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Presentation to California Community College Chancellor's Office Distance Education Coordinators on December 14, 2012. Presenters: Una Daly, OpenCourseware Community College Outreach Director and James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean at College of the Canyons.
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Una Daly, OpenCourseware ConsortiumJames Glapa-Grossklag, College of the Canyons
Dec 14, 2012
Revolution in Learning:Open Education at Community
Colleges
– Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director at Open Courseware Consortium
– James Glapa-Grossklag, President of CCCOER Advisory Board; Dean, College of Canyons
Mike Kirby licensed this image for reuse with Creative Commons.
Welcome
Agenda
• Open Education 101• True or False ?• What is OER?• Why Share?• Who’s Doing OER?• Case Studies• Q & A
OpenCourseWare Mission“Advance formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of
free, open, high-quality education materials organized as courses.”
Nearly 300 institutions in 46 Countries
109+ Community & Technical College at OCW Consortium
CCCOER Mission
• Promote adoption of OER to enhance teaching and learning
– Expand access to education– Support professional development– Advance community college mission
Funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
Educational Outreach Webinars
• 9/11 Reduce Costs and Improve Outcomes with Open Textbooks
• 9/25 OER Adopter Communities• 10/9 OER Faculty Development• 10/29 OER & Accessibility• 11/13 MOOCs & Community Colleges• 12/4 OER & Research
SPRING 2013 WEBINARS TBD
oerconsortium.org
• #1 OER Impact Research
• #2 OER Integration into Curriculum
• #3 OER Outreach and Promotion
CCCOER Goals
Many Flavors of Open
• Open Educational Resources aka OER• Open Textbooks • OpenCourseWare aka OCW• Massive Open Online Course aka MOOC• Open Access Journals• Open Source (Code)
True or False?
• All OER is free• All OER is in the public domain• Publisher produced material is better
than OER • Open textbooks hurt bookstores• eBooks are open textbooks
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What are Open Educational Resources?
U.S. Dept. of Education
– 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 or repurposing by others.
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adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license
What is an Open License?
• Free: Free to access online, free to print
• Open: Shared, usable and re-usable: licensing that is less restrictive than standard copyright
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Creative Commons licensing
• Works with existing copyright law
• Promotes sharing
• Internationally recognized
• Author/creator can specify re-uses
Why Practice Openness?
Institutional Mission
“The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and …. The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge ….”
The Community College Mission
Leverage taxpayer funding
English Composition I
• 55,000+ enrollments / year• x $100 textbook
• = $5.5+ Million every year
Source: Cable Green, The Obviousness of Open Policy (2011)
Who is funding OER?
Who is engaged in OER?
Case Studies
• Washington’s Open Course Library
• Kaleidoscope Project
• California’s Open Textbook
Initiative
gov.ca.gov
Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds CC-BY-NC-SA
Washington’s Open Course Library
A collection of openly licensed (CC-BY) educational materials for 81 high-enrollment college courses
1.Lower textbook costs for students
2.Improve course completion rates
3.Provide new resources for faculty
• Art Appreciation• Calculus I• Calculus II• Calculus III• Cultural Anthropology• Elementary Algebra• Engineering Physics I• English Composition I• English Composition II• General Biology with Lab• General Chemistry with Lab I• General Chemistry with Lab II• General Chemistry with Lab III• General Psychology• Human Anatomy and Physiology 1• Human Anatomy and Physiology 2• Intermediate Algebra• Introduction To Business• Introduction to Chemistry (Inorganic)• Introduction To Literature I• Introduction To Logic
• Introduction To Oceanography• Introduction To Philosophy• Introduction to Physical Geology• Introduction to Statistics• Lifespan Psychology• Macroeconomics• Microeconomics• Music Appreciation• Physical Anthropology• Pre-College English• Precalculus I• Precalculus II• Principles of Accounting I• Principles of Accounting II• Public Speaking• Research for the 21st Century • Technical Writing• Try College / College Success Course• US History I• US History II• US History III
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Kaleidoscope Colleges
.77 improvement in Intermediate Algebra (4.0 scale)
Student Learning Outcomes
California Open Textbook Initiative
• Develop 50 open textbooks for highest enrolled courses
• Establish OER repository for storing and accessing open materials
DE OER Experts Share
Thank you for coming!!
• Questions?
• Contact Info:
– Una Daly, [email protected]– James Glapa-Grossklag,
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