No Money? No Problem! Free Open Educational Resources
1. No Money? No Problem! Free Open
Educational Resources-Join the
Movement
MI World Languages Association Annual Conference
November 11, 2016
Regina Gong, Librarian and OER Project Manager
Lansing Community College
8. • Student PIRGS released a groundbreaking report
revealing the new face of the textbook monopoly: access
codes.
• Across institutions and majors, 32% of courses included
access codes as required materials.
• At campus bookstores, the average cost of an access
code alone was $100.24.
• In bookstores, only 28% of access codes were offered in
unbundled form. Even when acquired directly from the
publisher, only 56% of all required access codes were
offered without additional materials bundled in, despite
federal law requiring materials to be sold separately.
Full report at: http://www.studentpirgs.org/reports/sp/access-denied
9. Textbook Cost vs. Student Success
Source: 2016 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus
11. Open Educational Resources (OER)
Digitized materials, offered freely and openly
for educators and students to use and re-use
for teaching, learning, and research.
12. Source: The Open Ecosystem by Clobridge Consulting is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License.
Open Education is part of an Open Ecosystem
20. Open Content / Open Licenses
Source: Tyler.stefanich_Creative_Commons_Swag_Contest_2007_2_(by).jpg found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki / BY-SA
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
22. • Faculty benefits
• Increased flexibility of how you
use content and ancillaries
• Easy access in many formats
• Possibilities of customization,
can modify/edit as needed
• Student feedback is positive
(students are grateful)
• Supporting our students (social
justice)
• Student benefits
• Low cost or free
• Increased availability
• Opportunity to retain the
textbook & resources
• No heavy, bulky text to tote
• Easy to find and access, even
before course begins
23. Faculty have:
Right to customize
The textbook
Students have:
Day 1 access to that
customized textbook and
CHOICE
+
24. LCC AT A GLANCE
• Located in downtown Lansing
• 26,000 students enrolled/year
• 3rd largest cc in MI
• 262 degree & certificate programs
• 1,200+ courses
• 500 full-time staff & faculty
• 1,800 part-time staff & faculty
25. • Started by a librarian + some
faculty champions
• Administration support was
crucial at the start
• Focused on OER awareness first
• No grants for faculty were given
• Pilot started in fall 2015 semester
OER Initiative at LCC
26. Courses Using OER
•BIOL 127 – All sections
•BIOL 128 – All sections
•BIOL 270 – 1 section
•ECON 201 – All sections
•ECON 202 – All sections
•GRMN 121 – All sections
(50/50)
•GRMN 122 – All sections
(50/50)
HIST 211 – 5 sections
HIST 212 – 4 sections
MUSC 168 – 1 section
PHIL 151 - 3 sections
PHIL 153 - 2 sections
PSYC 200 – All sections
PSYC 202 - (3 sections)
SOCL 120 – 10 sections
WRIT 121 - 4 sections
31. • Encourage more OER adoptions
• Work on offering Z-degree starting Fall
2018
• Work with faculty to have their own
content openly licensed
• Support faculty with OER creation
through grants
• More faculty engagement with open
education and pedagogy
Source: http://mazeway.com/wp-
content/uploads/2012/08/MovingForwardTogether.jpg
Moving forward
34. Evaluation Criteria
Match with learner needs
Alignment with curriculum standards
Ease of use and accessibility (open formats, ability to
download source files)
License restrictions (degree of openness)
Reputation of author / peer review
Community support
40. https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/mco
OER Hub for all 28
community colleges in
MI
One stop shop for OER
searching
Collection is growing
and curating is ongoing
Languages is under Arts
& Humanities subject
collection