Dr. Nathan Smith Dr. Amy Tan Michael Stafford Dr. Veronica Amaku OER at HCC Dr. Nathan Smith Dr. Amy Tan Michael Stafford Dr. Veronica Amaku This presentation is licensed by Houston Community College, Creative Commons-Attribution 4.0

Plan for the presentation Multiple perspectives on the Z-Degree and OER initiative at Houston Community College: Overview from the OER Coordinator Administrative support from the Dean of English and Communications Library support from the Executive Director of Libraries A faculty perspective from a Professor of Biology

Overview: The OER Coordinator Nathan Smith

HCC’s Z-Degree Launched with a $300,000, 3-year grant from the Kinder Foundation in March 2017 A Zero Cost Textbook degree pathway for students Structured schedule by campus, following advising plan Online options treated separately AA, Business Administration Central Campus, Northline Campus, Online AA and AS, Multidisciplinary Studies Central Campus, Online Core Curriculum Current: Central, Northline, Spring Branch, Stafford, and Online By Fall 2019: Alief-Hayes, Eastside, and West Loop By Fall 2020: Codwell and Katy

HCC’s OER Initiative Promote training, support, adoption, use, and development of OER OER approved by Program Committee, selected by faculty OER Training Certificate OER Workshops: Intro to OER, Open Educational Practices, Getting the Most Out of OER OER Course Certification OER Stipends for adaptation and creation of OER content OER Course Tagging Zero Cost Books Low Cost Books HCC Textbook Savings Search tool External partnerships, grants, promotion Internal events and promotion

Administrative Support: Dean of English and Communications Amy Tan

Leading OER as a Dean Bring it up at every meeting Get in front of every audience Strategic plan discussion/budget Existing resources/structures (CTLE/Library) Support efforts—release time? stipend? emotional? Make room for experimentation/innovation Incorporate into Policy

EmpOwERment 1) OER Coordinator (release time plus teaching) 2) OER Steering Committee--someone who will tell you the truth Cross-functional—must be diverse in every way: faculty, dept. chairs, program coordinators, librarians, financial aid, student services, testing, deans, advising, public relations, students, cynics, technology Resource—tell you what you don’t know, help you find support, make recommendations, give feedback Regular meetings—monthly? Quarterly? 3) Remove Barriers—the three amigos

Library Support: Executive Director of Libraries Michael Stafford

Open Educational Resources and Open Access Resources – Access and Curation Library Catalog Limit by Material Type – eBook (Free), 17,006 records; eVideo (Free) 1,688 records; eJournal (Free), 5,745 records Eagle Library Search – Ebsco Discovery Service Limit by “Select Database” facet Includes Open SUNY Textbooks, OAPEN and others Curated LibGuides specifically for OER and OA resources in all disciplines and as tabs on discipline specific LibGuides

Open Resources LibGuide

Discipline-Specific Page, Accounting

Top Open and OER page views Google Analytics 2017-18 /open/databases 2514 /open 2318 /oer/textbooks 1445 /oer 741 /oer/free 636 /oer/discover 336 /faculty guide to oer 169 /oer humanities/ 139 /criminal justice open 137 /accounting/oer 90 2018-19 /open/databases 2419 /open 1652 /oer/textbooks 1619 /oer 741 /oer/free 283 /oer/discover 197 /faculty guide to oer 124 /fire science/oer 116 /accounting/oer 103 /chemistry/open 55

Open Educational Resources, Open Access Resources, Library Resources – Canvas Integration Learning Tools Interoperability Integrate LibGuides Integrate videos and other content from subscription databases LibGuides integrated into about 150 courses including Composition, American Literature, Biology, Philosophy, Ethics, Psychology Library Begin Research – Canvas Commons Quiz scores are integrated into Canvas Gradebook TL1800 – “Integrating Library Resources” Part of HCC OER training certificate

LTI page - https://library.hccs.edu/LTI/home

A Faculty’s Perspective: Veronica Amaku, Professor of Biology

Spring 2017: Training Two full day training from Lumen Discussion of the nature of OER, discussion of copyright permissions Work with search tools and finding resources Develop a plan for the course (align objectives and outcomes with resources and assessments) Begin editing, assembling, and building content

Current Textbook: Campbell Essential Biology, 4th ed. By Simon et al Current Textbook:  Campbell Essential Biology, 4th ed.  By Simon et al.  Pearson Publishing Objective: find OER which are as close as possible to the current textbook. Especially important for Departmental final exam.  Choice of OER

Course Creation: Start Two options available at the beginning: Lumen Learning: courses with complete e-textbooks and instructor resources through an online platform that can be easily edited and modified HCC Canvas: Begin with existing course materials or external resources on the web and design a course around those materials in Canvas

Current Status in Biology Dept BIOL 1308 - More faculty have come on board A couple of other faculty are developing their own OER courses I was awarded one of the Texas OER grants to develop an OER course for Majors Biology OpenStax approved as a supplementary resource.

A Student's comment "For an online class, this course does in fact meet the learning outcomes without the textbook as the modules for each chapter provided reading material for one to grasp a bit of knowledge and even so, we can also look through the internet for scholarly articles to help improve and so it does well without having to buy a textbook."                                                                       - Student A.