Academic Libraries &
Open Educational Resources:
Developing Partnerships
ALA Annual Conference
Orlando, FL
Saturday, June 25, 2016

Academic Libraries &
Open Educational Resources:
Developing Partnerships
ACRL Program Evaluation
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ALA16ACRLeval

Panelists
Heather Blicher
Online Learning Librarian
Northern Virginia
Community College
Extended Learning Institute
Jeremy Smith
Digital Projects Manager in
Scholarly Communication
University of
Massachusetts Amherst
John Shoppert
Director of Library Services
Columbia Gorge
Community College (OR)
Moderator
Robert Kelly
Coordinator of Library
Services
Hutchinson Community
College (KS)

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OER Overview

“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
and re-purposing by others.
-William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Types of Open Educational Resources

What makes OER open?
The 5Rs
▷ Retain
▷ Reuse
▷ Revise
▷ Remix
▷ Redistribute
-www.opencontent.org

▷ Free: Free to access online, free to print
▷ Open: Re-use, Revise, Remix, Redistribute
▷ Creative Commons: Free and open allows author
to share with others but retain copyright
What is an Open License?

LICENSING OER WORK
WITH CREATIVE COMMONS

LICENSING OER WORK
WITH CREATIVE COMMONS

Free vs Open Resources
Cost to
Students
Permissions
To Teachers
& Students
Commercial
Textbooks
Expensive Restrictive
Library
Resources
Free Restrictive
Open
Education
Resources
Free 5Rs

Why OER?

Why OER?

2014 survey of 264 students in OEI classes
Student Choices

2016 survey of 54 students in OEI classes
Student Choices

Seeding the Soil
Developing Open Education

Connecting Librarians to OER
Educate yourself
Align your strengths to your contributions
Get involved & educate others

Librarians as:
▷ Resource/Guide
▷ Researcher
▷ Content creator
▷ Curator
▷ Copyright Go-to

Library OER Guide

Access
Over 10,000 students have completed an OER course
Student Success
9% average increase of student success in OER courses
Affordability
Students saved $1,500,00 since Fall 2013
Outcomes

▷ Achieving the Dream Grant
achievingthedream.org/
▷ OTN Campus Leader Program
(VIVA) vivalib.org/
▷ OER-based General Education
Certificate Program (online)
eli.nvcc.edu/oer/
▷ 2 OER-based Associate of Science
degrees (online) eli.nvcc.edu/oer/
▷ Zx23 Project (VCCS)
edtech.vccs.edu/z-x-23-project/
▷ zELI Open Degree Pathway (online)
lumenlearning.com/partner-nova-zeli/

Seeking Solutions
Open Education Initiative

The OEI is a faculty incentive
program that encourages
▷The creation of new teaching materials
and models
▷The use of existing open (free) information
resources
▷The use of library subscription materials
▷The development of open technologies

COLLABORATION ACROSS CAMPUS
Libraries
Teaching
Excellence &
Faculty
Development
Academic
Computing

LIBRARY OER WEBSITE

FACULTY SUCCESS STORIES
Carlos Gradil
● Animal Sciences 421: Fundamentals of Reproduction
● Cost Savings to date: $7,680
Miliann Kang
● Women’s Studies 187: Gender, Sexuality and Culture
● Cost Savings to date: $8,475
Hossein Pishro-Nik
● Electrical and Computer Engineering 314: Introduction
to Probability and Random Processes
● Cost Savings to date: $25,833

Faculty Project Types
Adopt
Replace
commercial
textbook with
open textbook
Adapt
Combine
existing OER,
library
resources, and
newly created
material
Create
Create entirely
new open
course
materials

GO - Gorge Open
Columbia Gorge Community College

GO - Gorge Open
Commercial Textbook Alternative Program
Columbia Gorge Community College
The Dalles, Oregon

Library as Gateway
▷Resources
▷Research
▷Fair use
▷Faculty Liaison
“Gate”, John Schoppert is licensed under a CC - BY Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License.

Talk isn’t Cheap, It Takes
Time
▷Administration
▷Faculty
▷Bookstore & Foundation
▷Student Government
▷Outside Media
▷Listservs -
Oerconsortium.org
sparc-liboer@arl.org

Build a Brand

Student Assessments
Q: Would you take another course
using open resources?
“I loved that I got to use the articles
that we were asked to use, and apply
our knowledge creatively.”
CGCC OER course assessment

Build partnerships
OpenOregon.org grants funded -
● Community college collaborations
● K12 / CGCC OER development
● Oregon OER CC coordinator
Oregon HB2871- “The OER bill”
● $1.1 mil. Grant funding for
both 4-year & 2-year
institutions
● Oregon OER coordinator
● Requires designation of OER
classes in schedule
OpenOregon.org

OER Challenges

OER Challenges
▷Bookstore
pushback
▷Time
“Textbook Canyon” by Alan Alfaro is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License.

OER Challenges
▷Lack of
awareness
▷Faculty: the
second wave
Opening the Curriculum: Open Educational Resources in U.S. Higher
Education, 2014 is licensed under a CC - BY
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Report available at: http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html.

OER Challenges
▷Lack of central
location of OER
▷Funding:
sustainability -
OER fee?
“veleta* Quijote y Sancho” by Jacinto Iluch Valero is licensed under a
CC-BY-SA 2.0 Generic License.

OER Trends

State-wide Initiatives
Zx23 Project (VA)
A one-year grant-funded
project to support the
Virginia Community College
System’s goal of creating zero
textbook-cost Degrees to be
available at all 23 VCCS
colleges.
OpenOregon.org
▷ Statewide community
college OER program
OR. HB 2781
▷ Funds 2-year & 4-year
college’s OER projects
Massachusetts Go Open

OER Trends - Achieving the Dream

OER Trends - K12 OER
● #GoOpen K12 teams will develop a strategy for the
implementation of openly-licensed educational materials.
● Commit to replace at least one high school textbook with openly-
licensed educational materials in the next year.
● Document and share their implementation process.

OER Trends - Dept of Labor
Advantages to requiring a CC BY license on DOL-funded resources:
● Increases the impact, reach and scalability of grants
● Creates conditions for maximum potential value created from of all resources it funds, more
efficiency, and better stewardship of public funds
● Public has access to the education resources it funded
● Innovative and entrepreneurial uses of openly licensed materials are enabled
● Resources are available for reuse by anyone

OER Assessment

5 year data at UMass Amherst
Total Savings Over Time By College
College # of Students per college Savings per college over time
College of Natural Sciences 4,746 $818,168.50
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences 1,248 $155,877.00
College of Humanities & Fine Arts 875 $117,727.00
College of Engineering 739 $133,722.00
College of Education 703 $74,283.00
College of Nursing 117 $15,900.00
Honors College 187 $7,835.00
Stockbridge School of Agriculture 275 $37,058.00
Isenberg School of Management 282 $7,682.25
School of Public Health and Health Sciences 175 $40,779.00
9,347 $1,409,031.75

Material Types

Thanks!
Any questions?
Heather Blicher
hblicher@nvcc.edu
Jeremy Smith
jlsmith@library.umass.edu
John Shoppert
jschoppert@cgcc.edu
Robert Kelly
kellyr@hutchcc.edu

2016 ALA Annual
Conference Planning Committee
Chair - Robin Brown, Borough of Manhattan CC, CUNY
Lisa Eichholtz, Jefferson Comm & Tech College
Deborah Farber, Casa Loma College
Robert Kelly, Hutchinson CC (KS)
Katie Hoskins, Northern Virginia CC
Stephen Phelan, Maricopa County CC Dist
Ted Chodock, College of Southern Nevada
Cynthia Wetzel, Pearl River CC
Monica Lopez, Cerritos College
MaryAnn Niles, Middlesex CC
Samantha Hines, Missoula College - University of Montana
Ashley McMullin, DePaul University

Academic Libraries &
Open Educational Resources:
Developing Partnerships
ACRL Program Evaluation
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ALA16ACRLeval

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