Improving CC Access & Success: ATD's OER Degree Initiative

Improving Community College Access & Success: ATD’s OER Degree InitiativeDr. Richard Sebastian, Director, OER Degree InitiativeAchieving the Dream

Achieving the Dream | OER Degree Initiative 2Unless otherwise noted, this presentation is licensed CC BY 4.0. Adapted from OER 101 presentation by David Wiley.

Achieving the Dream | OER Degree Initiative 3

The college textbook market is broken.

Textbook pricing in contextTextbook pricing in context

Textbook pricing in context

One month access to…

20K+ Movies/TV episodes

$7.99 / month

15M+ song $9.99 / month

1 Biology textbook

$19.67 / month

There is a direct relationship between textbook costs and student success

60%+ do not purchase textbooks at some point

due to cost 35% take fewer courses due to textbook cost

31% choose not to register for a course due to textbook cost23% regularly go without textbooks due

to cost14% have dropped a

course due to textbook cost--2012 Florida Virtual Campus

student survey

Open Educational Resources“Open educational resources (OER) 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. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.”

Creative Commons

open = free + permissions

What is “open”?

Permissions = “The 5Rs”

open ≈ free

Retain is fundamental

openly licensed materials+ internet

OER Adoption

Replacing whatever was previously in the Required Materials section of a course syllabus with OER.

High Impact OER Adoption

1. Improves affordability, 2. Improves student success, 3. Invigorates pedagogy, and4. Takes it to scale with OER Degrees

Improves Affordability

Open Educational Resources

Increases Student Success

Improving Course Throughput Rates and Open Educational Resources: Results from the Z-Degree Program at Tidewater Community College

Hilton, Fischer, Wiley, and WilliamsAccepted, International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL)

Course Throughput Rate

IRRODL (in press)

Drop Deadline

WithdrawDeadline

FinalGrade

Students

Commercial vs OER

2.3% | 1.8%

9.9% | 8.1%

68% | 74%

Face to Face

60% | 66%

Withdraw

C or Better

CTR IRRODL (in press)

Commercial vs OER

4.0% | 1.4%

13.7% | 13.1%

66% | 70%

(Online)

54% | 60%

Withdraw

C or Better

CTR IRRODL (in press)

Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function

Mani, Mullainathan, Shafir, and ZhaoScience (2013)

Study Design

ParticipantsShoppers in a New Jersey mallSugarcane farmers in India

Test cognitive capacity during financial stressThinking through car repairs ($150 / $1500)Before and after harvest

Results

Considering a financial decision affects people's performance on unrelated spatial and reasoning tasks.

Lower-income individuals performed poorly if the repairs were expensive but did fine if the cost was low.

Sugarcane farmers performed the same tasks better after harvest than before.

A Multi-Institutional Study of the Impact of Open Textbook Adoption on the Learning Outcomes of Post-secondary Students--Fischer, Hilton, Robinson, and WileyJournal of Computing in Higher Education (2015)

Participants

• 4909 treatment• 11,818 control• 50 different undergraduate courses • 130 teachers• 10 institutions

Method

Quasi-experimental design with:Propensity score matched groupsDependent variables: Completion; C or Better; Credits Enrolled This Term; Credits Enrolled Next TermIndependent variable: Textbook condition3 covariates: age, gender, and race

Journal of Computing in Higher Education (2015)

Credits Taken

Semester OER Users Others Result

Fall 13.29 11.14 t (8101) = 27.81 p < .01

Winter 10.71 9.16 F(1, 6440) = 154.08, p <.01

Journal of Computing in Higher Education (2015)

Invigorates Pedagogy

Don’t Stop at the Swap

1. Take advantage of theadditional capabilities (5Rs)

Use outcomes as outline

Outcome Assessment Resources License1. Students will understand statistical test…

60 second explainer video

Video 12. Students will analyze data…

Govt data analysis

3. … … … …

Achieving the Dream | OER Degree Initiative 35https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uOCTqN7tVRJCxRWhjuwxztFMGN8VmAeixHjHAgn0Rkk/edit?usp=sharing

Project Plan Example

Rethink assessments

“What does open allow me to do?”

Disposable assignments

Students hate doing themFaculty hate grading themHuge wasted opportunity

US undergraduates spend approximately 40 million hours doing homework every year.

Renewable Assignments

Students see value in doing them Faculty see value in grading them The work is valuable

Achieving the Dream | OER Degree Initiative 40https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsFU3sAlPx4

Blogs vs. Wikis

Murder, Madness, and Mayhem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Murder_Madness_and_Mayhem

Project Management for ID

Renewable Assignments…are enabled by the open nature of OER.

Takes this to scale

Achieving the Dream’s OER Degree Initiative

OER-based Degrees

Achieving the DreamNational, nonprofit leader promoting evidence-based institutional improvement. Mission: To help community colleges achieve sustainable institutional transformation through knowledge-sharing, innovative solutions, and effective practices and policies, leading to improved outcomes for all students.

Institutional Capacity Framework1. Engagement & Communication2. Strategy & Planning3. Policies & Practices4. Leadership & Vision5. Data and Technology6. Equity7. Teaching & Learning

Achieving the Dream Data Coaches Leadership Coaches Funded Learning Initiatives

200+ member colleges

OER Degree InitiativeGrantees will offer at least one open educational resources degree with at least one (1) section of every required course and at least one (1) section of a sufficient number of general education and other elective courses taught with open educational resources in place of proprietary textbooks.Data collectionSharing deliverables Ensuring access to low-income students and students of color

Funders

Partners

OER Degree Initiative

1.Implementation: Achieving the Dream

2.Technical assistance: Lumen Learning

3.Research and evaluation: SRI International

4.Community of practice: CCCOER

OER Degree OER Degree InitiativeInitiative Readiness Assessment Readiness Assessment

38 colleges in 13 states

Alamo Community College*Alexandria Technical & Community College*Austin Community College*Bay CollegeBorough of Manhattan Community College*Bronx Community College*Broward CollegeBunker Hill Community CollegeCentral Virginia Community College*Clinton Community College*El Paso Community College*Florida State College at JacksonvilleForsyth Technical Community CollegeGermanna Community College*Herkimer Community College*Hostos Community College*

Housatonic Community CollegeLake Washington Institute of TechnologyLord Fairfax Community College*Mohawk Valley Community College*Monroe Community College*Montgomery CollegeMountain Empire Community College*Northern Virginia Community College*Northland Community & Technical College*Northwest Technical College*Odessa CollegePierce CollegePima Community CollegeSan Jacinto Community College*Santa Ana CollegeTidewater Community College*Tompkins Cortland Community College*West Hills College

Grantees

Technical assistance

David Wiley, CAO, Lumen Learning

Research and Evaluation 11 Research Partner colleges 5 Cost Study colleges Exploring research in three major areas:

educational outcomes economic outcomes, and OER Degree implementation to improve the work of the colleges and guide future adopters

Thank you. Questions?Dr. Richard SebastianDirector, OER Degree Initiative Achieving the Dream

rsebastian@achievingthedream.org@rasebastian

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