Starting an Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiative: What
You Need to Know
Regina Gong, Librarian & OER Project Manager
[email protected]; @drgong
http://libguides.lcc.edu/oer
Central Michigan University Library
November 17, 2017
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What we’ll do today:• Textbook market overview
• OER basics
• Creative Commons licenses
• LCC OER Project
• Strategies to help you start
• Discussion – Q & A
• Roadmap to OER worksheet
2017 • 15 year anniversary of the term “Open Educational
Resources”
• 10 year anniversary of the Cape Town Open
Education Declaration
• 5 year anniversary of the Paris OER Declaration
• Year of Open
Average Estimated Undergraduate Budgets, 2017-18
https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-estimated-undergraduate-budgets-2017-18
Market Failure
5 major
publishers hold
nearly 90% of
the market
Source: Turning the Page by James Koch
Source: Florida Virtual Campus: 2016 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey
Source: Covering the Cost, 2016 t by the Student Public Interest Research Groups (Student PIRGs) www.studentpirgs.org/textbooks
High textbook prices have a disproportionate
impact on students at community college
Source: Photo by Aidan Bartos on Unsplash
Photo by Thomas Kvistholt on Unsplash
Handwriting Printing Press Internet
Copying a book
$1000s per copy $1s per copy $0.0001s per copy
Distributing a book
$1000s per copy $1s per copy $0.0001s per copy
Source: David Wiley presentation
CopyrightRegulates
Handwriting Printing Press Internet
Copying a book
$1000s per copy $1s per copy $0.0001s per copy
Distributing a book
$1000s per copy $1s per copy $0.0001s per copy
Open Educational Resources (OER)
“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."
~William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Open Educational Resources (OER)
“Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning and
research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise –
that reside in the public domain or have been released under
an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation
and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions."
~William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
My OER Elevator Pitch
Open educational resources are freely available,
openly licensed (usually Creative Commons)
learning materials that can be legally downloaded,
edited, and shared, to better serve all students.
OER come in many forms:
• open textbooks
• full courses
• modules
• syllabi
• lectures
• homework assignments
• quizzes
• lab activities
• games
• simulations
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/)
licenses
most
open
least
open
Source: CC license image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 South Africa license
LCC AT A GLANCE
• Located in downtown Lansing
• Founded in 1957
• 26,000 students enrolled/year
• Teaching faculty 90% adjuncts
• Faculty started using OER in fall
2015 semester
• No grants/stipends/incentives
were offered
• Started from the bottom up
• Administration support was strong
• Academic Senate resolution on OER passed in
March 2015
• Embarked on extensive OER awareness
• Started offering OER courses in fall 2015
semester
OER Initiative at LCC
Textbook affordability
Allow faculty exploration and innovation in finding new,
better, and less costly ways to deliver quality learning
materials to students
OER Initiative Goals
OER Adoptions at LCC
510
4
14 16 12
27
11
23
6
101 100
33
150
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017
Courses and Sections Using OER
Courses Using OER Sections Using OER
OER Adoptions at LCC
5
12
4
4648
26
74
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017
Faculty Using OER
Students Impacted by OER
317
540
129
2,825
2,558
724
3724
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017
Students Enrolled
Textbook Costs Savings
$31,700.00
$54,000.00
$12,900.00
$282,500.00
$255,800.00
$72,400.00
$372,400
$-
$50,000.00
$100,000.00
$150,000.00
$200,000.00
$250,000.00
$300,000.00
$350,000.00
$400,000.00
Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017
Total Textbook Savings ($100/student)
Fall 2015 Spring 2016
Summer
2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017
Summer
2017 Fall 2017
Running
Total
Faculty Using OER 5 12 4 46 48 26 74 215
Courses Using OER 5 10 4 14 16 12 27 88
Sections Using OER 11 23 6 101 100 33 150 424
Students Enrolled 317 540 129 2,825 2,558 724 3,724 10,817
Actual Textbook
Savings (based on new
print book) $63,286.75 $92,077.75 $26,792.50 $351,449.00 $318,974.50 $90,642.50 $470,718.25 $1,413,941.25
Total Textbook Savings
(no. of students*$100) $31,700 $54,000 $12,900 $282,500 $255,800 $72,400 $372,400 $1,081,700
OER Adoptions Summary
BIOL 127 – Cell Biology
BIOL 128 – Organismal Biology
BIOL 270 - Human Genetics
PSYC 200 – Intro to Psychology
ECON 201 –Microeconomics
ECON 201 – Macroeconomics
BIOL 201– Human Anatomy MATH 106 – Math Literacy with Review BIOL 121 – Biol Foundations for
Physiology
PHYS 200 – Intro Physics
w/Applications
OER Authored by LCC Faculty
Dr. Matthew Van Cleave, Philosophy faculty
Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=457
Dr. Mark Kelland, Psychology faculty
Personality Theory: A Multicultural Perspectivehttps://www.oercommons.org/courses/personality-theory-a-multicultural-perspective
OER Authored by LCC Faculty
Tao of Positive Psychologyhttps://www.oercommons.org/authoring/19643-tao-of-positive-psychology
$1,600,000
Source: Photo by Vitaly on Unsplash
Strategies that work
Photo by Michał Parzuchowski on Unsplash
Strategies that work
•Meet faculty individually and as a group
•Continued, ongoing professional development
•Encourage and turn OER believers into OER champions in your campuses
“I see this as an issue of access to education and even an issue of justice. If education is necessary for securing certain basic human rights, then lack of access to education is itself an issue of justice. Providing high quality, low-cost textbooks is one, small part of making higher education more affordable and thus more equitable and just. This open textbook is a contribution towards that end.”
Dr. Matthew Van Cleave, Professor of Philosophy
OER Textbook Author “Intro to Logic and Critical Thinking”
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=457
“Our students are poor and most of them on Pell grant. When I had to escort two of my students to the food pantry, I knew I had to change my textbook to OER and I’m glad I did so maybe you should too.”
Dr. Sharon Hughes, Professor of Psychology
Adopted OpenStax Psychology
•Meet faculty individually and as a group
•Continued, ongoing professional development
•Encourage and turn OER believers into OER champions
•Communicate success college-wide and beyond
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2017/07/26/midwest-community-college-pushes-widespread-use-oer
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2017/08/15/lansing-community-college-cutting-costly-textbooks/551936001/
http://www.fox47news.com/brand-spotlight/oer-increases-textbook-access-for-students-lansing-community-college
•Meet faculty individually and as a group
•Continued, ongoing professional development
•Encourage and turn OER believers into OER champions
•Communicate success college-wide
•Pursue partnerships and collaborations within & outside of your institution
“I think this is a really great option for the poor
starving student. Everybody should have
access to education and this really helps level
that playing field.”
Here’s what our students say about OER:
“I've always been bitter about buying a
textbook that I only need to use maybe 700
words (total) throughout the semester. This is
so much better.”
Here’s what our students say about OER:
“College is expensive enough as it is. Lots of
kids don't bother or can't afford purchasing
new $150 books for every class and it ends
up hurting their grade. Free textbooks are
good for everyone.”
Here’s what our students say about OER:
• Implement the OER Award Program to increase OER courses
• Encourage & support faculty engagement with open education
and pedagogy
• Assessment & Efficacy Studies – COUP Framework
• Disseminate research studies from Regina’s Open Education
Group Research Fellowship 2017-2018 Award
• Promote/market OER courses to students through SIS
• Accessibility of OER
• OER publishing platform
• Lumen Learning partnership
Our Road Ahead
Get involved
SPARC OER ForumCCCOER Listserv
TwitterOpen Textbook Network
Open Education ConferenceOpen Education Week
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Regina Gong, [email protected] ; @drgong