No Money? No Problem! Free Open Educational Resources-Join the Movement
MI World Languages Association Annual ConferenceNovember 11, 2016
Regina Gong, Librarian and OER Project Manager
Lansing Community College
There’s a problem that OER are trying to solve.
Community college students
Market Failure
5 major publishers hold nearly 90% of the
market
Source: Turning the Page by James Koch
• Student PIRGS released a groundbreaking report revealing the new face of the textbook monopoly: access codes.
• Across institutions and majors, 32% of courses included access codes as required materials.
• At campus bookstores, the average cost of an access code alone was $100.24.
• In bookstores, only 28% of access codes were offered in unbundled form. Even when acquired directly from the publisher, only 56% of all required access codes were offered without additional materials bundled in, despite federal law requiring materials to be sold separately.
Full report at: http://www.studentpirgs.org/reports/sp/access-denied
Textbook Cost vs. Student Success
Source: 2016 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus
We can do better.
Open Educational Resources (OER)
Digitized materials, offered freely and openly for educators and students to use and re-use
for teaching, learning, and research.
Source: The Open Ecosystem by Clobridge Consulting is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License.
Open Education is part of an Open Ecosystem
OER come in many forms
open > free
open = free + permissions
Source: http://lumenlearning.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/5Rs-Graphic.jpg
open licensing systemwww.creativecommons.org
puts the “open” in OER
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeblogs/3020966268/sizes/o/in/photostream/
Open Content / Open Licenses
Source: Tyler.stefanich_Creative_Commons_Swag_Contest_2007_2_(by).jpg found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki / BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
licensesmost open
least open
(OER)
(Not OER)CC license image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 South Africa license
• Faculty benefits
• Increased flexibility of how you use content and ancillaries
• Easy access in many formats• Possibilities of customization,
can modify/edit as needed• Student feedback is positive
(students are grateful)• Supporting our students (social
justice)
• Student benefits
• Low cost or free• Increased availability• Opportunity to retain the
textbook & resources• No heavy, bulky text to tote• Easy to find and access, even
before course begins
Faculty have:Right to customizeThe textbook
Students have:Day 1 access to that customized textbook and CHOICE
+
LCC AT A GLANCE• Located in downtown Lansing• 26,000 students enrolled/year• 3rd largest cc in MI • 262 degree & certificate programs• 1,200+ courses• 500 full-time staff & faculty• 1,800 part-time staff & faculty
• Started by a librarian + some faculty champions
• Administration support was crucial at the start
• Focused on OER awareness first• No grants for faculty were given• Pilot started in fall 2015 semester
OER Initiative at LCC
Courses Using OER •BIOL 127 – All sections•BIOL 128 – All sections•BIOL 270 – 1 section•ECON 201 – All sections•ECON 202 – All sections•GRMN 121 – All sections (50/50)
•GRMN 122 – All sections (50/50)
HIST 211 – 5 sectionsHIST 212 – 4 sectionsMUSC 168 – 1 sectionPHIL 151 - 3 sectionsPHIL 153 - 2 sectionsPSYC 200 – All sectionsPSYC 202 - (3 sections)SOCL 120 – 10 sectionsWRIT 121 - 4 sections
OER Adoptions at LCC
Students Impacted by OER
Textbook Costs Savings
Source: http://bit.ly/2f7ZMaN
• Encourage more OER adoptions• Work on offering Z-degree starting
Fall 2018• Work with faculty to have their own
content openly licensed• Support faculty with OER creation
through grants• More faculty engagement with
open education and pedagogy
Source: http://mazeway.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/MovingForwardTogether.jpg
Moving forward
Source: https://smart-strutters.wikispaces.com/World+Languages
http://www.mpsaz.org/worldlanguages
Sources for Language Learning OERRepositories, Collections & Communities
Evaluation CriteriaMatch with learner needsAlignment with curriculum standardsEase of use and accessibility (open formats, ability to
download source files)License restrictions (degree of openness)Reputation of author / peer reviewCommunity support
Sources: OER Repositories
MERLOThttp://www.merlot.org
Large collection of language materials
Ability to Browse by language
Curation, peer review, and comments help best resources rise to the top
Materials are not necessarily OER
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/WorldLanguages.htm
OER Commonshttp://www.oercommons.org/
Languages is under Arts and Humanities
Includes all types of OER
Can’t browse by languages.
https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/mco
OER Hub for all 28 community colleges in MI
One stop shop for OER searching
Collection is growing and curating is ongoing
Languages is under Arts & Humanities subject collection
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/
Sources for Language Learning OERLanguage Centers and Institutional Archives
http://www.nflrc.org/
http://www.nflrc.org/lrcs.php
http://coerll.utexas.edu/coerll//
http://lmp.ucla.edu/
http://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons
http://libguides.lcc.edu/oer
Source: Social Media & Individual Curation
#langchat on Twitter
Français interactif Facebook Community
Q&A PeriodWhat questions do you have about finding OER for language learning or any of the sites shown?
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