Open Educational Resources and Open Textbooks for Community Colleges Education for the 21 st Century Dr. Martha Kanter, Chancellor, Foothill-De Anza Dr. Jim Fay, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cerro Coso

Remember this rite of passage?

For many students…

The first test is their ability to afford the textbooks.

Use of OER and open textbooks can replace this scene with …..

What is OER and where did it come from? Fundamental Values Knowledge should be free Knowledge should be available anytime, anywhere Knowledge should be accessible to all Knowledge should be culturally relevant

Where it all began Universally Available Library Repositories MIT OpenCourseWare Project Creative Commons Connexions, Merlot, etc. Foothill-De Anza Board of Trustees Policy on Public Domain Learning Materials Enacted December 05

Policy on Public Domain Learning Materials Enacted December 2005 The Foothill-De Anza Community College District encourages the creation, use, and ongoing maintenance of public domain-based learning materials in accordance with established curriculum standards for educational purposes of the district. The goals of this policy are to provide students with high quality learning materials that reside in the public domain to augment and/or replace costly textbooks, to create sustainable academic resources for students, faculty and staff, and to provide opportunities for professional growth of district employees involved in these activities. The Chancellor will provide periodic reports, not less than annually, to the Board that detail the progress made toward accomplishing the goals delineated by this policy.

What are Open Educational Resources? High quality educational content and tools Freely available from the internet, anytime, anywhere All languages Shared Usable and re-usable

Benefits Provides opportunities to share and remix learning materials for customized and localized use Fast feedback loop on quality and relevance of learning materials leading to continual improvement and rapid development

Benefits Lowers the costs of educational materials for students

Benefits Gives faculty tools to gain control over learning content and delivery.

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Challenges Faculty and student resistance to change Limited availability of high quality and comprehensive learning materials in some disciplines Inadequate access to high-speed Internet by students

Challenges Articulation and transfer issues Compliance with accessibility (ADA) requirements Printing and computer lab demands on campus by students Coordination with campus bookstores

In July 2007 we launched the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources Joint effort to develop and use open educational resources and open textbooks in community college courses cccoer.wordpress.com

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources Goal –Identify, create and/or repurpose existing OER as Open Textbooks and make them available for use by community college students and faculty Objective –Seeking the support of faculty to identify, review, evaluate, and make available high quality, accessible and culturally relevant model Open Textbooks Established in July 2007 by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District Foothill-De Anza Community College District Representatives from over 20 colleges at first CCCOER information meeting on July 17, 2007July 17, 2007

CCCOER Survey Results 1,203 faculty respondents –12 Districts and 28 colleges –66% full-time –Represent wide range of disciplines 91% indicated interest in using OER materials in their classes 34% said they were aware of OER materials in their field

OER Survey

CCCOER can fill this gap OER Survey

83 colleges from AZ, CA, MD, NY, WA, NV, Ontario…

In Spring 2008, we launched the Community College Open Textbook Project PURPOSE: To identify, organize, and support the production and use of high quality, accessible and culturally relevant Open Textbooks for community college students Increase Quality Increase Access Reduce Cost

Community College Open Textbook Project Goals Increase the scope and membership of CCCOER Centralize critical Open Textbook information for use by community colleges Document a workflow model for producing and maintaining Open Textbooks Design and conduct research studies about the benefits of Open Textbooks Develop a business plan to increase sustainability

Project Partners

Connexions Statistics Open Textbook Project Collaborative Statistics by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean OCPS Television,1998, Pics4Learning

Comparison of Stats Textbooks Publisher: WileyOpen: Connexions & QOOP Downloadable version: $77.50 Downloadable & online versions: FREE Printed bound version: $ new $ used Printed bound version: $31.95 new

Example PHYS 4A: General Physics 600 pages Used $ New $179.00

OER Resources and Tools Tools for locating, organizing, and delivering Tools for collaboration and development Discipline-specific sources U.S. government sources Institutional repositories and self-archiving

Tools for Locating, Organizing, and Delivering OER

Discipline-specific Sources

Tools for Collaboration and Development

Open Textbook Adoption Locate open textbooks for consideration Evaluate each textbook for selection Customize, remix, and organize selected textbook Disseminate in print and digital formats

Create Globally, Educate Locally Joel Thierstein Executive Director

Statistics Open Textbook Now Available at Connexions Collaborative Statistics by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean

Discover… Customize… Adopt… Learn how to use Connexions as your toolkit to discover, customize, and adopt open textbooks. Complete Booklet PDF Text Get Account PDF VideoTextVideo Login PDF VideoTextVideo Set Password PDF VideoTextVideo Maintain Account PDF VideoText Video Search Connexions PDF VideoTextVideo Use Materials PDF VideoText Video Check Out Materials PDF VideoTextVideo Edit Materials PDF VideoTextVideo Publish Materials PDF VideoTextVideo Update Collections PDF VideoTextVideo Publish Collections PDF VideoText Getting Textbooks PDF Video TextVideo

Evaluate Each Textbook –Quality –Accessibility –Cultural relevance –Currency –Authority –Articulation

Self-Paced Tutorial

Disseminate Open Textbooks –Digital formats –Printed format –Student (DIY) –Campus bookstore –Campus printshop services –Proprietary services

Faculty Role Encourage faculty to develop, locate, review, and and promote OER –Support sabbaticals for development and modification of open textbooks –Give credit toward tenure for faculty work on open textbook development

Content Review Panels Determine and define the necessary elements of a model community college Open Textbooks –Reading level –Depth and scope –Quality and accuracy –Cultural relevance –Currency –Authority of source

OER on Your Campus Form a Taskforce on campus to address adoption of open textbooks –Curriculum approval –Pedagogical standards –Articulation –Tech support –Bookstore and print shop services –Library –Faculty and department participation –Faculty training in development of OER –Marketing

Next Steps Locate more open textbooks Increase participation in the consortium Support the faculty Identify and modify technical standards appropriate for open textbooks Determine process for vetting Field-test standards and processes Kenneth Ransom,, Pics4Learning