1. Affordable Learning Solutions
Supporting Faculty and Student Adoption
Gerry Hanley, Ph.D. and Leslie Kennedy, Ed.D.
CSU Office of the Chancellor
Academic Technology Services and MERLOT
3rd Annual AL$ Workshop
February 26-27, 2014

2. Welcome!

3. Give a Gift and Not A burden

4. Over the next 2 days, you will
Learn about a variety of AL$ services you can readily adopt as part of your own program
Draft project plans for your institution’s Affordable Learning Solutions initiative which can form the basis of a proposal for Chancellor’s Office funding to support your project
Feel confident that the plan will positively energize your campus community to plan and implement its own AL$ initiative.

5. TODAY 10:30 - 11:00 Overview of AL$ services
11: :15 Campus AL$ Showcases
12:15 - 2:00 Lunch and meet AL$ partners
2:00 – 2:30 Sharing and Raffle
2:30 – 2:45 Break
2: :45 More AL$ services
4:45 – 5:00 Plus/Delta and Adjourn

6. CSU’s Affordable Learning Solutions
Accessibility
Affordability
Choice
The CSU has been at the forefront in partnering with publishers and higher education to build these new capacities and today, we’ll highlight the CSU’s readiness to significantly reduce the cost of course materials for our students.
The CSU’s Affordable Learning Solutions Initiative is guided by 3 principles.
Choice: Both students and faculty need to choose the content and the format that best achieve their learning and teaching goals.
Affordability: Innovative technologies and business strategies can significantly reduce costs for students and the CSU.
Accessibility: The CSU is committed to making affordable learning solutions accessible to all our students, including those students with disabilities.

7. Combining Global & Local Strategies
Shared System Services available to all CSU campuses
Economies of scale lowers costs
Consistency of services improves quality
Campus Initiatives leverage local leadership and resources
Builds on trusted culture and meaningful purposes
The CSU’s Affordable Learning Solutions strategy has 2 key elements:
The first is to provide shared system services that deliver a common infrastructure for more cost effective and sustainable services.
The second key element is to build upon the trusted culture of each campus and their local campus initiatives so affordable learning can be blended into the decisions made every day by the faculty, staff, and students of the CSU.
It is this combination of global and local strategies that we’ll report on today

8. Enabling Ecosystems with policies, leadership, business models
AL$ Strategy
Enabling Ecosystems with policies, leadership, business models
Developing Demand with communications, training, professional development
Creating Capabilities with convenient & affordable access to content with AL$ technologies
Leveraging Content Providers Publishers--Libraries-- Academic Authors Open Education Resources (CSU-MERLOT)

9. “One Stop Shop” http://als.csuprojects.org
“One Stop Shop”

10. In Summary –What’s Available?
A very large catalog of affordable content so you can deliver Choice, Affordability, and Accessibility
All sorts of tools for Creating Capabilities
Community of colleagues and consultants to help you Develop Demand
Guidelines and “scaffolding” for project management and communication plans
Connections to the Chancellor’s Office to help you Enable the Ecosystem
FUNDING

11. How To Get Funding? A proposal that highlights:
Key elements of your program
Top priority message to communicate
Top priority service to increase adoption
Staff committed to deliver program
Schedule for completing planning and implementing your program
Measuring money saved by students

12. Enabling Ecosystems with policies, leadership, business models
AL$ Strategy
Enabling Ecosystems with policies, leadership, business models
Developing Demand with communications, training, professional development
Creating Capabilities with convenient & affordable access to content with AL$ technologies
Leveraging Content Providers Publishers--Libraries-- Academic Authors Open Education Resources (CSU-MERLOT)

13. Campus AL$ Showcase
Chico
Fullerton
San Marcos

14. Lunch and Fun Learning Get you lunch in the Anacapa Room
Visit with our partners and learn what they have to offer
Get your raffle tickets and chances for $50
Back to Dumke at 2:00 pm to share:
What did you learn from our partners that will help your AL$ initiative?
What advice would give our partners to help them help us more?

15. AL$ Partner Gifts
What did you learn from our partners that will help your AL$ initiative?
What advice would give our partners to help them help us more?

16. 15 min Break

17. FREE AL$ Resources Using Library Content and Tools A Taste of MERLOT
Coming Attraction: California Open Online Library for Higher Ed

18. Libraries & Bookstores Collaborating on Information Literacy
Both Students and Faculty need support learning to use eReader tools
Growing Collection of eBooks
Extensive Collection of eJournals to create digital CoursePacks
Add “how to use eBooks for learning” to library IL curriculum with bookstore help.

19.
11/13/2018

20. MERLOTx LEARN the prerequisites
FIND supplemental and accessible materials as well as experts
EXPLORE subjects for the future
PERSONALIZE and ORGANIZE your online learning materials into a collection
SHARE your personal collection, explore others' personal collections, and contribute to the online learning revolution

21. OER Services MERLOTx – www.merlotx.org
Student Centered and Faculty Usable
Online “tutorials” supported by your Learning Assistance Center – personal collections
One Message for Students: Don’t go without it when you can’t afford it – OER is available
AL$ website
OER Finder Widget
MERLOT Mobile Learning Apps and website
MERLOT-LMS integrations

22. Moodle Integration

23. Search in BlackBoard

24. Search Result From MERLOT

25. MERLOT Content Inserted Into Bb

26. THINK-PAIR-SHARE about AL$ tools and services
THINK about what you learned from the presentations and how it could be applied to your project.
PAIR up with 1 or 2 other people, enjoy the wit and wisdom of your colleagues and talking through your ideas
SHARE your plans and feedback with your colleagues and with the entire group (as requested).

27. The Day After… Welcome Back

28. Aligning AL$ with System and Campus Priorities
Graduation Initiative
Course Redesign
Online Education
ICT Literacy
Others
WHY DO THIS?

29. What Do Students want from AL$?
California State Students Association

30. The University System of Georgia
MERLOT Partners in AL$

31. 15 min Break

32. Exemplary Practices for Deploying AL$
Project Management
Communication plans
Training and Professional Development
LMS Integration
Reporting and Recognition

33. Enabling Ecosystems with policies, leadership, business models
AL$ Strategy
Enabling Ecosystems with policies, leadership, business models
Developing Demand with communications, training, professional development
Creating Capabilities with convenient & affordable access to content with AL$ technologies
Leveraging Content Providers Publishers--Libraries-- Academic Authors Open Education Resources (CSU-MERLOT)

34. Putting All the Pieces Together Scoping Your AL$ project and Keeping Your Sanity

35. Project Management Scoping your project
Campus, Discipline, System, Other strategy
SMART objectives – Especially REASONABLE
Start where you have LEVERAGE and FRIENDS
Start where you are ready to succeed
Leadership with visible commitment
Program and support commitment
Communication process commitment
Program evaluation process commitment
Management of continuous process improvement

36. THINK-PAIR-SHARE about Your Project Management Processes
THINK about what you learned from the presentations and how it could be applied to your project.
PAIR up with 1 or 2 other people, enjoy the wit and wisdom of your colleagues and talking through your ideas
SHARE your plans and feedback with your colleagues and with the entire group (as requested).

37. Enabling Ecosystems with policies, leadership, business models
AL$ Strategy
Enabling Ecosystems with policies, leadership, business models
Developing Demand with communications, training, professional development
Creating Capabilities with convenient & affordable access to content (CSU Digital Marketplace)
Leveraging Content Providers Publishers--Libraries-- Academic Authors Open Education Resources (CSU-MERLOT)

38. How To Get Funding? A proposal that highlights:
Key elements of your program
Top priority message to communicate
Top priority service to increase adoption
Staff committed to deliver program
Schedule for completing planning and implementing your program
Measuring money saved by students

39. Showcasing Your Draft Plans Practice “Selling”

40. Enabling Ecosystems with policies, leadership, business models
AL$ Strategy
Enabling Ecosystems with policies, leadership, business models
Developing Demand with communications, training, professional development
Creating Capabilities with convenient & affordable access to content (CSU Digital Marketplace)
Leveraging Content Providers Publishers--Libraries-- Academic Authors Open Education Resources (CSU-MERLOT)

41. Shall We Give the World of People Gifts…

42. Together?
Mass = Open Education Community

43. Final Comments Plus-Delta

44. THANK YOU The Academic Technology Services Team is here to help Give Gifts and Not Burdens