MCO OER Initiative

MCO OER Initiative Goals: Improving student success Lowering costs for students Increasing inter-institutional faculty collaboration

The Best Reason Student Success – Completion Passing with a C- or better grade Course grade Enrollment Intensity in current term Enrollment Intensity in next term Source: A multi-institutional study of the impact of open textbook adoption on the learning outcomes of post-secondary students. Lane Fischer , John Hilton III, T. Jared Robinson, David A. Wiley. http://tinyurl.com/q2dp6na

MCO OER Initiative Statewide Steering Committee Representation from all 28 community colleges Training/webinars Data Collection Repository

OER Usage Survey colleges regarding open textbook usage Fall 2016 14 colleges reported 120 courses $1,523,200 savings

OER Usage Business Law (2) Economics (2) Biology (3) Micro-economics Macro-economics Biology (3) Anatomy & Physiology (5) US History (6)

OER Usage Statistics (2) Pre-algebra (2) Chemistry (3) Sociology (4) Geography (2) Physics (2) Psychology (5)

MCO Repository Hosted by OER Commons Connection to over 65,000 resources Low maintenance costs Authoring tools Training

Within a Hub, anyone can search the resources that have been curated into collections. Search also includes resources that are saved to Groups highlighted on a Hub. https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/mco

The OER Commons Hubs Statewide Hubs Michigan Colleges Online Minnesota OER Commons Washington OER Project Alamo Colleges Topical Hubs Open Textbook Hub Common Core STEM Literacy OER Commons Partner Hubs OpenStax

Working with the team at OER Commons, a Hub can have content collections curated specifically for the Hub audience. Additionally, unique keywords can be used to further populate a Collection. Search a Hub

Search a Hub Anyone can look at another Group’s collections. Get ideas about resources that are in use by others. Find resources that are newly added to Groups of interest. Access your Group via your LMS We offer LTI access to a Group so all your curated resources are easily added to your LMS. Search a Hub Groups can be highlighted on a Hub. A Group is a community of practice on OER Commons where members can curate resources, organize them, collaborate on authoring, and hold discussions using the Discussion board.

Member Tools Tag – classify resources Rate – mark the relevance and value Review – provide a public review of a resource for others Save – to a personal folder for easy access Note – add a private note to an item, viewable only by you. Contribute Content When you register with OER Commons or one of our sites, you can create a portfolio, review, tag, and rate items, and contribute your own content to the site. Tag: Tags are words you use to classify a resource in a way that is helpful to you. Choose Tag This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the right column of the individual resource. Rate: You may rate a resource to mark the relevance and value of that resource. Choose Rate This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen. Review: You may write a review about resource, writing commentary about how you used the resource, the quality of the resource, and information about how others might use this resource. Reviews are public to all users. Choose Review This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen. Save: You may save an individual resource or a search query to your portfolio. Both of these functions help you easily access the resources at a later time. To save an individual resource, choose Save This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen, in the right portal above the tags for that resource. To save a search, choose Save This Search from the search query, in the right portal above the tags for that search. Note: You may add a private note to an item, viewable only by you, by choosing Add Notes at the bottom of an individual resource. Contribute Content: You may submit open educational resources to OER Commons if you control the copyright or licensing, and if the materials are freely hosted online. OER Commons does not provide hosting of the actual items. To submit materials, click on the Contribute Content button at the top of any OER Commons page.

Faculty Grants Adopt – an existing open textbook Adapt – remix an existing open textbook or ancillary resources Develop – create a new ancillary resource or open textbook.

Faculty Grants - Adoption Adoption Projects Course Project Description College Lead Collaborator Co-collaborator Analytic Geometry and Calculus I Proposed textbook to be used: Contemporary Calculus (http://scidiv.bellevuecollege.edu/dh/Calculus_all/Calculus_all.html) Macomb Jon Oaks Mohamed Zorkot   Psychology Proposed textbook: Psychology (OpenStax) Northwestern Michigan Deb Maison Social Psychology Proposed textbook: Principles of Social Psychology (https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=74) Lansing Community College Sharon Hughes Richard Coelho Vaughn Vowels US History Proposed textbook: U.S. History (OpenStax) Mott Community College Brian Harding Aaron Gulyas

Faculty Grants - Adaption World History Our project would "disassemble" and rearrange the chosen text (World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500) in a more global manner. Instead of five thousand years of the middle east followed by five thousand years of China and five thousand years of India, our remixed text would present a snapshot of the entire globe during a chronological period, allowing students to more clearly see the similarities and differences in the development of human societies through time as well as the interconnections between civilizations. Mott Community College - Aaron Gulyas & Brian Harding   Cell Biology & Human Genetics Our goal is to improve the coverage of the scientific method and key experiments in the OpenStax biology text. In order to accomplish this, we will use supplemental videos and interactive animations with embedded questions that focus on identifying hypotheses and interpreting the results of experiments. Lansing Community College - Arthur Wohlwill When you register with OER Commons or one of our sites, you can create a portfolio, review, tag, and rate items, and contribute your own content to the site. Tag: Tags are words you use to classify a resource in a way that is helpful to you. Choose Tag This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the right column of the individual resource. Rate: You may rate a resource to mark the relevance and value of that resource. Choose Rate This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen. Review: You may write a review about resource, writing commentary about how you used the resource, the quality of the resource, and information about how others might use this resource. Reviews are public to all users. Choose Review This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen. Save: You may save an individual resource or a search query to your portfolio. Both of these functions help you easily access the resources at a later time. To save an individual resource, choose Save This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen, in the right portal above the tags for that resource. To save a search, choose Save This Search from the search query, in the right portal above the tags for that search. Note: You may add a private note to an item, viewable only by you, by choosing Add Notes at the bottom of an individual resource. Contribute Content: You may submit open educational resources to OER Commons if you control the copyright or licensing, and if the materials are freely hosted online. OER Commons does not provide hosting of the actual items. To submit materials, click on the Contribute Content button at the top of any OER Commons page.

Faculty Grants - Adaption American History Michigan has 13 Native-American reservations and the largest Native-American population east of the Mississippi River yet U.S. History books barely mention Natives except for pre-Columbian History and the Indian Wars of the late 1800s. Native people have had, and continue to have, a profound effect on U.S. History. In order to rectify this omission we propose to add a great deal of Native history to the regular narrative. The Native history will be integrated into the various chapters of both Openstax and Yawp in order to show cause and effect of native peoples on U.S. History through a combination of text, video, illustrations and other multimedia. Northwestern Michigan College - Mindy Morton Lansing Community College – Anne Heutsche When you register with OER Commons or one of our sites, you can create a portfolio, review, tag, and rate items, and contribute your own content to the site. Tag: Tags are words you use to classify a resource in a way that is helpful to you. Choose Tag This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the right column of the individual resource. Rate: You may rate a resource to mark the relevance and value of that resource. Choose Rate This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen. Review: You may write a review about resource, writing commentary about how you used the resource, the quality of the resource, and information about how others might use this resource. Reviews are public to all users. Choose Review This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen. Save: You may save an individual resource or a search query to your portfolio. Both of these functions help you easily access the resources at a later time. To save an individual resource, choose Save This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen, in the right portal above the tags for that resource. To save a search, choose Save This Search from the search query, in the right portal above the tags for that search. Note: You may add a private note to an item, viewable only by you, by choosing Add Notes at the bottom of an individual resource. Contribute Content: You may submit open educational resources to OER Commons if you control the copyright or licensing, and if the materials are freely hosted online. OER Commons does not provide hosting of the actual items. To submit materials, click on the Contribute Content button at the top of any OER Commons page.

Faculty Grants - Adaption Psychology and Communication We are hoping to elaborate upon the intersections between communication and psychology—the points at which they connect or layer—for our learners. We, as faculty representing both psychology and speech/communications, plan to coordinate OER efforts to illustrate for students the interweaving of curricular outcomes, content, and knowledge in these two disciplines. Our final project will be revised/remixed Open Education Resources that can be used in both introductory speech and psychology courses. Mid Michigan Community College - Maria Gross, Kelly Eltzroth, Diane Miller When you register with OER Commons or one of our sites, you can create a portfolio, review, tag, and rate items, and contribute your own content to the site. Tag: Tags are words you use to classify a resource in a way that is helpful to you. Choose Tag This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the right column of the individual resource. Rate: You may rate a resource to mark the relevance and value of that resource. Choose Rate This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen. Review: You may write a review about resource, writing commentary about how you used the resource, the quality of the resource, and information about how others might use this resource. Reviews are public to all users. Choose Review This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen. Save: You may save an individual resource or a search query to your portfolio. Both of these functions help you easily access the resources at a later time. To save an individual resource, choose Save This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen, in the right portal above the tags for that resource. To save a search, choose Save This Search from the search query, in the right portal above the tags for that search. Note: You may add a private note to an item, viewable only by you, by choosing Add Notes at the bottom of an individual resource. Contribute Content: You may submit open educational resources to OER Commons if you control the copyright or licensing, and if the materials are freely hosted online. OER Commons does not provide hosting of the actual items. To submit materials, click on the Contribute Content button at the top of any OER Commons page.

Faculty Grants - Adaption Psychology This project will focus on a History and Systems approach to teaching Introduction to Psychology. The significant modifications will be in the sequence of presentation in such a way as to enhance the student experience and facilitate learning and retention by increasing contextual learning and activation of prior knowledge. The adaption will be in a spiral curriculum format with a History-based contextual sequence of chapters which research has shown to be more engaging to students and which better facilitates the acceptance of, retention of and proficiency with content material (Bergman, et al., 2015). A History and Systems approach allows for major complex concepts to be revisited several times in the natural course of historical, scientific progression. Kirtland Community College - Michael Peters When you register with OER Commons or one of our sites, you can create a portfolio, review, tag, and rate items, and contribute your own content to the site. Tag: Tags are words you use to classify a resource in a way that is helpful to you. Choose Tag This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the right column of the individual resource. Rate: You may rate a resource to mark the relevance and value of that resource. Choose Rate This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen. Review: You may write a review about resource, writing commentary about how you used the resource, the quality of the resource, and information about how others might use this resource. Reviews are public to all users. Choose Review This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen. Save: You may save an individual resource or a search query to your portfolio. Both of these functions help you easily access the resources at a later time. To save an individual resource, choose Save This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen, in the right portal above the tags for that resource. To save a search, choose Save This Search from the search query, in the right portal above the tags for that search. Note: You may add a private note to an item, viewable only by you, by choosing Add Notes at the bottom of an individual resource. Contribute Content: You may submit open educational resources to OER Commons if you control the copyright or licensing, and if the materials are freely hosted online. OER Commons does not provide hosting of the actual items. To submit materials, click on the Contribute Content button at the top of any OER Commons page.

Faculty Grants - Develop Spanish This project will produce interactive Spanish multimedia ancillary resources using virtual partners, interactive multimedia presentations, practice exercises with immediate feedback, etc. These tools advance student learning by providing real-time feedback and assistance to the students outside of the classroom, which enables them to master pronunciation, grammar, and advanced vocabulary much more quickly. Perhaps the most important component will be the engaging, age-appropriate, tutorial-type resources that not only facilitate instruction of material but effectively permit student participation. Lansing Community College – Kari Richards, Sara Bostwick and Stephanie Throne

Faculty Grants - Develop Forensic Science The outcome of this project will be a college level open textbook that covers the entire subject area span in the field of forensic science. Within each unit/chapter there will be links to cases, videos, flashcards, web-based quizzes and recommend resources for hands-on and/or on-line exercises that are open and at college level. In addition the textbook will be linked to K-12 standards for forensic science to allow it to be used in whole or part by advanced placement level high school classes. Mott Community College – Jennifer Fillion Genesee Career Institute - Dawn Bright

Faculty Grants - Develop Fashion We will be creating a textbook with a workbook that covers the Principles & Elements of Design as well as historical silhouettes. The text can be used in the first 4 courses of our program and then as a reference text during the rest of the student’s coursework in our program. The project will include demonstration and tutorial videos in order to provide other delivery methods for student learning. We will create a text that utilizes sketches, illustrations, and graphics to aid in student exploration of the principles and elements of design, and historical silhouettes. The workbook will include assignments and projects that will require students to create their own responses. Lansing Community College – Christine Conner, Ann Wojtkowski, Andrea Bartlett, Samantha Bartlett

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