Community College OER Showcases: Maricopa Millions OER Project, Kaleidoscope at Cerritos College, and Northern Virginia’s OER-based General Education Program
This webinar starts at noon (PDT), 3:00 pm (EDT) and will showcase three innovative OER projects at U.S. community colleges in Arizona, California, and Virginia.
• Paul Golisch, Dean of Instructional Technology, Paradise Valley College will share the strategies and successes of the Maricopa Millions OER Project, a district-wide effort to promote faculty development and adoption of OER for the 10 highest-enrolled courses.
• Dr. Cynthia Alexander, Distance Education Coordinator and Educational Technology Department Chair will share the Kaleidoscope OER course development and adoptions at Cerritos College.
• Natalie Clewell, Librarian at the Extended Learning Institute of Northern Virginia Community College, will share the team-based approach of librarians, faculty, and instruction designers working together to successfully launch the OER-based General Education Program in fall 2013.
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Community College OER Showcases: NOVA's OER GE Program, Kaleidoscope at Cerritos College, and Maricopa Millions OER Project
1. Cynthia Alexander, Cerritos College
Natalie Clewell, Northern Virginia Community College
Paul Golisch, Maricopa Community College District
March 12, 2014
Community College
Consortium
OER Innovations Panel
2. Welcome!!
• Introduction to OER
• NOVA’s Extended Learning Institute OER-
based General Education Program.
• Kaleidoscope at Cerritos College
• Maricopa College District OER Project
• OCW-CCCOER Community of Practice
• Q & A
3. 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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cc-by donkyhotey/flickr
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license
4. What is an Open License?
• Free: Free to access online, free to print
• Open: Reuse, Revise, Remix, Redistribute
• Creative Commons: less restrictions than standard
copyright but author retains full rights.
5. Examples
Includes –
• Course materials
• Lesson Plans
• Modules or lessons
• OpenCourseWare (OCW)
• Open textbooks
• Videos
• Images
• Tests
• Software
• Any other tools, materials, or techniques used
to support ready access to knowledge
5adapted from Judy Baker’s ELI 2011 OER Workshop cc-by license
6. CCCOER Mission
• Promote adoption of OER to enhance
teaching and learning
–Expand access to education
–Support professional development
–Voice for open education at community
colleges.
Funded by the William & Flora
Hewlett Foundation
9. Natalie Clewell, ELI Librarian
Northern Virginia Community College
nclewell@nvcc.edu
10. 2013 – Developed and offered 12 OER GenEd
courses
2014 – Develop and offer 10 additional OER
GenEd Courses.
Create greater awareness of OER at NOVA
11. “Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so
much.”
- Helen Keller
16. Organization experts
Acquired funding through grants
Put the pieces together
Administration
17.
18. ELI OER Course Cost of Materials
before Redesign
Potential FA13
Savings
ENG 111 $140 $7,560
ENG 112 $93 $67,797
ENG 125 $89 $2,670
MTH 151 $263 $18,410
PHY 201 $94 $1,880
PHY 202 $94 $1,880
HIS 121 $109 $7,630
HIS 122 $109 $7,630
ART 101 $226 $55, 370
ART 102 $226 $42,714
HIS 262 N/A --
SDV 100 $77 $14,630
TOTAL Fall 2013 OER Pilot Potential Savings $228,171
22. Introduction to Online Learning
Cerritos College - California
Spokane Community College - Washington
Central Community College - Nebraska
Mercy College – New York
23. Two-Day Workshop
Compare Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
Determine content
Assign tasks
Create timeline
All documents shared in Google Docs – course
finalized in Canvas
24. All SLOs Addressed
Content is modular
SLO-specific
Activities and assessments for each module
Also SLO-specific
25. Completion Timeline
Middle to end of summer
Pilot next Fall
Examination and evaluation
Complete at end of Spring 2015
26. Experience
Both exciting and rewarding
Share ideas
Increase student involvement
Multimedia
Use of exclusive CC materials
Examine my own course
27. OER District Committee
Paul Golisch
Dean of Information Technology
Adjunct Math Instructor
Co-Chair District OER Committee
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30. “Open Educational Resources allow
everyone in class to have all the
materials on day one. Many
students have to postpone the
purchase of the course materials
because of financial aid.”
Manuel Ordonez
Major: Business
34. • Presentations/Dialogue Days
• Internal OER Course Grants
• Department Meetings
• “Water Cooler” Discussions
• Promotional Items
• CTLs
• College Libraries
http://www.skmurphy.com/startup-stages/scaling-up-stage/
Creating OER Awareness and Increasing Adoption
35. Maricopa Millions
OER Course Development
Phase 1 (Spring 2014)
• English 101
• English 102
• Reading 091 (Dev Ed)
Phase 2 (Summer 2014)
• TBD
• Proposals due end
of March
36. $100 per student
Fall 2013:
1. Surveyed faculty
2. Ran SIS reports
Future:
1. Filter in SIS
2. “OER” in SIS
notes
20 students per class
38. Community College Consortium for
OER
Una Daly
Community College Director
OpenCourseWare Consortium
James Glapa-Grossklag
Dean, College of the Canyons
President, CCCOER Advisory
39. • Find & Adopt open textbook workshops
• Understanding open licenses
• Open textbook development workflow
• Online accessibility
• Faculty and student surveys
• Access to community of
OER practitioners & experts
Need Help Getting Started?
We can help …
40. Spring Webinars
(Wed, 11:00 PT, 3:00 ET)
• 2/5 - Open Textbook and Adoptions
• 3/12 - Community College OER Projects
• 4/9 – OER Impact Research Findings
• 5/14 - Intellectual Property: Open Licensing,
Trademarks, Patents, etc.
Join our Advisory Group to be notified of upcoming
events and participate in our monthly OER chat.
41. Cynthia Alexander: calexander@cerritos.edu
Natalie Clewell nclewell@nvcc.edu
Paul Golisch: paul.golisch@paradisevalley.edu
Una Daly: unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org
James Glapa-Grossklag: James.Glapa-Grossklag@canyons.edu
Thank you for coming!!
Questions for Panelists
Cerritos College has been involved with Open Educational Resources since 2009. Two years ago, I was asked to become involved in a sort of ancillary position on an OER project that had started a year earlier called Project Kaleidoscope. Project Kaleidoscope is a grant-funded project whose goal is to implement a set of fully open general education courses using collaboration from a number of colleges across the United States. With two phases of courses completed or near completion, a third phase began last Fall.The Kaleidoscope Project has specific requirements for each course. The three important components of each course framework:- Uses only OER as required course materials- Includes participation from collaborators at multiple institutions- Includes sufficient assessment of learning outcomes to allow for on-going evaluation and improvement of the OER
I was asked to collaborate with faculty from three other colleges, Spokane Community College in Washington state, Central Community College in Nebraska, and Mercy College, a four-year college, in New York. Cerritos College is in California. Our course is one that might be used for credit or non-credit, titled Introduction to Online Learning.
We met as a group at a workshop in Park City, Utah, after the OpenEd conference last November. The second day of the workshop was used as a planning day and to determine how work would be divided.Compare Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)Determine contentAssign tasksCreate timelineSince then, we have had conference calls and shared documents using both email and using Google Docs. All documents are stored in Google Docs for all of the courses being developed for the Project. Final course developed in CanvasFor this phase there are seventeen courses being developed.Accounting: Managerial Art AppreciationChemistry for Majors Earth ScienceEconomics (Macro and Micro) Education: Introduction to TeachingEnglish Comp II Introduction to ComputersMarketing Music AppreciationOnline Learning Political SciencePublic Speaking/Speech Communication SociologyUS GovtUS History from 1865
All SLOs for all colleges are included in the content and clearly addressed. The content set up in a modular format so that anyone using the course can pick and choose the content that meets specific SLOs. Activities and assessments are included to cover all SLOs and they, too, are set up so that it will be easy to select those activities and assessments that meet the SLOs for a particular course.
Our plan is to have our course completed by the middle to end of the summer and each of us will pilot the course next Fall. Re-examine and re-evaluate for teaching in Spring 2015. Ready for public at end of Spring 2015.
The experience of working with other faculty across the United States has been both exciting and rewarding. I have taught an Introduction to Online Learning course for over 10 years. The ideas I have garnered from my colleagues and the suggestions for increasing student involvement, the exclusive use of Creative Commons materials, and adding multimedia that I had not considered before has helped me to critically exam my own class. I have been excited about Project Kaleidoscope since my involvement last year during Phase II. This year, having the opportunity to actually work with other faculty across the nation on a common goal has been priceless.
Prof G:SO, tell me more about this project you are working on?
I’m Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director at OpenCourseWare Consortium. I am truly honored to be invited to Ohio and kick off your Textbook Affordability Summit. Ohio has long been a leader in innovative education from OhioLink to Ohio Digital Bookshelf and Scaffold to the Stars. I have had the pleasure of working with both Danielle Budzick on an open textbook project here at Cuyahoga Tri-City College and cheering on your Scaffold to the Stars run by the Ohio Digital Bookshelf.