May01 Presentation Final

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources

Open Textbook Project Meeting

Thursday, May 1, 2008, 10 am – 3 pmKrause Center for Innovation

Goals of Meeting

• Host the membership meeting of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources

• Discuss Community College Open Textbook Project

• Review OER Faculty Survey results

• Identify next steps

10:00 Welcome and Introductions

10:15 Hewlett Foundation Update

10:25 CCCOER & CCOT: Progress to Date & Goals

10:45 CCCOER Survey Results

11:00 Break

11:10 Connexions Statistics Open Textbook Project

11:45 Working Lunch

12:30 Open Textbook Development & Adoption

1:30 CCCOER Next Steps Identification of Campus OER ChampionsBuilding Faculty Engagement & InvestmentTraining NeedsIdentifying Discipline ExpertsGrowing the Consortium

2:50 Concluding Remarks

AGENDA

Brian Page, 1999, Pics4Learning

The William and FloraHewlett Foundation

• Catherine M. Casserly, Ph.D.

Director Open Educational Resources

• Vic Vuchic Associate Program Officer Open Educational Resources

Community College Consortiumfor Open Educational Resources

• Goal– Identify, create and/or repurpose existing OER as Open Textbooks and

make them available for use by community college students and faculty

• Objective– Seeking the support of faculty to identify, review, evaluate, and make

available high quality, accessible and culturally relevant model Open Textbooks

• Established in July 2007 by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District

• Representatives from over 20 collegesattended the first CCCOER information meeting on July 17, 2007

CCCOER: Progress to Date• Membership

– 64 colleges– CA, MD, NY, WA, NV, Ontario

• Website – cccoer.wordpress.com• OER Survey of 1,203 faculty • Collaboration

– Textbook Summit– Student PIRG– Connexions– Monterey Institute for Technology and Education– Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education– Flat World Knowledge

• Developed faculty self-paced tutorial and credit course about OER– Available online via Connexions and ETUDES NG

• Co-hosted Open Textbook Meeting in Jan 2008• OER presentations at state and national professional meetings

and colleges; participation in California Textbook Summit

Community College Open Textbook Project

• Hewlett Foundation Grant– Feasibility study to provide

high quality, accessible and culturally relevant open textbooks for community college students and faculty through the CCCOER and other academic, noncommercial and commercial partners

Community CollegeOpen Textbook Project

GoalIdentify, organize, and support the production and use of high quality, accessible and culturally relevant Open Textbooks for

community college students

Community CollegeOpen Textbook Project

Goals

• Increase the scope and membership of CCCOER

• Centralize critical Open Textbook information for use by community colleges

• Document a workflow model for producing and maintaining Open Textbooks

• Design and conduct research studies about the benefits of Open Textbooks

• Develop a business plan to increase sustainability

Workflow Summary

• Locate, collect and develop open content• Vet the content

– Quality• Depth, breadth, cultural relevancy, authority of source, etc.

– Technical• Accessibility, interoperability, etc.

• Prepare open content for CC use– Customize, organize, localize, convert for

accessibility, interoperability

• Provide publication and dissemination options

Proposed Workflow for Campuses

• Form Taskforce on campus to address adoption of open textbooks– Curriculum approval– Pedagogical standards– Articulation– Tech support– Bookstore and print shop services – Library– Faculty and department participation– Faculty training in development of OER– Marketing

Proposed Workflow for Campuses

• Foster community of educators who will use and contribute to open content appropriate for use as textbook at community colleges

– Educate campus community about OER and open textbooks

– Provide model Board policies about OER

– Provide model tenure and promotionincentives for faculty to participate in OER

– Provide guide for development and implementation of campus Taskforce to address adoption of open textbooks

What Sustainability and

Business Models

are most viable for the

Community College

Open Textbook Project?

Sustainability

• Unique sustainability challenges of open educational resource projects

• Must find ways to sustain– Production and sharing of

open educational resources– Use and reuse of their open

educational resources by end users

Sustainability• Explore the viability of institutional

and/or student use fees

• Examine the relationship and cost-models for Connexion’s digital university press and the campus

• Bookstores and Printshops as point-of-purchase centers for Open Textbooks

• Identify sources of operating support from states, institutions, foundations and other complementary organizations

“Sustainability is more than funding models.”

~ S. Downes ~

• Quality processes• Technical• Openness, access

and licenses• Staffing• Workflow• Maintenance

CCCOER Survey Results

• 1,203 faculty respondents– 12 Districts and 28 colleges– 66% full-time– Represent wide range of

disciplines

• 91% indicated interest in usingOER materials in their classes

• 34% said they were aware of OER materials in their field

CCCOER Survey Results

• 34% already using OER materials in their classes• Greatest type of OER use reported

– Journals and journal articles– Reference works and materials– Newspaper articles– Images

• 87% likely or very likely to use OER materials if such materials were readily accessible

• 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

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Connexions Statistics Open Textbook Project

Collaborative Statistics

by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean

OCPS Television,1998, Pics4Learning

Content Review Panel

• Five CCCOER members – Two University of California representatives– Two California State University representatives– Two other experts

• Determine and define the necessary elementsof a model CC Open Textbook– Reading level– Depth and scope – Quality and accuracy– Cultural relevance– Currency– Authority of source

Technical Panel

• Interoperability standards

• Content dissemination processes

• Accessibility

WorkingLunch

K. Hedges, 2007, Pics4Learning

Open Textbook Adoption ExerciseFive Steps to open textbook adoption for your course

Step 1: List keywords based on course objectives or student learning outcomes

Step 2: Search for open content using the keywords

Step 3: Select or create appropriate open content

Step 4: Organize open content; build textbook

Step 5:  Get necessary approvals; disseminate

Open Textbook Adoption Tasks• Locate and categorize suitable open content

– Topics by top courses that represent 80% of enrollments– Reading level– Depth and scope

• Evaluate– Quality– Accessibility– Cultural relevance– Currency– Authority– Articulation

• Customize, Remix, Localize and Organize– Interoperability– Accessibility– License type– Cultural relevance

• Disseminate in print and digital formats – Student (DIY) for production of open textbook– Campus bookstore and/or printshop services for production of open textbook– Proprietary services

Next Steps• Identification of

Campus OER Champions

• Building Faculty Engagement & Investment

• Training Needs

• Identifying Discipline Experts

• Growing the Consortium

Kenneth Ransom,, 2000. Pics4Learning

Concluding Remarks

Brian Page,1985, Pics4Learning