1. The Evidence Towards Impact: The Maricopa Millions OER Project
Professor Golisch goes to visit Dr. Young.
Dr. Lisa Young
Scottsdale Community College
Paul Golisch
Paradise Valley Community College

2. Maricopa Community Colleges
37 Associate Degrees
Over 10,000 Courses
Nearly 10,000 Employees
More than 250,000 Students
Phoenix, Arizona

3. Maricopa Community Colleges

4. Prof G: You still need funding to produce these Open Educational …

5. OER Example: OpenStax College
Prof G: Textbooks are great, but what about faculty resources, exam banks, and online assessments?
openstaxcollege.org

6. The National OER Scene Members in CCCOER Some Notable OER Projects
Senators and Congressmen sponsoring the Affordable College Textbook Act

7. The Affordable College Textbook Act
S (Durbin-Franken)
H.R (Hinojosa-Miller)
Creates a grant program to support pilot programs at colleges and universities
Ensures that materials created will be freely and easily accessible to the public
Requires entities who receive funds to complete a report on the program effectiveness
Requires the Government Accountability Office to provide an updated report on the price trends of college textbooks
Sen. Dick Durbin (IL)
Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (TX)
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?
Sen. Al Franken (MN)
Rep. George Miller (CA)

8. How OER in MCCCD started…

9. OER Roots in the Maricopa Community Colleges
Scottsdale Community College Videos, Workbooks, & Hosting
Phoenix College
Videos & Textbooks
Paradise Valley CC
Adoption & Collaboration
10 Colleges

10. Math English Psychology Geography Scottsdale CC Phoenix College
Paradise Valley CC
English
Psychology
Geography

11. OER Example: MyOpenMath
Prof G: This looks similar to MyMathLab and WebAssign. Is anyone use this MyOpenMath program?

12. Photo by spettacolopuro - Creative Commons Attribution License
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13. Paradise Valley Community College
Survey of Math Students – Spring 2013

14. Scottsdale Community College Survey of Math Students - Fall 2012
score.scottsdalecc.edu
sccmath.wordpress.com
Only 6.3% would not recommend the open materials to their classmates

15. Views during March 2014 Over 28,000 hours of viewing
Views during
March 2014
Over
28,000 hours
of viewing

16. Let the scaling begin …

17. Prof G: A committee and a strategic plan (yawn)
Prof G: A committee and a strategic plan (yawn). How is this plan being put into action?
Library Faculty

19. Creating OER Awareness and Increasing Adoption
Presentations
Call for OER Grants
Dialogue Days
Department Meetings
“Water Cooler” Discussions
Promotional Items
CTLs
College Libraries
Candy
Prof G: Is that a stylus on the end of that pen? Did you bring anything for these nice people that got up early … in New Orleans to attend this session? <pause> What about outside of Maricopa??

20. English Composition II Developmental Reading
Course Materials:
No Cost OR
Low Cost (less than $40)
Phase 1 (Pilot in Fall 2014)
English Composition I
English Composition II
Developmental Reading
Phase 2 (Pilot in Spring 2015)
Fundamental Chemistry
College Success Class
Prof G: Looks expensive. Isn’t that why publishers pay textbook authors so much?

21. The 4 Rs of OER
Prof G: Sounds like a lot of work. Is anyone in our district (besides Scottsdale’s math department) actually doing this?

22. 20 students per class $100 per student € 72 per student
Prof G: SO, tell me more about this project you are working on?
20 students per class
$100 per student
€ 72 per student

23. € 1,072,899 so far Spring 2014 ----------------- $1,483,175 ($818,000)
Prof G: Over 600K in one semester. That $5 million dollar goal looks achievable. How are you calculating these savings?
€ 1,072,899 so far

24. Let’s hear from the students…

25. Manuel Ordoñez
Major: Business
Prof. G: Okay, but that is one student. What about other students?
“Open Educational Resources allow everyone in class to have all the materials on day one.”

26. Dad, I thought you said the textbook would be free!
$185
€134

27. Link to video of Maricopa Community Colleges students talking about OER

28. Questions? www.maricopa.edu/oer lisa.young@scottsdalecc.edu @lcbyoung
@pgolisch