1. Dr. Michael Mills, Vice President of E- Learning, Innovation, and Teaching Excellence, Montgomery College Professor Samantha Streamer Veneruso, Professor of English, Montgomery College Innovation Works Coordinator Exploring the OPEN in OER

2. Today, we will… Discuss the benefits of Open Educational Resources (OERs) Explore the definition of Open in OER Introduce how OERs can be used to transform learning

3. What are OERs? 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. -Hewlett Foundation

4. Why OERs? Cost Access Retention/Student Success

5. Cost Textbook costs up 82 % last decade Average textbooks cost $1200-$1300/year

6. Cost

7. Access Breaking down barriers Keeps students in school Increases engagement/collaboration Students drive their own learning

8. Retention/Student Success

9. O In OER Free($) ≠ Open Open ≠ Free (Permissions) “ Disappearing Ink”- David Wiley ©All Rights Reserved Gated Access Format Barriers

10. The 5 R’s- David Wiley Retain the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage) Reuse the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video) Revise the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language) Remix the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup) Redistribute the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)

11. “ Innovation thrives when the costs and obstacles to experimenting are low.” David Wiley @opencontent

12. Open = Opportunity Success Retention Access Transform teaching and learning

13. Why? disciplinary fields of knowledge access to information job demands outcomes for education Integrative learning “wicked problems” Maker movement Students

14. Textbooks and traditional materials constrain. Open materials expand and engage.

15. Open resources Space and Opportunity Collaboration Faculty as facilitator Student as creator Authentic texts, problems, activities Among faculty In disciplines Across disciplines Student and faculty Among students

16. Pause for Questions…

17. Activity How would using OERs impact your teaching? What could you do differently? How could OERs help you collaborate with your colleagues in and across disciplines? Share ideas with an elbow partner.

18. New General Studies Degree Program Intention Integration Identity Advancing Intentional, ongoing goal setting, and alignment with course and activity selections Fostering the integration of personal and academic goals, learning across courses, disciplines, time and experiences Demonstrating Advanced application of General Education competencies Promoting the development of an academic identity founded on learning, goals, and personal interests

19. General Studies OER Fellowship Redesigning courses with open resources Teams of 2-3 faculty Developing sets of OERs for courses Developing integrative learning opportunities Aligning resources with the needs for the new courses. 15 weeks, 7 facilitated sessions, 7 lab sessions

20. Outcomes of GS OER Fellowship In this fellowship, discipline teams will, with feedback from the discipline, Curate, adapt, and/or develop a set of open educational resources to supplement or replace existing course materials for an identified General Studies course; Develop an evaluation rubric to evaluate OER resources consistently; Create a plan for students and faculty both from their home discipline and other disciplines to access to the OER set; Create a long term plan to maintain and refresh materials; Develop integrative learning assignments/activities/opportunities to be used, and shared, for their course; Develop a table of contents that outlines OER resources and identifies how resources might be used by other disciplines; Share resource set and integrative learning assignments/activities with the discipline Participate in an Open Educational Resources Showcase during Fall 2015 Professional Week.

21. Products of GS OER Fellowship An OER resource set to supplement or replace existing texts A plan for making resources available to students, discipline faculty, and faculty outside the discipline Faculty and Student OER Evaluation Rubrics Open integrated assignments

22. ELITE OER Website cms.montgomerycollege.edu/elite/oer

23. Samantha.veneruso@montgomerycollege.edu Michael.mills@montgomerycollege.edu Contact us…