1. MCO OER Initiative

2. Agenda Federal and State Efforts
Why the OER movement a Student Success Strategy
MCO OER Initiative
Test drive the MCO OER Repository

3. Federal Efforts TAACCCT Grants - http://www.skillscommons.org/
Open digital library for workforce training materials
US Department of Education
Regulation - all products from federal grants are open licensed - Currently delayed
FASTR: Fair Access to Science & Technology Research Act (H.R. 3427/S.1701)
Requires federal agencies with research budgets in excess of $100M to have a public access policy for federally funded research.
Introduced July 26, 2017

4. State Efforts California – College Textbook Affordability Act of 2015
Colorado – Using OER in Higher Education (05/03/2017)
Florida – Postsecondary Access & Affordability (4/14/16)
Maryland – Textbook Cost Savings Act of 2017
Ohio – Operating Budget & Statutes (06/30/2017)
Oregon – OER Grant Program (2015)
Texas – Use of OER (06/09/2017)
Washington – HB (04/21/2017)
CA - The purpose of this bill is to reduce textbook costs for college students and encourage faculty to accelerate the adoption of lower cost, high-quality open educational resources. This bill creates the Open Educational Resources Adoption Incentive Fund to provide incentives and reward campus, staff, and faculty efforts to accelerate the adoption of open educational resources
CO - Using Open Educational Resources in Higher Education: This bill creates the open educational resources council in the Department of Higher Education. The Department is required to contract with an entity to evaluate the existing use of OER by public institutions of higher education and consider the options for and obstacles to increasing the use of OER. The council must facilitate the work of the contracting entity, and, taking into account the findings of the contracting entity, recommend initiatives to expand the use of OER, resulting in cost savings and other educational benefits for students enrolled.
FL - Each Florida College System Institution and state university shall adopt textbook and instructional materials affordability policies, procedures and guidelines in order to minimize the costs of textbooks. This includes course instructors using open-access textbooks, where possible and instructors are encouraged to develop, adapt, and review open-access textbooks especially in high-demand general education courses.
Maryland - Textbook Cost Savings Act of 2017: The Governor shall include $100,000 in general funds for a grant for the Maryland Open Source Textbook Initiative at the University System of Maryland. These funds may be used to: award grants to support and promote the creation of openly licensed educational resources and reimburse expenses incurred in operating the Open Source Textbook Initiative.
Ohio - This bill creates the operating budget for and amends statutes - This bill requires that no later than June 30, 2018, all state institutions of higher education that are located in the same region of the state to enter into an agreement providing for the creation of a compact. This compact, among other things, shall identify, develop, and implement shared curriculum resources to promote educational pathways that minimize the time required to earn a degree. This may include curriculum delivered using open educational resources and online formats.
OR - Establishes Open Educational Resources Grant Program within Higher Education Coordinating Commission: This Act was created to encourage the use of low or no-cost open educational resources in post-secondary institutions of education. This act allows the commission to award grants to applicants who adapt or make use of existing open educational resources and utilizes students in the design or production of open educational resource materials. Finally, this Act also employs an open educational resource specialist who fosters the use of open educational resources in colleges and universities
TX - Relating to the Use of Open Educational Resources: This bill would require that each institution of higher education compile a course schedule indicating, among other things, whether the textbook required for each course is an open educational resource. Institutions shall make reasonable efforts to disseminate information to students, including the availability of courses and sections of courses that require or recommend only open educational resources. Further, this bill would establish the open educational resources grant program to encourage faculty at institutions to adopt and develop courses that use only open educational resources.
VA - Establishment of the Online Virginia Network Authority: This bill creates the Online Virginia Network Authority. This requires each public institution of higher education and each consortium of public institutions of higher education that offers online courses, online degree programs, or online credential programs to offer courses, degree programs, or credential programs through the Authority. The Authority shall, to the extent practicable, manage and reduce program costs by reducing textbook costs through open access.
WA - This bill adds a section that requires community and technical colleges to indicate the cost of any required textbook or other course material to students in the online course description used during registration, and indicate whether the course uses OER. The legislature recognizes the high cost of textbooks and recognizes a study by student public interest research groups that found that students who take open course library courses save ninety-six dollars on average per course over a traditional textbook. The goal of this bill is to incentivize faculty to use resources available on the open course library by informing students of a textbook's cost when they register for a class.

5. OER - Student Success Completion Passing with a C or better grade
Course grade
Enrollment intensity in current term
Enrollment intensity in next term
Source: A multi-institutional study of the impact of open textbook adoption on the learning outcomes of post-secondary students. Lane Fischer , John Hilton III, T. Jared Robinson, David A. Wiley.

6. MCO OER Initiative Goals: Improving student success
Lowering costs for students
Increasing inter-institutional faculty collaboration

7. MCO OER Initiative Statewide Steering Committee
Representation from all 28 community colleges
Meets every 6 – 8 weeks
Activities to support Initiative Goals

8. MCO Repository Hosted by OER Commons
Connection to over 65,000 resources
Low maintenance costs
Authoring tools
Training

9.
Within a Hub, anyone can search the resources that have been curated into collections. Search also includes resources that are saved to Groups highlighted on a Hub.

10. Working with the team at OER Commons, the MCO Repository has content collections curated specifically for our faculty and staff. Additionally, unique keywords can be used to further populate a Collection.
Search a Hub

11. Search a Hub Anyone can look at another Group’s collections.
Within the MCO Repository each college is organized as a Group - a community of practice on OER Commons where members can curate resources, organize them, collaborate on authoring, and hold discussions using the Discussion board.
Search a Hub
Anyone can look at another Group’s collections.
Get ideas about resources that are in use by others.
Find resources that are newly added to Groups of interest.
Access your Group via your LMS
We offer LTI access to a Group so all your curated resources are easily added to your LMS.

12. Tutorials are available for faculty wanting to create an OER, along with guidance for group managers and anyone wanting to save and share in the repository.

13. Professional Development
Offered 7 webinars on the following topics:
Creative Commons
Open Author Training
Repository Group Manager Training
Hub Administrator Training
Hub Curation Training
Best Practices for Faculty Involvement
How to Create an OER Initiative on Campus

14. $3,103,500 OER Usage & Savings 2016 – 17 Academic Year
Includes fall, winter/spring and summer
14 colleges
Estimated Savings
$3,103,500

15. OER Usage Fall 2016 Summer 2017 Winter/Spring 2017
14 colleges reported
120 courses
$1,523,200 savings
Winter/Spring 2017
116 courses
$1,197,800 savings
Summer 2017
11 colleges reported
73 courses
$382,500 savings

16. OER Usage Biology Anatomy & Physiology US History Chemistry Sociology
Physics
Psychology

17. Faculty Grants Adopt – an existing open textbook
Adapt – remix an existing open textbook or ancillary resources
Develop – create a new ancillary resource or open textbook.

18. Faculty Grants - Adoption
Adoption Projects
Course
Project Description
College
Lead Collaborator
Co-collaborator
Analytic Geometry and Calculus I
Proposed textbook to be used:
Contemporary Calculus (
Macomb
Jon Oaks
Mohamed Zorkot
Psychology
Proposed textbook: Psychology (OpenStax)
Northwestern Michigan
Deb Maison
Social Psychology
Proposed textbook: Principles of Social Psychology (
Lansing Community College
Sharon Hughes
Richard Coelho
Vaughn Vowels
US History
Proposed textbook: U.S. History (OpenStax)
Mott Community College
Brian Harding
Aaron Gulyas

19. Faculty Grants - Adaption
World History
Our project would "disassemble" and rearrange the chosen text (World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500) in a more global manner. Instead of five thousand years of the middle east followed by five thousand years of China and five thousand years of India, our remixed text would present a snapshot of the entire globe during a chronological period, allowing students to more clearly see the similarities and differences in the development of human societies through time as well as the interconnections between civilizations.
Mott Community College - Aaron Gulyas & Brian Harding
 Cell Biology & Human Genetics
Our goal is to improve the coverage of the scientific method and key experiments in the OpenStax biology text. In order to accomplish this, we will use supplemental videos and interactive animations with embedded questions that focus on identifying hypotheses and interpreting the results of experiments.
Lansing Community College - Arthur Wohlwill

20. Faculty Grants - Adaption
American History
Michigan has 13 Native-American reservations and the largest Native- American population east of the Mississippi River yet U.S. History books barely mention Natives except for pre-Columbian History and the Indian Wars of the late 1800s. Native people have had, and continue to have, a profound effect on U.S. History. In order to rectify this omission we propose to add a great deal of Native history to the regular narrative. The Native history will be integrated into the various chapters of both Openstax and Yawp in order to show cause and effect of native peoples on U.S. History through a combination of text, video, illustrations and other multimedia.
Northwestern Michigan College - Mindy Morton
Lansing Community College – Anne Heutsche

21. Faculty Grants - Adaption
Psychology and Communication
We are hoping to elaborate upon the intersections between communication and psychology—the points at which they connect or layer—for our learners. We, as faculty representing both psychology and speech/communications, plan to coordinate OER efforts to illustrate for students the interweaving of curricular outcomes, content, and knowledge in these two disciplines. Our final project will be revised/remixed Open Education Resources that can be used in both introductory speech and psychology courses.
Mid Michigan Community College - Maria Gross, Kelly Eltzroth, Diane Miller

22. Faculty Grants - Adaption
Psychology
This project will focus on a History and Systems approach to teaching Introduction to Psychology. The significant modifications will be in the sequence of presentation in such a way as to enhance the student experience and facilitate learning and retention by increasing contextual learning and activation of prior knowledge. The adaption will be in a spiral curriculum format with a History-based contextual sequence of chapters which research has shown to be more engaging to students and which better facilitates the acceptance of, retention of and proficiency with content material (Bergman, et al., 2015). A History and Systems approach allows for major complex concepts to be revisited several times in the natural course of historical, scientific progression.
Kirtland Community College - Michael Peters

23. Faculty Grants - Develop
Spanish
This project will produce interactive Spanish multimedia ancillary resources using virtual partners, interactive multimedia presentations, practice exercises with immediate feedback, etc. These tools advance student learning by providing real-time feedback and assistance to the students outside of the classroom, which enables them to master pronunciation, grammar, and advanced vocabulary much more quickly. Perhaps the most important component will be the engaging, age-appropriate, tutorial-type resources that not only facilitate instruction of material but effectively permit student participation.
Lansing Community College – Kari Richards, Sara Bostwick and Stephanie Throne

24. Faculty Grants - Develop
Forensic Science
The outcome of this project will be a college level open textbook that covers the entire subject area span in the field of forensic science. Within each unit/chapter there will be links to cases, videos, flashcards, web-based quizzes and recommend resources for hands- on and/or on-line exercises that are open and at college level. In addition the textbook will be linked to K-12 standards for forensic science to allow it to be used in whole or part by advanced placement level high school classes.
Mott Community College – Jennifer Fillion
Genesee Career Institute - Dawn Bright

25. Faculty Grants - Develop
Fashion
We will be creating a textbook with a workbook that covers the Principles & Elements of Design as well as historical silhouettes. The text can be used in the first 4 courses of our program and then as a reference text during the rest of the student’s coursework in our program. The project will include demonstration and tutorial videos in order to provide other delivery methods for student learning. We will create a text that utilizes sketches, illustrations, and graphics to aid in student exploration of the principles and elements of design, and historical silhouettes. The workbook will include assignments and projects that will require students to create their own responses.
Lansing Community College – Christine Conner, Ann Wojtkowski, Andrea Bartlett, Samantha Bartlett

26. 2017 MI OER Summit
Over 180 faculty, administrators & staff from MI community colleges and four-year universities
Keynote – Robin DeRosa focused on Open Pedagogy
13 Breakout sessions & Discipline-specific roundtables

27. MCO OER Initiative