2. Getting it Together: Summer Retreat 2018
Zero-Cost, Low-Cost, OER, Z-Degree
Nathan Smith

3. So many programs, so many initiatives, what’s really going on?
An overview of the mission and the reason
Low-Cost Book and Zero-Cost Book Tagging
Z-Degree
Open Educational Resources

5. HCC Student & Faculty Surveys (2013-17)
78% of students spend over $150 per semester on textbooks
45% of students spend over $300 per semester
26% of faculty are moderately concerned about the price of textbooks
51% of faculty are extremely concerned about the price of textbooks

6. Copyright restricts access and increases costs
“Keep Out,” CC-BY Kate Merenda-Sinha, katemere, Flickr (2006)

7. OER Improves Access and Lowers Cost
“Beyond Definitions,” CC-By-SA Opensource.com, Flickr (2011)

8. Overview Fall 2017 Spring 2018 Summer 2018 Sections 28 52 22
Face-to-Face 17 25 3
Online 11 27 19
Duplicated Enrollments
712
1181
600+
Courses 12 18 10 9 15
Campuses 2

9. Low-Cost and Zero-Cost Books Tagging

10. New Textbook Tagging system in PeopleSoft
Low-Cost Books:
The total cost of required texts and textbooks is less than $40 (this includes ancillaries, such as an “access code” but not supplies, like a graphing calculator or pencils).
Zero-Cost Books:
The total cost of required texts and textbooks is $0 (this includes ancillaries, such as an “access code” but not supplies, like a graphing calculator or pencils).
Chairs, Deans, or Office Managers should tag courses as LCB or ZCB when staffing and submitting textbook orders.

11. Students can search for classes according to ”course attribute”

12. There is a drop-down menu for filtering search results

13. All class searches include a column identifying LCB / ZCB courses

14. Anyone can tag their courses as LCB or ZCB, as long as they fit the definition

15. The Z-Degree

16. What is the Z-Degree, again?
A structured schedule of courses:
All OER or zero-cost for textbooks
In some cases, where OER ancillary resources are used, course fees are subsidized by HCC
For specific degree plans
AA, Business Administration (Central and Northline campuses)
AA, Multidisciplinary Studies (Central campus)
Core Curriculum (Central, Northline, Spring Branch, and Stafford campuses, )
Faculty are trained and receive and OER Certificate
Not all OER courses are in the Z-Degree

17. OER Certificate Required courses:
TL1000, “Student Engagement (Learning-Centered) Instructional Design”
TL1011, “Writing Learning Outcomes and Course Objectives”
TL1700, “Copyright Literacy in the Academic Environment”
TL1800, “Discovering and Integrating Library Services”
“Introduction to Open Educational Resources”
Expect 4 sessions per semester
Working on an online version for Spring 2019
“Z-Degree Faculty: Putting it all Together”
Will be scheduled as needed, once per semester

18. Open Educational Resources

19. Anyone can start using OER right now
Open Textbook Library
OER Commons
HCC OER LibGuide
Nathan Smith’s OER Learning Web page
MyHCC > Faculty Center > OER
Announcements
Readings and resources
Faculty interest sign-in form

20. What are OER?
Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation)

21. The 5 R’s of OER
Importantly OER materials attempt to preserve these 5 capacities (Wiley 2014):
Retain: the right to make, own , and control copies of the content.
Reuse: the right to use the content in a wide range of ways.
Revise: the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself.
Remix: the right to combine the original or revised content with other open content to create something new.
Redistribute: the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others.

22. Let’s do some OER searching…

23. Stipends OER Certificate Stipend, $300
Adoption of an OER for Z-Degree instruction, $300
TLE OER Course Certification, $600
Content development stipends: adaptation, revision, and creation (work in teams or alone)
$600, $1200, $1800
Requires an application
Design and licensing of publishing software resources available