OER Overview Porterville Summer Institute

Why Should You Care about

Open Educational Resources?

Una T. Daly, Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources

May 25, 2016

Welcome

Una Daly, CCCOER DirectorInstructional Design @One

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250+ Colleges in 21 States and Provinces

http://oerconsortium.org

Introductions

What courses do you teach?

Thanks to Sarah Phinney for inviting me today!

OER Quiz

• Textbook prices increasing at same rate as consumer index

• eBooks = Open Textbooks

• Open Educational Resources (OER) are Public Domain

Open Educational ResourcesOpenly licensed learning materials that can be used for

teaching, learning, & assessment without cost. They can be modified and redistributed without violating copyright law.

U.S. Department of Ed, Office of Ed Technology

Examples• Lesson plans• Open Courseware• Open textbooks• Videos• Images• Tests• Software• Tools, materials, or techniques to access knowledge freely

adapted from Judy Baker’s ELI 2011 OER Workshop cc-by license

Creative Commons Licenses

Simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions

Adapted from Ronda Neugebauer Slidesshare

Permission: Attribute Commercial? Share alike?

http://creativecommons.org

Exercise Your Rights: The 5 Rs

Student Learning

Students spending less??

• The bad news is students often not purchasing their textbooks

• Students concerned about grades• Faculty expect students to have

access to instructional materials

Student PIRGs, Covering the Cost, 2016

Faculty Choice

Put Faculty in Charge

• No more covering extra chapters because book is so expensive

• No requirement to change versions every couple of years

• You can customize your instructional materials

• Many open textbooks have ancillaries

Taxpayer Cost

• 30% of students used financial aid to buy textbooks– $300+ (on average) per semester – 50% of community college students– 28% of 4-year college, univ students

• $3 billion per year of financial aid used to purchase textbooks by undergraduates

Student PIRGs Survey, Covering the Cost, 2016

Financial Aid & Textbooks

Funding Now Available

California Textbook Affordability Act 2015

• Incentive grants to CCC and CSU to accelerate adoption of OER to save students money. (AB 798)

• OER Degree programs for CCC (California Governor’s Proposed Budget 2016-17)– http://www.lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3392

What textbooks do you use?

How much do they cost?

Top 50 College Courses

GeographyHistory KinesiologyMathMusicPhilosophyPhysicsPolitical SciencePsychologySociologySpanishStatistics

AccountingArt HistoryBiology BusinessChemistryChild DevelopmentCommunicationComputer scieneEconomicsEducationEnglish Electronic Media

http://cool4ed.org

Faculty Showcases

• Biology• Chemistry• Communication

s• History• Political Science• Spanishhttp://cool4ed.org/facultyshowcase.html

Biology 140Organismal Biology

History 130US History to 1877

SPAN 100Spanish

http://cool4ed.org/reviews.html#humanities

Criminal Justice Open Textbook

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=66

Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to Criminal LawChapter 2: The Legal System in the United StatesChapter 3: Constitutional ProtectionsChapter 4: The Elements of a CrimeChapter 5: Criminal Defenses, Part 1Chapter 6: Criminal Defenses, Part 2Chapter 7: Parties to CrimeChapter 8: Inchoate OffensesChapter 9: Criminal HomicideChapter 10: Sex Offenses and Crimes Involving Force, Fear, and Physical RestraintChapter 11: Crimes against PropertyChapter 12: Crimes against the PublicChapter 13: Crimes against the GovernmentChapter 14: Appendix A: Case Listings

Open Licensing• Google Images

– Advanced Search Settings

• YouTube– Filter keywords with CC for creative

commons

• Flickr– Go directly to

Flickr.com/CreativeCommons

Open Course Resource Guides

• Biology• Chemistry• Communications• History• Political Science

Released April 1, 2016Permalink for online version: http://tinyurl.com/WPOERAdoption040116Printable PDF with Appendices: http://tinyurl.com/WPOERPrintVersion2 Video Synopsis: https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=vwVIrv0iSgE

351 students completed survey about their use of OER

• When students were asked if the OER textbook chapter(s) were better than the traditional, 42% said the OER textbook as better, 39% said they were about the same, 11% rated the textbook as worse than the traditional textbook and 8% declined to answer.

• Of the 351 students in the survey, 71 printed the textbook and 209 used a PDF

• Students find OER Textbooks to be readable with respect to organization, format, graphics and examples used

"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John Hilton III, Open Education Group

351 students completed survey about their use of OER

• 16% of students wanted to have the option to purchase a printed copy of the textbook from the bookstore for a small fee (10% of students wanted to print the textbook themselves)

• The predominant platform for reading e-textbooks is a laptop computer (only 89 of 351 students reported reading from their cell phones)

• 100% of the students in the study wanted to use OER textbooks in the future and would recommend the use of OER to friends

"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John Hilton III, Open Education Group

16 faculty shared perceptions about their use of OER

• Seven faculty of sixteen felt that the OER textbook was superior to the traditional textbook for the course. Five faculty rated the OER as equivalent to the traditional textbook.

• Faculty were not as positive about the support materials (PowerPoints, Test banks) available with the OER textbooks. Half of the faculty felt that the support materials lacked quality. 25% of faculty felt that implementing the support materials took a significant amount of time. In their comments, the biggest comment made by faculty was about the need for support materials or the amount of time they spent in developing them for this adoption.

"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John Hilton III, Open Education Group

13 Peer Reviewed Studies of OER Efficacy

http://openedgroup.org/

"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John Hilton III, Open Education Group

119,720 Students

http://openedgroup.org/

"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John Hilton III, Open Education Group

95% Same or Better Outcomes

http://openedgroup.org/

"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John Hilton III, Open Education Group

• Access to high-quality OER

• Faculty choice & development

• Student success

Community College Consortiumfor OER (CCCOER)

http://oerconsortium.org

Come In, We're Open gary simmons cc-by-nc-sa flickr

Free Webinars Spring 2016

• Feb 10: OER Faculty Development Best Practices

• March 10: OER Adoption to Scale: Stories from 4 States

• April 23: NOBA OER Psychology Community

• May 11: Faculty Perspectives on OER

• June 8: Open Pedagogy (LAST ONE LEFT!)Archived webinars available

https://oerconsortium.org/cccoer-webinars/

Join our Community

• Access to a community of OER experts• Online advisory email list• Collaboration opportunities: grants,

conferences• OER Professional development services

Email: [email protected]: @unatdaly, @cccoerhttp://oerconsortium.org