1. Affordable
Learning Solutions
James Glapa-Grossklag
College of the Canyons
Gerard Hanley & Brett Christie
CSU Academic Technology Services 1

2. Session Overview & Outcomes
• Introduction to Open Educational Resources
o What are the motivations to use OER?
o What are the challenges to using OER?
o How can you learn more about OER?
• Affordable Learning Solutions
o Raising OER awareness at your campus
o Engaging your campus in OER use
o Ways your faculty can author OER
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3. “OPEN” DOORS
• Open Educational Resources (OER)
– Wide range of “size and shapes”
• OpenCourseWare (OCW)
• Open TextBooks
• Open Access Journals
• Open Source (Software Code)

4. Open
Educational
Resources:
Simulations
Animations
Tutorials
Presentations
Drill and Practice
ePortfolios
Assessments
Collections
PhET Interactive Simulations etc
Copyright © 2004-2009 Univ of Colorado. Some rights reserved.
Visit http://phet.colorado.edu
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5. OpenCourseWare

6. Open Textbooks

7. Open Textbooks

8. Open Textbooks

9. Why is OPEN
Important?
Openness enables us to build
upon other people’s work,
materials, expertise with
appropriate attribution.
– Openness enables academic
initiatives to leverage the
“Academic Way”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsimmonsonca/3285952133/

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11. OER Defined
Digitized materials offered freely and
openly for educators, students and self-
learners to use and re-use for
teaching, learning and research
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2007
Also see William and Flora Hewlett Foundation:
http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources
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12. OER Attributes
• For education/teaching/learning
• Access is Free (no cost)
• Digital (and often online) enable free
distribution of resource
• “Liberally Licensed” – free from restrictions
on use/re-use/modifications/redistribution
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13. Why Engage in OER?
Institutional Mission
“The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge
and …. The Institute is committed to
generating, disseminating, and preserving
knowledge ….”
Open Access – California Community Colleges

14. Reduce Student Costs
Student spends $180 on a textbook for a course and
$30 on a textbook supplement
• SUBTOTAL = $210
CCC Class
• 3 units
• Current cost per unit = $36
• Cost of class itself = $108
The textbook and supplement represent 76% of the
overall cost of the course!

15. 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)

16. Scale Education
1/3 of the world’s population is under 15
158 million enrolled in higher education today
263 million by 2025
How to accommodate 105 million more
students?
Build 4 major universities every week for the
next 15 years?
Source: Sir John Daniel, President & DEO of the Commonwealth of Learning

17. Who Is Engaged in OER?
P2PU

18. Who Is Funding OER?

20. Freedom/Permission to Use Content
• Traditional Copyright - All Rights
Reserved
• Acceptable Use Policies
– Locally defined rights of use
• Creative Commons License
– http://creativecommons.org
– Some Rights Reserved and Some
Rights Given
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21. Web Image from
Creative Commons

22. CC License Conditions
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/6/62/Creativecommons-informational-flyer_eng.pdf
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24. Issues and Challenges
• O’erwhelming!
• Quality Assurance
• Technical Requirements and Standards
• Sustainability
• Evidence of Impact
• Policy
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27. Finding & Using OER w/ Technologies
• MERLOT Discovery and Federated Search
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• LMS building blocks and Portal Integration
– MERLOT web services is part of Moodle 2.X
– MERLOT/OER Finder is part of NOOK Study app
• Content Development Integration
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28. Quality Assurance
• Peer Reviews
• Community Annotations
– User Comments & Ratings
– “Citations”
– Endorsements
• Authoritative Sources
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32. Technical Standards in OER
•Open file formats
•Open Source Software
•Metadata Standards and Packaging

33. Policies for Guiding
and Recognizing OER Use
• Access to free content - Affordability
• Integration of OER use into Institutional
Initiatives- Local relevance of course redesign
• Retention and promotion recognition
• MERLOT’s peer review process
• Accreditation Standards – Institutional drivers
for change

34. http://www.sreb.org/view/docs/view_search/&keyword=1317

35. Why Accessibility Now?
• It’s the federal and state law.
• The digital revolution is occurring and if
we do not make accessibility a
requirement now, we will “enable” the
institutionalization of another “Digital
Divide” & another “Achievement Gap”
for people with disabilities.
• Every Person Makes A Difference

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37. Sharing How-To Stories

38. Making Progress at Your Institution
• Works best as integrated effort
o Executive Leadership, Library, Bookstore, Faculty
Senate, Academic Technology, Faculty Development
• Involves many decisions and activities
o Library integration, training, and support
o Bookstore commitment and communication
to faculty, staff, and students
o Academic technology expertise (e.g., IDs)
o Faculty development programming related
to effective use and authoring of OER

39. ALS Implementation and Sustainabiity

40. ALS Website Resources

41. Planning Next Steps
• Your campus status?
• What has been useful today?
• What questions remain?
• What is your next task so OER possibilities
reach more of your faculty and students?
• How will you proceed to accomplish this?
• What allies can you enlist?
• What obstacles will you need
to overcome?

42. Contact Information
James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean
Educational Technology, Learning Resources, & Distance Learning
College of the Canyons
James.Glapa-Grossklag@canyons.edu
Gerard Hanley, Senior Director
CSU Academic Technology Services
ghanley@calstate.edu
Brett Christie
CSU Academic Technology Services
Brett.Christie@sonoma.edu