1. WeBWork and Open Educational Resources (OER)
Brenda Forland, Red Rocks Community College
James Morski, Community College of Denver
Justin Sherrill, CCCOnline

2. Grant Overview
In fall 2016, began thinking about alternatives to MyMathLab that achieve the following:
Free for students
Agility for the instructor
Random question generation
Instantaneous feedback
Ability to embed learning tools
Adaptability to students’ response
WeBWork is a hosted open-source online homework platform for math and science.
James reached out to Brenda Forland and proposed the idea of partnering to apply for a CCCS Innovation Grant.

3. Grant Overview
$95,000 proposal was funded in spring 2017 for May 2017-September 2018.
Grant details:
CCCOnline installed and hosted WeBWorK while providing IT support.
Math departments at CCD, RRCC, and CCCOnline created and implemented questions for MAT 121-College Algebra (Summer, Fall 2017)
Pilot began at CCD (6 sections) and RRC (13 sections) in fall 2017.
Expansion to 13 sections at CCD and CCCOnline in spring 2018.
During summer 2018, CCD and RRCC plan to code questions for MAT 122-College Trigonometry.

4. Student and Instructor Perspective
Student Perspective
Instructor Perspective

5. IT Perspective: Installation
Low supporting software costs - Runs on Open-source Linux server and uses MySQL database
Written in PERL
Low Compute and Disk requirements - 2MB to 12MB course sizes
High Memory Requirements - Rough rule of thumb: 3GB RAM per 5 sections
Application installation scripts available
Configuration is fairly well documented

6. IT Perspective: Administration
Advantages
Updates and versioning via GIT repository
Fairly reliable once properly configured
Supports basic LTI integration with D2L
Supports LTI based user account creation
Low overall system administrative overhead
Challenges
Open-source application – limited vendor support
Limited ability to automate administrative tasks
Difficult to manage non-LTI users
Some management tasks require command line access

7. Project Successes 566 questions for MAT 121 were coded from scratch.
WeBWork integration with D2L
Customization of WeBWork at each campus
Only multi-campus Innovation Grant

8. Project Challenges Learning new software Learning new coding language
Server issue
Question bugs

9. Future Plans MAT 122 MAT 201 (CCD) Physics 211 and 212 (RRCC)
Big Ideas
Other MAT courses
Tutor centers
Challenge exams
Modules for prerequisite material
Placement exam prep
Placement exam
Other institution interest?

10. Questions?