1. MCO OER Initiative

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

3. The Best Reason 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.

4. MCO OER Initiative Statewide Steering Committee
Representation from all 28 community colleges
Training/webinars
Data Collection
Repository

5. OER Usage Survey colleges regarding open textbook usage Fall 2016
14 colleges reported
120 courses
$1,523,200 savings

6. OER Usage Business Law (2) Economics (2) Biology (3)
Micro-economics
Macro-economics
Biology (3)
Anatomy & Physiology (5)
US History (6)

7. OER Usage Statistics (2) Pre-algebra (2) Chemistry (3) Sociology (4)
Geography (2)
Physics (2)
Psychology (5)

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. The OER Commons Hubs Statewide Hubs Michigan Colleges Online
Minnesota OER Commons
Washington OER Project
Alamo Colleges
Topical Hubs
Open Textbook Hub
Common Core
STEM Literacy
OER Commons Partner Hubs
OpenStax

11. Working with the team at OER Commons, a Hub can have content collections curated specifically for the Hub audience. Additionally, unique keywords can be used to further populate a Collection.
Search a Hub

12. 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.
Search a Hub
Groups can be highlighted on a Hub. A Group is a community of practice on OER Commons where members can curate resources, organize them, collaborate on authoring, and hold discussions using the Discussion board.

13. Member Tools Tag – classify resources
Rate – mark the relevance and value
Review – provide a public review of a resource for others
Save – to a personal folder for easy access
Note – add a private note to an item, viewable only by you.
Contribute Content
When you register with OER Commons or one of our sites, you can create a portfolio, review, tag, and rate items, and contribute your own content to the site.
Tag: Tags are words you use to classify a resource in a way that is helpful to you. Choose Tag This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the right column of the individual resource.
Rate: You may rate a resource to mark the relevance and value of that resource. Choose Rate This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen.
Review: You may write a review about resource, writing commentary about how you used the resource, the quality of the resource, and information about how others might use this resource. Reviews are public to all users. Choose Review This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen.
Save: You may save an individual resource or a search query to your portfolio. Both of these functions help you easily access the resources at a later time. To save an individual resource, choose Save This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen, in the right portal above the tags for that resource. To save a search, choose Save This Search from the search query, in the right portal above the tags for that search.
Note: You may add a private note to an item, viewable only by you, by choosing Add Notes at the bottom of an individual resource.
Contribute Content: You may submit open educational resources to OER Commons if you control the copyright or licensing, and if the materials are freely hosted online. OER Commons does not provide hosting of the actual items. To submit materials, click on the Contribute Content button at the top of any OER Commons page.

14. 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.

15. 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

16. 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
When you register with OER Commons or one of our sites, you can create a portfolio, review, tag, and rate items, and contribute your own content to the site.
Tag: Tags are words you use to classify a resource in a way that is helpful to you. Choose Tag This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the right column of the individual resource.
Rate: You may rate a resource to mark the relevance and value of that resource. Choose Rate This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen.
Review: You may write a review about resource, writing commentary about how you used the resource, the quality of the resource, and information about how others might use this resource. Reviews are public to all users. Choose Review This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen.
Save: You may save an individual resource or a search query to your portfolio. Both of these functions help you easily access the resources at a later time. To save an individual resource, choose Save This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen, in the right portal above the tags for that resource. To save a search, choose Save This Search from the search query, in the right portal above the tags for that search.
Note: You may add a private note to an item, viewable only by you, by choosing Add Notes at the bottom of an individual resource.
Contribute Content: You may submit open educational resources to OER Commons if you control the copyright or licensing, and if the materials are freely hosted online. OER Commons does not provide hosting of the actual items. To submit materials, click on the Contribute Content button at the top of any OER Commons page.

17. 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
When you register with OER Commons or one of our sites, you can create a portfolio, review, tag, and rate items, and contribute your own content to the site.
Tag: Tags are words you use to classify a resource in a way that is helpful to you. Choose Tag This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the right column of the individual resource.
Rate: You may rate a resource to mark the relevance and value of that resource. Choose Rate This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen.
Review: You may write a review about resource, writing commentary about how you used the resource, the quality of the resource, and information about how others might use this resource. Reviews are public to all users. Choose Review This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen.
Save: You may save an individual resource or a search query to your portfolio. Both of these functions help you easily access the resources at a later time. To save an individual resource, choose Save This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen, in the right portal above the tags for that resource. To save a search, choose Save This Search from the search query, in the right portal above the tags for that search.
Note: You may add a private note to an item, viewable only by you, by choosing Add Notes at the bottom of an individual resource.
Contribute Content: You may submit open educational resources to OER Commons if you control the copyright or licensing, and if the materials are freely hosted online. OER Commons does not provide hosting of the actual items. To submit materials, click on the Contribute Content button at the top of any OER Commons page.

18. 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
When you register with OER Commons or one of our sites, you can create a portfolio, review, tag, and rate items, and contribute your own content to the site.
Tag: Tags are words you use to classify a resource in a way that is helpful to you. Choose Tag This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the right column of the individual resource.
Rate: You may rate a resource to mark the relevance and value of that resource. Choose Rate This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen.
Review: You may write a review about resource, writing commentary about how you used the resource, the quality of the resource, and information about how others might use this resource. Reviews are public to all users. Choose Review This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen.
Save: You may save an individual resource or a search query to your portfolio. Both of these functions help you easily access the resources at a later time. To save an individual resource, choose Save This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen, in the right portal above the tags for that resource. To save a search, choose Save This Search from the search query, in the right portal above the tags for that search.
Note: You may add a private note to an item, viewable only by you, by choosing Add Notes at the bottom of an individual resource.
Contribute Content: You may submit open educational resources to OER Commons if you control the copyright or licensing, and if the materials are freely hosted online. OER Commons does not provide hosting of the actual items. To submit materials, click on the Contribute Content button at the top of any OER Commons page.

19. 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
When you register with OER Commons or one of our sites, you can create a portfolio, review, tag, and rate items, and contribute your own content to the site.
Tag: Tags are words you use to classify a resource in a way that is helpful to you. Choose Tag This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the right column of the individual resource.
Rate: You may rate a resource to mark the relevance and value of that resource. Choose Rate This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen.
Review: You may write a review about resource, writing commentary about how you used the resource, the quality of the resource, and information about how others might use this resource. Reviews are public to all users. Choose Review This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen.
Save: You may save an individual resource or a search query to your portfolio. Both of these functions help you easily access the resources at a later time. To save an individual resource, choose Save This Item from the Actions dropdown in the search results, or from the individual resource screen, in the right portal above the tags for that resource. To save a search, choose Save This Search from the search query, in the right portal above the tags for that search.
Note: You may add a private note to an item, viewable only by you, by choosing Add Notes at the bottom of an individual resource.
Contribute Content: You may submit open educational resources to OER Commons if you control the copyright or licensing, and if the materials are freely hosted online. OER Commons does not provide hosting of the actual items. To submit materials, click on the Contribute Content button at the top of any OER Commons page.

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. Next for MCO OER Initiative
More Professional Development
Staff
Faculty
Authors
Inter-Institutional Sharing/Collaboration
Research
Z Degrees

24. Questions?

25. Ronda Edwards Executive Director redwards@mcca.org