mathematic open textbook instead of adopting a $120 traditional textbook Represents $120 potential savings for each De Anza College student Estimated total savings of $4,800 each quarter for De Anza College students

Foothill College Open textbook recommended for ENG 48B: American Literature in the Gilded Age English instructor, Scott Lankford

CCCOER Survey Results 1,203 faculty respondents 12 Districts and 28 colleges 66% full-time Represent wide range of disciplines 91% indicated interest in using OER materials in their classes 34% said they were aware of OER materials in their field 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 Conducted fall 07 – spring 08

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources Joint effort to develop and use open educational resources and open textbooks in community college courses Launched July 2007

85 colleges from AZ, CA, FL, IA, MD, NV, NY, OH, TX,WA, Ontario CCCOER Membership

Recognition Recipient of the 2008 Technology Focus Award from the California Community Colleges System Office California Mathematics Council Community Colleges (CMC3) unanimously passed a resolution in support of CCCOER in May 2008

October 2008, Volume 9, Number

Media Coverage and Published Articles January/February 2009 It Takes a Consortium to Support Open Textbooks Aug. 12 Open Textbook Meets Community Colleges April 29 Online Texts for Community College Students Summer 2008 A Culture of Shared Knowledge Developing a Strategy for Low-Cost Textbook Alternatives August 17, 2008 Digital books become more appealing April 29, 2008 Community College Open-Textbook Project Gets Under Way

Website cccoer.wordpress.com JUDY Goals   Foster sharing, development, and use of public domain learning materials or open educational resources (OER) by community college faculty as alternatives or supplements to proprietary textbooks Collect, organize, and disseminate contributions to a list of open and free learning materials suitable for using in community colleges

Open Textbooks Over 200 open textbooks identified, catalogued, and listed on CCCOER site and in MERLOT Collection

OER Training & Presentations Foothill College one-unit course, LINC 215 Conferences Sloan-C 2008 International Symposium Open Ed 2008 Conference 2008 CIT, League for Innovations in Community Colleges Association of Community College Trustees (presentation by Hal Plotkin) Community College League of California Annual Convention California Mathematics Council Community Colleges annual conference Colleges campuses including FHDA District Opening Day Online tutorials (Connexions, @ONE webinar & Etudes)

Hewlett Foundation Grant Open Textbook Project Increase scope and membership of CCCOER Centralize Open Textbook information Document work flow model Design and conduct research studies Develop sustainability plan JUDY Increase the scope and membership of the newly established Community College Consortium for OER Centralize critical Open Textbook information for use by community college professors and other interested parties Document a work flow model for producing and maintaining Open Textbooks Design and conduct research studies that inform professors about the benefits of developing and using Open Textbooks in their classes Develop the first draft of a business plan to sustain the work of CCCOER and expand the use of Open Textbooks in community colleges

Project Partners In March 2008, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation awarded a one-year $530,000 grant to Foothill-DeAnza and the CCCOER to plan and pilot the Community College Open Textbook Project. CCOTP partners include: Connexions at Rice University, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE), Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education ISKME), University of California College Prep Program (UCCP), Flat World Knowledge (FWK), High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges, and California State University’s Digital Marketplace. UC Digital Marketplace State Community College Chancellor’s Office Textbook Summit Student PIRG Connexions Monterey Institute for Technology and Education Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education Flat World Knowledge University of California College Prep Open Access

Next Steps Identification of Campus OER Champions Kenneth Ransom,, 2000. Pics4Learning Identification of Campus OER Champions Building Faculty Engagement & Investment Training Needs Identifying Discipline Experts Growing the Consortium Kenneth Ransom, steps.jpg. June 2000. Pics4Learning. 24 Apr 2008 <http://pics.tech4learning.com>

Timeline to Success Winter 2009 Spring 2009 Foster faculty interest in OER Presentations and trainings Submit grant proposals Spring 2009 Offer OER training Identify faculty OER champions Plan new faculty survey No baseline data because we are just beginning this effort

Measures of Success Outcomes by 2010 Increased number of: Colleges with membership in CCCOER Faculty trained in OER use and development Open Textbooks used by faculty Open Textbooks developed by faculty Train-the-Trainer coordination with Student PIRGs JUDY