MENA delegates OCWC US State Dept March 2014 - presented by James Glapa-Grossklag

Overview of Community Colleges and OER

Big Questions

• Why and how do community colleges use online learning?

• Why and how do community colleges use open education?

Community College True or False

The mission of community colleges is to • Take students who are not good enough to get into

university• Provide access to education for everyone who can

benefit• Train students for employment in the trades• Support local business and industry by providing

specialized training for employees• Provide opportunities for lifelong learning• Prepare students to transfer to university

Community College True or False

Percentage of all US undergraduate students who are community college students:• 45%• 1 in every 5 is in CaliforniaLargest proportion of community college students are aged:• 22-39 (45%)

Community College True or FalsePercentage of students who study part-time:

60%Percentage of those who are employed full-time:

40%Percentage of students who are first generation college-goers:

40%

Community College True or False

Percentage of UC graduates who start at a community college:28%

Percentage of CSU graduates who start at a community college:55%

Mission of community colleges

• Access• Teaching

Meet Student Demand

In California Community Colleges, distance learning :• 2005-06: 12.48% of total • 2009-10: 23.54% of total

Expand access…anytime, anywhere

Digital delivery methods• Web-enhanced• Hybrid• Online

Teaching & Learning

Teaching & Learning

Teaching & Learning

Teaching & Learning

Open Educational Resources True or False

• All OER is free• All OER is in the public

domain• Publisher produced

material is better than OER • Open textbooks hurt

college bookstores• eBooks are open textbooks

Many Flavors of Open

• Open Educational Resources (OER)

• OpenCourseWare (OCW)

• Open Textbooks • Massive Open Online

Courses (MOOCs)• Open Access Journals• Open Source Code

OER Defined

Digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self-learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and researchOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2007

Why Practice Openness?

• Support mission• Reduce student costs• Leverage taxpayer

investments in education

• Collaborate across disciplines

• Improve learning• Scale education

Institutional Mission

“The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and …. The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge ….”

The Community College Mission

Reduce Student Costs

• Student spends $200 on a textbook for a course and $30 on a textbook supplement

Materials = $230Course• Cost of course itself =

$108The textbook and supplement represent more than half of the overall cost of the course!

Leverage Taxpayer Funding

English Composition I

55,000+ enrollments / year x $100 textbook

= $5.5+ Million every year

Measuring Success

$450,000

Washington State’s Open Course Library

A collection of openly licensed (CC-BY) educational materials for 81 high-enrollment college courses• Lower textbook costs for students• Improve course completion rates• Provide new resources for faculty

Discover OERRepositories & Listing Sites

How to Adopt an Open Textbook

James Glapa-Grossklag, DeanEducational Technology, Learning Resources, & Distance LearningPresident, Advisory Board, Community College Consortium for Open Educational ResourcesCollege of the [email protected]