Board of Trustees Presentation 2009 Report on Open Educational Resources Dr. Judy Baker February 2, 2009

Open Educational Resources OER at FHDA International survey about faculty and OER Community College Consortium for OER Hewlett Foundation Open Textbook Project Grant

Statistics Open Textbook Collaborative Statistics by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean Long-term effort by authors to make their statistics textbook more affordable Available at Connexions

Adopters of Collaborative Statistics Fall 2008 De Anza College Yatman Au Young Nadia Bensidi Lenore Desillets Harmon Dhaliwal Janice Hector Renuka Kapur Charles Klein Lisa Markus Kathryn Plum Rupinder Sekhon Frank Snow San Diego Mesa College SUNY Purchase CSU Dominguez Hills Winter/Spring 2009 De Anza 2009 Roberta Bloom Barbara Illowsky Vladimir Logvenenko Lorraine Moen Diane Mathios Sacramento City College Los Rios College University of Toledo Frederick Community College Estimated savings of $87,040 for De Anza students each quarter

De Anza College Math instructor, Rupinder Sekhon Adopted his own Applied Finite Mathematic open textbook instead of adopting a $120 traditional textbook Represents $120 potential savings for each De Anza College student Estimated total savings of $4,800 each quarter for De Anza College students

Foothill College Open textbook recommended for ENG 48B: American Literature in the Gilded Age English instructor, Scott Lankford

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 66% interested in helping to produce or identify OER materials Support needed for faculty to develop of OER Training Guidelines and/or templates Paid compensation or stipend Website repository of OER materials

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources Joint effort to develop and use open educational resources and open textbooks in community college courses Launched July 2007

85 colleges from AZ, CA, FL, IA, ID, MD, NV, NY, OH, TX,WA, Ontario

Recognition Recipient of the 2008 Technology Focus Award from the California Community Colleges System Office California Mathematics Council Community Colleges (CMC3) unanimously passed a resolution in support of CCCOER in May 2008

October 2008, Volume 9, Number

Summer 2008 A Culture of Shared Knowledge Developing a Strategy for Low-Cost Textbook Alternatives Aug. 12 Open Textbook Meets Community Colleges April 29 Online Texts for Community College Students April 29, 2008 Community College Open-Textbook Project Gets Under Way Media Coverage and Published Articles August 17, 2008 Digital books become more appealing January/February 2009 It Takes a Consortium to Support Open Textbooks

Website Website cccoer.wordpress.com

Open Textbooks Over 200 open textbooks identified, catalogued, and listed on CCCOER site and in MERLOT Collection

OER Training & Presentations Foothill College one-unit course, LINC 215 Conferences Sloan-C 2008 International Symposium Open Ed 2008 Conference 2008 CIT, League for Innovations in Community Colleges Association of Community College Trustees (presentation by Hal Plotkin) Community College League of California Annual Convention California Mathematics Council Community Colleges annual conference Colleges campuses including FHDA District Opening Day Online tutorials webinar & Etudes)

Hewlett Foundation Grant Open Textbook Project Increase scope and membership of CCCOER Centralize Open Textbook information Document work flow model Design and conduct research studies Develop sustainability plan

Project Partners

Next Steps Identification of Campus OER Champions Building Faculty Engagement & Investment Training Needs Identifying Discipline Experts Growing the Consortium Kenneth Ransom,, Pics4Learning

Timeline to Success Winter 2009 Foster faculty interest in OER Presentations and trainings Submit grant proposals Spring 2009 Offer OER training Identify faculty OER champions Plan new faculty survey

Measures of Success Outcomes by 2010 Increased number of: Colleges with membership in CCCOER Faculty trained in OER use and development Open Textbooks used by faculty Open Textbooks developed by faculty Train-the-Trainer coordination with Student PIRGs