James Glapa-Grossklag, president of CCCOER, Dean College of the Canyons, CA; Lisa Storm, instructor at Hartnell College, CA; Preston Davis, Director of Extended Learning Institute at Northern Virginia Community College; James Sousa, Instructor at Phoenix Community College in Maricopa District, AZ. present innovative OER projects at their colleges that are saving students significant costs in textbooks and instructional materials with high-quality faculty developed OER.

1. Using Open Educational Resources to Expand
Access and Support Innovation
AACC 2013
April 22, 2013, 10:30 AM-11:30 AM

2. Our panelists
James Glapa-Grossklag
Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance
Learning, College of the Canyons (CA)
James Sousa
Mathematics Faculty, Phoenix College (AZ)
Lisa Storm
Administration of Justice Faculty, Hartnell College (CA)
Wm. Preston Davis
Director of Instructional Services, Northern Virginia Community
College (VA)

3. OpenCourseWare Mission
“Advance formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-
quality education materials organized as courses.”
Over 250 institutions in 46 Countries

4. Growth 2003-2013

5. Community College Consortium for OER
Dr. Martha Kanter
U.S. Undersecretary of
Education
• Founded at Foothill-DeAnza
College District in 2007
• Joined OCW Consortium 2011
• Growth to 200+ colleges in North
America
Funded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

6. 200+ Community & Technical College

7. Many Flavors of Open
• Open Educational Resources aka OER
• OpenCourseWare aka OCW
• Open Textbooks
• Open Access Journals
• Open Source (Code)

8. What are Open Educational
Resources?
U.S. Dept. of Education
– Teaching, learning, and research
resources that reside in the public
domain or have been released under an
intellectual property license that permits
their free use or repurposing by others.
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9. What is an Open License?
• Free: Free to access online, free to print
• Open: Shared, usable and re-usable: licensing that is less
restrictive than standard copyright
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10. Creative Commons licensing
• Works with existing copyright law
• Promotes sharing
• Internationally recognized
• Author/creator can specify re-uses
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11. Why Practice Openness?
Institutional Mission
“The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge
and …. The Institute is committed to
generating, disseminating, and preserving
knowledge ….”

12. The Community College Mission

13. Leverage taxpayer funding
English Composition I
• 55,000+ enrollments / year
• x $100 textbook
• = $5.5+ Million every year
Source: Cable Green, The Obviousness
of Open Policy (2011)

14. OER MATH IN MARICOPA:
A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT
TO SAVE STUDENTS
MONEY AND INCREASE
ACCESS
Dr. Donna Gaudet, Scottsdale
Community College
Paul Golisch, Paradise Valley
Community College
James Sousa, Phoenix College

15. Math OER Materials
Complete
Courses
Videos eBooks
Online
Assessment/LMS
(MathAS)
Supplementary
Materials/Activities

16. Module Section

17. Module Section Homework

18. Benefits of OER Materials

19. OER math courses in MCCCD
 Scottsdale Community College
 Six courses
 Arithmetic thru Pre-Calculus
 Over 42 faculty (inc. adjuncts)
 Phoenix College
 Five courses
 Arithmetic thru Trigonometry
 6-8 faculty so far
 Paradise Valley Community
College
 Four courses
 Arithmetic thru College Algebra
 5-7 faculty so far
MCCCD District-wide
Developmental Education
Modular Redesign Project

20. PC Student Survey – MAT09X
Fall’12

21. SCC Student Survey
910 students surveyed during Fall 2012 semester
78.1% feel the open materials support adequately the
work that they do outside of class

22. SCC Student Survey
910 students surveyed during Fall 2012 semester
76.2% would recommend the open materials to
their classmates

24. OER @
College of the Canyons
• Playlists
• Open Textbooks
• Local repository

25. OER Playlists
We gratefully acknowledge the
support of a U.S. Department of
Education FIPSE (Fund for
Improvement of Post Secondary
Education) Special Focus grant

26. What is a
Playlist?
Introductory text,
learning outcomes,
unit objectives, etc.
Website with
text/articles
Media
Transition text
Another website
article/text
Transition text

27. Open Textbooks
• Water
Technology
• Sociology
• Statistics
= $250,000
student savings per year

28. Local Repository
• Equella
• 0  520 objects in 3 years
• Pros
• Cons

29. Lessons Learned
• Times change
• Technology changes
• People change

30. Improving access to education
and educational resources
Lisa Storm
Administration of Justice Faculty

31. Community Colleges have strength in
numbers
• We can promote open and affordable education
and educational resources
• This will provide competition to the publishers
who are currently in crisis
• Publishers will need to reduce prices and increase
the quality of textbooks to compete
• One way to promote is to create informational
web pages linking to the campus homepage
• New: CA legislation on open educational
resources, MOOCs

33. Hartnell College
• Currently uses open or affordable educational
resources for the following courses:
• Statistics
• Analytic Geometry and Calculus
• Pre-Algebra
• Introduction to Sociology
• Criminal Law
• Legal Environment of Business
• Introduction to Computer Science

34. Benefits of promoting open and
affordable education
• For my courses in Criminal Law and Legal
Environment of Business, students have saved
approximately $157,000.00!
• When students can afford to purchase
educational resources, student success and
retention rates will increase
• The effort to enhance student access and success
can be reported during the accreditation process

35. Flat World Knowledge publishing
• Over 100 textbooks available in a variety of core
subjects
• Focuses on e-textbooks and supplements
• All textbooks peer-reviewed and professionally
edited and illustrated
• All textbooks can be easily modified (including
adding in material) by the instructor at any time
• Prices begin at $19.95
• Flatworldknowledge.com

36. MOOCs and education
• California Governor Jerry Brown promotes
research on MOOCs and so does the Bill and
Melinda Gates foundation
• My MOOC in U.S. Criminal Law
• American Council on Education (ACE)
recommends credit for five MOOCs

38. OER-Based General Education
Certificate Program at NOVA
Wm. Preston Davis, Ed.D.
Director of Instructional Services
Northern Virginia Community College

39. NOVA’s OER-Based General
Education Certificate Project
The Northern Virginia Community College
(NOVA) Extended Learning Institute (ELI) was
awarded a CIF Grant from the VCCS to create
and offer a series of online general education
course options utilizing free, high-quality Open
Educational Resources instead of traditional
textbooks and other costly course materials.

40. Goals of This Project
 Offer Twelve (12) textbook-free courses Fall
2013;
 Create greater awareness of OER at NOVA;
 Help faculty to identify existing OER and/or
create new OER content to improve teaching
and learning;
 Make education more accessible and
affordable for all learners at NOVA and
throughout the VCCS by doing away with the
requirement for students to purchase and rely
on expensive textbooks for these courses.
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41. Courses Selected
We selected high-impact courses for a broad
population
 English – ENG 111, 112,125
 Math – MTH 151
 Science – PHY 201, 202
 History – HIS 121, 122
 Humanities/Fine Arts – ART 101, 102
 Social/Behavioral Sciences – HIS 262
 Student Development – SDV 100
These courses can be completed as an entire certificate program or
individually
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42. Faculty Commitment
The faculty participating
in the OER project were
carefully selected based on:
 A history of providing high quality and
innovative instruction;
 A clear understanding and application
of sound online teaching pedagogy;
 And demonstrated knowledge of and
prior use of some open course
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43. Project Resources
 Faculty are provided stipends to redesign the
courses using OER instead of traditional
textbooks.
 ELI resources (Librarian, Instructional
Designers) are provided to assist in course
design and development.
 All course material developed for this project
will be shared throughout the VCCS and
licensed Attribution-NonCommercial-
ShareAlike Creative Commons license.

44. Costs of Course Textbooks
 ENG 111 – $140/105
 ENG 112 – $93/70
 ENG 125 – $89/67
 MTH 151 – $263/226
 PHY 101 – $269/201
 PHY 102 - $244/183
 HIS 121 - $109/82
 HIS 122 – $109/82
 ART 101 – $226/169
 ART 102 – $226/169
 HIS 262 – N/A (new course)
 SDV 100 – $77/58
TOTAL: $1,845 (all new) / $1,412 (used if available)
(average cost for textbooks = $185 new)
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45. Significant Cost Savings
 A student completing the entire OER-Based
Gen Ed Certificate will save $1845 over the
cost of the traditional textbook-based
course.
 Offering one 30 student section of each
course (12 courses) in Fall 2013 would
save NOVA students a total of $55,350 that
semester.
 Offering five sections of each of each
course (150 students per course) would
save NOVA students a total of $276,750!

46. Anticipated Outcomes
 This project will be promoted to students at
NOVA as both a Certificate Program and
individual course options.
 These courses will be more affordable and
accessible to community college students.
 Student demand for these courses will drive
future course development.
 Total savings per student $1,845.
 First semester impact $55,350.
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47. How to Get Involved?
 Join the CCCOER advisory list
 Participate in our community of interest
 Attend our free monthly webinars
 Visit our website to find resources
 Invite us to conduct faculty training
 Become a member of the OCWC
oerconsortium.org
james.glapa-grossklag@canyons.edu
unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org