1. Fueling Faculty Innovation & Expanding Access with Open Educational Resources
Quill West, Tacoma Community College
Paul Golisch, Maricopa Community College District
Cynthia Alexander, Cerritos College
James Glapa-Grossklag, College of the Canyons
February 17, 2014

2. Welcome!! Introduction to OER Tacoma College Liberate Project
Kaleidoscope at Cerritos College
Maricopa College District OER Project
OCW-CCCOER Community of Practice
Q & A

3. What are Open Educational Resources?
U.S. Dept. of Education
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 or repurposing by others.
cc-by donkyhotey/flickr
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license

4. What is an Open License? Free: Free to access online, free to print
Open: Reuse, Revise, Remix, Redistribute
Creative Commons: less restrictions than standard copyright but author retains full rights.

5. Examples Includes – Course materials Lesson Plans Modules or lessons
OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Open textbooks
Videos
Images
Tests
Software
Any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support ready access to knowledge
Atkins, D. E., J. S. Brown and A. L. Hammond, A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunities, Report to The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
adapted from Judy Baker’s ELI 2011 OER Workshop cc-by license

6. Affordable College Textbook Act
You can go to to help support it
Prof G: All of this is nice, but how does it apply to me. I don’t want to teach with some turnkey course from some grant funded professor I don’t even know. What about Academic Freedom?

7. Funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
CCCOER Mission
Promote adoption of OER to enhance teaching and learning
Expand access to education
Support professional development
Voice for open education at community colleges.
Funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

8. 240+ Colleges in 16 states & provinces

9. The Liberated Project Quill West OER Project Director
Faculty Librarian

10. Growing an OER Culture From Seed to Savings:Or
From Seed to Savings:
How to Save Students Half a Million Dollars on Textbooks.
open.tacomacc.edu tacomacc.edu/open

11. OER, a good idea.
“Tomato seeds in early stages” by SunHappy, CC-BY 3.0
“starting seeds” by ciruculating, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0
“ seeds 03” by jspatchwork, CC-BY 2.0

12. Find a place to nurture the seedlings.
“later that spring” by donkeycart, CC-BY-NC 2.0

13. Build strong roots, but flaunt the “green.”
“tomato plants” by kthread, CC-BY 2.0

14. Students will let you know about blossoms.
“tomato plant flower” by ali graney, CC-BY 2.0

15. Even if they aren’t ripe, you can show off the fruit.
“tomatoes” by paul goyette, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0

16. Harvest carefully and at the perfect time.
“First tomato, June 2010” by theManWhoSurfedTooMuch, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0

17. Blend your fruit with others’ fruits for the best results.
“Mozzarella Basil Tomato Salad” by elmada, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0

18. Kaleidoscope Project Dr. Cynthia Alexander
Educational Technology Professor
Department Chair

19. Kaleidoscope Project Phase III
Cerritos College has been involved with Open Educational Resources since Two years ago, I was asked to become involved in a sort of ancillary position on an OER project that had started a year earlier called Project Kaleidoscope. Project Kaleidoscope is a grant-funded project whose goal is to implement a set of fully open general education courses using collaboration from a number of colleges across the United States. With two phases of courses completed or near completion, a third phase began last Fall.
The Kaleidoscope Project has specific requirements for each course. The three important components of each course framework:
- Uses only OER as required course materials
- Includes participation from collaborators at multiple institutions
- Includes sufficient assessment of learning outcomes to allow for on-going evaluation and improvement of the OER

20. Introduction to Online Learning
Cerritos College - California
Spokane Community College - Washington
Central Community College - Nebraska
Mercy College – New York
I was asked to collaborate with faculty from three other colleges, Spokane Community College in Washington state, Central Community College in Nebraska, and Mercy College, a four-year college, in New York. Cerritos College is in California. Our course is one that might be used for credit or non-credit, titled Introduction to Online Learning.

21. Two-Day Workshop Compare Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
Determine content
Assign tasks
Create timeline
All documents shared in Google Docs – course finalized in Canvas
We met as a group at a workshop in Park City, Utah, after the OpenEd conference last November. The second day of the workshop was used as a planning day and to determine how work would be divided.
Compare Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
Determine content
Assign tasks
Create timeline
Since then, we have had conference calls and shared documents using both and using Google Docs. All documents are stored in Google Docs for all of the courses being developed for the Project. Final course developed in Canvas
For this phase there are seventeen courses being developed.
Accounting: Managerial Art Appreciation
Chemistry for Majors Earth Science
Economics (Macro and Micro) Education: Introduction to Teaching
English Comp II Introduction to Computers
Marketing Music Appreciation
Online Learning Political Science
Public Speaking/Speech Communication Sociology
US Govt US History from 1865

22. All SLOs Addressed Content is modular
SLO-specific
Activities and assessments for each module
Also SLO-specific
All SLOs for all colleges are included in the content and clearly addressed. The content set up in a modular format so that anyone using the course can pick and choose the content that meets specific SLOs. Activities and assessments are included to cover all SLOs and they, too, are set up so that it will be easy to select those activities and assessments that meet the SLOs for a particular course.

23. Completion Timeline Middle to end of summer Pilot next Fall
Examination and evaluation
Complete at end of Spring 2015
Our plan is to have our course completed by the middle to end of the summer and each of us will pilot the course next Fall. Re-examine and re-evaluate for teaching in Spring Ready for public at end of Spring 2015.

24. Experience Both exciting and rewarding Share ideas
Increase student involvement
Multimedia
Use of exclusive CC materials
Examine my own course
The experience of working with other faculty across the United States has been both exciting and rewarding. I have taught an Introduction to Online Learning course for over 10 years. The ideas I have garnered from my colleagues and the suggestions for increasing student involvement, the exclusive use of Creative Commons materials, and adding multimedia that I had not considered before has helped me to critically exam my own class.
I have been excited about Project Kaleidoscope since my involvement last year during Phase II. This year, having the opportunity to actually work with other faculty across the nation on a common goal has been priceless.

25. OER District Committee
Paul Golisch
Dean of Information Technology
Adjunct Math Instructor
Co-Chair District OER Committee

27. We saved our students over $260,000 in just one year!

28. Manuel Ordonez
Major: Business
“Open Educational Resources allow everyone in class to have all the materials on day one. Many students have to postpone the purchase of the course materials because of financial aid.”

29. OER Example: MyOpenMath
myopenmath.com
mathispower4u.com

30. Library Faculty

31. The 4 Rs of OER

32. Creating OER Awareness and Increasing Adoption
Presentations/Dialogue Days
Internal OER Course Grants
Department Meetings
“Water Cooler” Discussions
Promotional Items
CTLs
College Libraries

33. Maricopa Millions OER Course Development
Phase 1 (Spring 2014)
English 101
English 102
Reading 091 (Dev Ed)
Phase 2 (Summer 2014)
TBD
Proposals due end of March

34. Future: Fall 2013: Filter in SIS Surveyed faculty “OER” in SIS notes
Ran SIS reports
Future:
Filter in SIS
“OER” in SIS notes
Prof G: SO, tell me more about this project you are working on?
20 students per class
$100 per student

36. Community College Consortium for OER
I’m Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director at OpenCourseWare Consortium. I am truly honored to be invited to Ohio and kick off your Textbook Affordability Summit. Ohio has long been a leader in innovative education from OhioLink to Ohio Digital Bookshelf and Scaffold to the Stars. I have had the pleasure of working with both Danielle Budzick on an open textbook project here at Cuyahoga Tri-City College and cheering on your Scaffold to the Stars run by the Ohio Digital Bookshelf.
Una Daly
Community College Director
OpenCourseWare Consortium
James Glapa-Grossklag
Dean, College of the Canyons
President, CCCOER Advisory

37. Need Help Getting Started? We can help …
Find & Adopt open textbook workshops
Understanding open licenses
Open textbook development workflow
Online accessibility
Faculty and student surveys
Access to community of
OER practitioners & experts

38. Raising Awareness of Open Education Worldwide Mar 10-15
Submit videos, resources, local events,
or webinars in February.
Discussion groups online.
Social Media promotion
for open education projects.
Community College Day on Wed, Mar 12
Webinars, videos, and resources

39. Spring Webinars (Wed, 11:00 PT, 3:00 ET)
2/5 - Open Textbook and Adoptions
3/12 - Community College OER Projects
• 4/9 – OER Impact Research Findings
5/14 - Intellectual Property: Open Licensing, Trademarks, Patents, etc.
Join our Advisory Group to be notified of upcoming events and participate in our monthly OER chat.

40. Questions for Panelists
James Glapa-Grossklag:
Quill West:
Cynthia Alexander:
Paul Golisch:
Una Daly:
Thank you for coming!!

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