1. The CSU Affordable Learning Solutions and MERLOT II July 30, 2014 MN eLearning Summit Leslie Kennedy, Ed.D. Academic Technology Services California State University System Office

2. Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching www.merlot.org

3. MERLOT’s VISION To be a premier online community of faculty staff and student users, members, and consortium partners from around the world who share their pedagogy and repository-based learning objects, open courses, open access textbooks, and open access journal articles.

4. MERLOT is Unique An open educational resource (OER) collection with over 45, 000 teaching and learning materials Over 3,000 open textbooks Many peer-reviewed materials Multiple disciplines represented K-12 and Higher Ed resources International

5. Improved Search

6. Many Search Options Key words Discipline –(ex. arts, ed., math, science) Material type –(ex. open bks, simulations, Audience –(ex. K-12, college) Mobile apps

7. Search Other Open Libraries

8. MERLOT Content Features Peer Reviews User Rating Discussion Learning Exercises Personal Collections/Bookmarks Material Type

9. Bookmarking MERLOT Resources Collect multiple resources in a Personal Collection Link to the Personal Collection from the LMS

10. Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) A peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication that aims to promote scholarship in the use of the Internet and web-based multimedia resources in higher education. Published 3-4 times a year. http://jolt.merlot.org/

11. Integrate MERLOT into the LMS For easy access to search and link to the MERLOT collection

12. MERLOT X http://www.merlotx.org Student-friendly access to MERLOT resources

13. maMERLOT FIND Mobile Apps for Your Teaching and Learning Platform (iOS-Apple, Android, Windows) Grade level (primary, middle school, high school, higher ed lower division, higher ed upper division Discipline (arts, business, education, humanities, math/statistics, science and technology, social sciences, workforce development) http://mobileapps.merlot.org

14. MERLOT Mobile Search App  MERLOT OER Search app for iOS and Android devices.  Locate materials on the go.  Search all of MERLOT or a narrow search of Open options – Journals, textbooks or Courses.

15. Expanding the No and Low Cost Course Materials Network

16. 16 California State University 23 campuses ~ 450,000 students ~ 80% undergraduates

17. CSU’s AL$ Strategy AccessibilityAffordability Choice

18. AL$ Ecosystem

19. Librarians Can Assist Faculty & Students http://als.csuprojects.org/ (Ann Agee & Christina Mune, SJSU, 2014)

20. Instructional Designers Can Assist Faculty WMST 303 : Education, Race and Gender, Dr. Natalie Wilson Reconstructing Gender $90.26 Troubling Education $49.95 Teaching to Transgress $21.36 Total: $161.50 CALMED course Breaking Bad Habits of Race and Gender 24.95 Pearson Custom Book 24.65 OER videos, websites, and organizational publications (eg FMF’s report on gender equity and education) Library Materials including Course Reserves, journal articles, and Media Library Holdings Total: $49.60 Savings: $111.90 (x40 students = $4,467) 2/21/2014Instructional Development Services - CSUSM 20 http://als.csuprojects.org/ (Barbara Taylor, CSU San Marcos, 2014)

21. LMS Administrators Can Assist Faculty Integrate xPorter (library databases) Integrate MERLOT (free resources) Integrate open textbooks Integrate publisher materials (ALEKS, WebAssign, etc.) http://als.csuprojects.org/

22. Fall 2012 5,000 Titles Choices 4 Partners Est. $1.5 M savings Spring 2014 50,000 Title Choices 7 Partners, 3 Affiliates Over $2.5 M savings and counting Bookstores Can Assist Faculty & Students CA State University Rent Digital Program

23. OER Finder Widget Type in ISBN of your chosen textbook and find related OER http://als.csuprojects.org/free-etextbooks

24. Additional Institutional Initiatives

25. COERC & COOL4Ed http://coolfored.orghttp://coolfored.org or http://cool4ed.orghttp://cool4ed.org The California Open Education Resources Council (COERC), a collaboration among UC, CSU and CCC faculty, is facilitating the peer review of open textbooks which are showcased in the California Open Source Digital Library (COOL4Ed).California Open Education Resources Council (COERC)COOL4Ed

26. COOL Course Showcase http://coolfored.org The COOL4Ed Course Showcase will be continually updated during the duration of this project (2014 – 2016), and it will eventually reflect approximately 50 courses and a number of peer reviewed open textbooks for each course.

27. COOL Faculty Showcases http://coolfored.orghttp://coolfored.org or http://cool4ed.orghttp://cool4ed.org

28. Course Redesign with Technology http://courseredesign.csuprojects.org/wp/

29. Faculty Sharing their Course Redesign Experiences Including their student successes. http://courseredesign.csuprojects.org/wp/

30. AL$ Next Steps  Grow exemplary practices faculty showcases  Focus on mobile and work with students  Aggregate digital offerings and savings  Explore adaptive learning options and possible discounts  Continue to develop a collection of open education materials AL$

31. Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$) http://als.csuprojects.org/ For questions and assistance contact: Leslie Kennedy Director, AL$ California State University, Office of the Chancellor lkennedy@calstate.edu (562) 951-4605