1. “The Signaling Power of Zero Textbook Cost Degrees”

2. Background Hal Plotkin
Keynote speaker at Zero Textbook Cost Degree Summit, College of the Canyons in September 2018 (3 attendees from MJC: Cheryl Chavez, Ashli Bumgardner, and Iris Carroll)
Hal uses personal experiences to communicate importance of OER and ZTC on student success
Senior Open Policy Fellow at Creative Commons
CC helps creators (instructors) to share their work freely using licensing to protect their ownership
Discusses Open Educational Resources (OER) used in place of textbooks to create Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) courses/degrees

3. What is OER?
“What is OER?” by The Council of Chief State School Officers is licensed under CC BY 4.0

4. Purpose of Event
Working toward building an awareness and support for OER
To answer: Why ZTC?
Eliminates textbook cost
Students start first day of class with all materials necessary for success
Financial aid could be used for other educational and living expenses
Instructor rights to edit OER content for accessibility that publisher content does not typically allow

5. Faculty Impact
March 29, 2019
Introduced OER Faculty Liaison, Shirley Miranda
Introduced the importance OER and ZTC
17 participants live, 11 via Zoom
Video online potentially reaching campus wide

6. Hal’s Words

7. Student Impact 25.5% of MJC students (4,631) currently offered ZTC
18,148 MJC students enrolled in credit and non-credit courses at census as of Spring 2019
125 ZTC courses offered in Spring 2019
59% of MJC students receiving financial aid as of Spring 2019
56.9% Hispanic
3.7% African American
ZTC has room to grow. Hoping that ZTC can positively impact this 59%.

8. Looking Forward OER faculty liaison - Shirley Miranda Brenes
Joined the OER Commons groups for webinars and learning to use OERCommons.org, a public digital library of OER
Instructors currently working on OER
Chris Briggs and Gretchen Leuenhagen using OER for thematic units in Reading 184 and posting to Canvas Commons