Intro to OER Workshop for Instructors: Berkeley City College

Workshop | May 5, 2015

Open Educa9onal Resources at Berkeley City College 2015 Pilot Project

Special Guest: Una Daly Director of Curriculum Design & College Outreach

Open Educa9on Consor9um / CCCOER

unatdaly@oeconsor/um.org

WORKSHOP TEAM

Domi Enders Pilot Support Team Coordinator & CEO

Open Assembly

[email protected]

Goals of the 2015 BCC Pilot Project

1.   Reduce student costs for course materials (e.g., textbooks)

2.   Support faculty and staff with content cura9on tools & services

3.   Foster adop9on of Open Educa9onal Resources (OER) by BCC faculty

What Are Open Educa9onal Resources (OER)?

Course resources that •  are free and accessible to everyone •  have a shareable copyright (some rights-‐-‐not all-‐-‐are reserved)


Course resources that •  are free and accessible to everyone •  have a shareable copyright (some rights-‐-‐not all-‐-‐are reserved)


HOW

A nonprofit organiza9on that enables the sharing and use of crea9vity and knowledge

through free legal tools

(founded in 2001 with support from the Center for the Public Domain)

crea/vecommons.org

The free legal tools: Crea9ve Commons (CC) copyright licenses

crea/vecommons.org

allowing content to be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon-‐-‐all within the boundaries of copyright law

Public Domain

the 6 CC LICENSES

All CC licenses require abribu9on!

Examples of Open Educa9onal Resources

OpenStax College

$13 MILLION+ SAVED!

Adapted from David Harrison CCCOER webinar cc-by

Founda9on funded, peer reviewed open textbooks for top 20+ courses.

What kind of savings can an open textbook achieve for students?

Publisher: Wiley & Sons

Amazon $167. 19

Publisher : OpenStax College

Digital Access -‐ $0 Soibound: $34.31

Maricopa Millions: Saving Students $5 M in 5 Years

•  District-‐wide funded OER project

–  10 Colleges, 250,000+ students •  Developing OER courses for General

Educa9on •  Finalizing OER quality rubric •  Students can search and register for

OER-‐based courses.

(Ar/cle): University Business: College textbook forecast: Radical change ahead hWp://www.universitybusiness.com/ar/cle/college-‐textbook-‐forecast-‐radical-‐change-‐ahead

Student Impact

•  65% choose to not buy textbook

•  94% report concern that grades affected

•  48% take fewer classes or different classes

OER INITITIAVES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

California Open Textbook Ini9a9ve

California state funds the three public higher educa9on systems to review open

textbooks for the top 50 courses to promote use of OER and reduce costs.

SB 1052, 1053 signed by Governor Brown September 2012

•  CA OER Council – Review open textbooks for top 50 college courses – Promote faculty adop/on

•  COOL4Ed Library

– Curated list of open textbooks – Faculty OER adop/on showcases

California Open Textbook Ini9a9ve

Faculty OER Adop9on Showcase Goals

•  Increase awareness of OER usage •  Provide case studies of working models including textbook, syllabi, assignments, and assessments

•  Recognize faculty who have adopted

Sociology Sociol

ogy

Sociology Sta9s9cs

Sta9s9cs Precalculus

Biology

Biology

Chemistry

History Economics

Public Speaking

FACULTY OER SHOWCASES

Educa9on

Adop9ng OER doesn’t just save students money

Open Educa9on Consor9um

•  Expand access to high-‐quality open resources •  Support faculty choice & development •  Improve student success

Community College Consor9um For OER (CCCOER)

hbp://oerconsor9um.org

CCCOER: 250+ Colleges In 21 States & Provinces


Need Help Gepng Started?

• Monthly webinars featuring OER thought leaders • Access to community of OER experts & prac99oners • Find & adopt open textbook workshops • Understanding open licenses • Designing for online accessibility • Faculty and student surveys • Opportuni9es to collaborate globally


Open Educa9onal Resources at Berkeley City College About the 2015 Pilot Project

How does it work How to get started

We are here to help and support you

Curated OER

Students, Instructors & Staff

Access content Contribute content

Inside and outside of Moodle

Import Open Course Templates

Import Open textbook chapters

Videos Images & Audio

PPT

Discover Curated OER

User-‐generated tags

Chapter-‐level content

Level 1

Engage & Share Content any way you want

Download documents Print

Save to computer

Highlight and comment In private, in public

All content in iframes video, websites, audio, text

Share content via social media

or email

Level 1

Recycle an archived Moodle course shell in one step

Level 2

Analy9cs

Easy Adapta9on Drag and drop remixing Contextualized resources

Collabora9ve Content Cura9on

Live chat

Groups

Create courses Invite collaborators Curate resources

Create or join groups

Curate, Create and Collaborate along learning paths

Level 2

Manage Content OER and

other learning content

Import content from Google Drive

and Dropbox

Add files from any drive

Share content via social media

or email

Search and sort content

Level 2

On-‐demand, on any device

Curated OER

Let us do the heavy liiing!

•  Adopt a peer-‐reviewed open textbook •  Save students a lot of money •  Increase engagement & student outcomes

•  Reuse a Moodle course shell: one-‐click import •  Save /me •  Leverage prior teaching experience

•  Provide us with your syllabus and let us do the work •  Save /me •  Add supplemental resources from a curated pool of OER •  Invite your students into the process (op/onal)


For more info about what BCC and Open Assembly can do to support you: •  Contact Fabian Banga: [email protected] •  Contact Domi Enders: [email protected] | 917-‐488-‐9944

To take Open Assembly for a spin or to plunge in: •  Create a free account at www.openassembly.com •  Contact Domi Enders for a tour, or to have us curate OER for your course

GETTING STARTED

Workshop | May 5, 2015


THANKS!

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