Presenter: Brenda Perea

Reaping the Benefits of Open Educational

Resources

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What, Where and Why?

What is OER?—Open Educational Resources are high-quality, openly licensed, shared educational materials made freely available onlineOER is: Open course ware, Learning objects, tutorials, open journals, streaming videos, textbooks, modules and courses

Where is OER?—Many different repositoriesWhy OER?—Access, Affordability, and Student

Success

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Colorado Online Energy Training

Consortium

Colorado Helps Advanced

Manufacturing Programs

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General Benefits of using OER

1. Learning effectiveness

• Better quality or more recent material2. Access

• Wider variety of learning materials

• There are many complete courses from leading universities

• Enhances opportunities for learning

• Informed decisions as to content and class preparation

3. Scale

• Cost effective

• Adaptability for individual colleges and instructors

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General Benefits continued….

4. Faculty success

• Avoid “reinventing the wheel”

• More Clarity and/or certainty regarding reuse of materials

• Content is compiled and edited by the instructor

5. Student success

• Better quality and easier access

• Better informed decisions in choosing the right course and preparing for class

• Digital OER textbooks are condensed

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What were the “Real” Benefits?

• Decreased development time and maximized resources• Quality improvements through collaboration

• Content is compiled and edited by the instructor

• Time and effort were saved through the reuse and remixing of resources• Content is adaptable for individual colleges and

instructors

• Avoid the cycle of constant textbook updates

• Content sharing “standardized” throughout the colleges

• New Partnerships Opportunities

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A Case Study of OER Benefits

Colorado Helps Advanced Manufacturing Programs

Colorado Community College System, Aims Community College and Metropolitan State University-Denver

• OER Based Advanced Manufacturing Courses—Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing)

• New Field—collaborative course material development

• Shared content between 2 outside institutions, and 3 system colleges

• Ability to create articulate agreements because of transparency of OER developed to meet competencies

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A Case Study of OER Benefits

Northern Virginia Community College

• OER Based Associate Degree Program

• Average cost of Textbooks=$185

• Potential savings of $3700 per student completing full OER AS degree Track (60 hours)

• Student Success

•Overall success rate is 9% higher than the overall success rate average for equivalent textbook-based courses

• WHY?—we know that 30% of all students in a course do not by the required course materials

Types of Courses Published to OER

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EIC130 National Electrical Code IEIC225 Programmable ControllersELT106 Fundamentals of DC/ACELT112 Advanced DC/ACENY121 Solar Photovoltaic Components

MAT107 Career MathPRO100 Intro to Process TechnologyPRO110 Safety, Health, and Environment

PRO120 Process Tech 1-Equipment 1

PRO130 Instrumentation IPRO131 Instrumentation IIPRO240 Industrial Troubleshooting

Writing for Process Technology

TAAA Hydraulics ITAAA Hydraulics IITAAA Industrial AC/DC and Print ReadingTAAA Industrial Motors and ControlTAAA Introduction and Intermediate PLC'sTAAA MSHA Supplemental-Mine Safety and Health Admin

TAAA Mechanical ComponentsTAAA Welding

AEC 207 Construction MethodsAEC220 SurveyingAEC233 Construction Safety/Loss Prevention EIC105 Basics of AC/DC Electricity ENY101 Introduction to Energy Technologies

GIS101 Introduction to Global Information Systems

MAN102 Business EthicsNRE214 Environmental Issues & EthicsPET101 Petroleum FundamentalsPRO100 Introduction to Process TechnologyPRO120 Process Technology I: Equipment PRO130 Petroleum Fundamentals: Instrumentation

PRO250 Oil and Gas Production IPSY150 Environmental Psychology

ELT 175 Fundamentals of DC/AC-compressedIMA 160 Basic Fluid PowerWTG 100 Introduction to Wind IndustryWTG 110 Power & Control SystemsWTG 210 Wind Turbine Airfoils & Composites

www.cccscoetc.weebly.comhttps://www.cccs.edu/partnering-for-success/trade-adjustment-assistance/taa-champ/taa-champ-projects/

WEL103 Basic Shielded Metal Arc Welding IWEL104 Basic Shielded Metal Arc Welding IIWEL106 Print Reading for Welders-FittersWEL121 Structural Welding IWEL110 Advanced Shielded Metal Arc IWEL111 Advanced Shielded Metal Arc IIWEL125 Introduction to Gas Metal Arc WeldingWEL124 Introduction to Gas Tungsten Arc WeldingWEL162 Basic Flux Cored ARC WeldingWEL163 Basic Shielded Metal ARC Welding

Challenges to Using OER!

TechnologyTimeQuality Assessment-Reluctance to “share” and

the reluctance to “accept other instructor’s work”

Policies on academic freedom, open access licenses (CC BY)

Evolving Online/Hybrid Pedagogy Differing LMS’sCompetency-based courses use industry

supplied manuals for content delivery

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Was OER a “Hard Sell”?

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YES !!!!

What Did It Take for “Buy In”

A specific “on message” Instructional designers or OER savy

Media SpecialistsRecognition of impact across college

departmentsBookstoresPublisher relationships

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Dealing With OER

What Works?Detailed PlanCentral URL repository for

easy access to OER sitesCentral website for OER indexMultimedia hosted on an

institution channel or institutional account

Allocating enough time to search & revise content

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http://www.symbaloo.com/shared/AAAACMSNVS0AA42Agd4JvQ==

Tools to Encourage the Use of OERVideos:

YouTube, Vimeo or the Internet Archive

Audio/Podcasts:

Soundcloud or the Internet Archive

Presentations:

Slideshare, EverySlide

OPEN Content:

Google Drive

Digital Public Library of America PhET P2PU OpenStax

DOL OER or OPEN information

http://open4us.org/faq/

http://open4us.org/resources/cc-by-license-implementation-deep-dive-resources/

License Chooser tool

http://creativecommons.org/choose/

OPEN Courses:

Merlot, Connexions,

MIT OpenCourseWare,

Open Yale Courses,

Harvard Open Learning Initiative,

Open Culture, Coursera, OpenCourseWare Consortium, MOOC List, edX, OpenCourse

Library,

►Open Educational Resources and Practices

►The Adoption of OER by One Community College Math Department

►OER Videos   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wgqQdYKjIMhttp://www.iskme.org/category/tags/oer-research

►http://oer13.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/the-ecology-of-sharing-synthesizing-oer-research-rob-farrow/

►http://www.slideshare.net/robertfarrow/the-ecology-of-sharing-synthesizing-oer-research

►http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1523/2652

►http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/viewArticle/2013-04/html

Appendix

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