And the textbook is … free? Intro to Open Educational Resources Barbara Illowsky, PhD De Anza OEConsortium Educator ACE Award, 2013 April 29, 2015

Session Outcomes At the end of this session, participants should be able to: –Identify what OER are –Explain OER benefits for students and faculty –Search for OER for your courses –Be totally jazzed to incorporate OER into your courses

Today’s topics OER – definition & purposes Locating high quality OER Concerns: Articulation, Quality, Workload, Administrative pressure, Search Online Ed Initiative – incorporation of OER & basic skills

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Student View CCC expenses ≈ $18,005 Tuition & fees ≈ $1220/year Room & board ≈ $10,962 (living on own) Textbooks & supplies ≈ $1665/year Other expenses ≈ $4158/year Please Note: The estimates above apply to full- time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students only.

Think about: How did you choose your textbook? Is the textbook you use PERFECT? Do you supplement the publisher materials at all? WHY do you supplement the textbook?

Textbooks you use Pick one textbook for one course: Cost? Edition/revision cycle? Revisions necessary? Check: Surprised?

Comparison OpenStax College: free Used at over 60 colleges; transfers to CSU & UC Math 227 Buy new: $ Rent new: $ Buy used: $42.45

Savings over 7 years One course, one OER text, one college*: Estimated student savings of ≈ $2,500,000+ Elementary Statistics using Collaborative Statistics at De Anza College since academic year Elementary Statistics using Introductory Statistics at De Anza College since January 2014

Updated: OER are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re- purposing by others.

A Global Perspective: Educators worldwide are developing a vast pool of educational resources on the Internet, open and free for all to use. These educators are creating a world where each and every person on earth can access and contribute to the sum of all human knowledge.

The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education.

Creative Commons Minimum baseline rights usually allow users to: –Use the textbook without charge –Copy the textbook, with appropriate credit to the author –Distribute the textbook non-commercially Many creators also grant rights to: –Add, remove or alter content in the textbook –Copy and distribute the textbook without giving credit to the author/creator –Use the textbook commercially

Creative Commons

Open License is key! FREE + LEGAL RIGHTS:

Student Benefits Save $ Multiple reading formats Embedded hyperlinks Accessibility 16

Benefits of OER ☺ Lowers the costs of educational materials for students ☺ Fosters pedagogical innovation and relevance that minimizes “teaching from the textbook” ☺ Gives faculty tools to gain control over learning content and delivery

Benefits (cont.) ☺ Share and remix learning materials for customized and localized use ☺ Fast feedback loop on quality and relevance of learning materials => continual improvement and rapid development

 Free access online  Free access offline (PDF)  Accessible via PC + web-enabled handhelds  Print out part or all  Purchase a hard copy Opportunities for Teachers and Learners - Accessibility

 Navigate and view content with ease  Modify, mix and remix content to meet individual and classroom needs  Communicate with peers around content  Join workgroups with peers around content  Tailored content  Students and teachers as co-creators of knowledge  Enhanced engagement and interaction with materials  Increased student- student, teacher- teacher, and teacher- student communication around curriculum Opportunities for Teachers and Learners - Use 20

Customized Open Textbook

Return on Investment Cost savings to students Provides faculty with opportunities to share and remix learning content for customized and localized use Supports low-cost crowd-sourcing of content translation to other languages Fast feedback loop on quality and relevance of learning content Supports continual and improvement and rapid development Supports greater diversity of peer reviewers

How do I find “decent” OER? Librarians are your BEST FRIENDS! A few main repositories Colleagues – both in and out of discipline Conferences – both discipline and OER Listservs – oerconsortium.org; sparc- Reviewed content Create content to supplement

Repository for TAACCCT grants: Career focused

/ Algebra Algebra & Trig Anatomy & Physiology Biology Concepts in Biol. Chemistry Economics Micro- Economics Macro- Economics Physics Pre-calculus Psychology Sociology Statistics U.S. History

Currently used in AT LEAST: 39 CCC 11 CSU 2 UC

The three State of California Higher Education Systems are working together to provide you easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks that everyone and anyone can use for teaching and learning.

& Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources & College Open Textbooks Repository of reviewed OER Links to other repositories

Open Washington Let’s look through here….

What if you can’t find full replacement materials? LVN faculty in C6 Adopt most Adopt some & supplement Create all

Why should we donate time to find and/or write OER? Write articles Attend conferences Take classes Join committees Make presentations New prep for classes 31

Increased student learning! Lower educational costs! Happy students! Happy faculty! Results

Resources Open Education Consortium Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (lower division)

 Proposal for increasing access and success through online instruction funded through the Governor’s request  $56.9 million over 55 months, starting December 2013  Sponsored by Foothill-De Anza CCD in partnership with Butte College OEI: Online Ed

Steering Committee Work Groups  Professional Development  Consortium  Student Services  Common Course Management System  Academic Affairs  Basic Skills

Basic Skills Support  In OEI transfer courses  Pre-assessment support in CAI

Finding basic skills support  Open Educational Resources – aim is to find and use these as much as possible  Homegrown modules  Low cost licensing, if budget allows for it  Handbook with URLs to be posted in May

How do YOU join the parties?

Thank you!