Kale Braden, ASCCC North Representative, CaOERC member Phil Crawford, ASCCC North Representative

 Open Educational Resource  OER 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. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. ( educational-resources) educational-resources

 Political Science, Sociology, and Social Problems  The work involved in re-tooling your course  Online and face to face  Long term benefits to students.  Evolution to include test banks, power points, and links. 4

CaOERC Open Source Digital Library  SB 1052 & 1053 (Steinberg, 2012) authorized the creation of the CaOERC and an Open Source Digital Library  The Legislature designated the Inter-Segmental Council of Academic Senates (ICAS) to be responsible for the project  ICAS designated the CSU Chancellor’s Office as the fiscal agent for the project

 Grants  William and Hewlett Foundation ($500,000)  Gates Foundation ($500,000)  Matching funding from the State 8

9 ICASICAS Project Investigator CSU Chancellor’s Office Project Coordinator (CSU Faculty) CaOERCCaOERC Ca Legislature Gates and Hewlett Foundations

10 ICASICAS Project Investigator CSU Chancellor’s Office Project Coordinator (CSU Faculty) CaOERCCaOERC Ca Legislature Gates and Hewlett Foundations

11 ICASICAS Project Investigator CSU Chancellor’s Office Project Coordinator (CSU Faculty) CaOERCCaOERC Ca Legislature Gates and Hewlett Foundations

12 ICASICAS Project Investigator CSU Chancellor’s Office Project Coordinator (CSU Faculty) CaOERCCaOERC Ca Legislature Gates and Hewlett Foundations

14 Select 50 courses Create & administer rigorous review process Promote production, access & use Solicit input from student associations RFP to create OER materials Identify available free and open eTextbooks Selected using C-ID Identify what already exists and where there are gaps Peer Review Structure Creating Digital Library On hold until gaps are identified

1.Meet goals of SB 1052 legislation. 2.Work collegially under the direction of the C A OERC Project Coordinator to produce the deliverables specified in the Hewlett grant proposal timeline. 3.Submit policies and processes to ICAS for review and approval; document and archive policies and processes approved by ICAS. 4.Develop policies for building the collection of open textbooks in the California Open Source Digital Library.  The COOL4Ed (California Open Online Library for Education, is the first library service of the Digital Library. 5.Develop a process for review teams 6.Send regular reports to ICAS about disciplines, texts, challenges, etc. 7.Prepare content for the COOL4Ed website and ICAS webpage. 8.Prepare and administer (or delegate) professional development opportunities by or across segments. 9.Develop policies for defining data that will need to be collected and analyzed to track the success of the project. 10.Develop process for outsourcing work to "complete" a text. 11.Support review teams

 The CaOERC consists of three faculty representatives from each of the three California higher education segments.  Three faculty representatives representing the ASCCC were  Cheryl Stewart (Coastline College)  Kevin Yokoyama (College of the Redwoods)  Diana Chiabotti (Napa Valley College, served through the fall)  Kale Braden (Cosumnes River College—Served in the Spring).

 CaOERC developed criteria for selecting 50 highly- enrolled courses common across the three segments and compiled a list of these 50 courses in spring of  From spring 2014 into fall 2014, Ca­OERC identified more than 150 appropriate, open educational resources textbooks (OER) for these 50 courses. 18

 In spring of 2014, Ca­OERC created a standardized peer review and approval process for OER textbooks attached to the 50 highly-­enrolled courses.  Ca­OERC began soliciting faculty reviewers from among the three segments.  To date, 519 faculty have signed up to review OER textbooks and materials.  To date, the review and approval process has been completed for 10 courses.  For these 10 courses 22 faculty reviewed approximately 34 OER textbooks.  At least three OER textbooks have been approved for each of these 10 courses.  As of spring 2015, Ca­OERC continues to recruit faculty reviewers.  The review process is currently being coordinated for an additional 40 courses and 120 additional reviews. 19

 Since spring 2014, CA­OERC has worked with to make all peer-­ reviewed OER textbook reviews available to students, faculty, and libraries.  The COOL4ED website currently features reviewed materials for 10 of the 50 selected courses. Links to the original materials are on the COOL4ED website. 20

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 From the Legislature  AB 798 College Textbook Affordability Act of 2015 (Bonilla, 2015)  From our Students  From external grantors

 OER materials, where appropriate, on C-ID descriptors?  RFPs and support for material creation?  And…? 23