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://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

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/

Language Open Resources Online (LORO)http://loro.open.ac.uk/

http://capl.washjeff.edu/

http://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons

http://libguides.lcc.edu/oer

Option to find OER materials by discipline

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?

If you have any questions please contact Regina Gong,,

gongr1@lcc.eduFollow me on Twitter @drgong