1. The GoToWebinar Attendee View
NOTES: Below is the script you can use or customize to your needs as part of your introduction and housekeeping.
Intro
Thank you for joining today’s presentation entitled ______________________.
Before we get started, I want to review a few housekeeping items and let you know how you can participate in today’s Web event.
We’re looking at an example of the GoToWebinar Attendee Interface which is made up of two parts. The Viewer Window on the left, which allows you to see everything the Presenter will share on their screen, and the Control Panel at the right. Within that Control Panel is how you can participate in today’s event, so let’s look at that.
(Transition to Next Slide)

2. How to Participate Today
Open and close your Panel
View, Select, and Test your audio
Submit text questions
Raise your hand
Q&A addressed at the end of today’s session
Everyone will receive an within 24 hours with a link to view a recorded version of today’s session
Move mouse over the Grab Tab
Clicks 1, 2, and 3
By clicking the orange arrow, you can open and close your control Panel
Click 4
From the View Menu you can also set the Control Panel not to auto-hide when inactive if you prefer to keep it always open.
Click 5
The Audio pane provides audio information. (If the organizer has given attendees a choice) By default you have joined the Webinar via Mic & Speakers.
Click 6
Click Audio Setup to select your computer speaker or headset devices.
Clicks 4, 5 and 6
If you prefer, you can join the audio via telephone by selecting Use Telephone, and the dial-in information will be displayed, including an Audio PIN. If you would like to ask any questions of today’s presenters over the phone, you must enter your Audio PIN in order to have your line unmuted.
Click 7
During (at the end, etc.) the presentation, you have the ability to send questions to our Webinar staff through the Questions pane. Simply type in your question and click send. (Optional) At the end of the presentation we will do a Q&A session to answer as many questions as we have time for.
Click 8
During the presentation we may ask you to answer a question by raising your hand. This option is located on the Grab Tab. (Optional) You can also indicate that you have a question and would like your line unmuted by raising your hand.
Click 9 and 10
We will address Q&A at the end of today’s session, and as a final reminder, today’s Webinar is being recorded, and everyone will receive an within 24 hours with a link to view a recording of today’s event.

3. MCO OER Initiative

4. Today’s Agenda Define OER Review OER reach
Highlight legislation – both federal and state
MCO OER Initiative

5. What is an OER?

6. What is an OER?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. OER range from textbooks to curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, assignments, tests, projects, audio, video and animation.
Source: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

7. The 5R Permissions of OER
Make and own copies
Retain
Use in a wide range of ways
Reuse
Adapt, modify and improve
Revise
Combine two or more
Remix
Share with others
Redistribute

8. What is an Open License?

9. Creative Commons
Copyright licenses and tools to give creators a simple standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their work.
Source – Creativecommons.org
CC BY
Attribution
CC BY-SA
Attribution ShareAlike
CC BY-ND Attribution-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC
Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC-SA
Attribution – NonCommercial-ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-ND
Attribution – NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. Not more restrictive
NON Commerical - Licensees may copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works and remixes based on it only for non-commercial purposes.
No Derivative Works (ND) -Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works and remixes based on it.

10. OER – OEC Global

11. OER - CCCOER

12. 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
FY18 Omnibus Bill
$5 million for Open Textbooks grants
OPEN TEXTBOOKS PILOT UPDATE: The co-sponsors of the Affordable College Textbook Act have expanded upon their intentions in funding a $5 million open textbook pilot and their vision for the program. U.S. Senators Durbin, King, and Smith, as well as Representatives Polis and Sinema sent a letter to Secretary DeVos to use the funds to spur the creation and adoption of OER at traditional institutions of higher education. Furthermore, they requested that she use their 2017 bill as guidelines for the application process, including allowing funds to be used for professional development and greater accessibility. In addition, 26 U.S. Senators signed onto another letter urging their colleagues to renew and expand the program in next year’s budget.

13. State Efforts Establish an OER Grant Program
Maryland – (2017) Appropriated $100,000 for faculty grants to support and promote adoption of OER.
North Dakota – Appropriated $110,000 for OER training in 2015 with an estimated savings to students of $2 million.
Texas – (2017) Established an OER grant program to encourage faculty to adopt/adapt OER.
New York – FY18 State Budget – appropriations of $8 million to provide OER to students at SUNY and CUNY. Colleges and universities to use funding to target high-enrollment courses.
California AB 798 (2015) – Creates the OER Adoption Incentive Fund for the accelerated adoption of OER.
From SPARCOPEN.org State Policy Tracking

14. State Efforts Require OER Designation in Course Schedules
Washington – HB (2017) Provide the following information to students during registration:
Cost of any required text/materials
Whether the course uses OER
Oregon – HB 2871 (2015) Requires public community colleges and universities to prominently designate course materials exclusively consist of open or free textbooks or other low-cost/no-cost course materials.
Texas – SB 810 (2017) Requires each institution of higher education to compile a course schedule that indicates whether the textbook required is an OER. (includes by section)
From SPARCOPEN.org State Policy Tracking

15. State Efforts Creation of an OER Task Force or Council
Colorado SB 258 (2017) – Established a council to review and evaluate OER adoption at each institution of higher education and identify options for and obstacles for increasing use of OER.
Louisiana HCR 80 (2016) – Established the Virtual Library Study Commission to look at and make recommendations regarding the development of statewide virtual library to include OER.
Connecticut HB 6117 (2015) – Established a task force to assess the use of OER and to promote the use of OER with analysis of student cost savings and best practices.
From SPARCOPEN.org State Policy Tracking

16. Are there any state efforts in Michigan?

17. Michigan is one of 20 GoOpen states focused on adopting and implementing a statewide technology strategy that includes the use of openly licensed resources as a central component. They have created a statewide repository for openly licensed materials and are committed to supporting school districts and educators transitioning to the use of openly-licensed educational resources in the schools.

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

19. 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.

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

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

22. 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.

23. 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

24. 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
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.

25. 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.

26. Professional Development
Offered 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
Discipline-specific Faculty Conversations

27. $3,103,500 OER Usage & Savings 2016 – 17 Academic Year
Includes fall, winter/spring and summer
14 colleges
Estimated Savings
$3,103,500

28. $4,396,900 OER Usage & Savings 2017 – 18 Academic Year
Includes fall and winter/spring
15 colleges
Estimated Savings
$4,396,900

29. OER Usage

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

31. 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.

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. 2017 MI OER Summit
Over 175 faculty, administrators & staff from MI community colleges and four-year universities
Keynote – Robin DeRosa focused on Open Pedagogy
13 Breakout sessions
Discipline-specific roundtables

41. Mark Your Calendars 2018 MI OER Summit September 21, 2018
Hosted by St. Clair County Community College, Port Huron

42. Questions?

43. Ronda Edwards Executive Director redwards@mcca.org