1. OER and Zero Textbook Cost Degrees
Mara Sanft
Duane Short
San Diego Miramar College

2. Who’s Here? Classroom faculty? Nonclassroom faculty? Classified?
Administration?

3. Acknowledgements
In keeping with the OER philosophy, much of the material in this presentation was developed and shared by our colleagues at San Diego Miramar College:
Anne Gloag
Laura Gonzalez
Jason Librande
Alex Mata

4. Overview OER and its Benefits Sources of OER
Legal and Articulation Issues
Creating OER

5. OER and its benefits

6. Types of OER Traditional textbook(s) Group activities Worksheets
Videos
Websites
Self-assessments

9. OER and the Student Experience

11. Cost, Access, and Equity Everyone has ACCESS EQUITY is increased
“Can I pay for my textbooks?”
“Can I pass this class without buying the book?”
“How will I study for the first few weeks without the book…”
Everyone has ACCESS
EQUITY is increased

12. Source: Which Major has the Most Expensive Textbooks. Priceonomics
Source: Which Major has the Most Expensive Textbooks? Priceonomics. Accessed 7/6/17 at

13. Source: Which Major has the Most Expensive Textbooks. Priceonomics
Source: Which Major has the Most Expensive Textbooks? Priceonomics. Accessed 7/6/17 at

14. Zero Textbook Cost Degrees
An entire degree path that uses OER
Build with OER classes
Major requirements
General education
District requirements
Counseling is critical in order to select OER sections

15. Accessing the Textbook
Online in HTML
Online in DOC
Online in PDF
Print copy from the OER database
Print copy from the bookstore

16. Accessing the Textbook

21. Specialized Content Readings Videos Instructor-created materials
Chapters
Excerpts
News articles
Videos
Instructor-created materials
Student contributions

23. Source: California Career Cafe. Available at http://www. cacareercafe

28. SOURCES OF OER

29. Sources of OER
OER databases

30. Sources of OER
OER databases

31. Sources of OER
OER databases

32. Sources of OER OER databases Government agencies
Nonprofits and foundations
Professional associations
Educational institutions
Your own colleagues

33. Sources of OER OER databases Government agencies
Nonprofits and foundations
Professional associations
Educational institutions
Your own colleagues

38. Source: O-Net. Available at http://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip

39. Sources of OER OER databases Government agencies
Nonprofits and foundations
Professional associations
Educational institutions
Your own colleagues

42. Sources of OER OER databases Government agencies
Nonprofits and foundations
Professional associations
Educational institutions
Your own colleagues

45. Sources of OER OER databases Government agencies
Nonprofits and foundations
Professional associations
Educational institutions
Your own colleagues

47. Source: University of Minnesota Career Services
Source: University of Minnesota Career Services. Available at

48. Sources of OER OER databases Government agencies
Nonprofits and foundations
Professional associations
Educational institutions
Your own colleagues

52. Activity
Faculty: Find at least one specific piece of OER for your discipline Others: Find or come up with at least one way to facilitate the sharing of OER on your campus

53. Legal and articulation issues

54. - Open textbooks are usually governed by Creative Commons licenses
a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to their creative work
Every Creative Commons license also ensures licensors get the credit for their work they deserve. Common features serve as the baseline, on top of which licensors can choose to grant additional permissions when deciding how they want their work to be used.

55. Creative Commons License video

56. The UC and CSU position
“…[I]t’s fine to use assembled materials or Open Educational Resources, so long as they’re as stable and publicly available as published textbooks (and not a list of links).”

57. Sources of OER
OER databases

58. OER and the Student Experience

65. From ASCCC, “The Course Outline of Record”

66. CREATING OER

67. What OER to create? Class activities Lessons Videos Textbooks
Others?...

69. Jason video – insert here

70. Some benefits of OER videos
Complements lab portion of class
Students can “re-watch” lecture whenever needed
Everyone can access (ESOL, hearing impaired, etc.)
Provides access to students across the world
One video has ~1000 views!

71. Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (SACC) OER Cultural Anthropology textbook
3 year project
Editorial board
Each chapter has different author/s
Creative Commons license

72. Multiple Authors – Diverse Perspectives
Many chapters
Authors are teaching anthropologists
Several well-known authors
Additional material in appendices

73. Activity Move to your section of the room
Share the OER resource you found with the group
As a group, come up with one idea of an OER resource you could create and share with others (or a way to facilitate OER on your campus)
Report out

74. How Can YOU Get Involved?
Adopt an OER textbook
Use a variety of resources
Create OER yourself
Facilitate the sharing of OER

75. Questions? Discussion?
Thanks for your attention!