Board of Trustees Presentation 2008 Report on Open Educational Resources Dr. Judy Baker March 3, 2008
Open Educational Resources Community College Consortium for OER Survey about OER Hewlett Foundation Open Textbook Project Grant
Open Educational Resources Bob Cormia, Foothill College Computer Science Course
Open Educational Resources Mary Donahue, De Anza Physical Education Course: Intermediate Swimming
De Anza iTunesU OER Videos Overview of Open Educational Resources Accessibility Intellectual Property
Community College Consortium for OER Launched July 2007 Goal To identify, create and/or repurpose existing OER as Open Textbooks and make them available for use by community college students and faculty Objective Seeking the support of faculty to identify, review, evaluate, and make available high quality, accessible and culturally relevant model Open Textbooks
Community College Consortium for OER Why a Consortium? Give community college educators a presence and a voice in the OER movement Coordinate development of community college quality standards for OER textbooks and course materials Leverage funding opportunities Facilitate collaboration, communications and networking
CCCOER Developments Summer 2007 Launched CCCOER websiteCCCOER website Created self-paced tutorial: Introduction to OER Introduction to OER Posted to Rice University’s Connexions OER repository under Creative Commons license (1,466 hits)
Website Website cccoer.wordpress.com cccoer.wordpress.com
Faculty OER Campus Promotion Kit Policies and Models Marketing Materials Quick Start Guides Training Course Directories and Repositories Resources for Collaboration Open Content Licenses Copyright Info Accessibility Info Case Studies OER Websites Glossary References
Self-Paced Tutorial
Presentations CCCOER Presentations District Opening Day session about OER Student Senate for CCC General Assembly state conference Community College League of California Annual Convention Conferences and colleges Student PIRG meeting
CCCOER Developments Winter 2008 Voluntary Membership Agreements from over 30 colleges Self-paced tutorial posted: Open Textbook Adoption in Five Steps Open Textbook Adoption in Five Steps Hewlett Foundation/Foothill-De Anza Open Textbooks Meeting LINC 215 Introduction to OER course (1 unit) Fully online course developed in ETUDES NG Scheduled for Spring 2008 at Foothill
OER Survey Launched survey of faculty OER attitudes and behaviors Preliminary Findings (as of 2/13/08) 871 faculty responses from 21 U.S. colleges and 1 college in Toronto 38 additional colleges slated to participate in a coming weeks
Faculty Interest In and Use of OER
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
Timeline to Success Winter 2008 Complete administration of survey Encourage faculty interest in OER Launch Open Textbook Project Spring 2008 Offer OER training Identify and support faculty OER champions
Measures of Success Outcomes by 2009 Increased number of: Colleges with membership in CCCOER Faculty at FHDA trained in OER use and development Open Textbooks used by faculty at FHDA Open Textbooks developed by faculty at FHDA