1. MCO OER Initiative Kirtland Community College January 2019

2. Today’s Agenda Define OER Benefits of OER
Highlight legislation – both federal and state
What is happening in Michigan – the MCO OER Initiative

3. What is an OER?

4. 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)

5. 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

6. What is an Open License?

7. 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.

8. Benefits of OER Student savings/reducing barriers Empowering faculty
Personalized/contextualized learning opportunities
Equity for all

9. 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.

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
Open, Public, Electronic & Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act – December 22, 2018
FY18 Omnibus Bill
$5 million for Open Textbooks grants – granted to LibreTexts
FY 19
$5 million for Open Textbooks projects
Improved implementation
Multiple grantees
Stronger open licensing requirements
Requires federal agencies to publish government data in machine-readable and open formats and use open licenses. In addition to assuring that government data is available to the public by default, the OPEN Government Data Act directs agencies to support innovative uses of government data, adopt consistent data practices across government, and develop best practices for Open Data. It also provides much-needed clarity on important foundational policy elements, such as providing clear definitions of covered data and open licenses.

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

20. MCO Repository Hosted by OER Commons
Connection to over 70,000 resources
Each college has a group designation
Authoring tools
Faculty can set up accounts

21. 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.

22. 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

23. 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.

24. 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.

25. 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

26. OER Usage & Savings Academic Year Number of Colleges Number of Courses
Estimated Savings
14 colleges
304
$3,103,500
15 colleges
515
$5,292,600
Fall 2018
16 colleges
288
$3,175,200

27. OER Usage

28. OER Usage Fall 2018 OER Usage Report Bay College Mid Michigan College
Delta College Mott Community College
Gogebic Community College Muskegon Community College
Grand Rapids Community College Northwestern Michigan College
Jackson College St Clair County Community College
Kellogg Community College Schoolcraft College
Kirtland Community College Washtenaw Community College
Lansing Community College West Shore Community College

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

30. Faculty Grants Adopt – an existing open textbook
4 projects
Adapt – remix an existing open textbook or ancillary resources
5 projects
Develop – create a new ancillary resource or open textbook.
3 projects

31. Convenings – MI OER Summit
2017 – Kellogg Community College
The Power of Open
2018 – St. Clair County Community College
Interrogating Access: Privacy, Equity & Open Education

32. Mark Your Calendars 2019 MI OER Summit October 18, 2019 Hosted by ?
Call for Venue Proposals

33. Questions?
How do I get started?

34. Ronda Edwards Executive Director redwards@mcca.org