Getting it Together: Summer Retreat 2018 Zero-Cost, Low-Cost, OER, Z-Degree Nathan Smith

So many programs, so many initiatives, what’s really going on? An overview of the mission and the reason Low-Cost Book and Zero-Cost Book Tagging Z-Degree Open Educational Resources

HCC Student & Faculty Surveys (2013-17) 78% of students spend over $150 per semester on textbooks 45% of students spend over $300 per semester 26% of faculty are moderately concerned about the price of textbooks 51% of faculty are extremely concerned about the price of textbooks

Copyright restricts access and increases costs “Keep Out,” CC-BY Kate Merenda-Sinha, katemere, Flickr (2006)

OER Improves Access and Lowers Cost “Beyond Definitions,” CC-By-SA Opensource.com, Flickr (2011)

Overview Fall 2017 Spring 2018 Summer 2018 Sections 28 52 22 Face-to-Face 17 25 3 Online 11 27 19 Duplicated Enrollments 712 1181 600+ Courses 12 18 10 9 15 Campuses 2

Low-Cost and Zero-Cost Books Tagging

New Textbook Tagging system in PeopleSoft Low-Cost Books: The total cost of required texts and textbooks is less than $40 (this includes ancillaries, such as an “access code” but not supplies, like a graphing calculator or pencils). Zero-Cost Books: The total cost of required texts and textbooks is $0 (this includes ancillaries, such as an “access code” but not supplies, like a graphing calculator or pencils). Chairs, Deans, or Office Managers should tag courses as LCB or ZCB when staffing and submitting textbook orders.

Students can search for classes according to ”course attribute”

There is a drop-down menu for filtering search results

All class searches include a column identifying LCB / ZCB courses

Anyone can tag their courses as LCB or ZCB, as long as they fit the definition

The Z-Degree

What is the Z-Degree, again? A structured schedule of courses: All OER or zero-cost for textbooks In some cases, where OER ancillary resources are used, course fees are subsidized by HCC For specific degree plans AA, Business Administration (Central and Northline campuses) AA, Multidisciplinary Studies (Central campus) Core Curriculum (Central, Northline, Spring Branch, and Stafford campuses, 2018-19) Faculty are trained and receive and OER Certificate Not all OER courses are in the Z-Degree

OER Certificate Required courses: TL1000, “Student Engagement (Learning-Centered) Instructional Design” TL1011, “Writing Learning Outcomes and Course Objectives” TL1700, “Copyright Literacy in the Academic Environment” TL1800, “Discovering and Integrating Library Services” “Introduction to Open Educational Resources” Expect 4 sessions per semester Working on an online version for Spring 2019 “Z-Degree Faculty: Putting it all Together” Will be scheduled as needed, once per semester

Open Educational Resources

Anyone can start using OER right now Open Textbook Library OER Commons HCC OER LibGuide Nathan Smith’s OER Learning Web page MyHCC > Faculty Center > OER Announcements Readings and resources Faculty interest sign-in form

What are OER? Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation)

The 5 R’s of OER Importantly OER materials attempt to preserve these 5 capacities (Wiley 2014): Retain: the right to make, own , and control copies of the content. Reuse: the right to use the content in a wide range of ways. Revise: the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself. Remix: the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new. Redistribute: the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others.

Let’s do some OER searching…

Stipends OER Certificate Stipend, $300 Adoption of an OER for Z-Degree instruction, $300 TLE OER Course Certification, $600 Content development stipends: adaptation, revision, and creation (work in teams or alone) $600, $1200, $1800 Requires an application Design and licensing of publishing software resources available