A panel of members from the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) will share how they are adopting OER for Pathways, Certificates, and Courses at their colleges. CCCOER was founded in 2007 and now composes over 250 colleges in 22 states and provinces. Members collaborate online regularly and in-person at conferences on best practices for OER adoption. This cross-institutional sharing of open educational resources, open practices, open research, and open policies provides a powerful OER advocacy network for community colleges. New members have immediate access to a community of OER practitioners and experts who can help them launch their projects more efficiently and quickly. Meetups at regional and national conferences provide an opportunity to share and promote successful OER adoption strategies of our members with colleagues throughout higher education. Audience participation will be welcomed. Our eLearning Panel will be moderated by Una Daly, CCCOER Director and our panelists include: Cynthia Alexander, Distance Education Coordinator and Faculty at Cerritos College. Cynthia leads the Online Teacher Certification program at Cerritos College and was an early adopter of OER in her teaching. The Business management department has also been using OER for over 5-years and OER has spread to many other departments through early efforts on the Kaleidoscope project. Lorah Gough, Director, Distance Education at Houston Community College Lorah works with faculty to find and adopt OER and is working to highlight OER in the new HCC strategic plan coming out next year. Two OER committees and the library are all strong partners in this effort. Cheryl Knight, Instructional Designer at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) Cheryl leads the Save 100K project; focused on saving students money so they can concentrate on success. Started with a zero text cost math course and expanded to several disciplines and all 4 campuses in greater Cleveland are now participating. Jake McBee, Instructional Designer, at North Central Texas College Jake works on the Rural Information Technology Alliance (RITA) grant, shared by a four-college Texas consortium, building OER-based curriculum for certificates in high-demand information technology areas including networking, mobile apps, and cybersecurity. Lisa Young, Tri-Chair Maricopa Millions Project; Faculty Director, Teaching & Learning Center, Scottsdale Community College. Lisa is tri-chair of the district-wide Maricopa Millions Project started in fall 2013 with the goal of saving $5 Million for students in five years. In two years, they are over 90% to achieving the goals. Maricopa Millions is now planning for zero-textbook pathways in multiple disciplines. Our eLearning panel moderator will be Una Daly, director of CCCOER.

1. CCCOER Panel Presentation
Adopting OER for
Pathways, Certificates, & Courses
Feb 15, 11:00 am
Unless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0
Dr. Cynthia Alexander, Cerritos College
Lorah Gough, Houston Community College
Cheryl Knight, Cuyahoga Community College
Jake McBee, North Central Texas College
Dr. Lisa Young, Scottsdale College
Moderator: Una Daly, Open Education Consortium

2. Welcome Everyone!
2
Una Daly
CCCOER Director
Open Education Consortium
Cheryl Knight
Senior Instructional Designer
Tri-C, Cuyahoga Community College
Lorah Gough
Distance Education Director
Houston Community College
Jake McAbee
RITA Instructional Designer
North Central Texas College
Lisa Young. Faculty Director,
Teaching & Learning Center,
Scottsdale CC, VP CCCOER
Cynthia Alexander. Distance
Education Coordinator Cerritos
College, VP CCCOER

3. • Expand access to high-
quality open resources
• Support faculty choice and
innovation
• Improve student equity
and success
Community College Consortium
for OER (CCCOER)
http://oerconsortium.org
Come In, We're Open gary simmons
cc-by-nc-sa flickr

4. 250+ Colleges in 21 States
& Provinces

5. Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources are
teaching, learning or research materials
that are in the public domain or
released with an intellectual property
license that allows for free use,
adaptation, and distribution.
UNESCO, Hewlett Foundation
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-
information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-
resources/

6. Open vs. Free
Lumen Learning, 5Rs, http://lumenlearning.com
Creative Commons, http://creativecommons.org

7. Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree
• OER replaces expensive textbooks
for each course in a degree program
• Observed results:
– Student savings
– Faculty engagement
– Retention and outcomes improvement
• Case studies and research growing
Image: CC-BY-SA Open Source Way

8. OER from Courses to Degrees
Lorah Gough
Distance Education Director

9. Houston Community College
Open Educational Resources Projects
A Shotgun Approach
Lorah Gough, Director, HCC Online

10. Shotgun – Pellet approach
2004 - 2014
• Vice Chancellor, Instruction, becomes interested in OER movement
• Meeting with Dr. Richard Baraniuk (Rice University)
• First HCC OER website
• Conferences and speakers
• OER Task Force created
• OER awareness and discovery classes
• Faculty member hired PT to promote OER
• HCC joined CCCOER
• Psychology Dept. adopted an open textbook for two courses
• Revision of Board policies: Adoption and Use of Instructional Materials
• Faculty member Ken Busbee writes computer science curriculum for Connexions
(now OpenStax)
• HCC staff members (Lorah Gough and Angela Secrest) work with CCCOER
• System-wide instructional materials survey
• Faculty member, Carol Laman and John Hilton publish OER research paper

11. OER strategic, focused, plans at the college-wide, state-wide level make a
bigger difference
• Washington State Completion Initiative – Open Course Library Project
• Maricopa Millions OER Project (you will hear about this today)
• Open Oregon
• Minnesota State colleges (and others) – Open Textbook Network
• Virginia Community Colleges – Zx23 (based on Z-Degree)
• British Columbia – Open Ed
• Tidewater – Z-Degree
OER faculty champions
• Northwestern Michigan - Free the textbook
Canon approach – a larger, more focused effort

12. Some success - HCC Library OER Guide – library.hccs.edu/oer
2015 Open Education Consortium – Outstanding Site
Angela Secrest, Director, Library Services

13. OER Capstone Project – 7 components over 3 years
#1: Create and offer a complete e-degree program with no/low-cost instructional materials,
including textbooks.
#2: New OER faculty training by “program”.
#3: Identify no/low-cost class sections on PeopleSoft student system based on cost of
instructional materials/textbooks.
#4: Offer stipends/release times/alternative assignments for developing a complete OER-
supported course.
#5: Review and identify one OER text for each program within their most popular course.
#6: Develop a set of consistent talking points that all members of our group, and other
instructional leaders, can use when promoting or discussing OER across HCC.
#7: Create/refine a database of OER resources that faculty and others can easily consult for
assistance and materials.

14. A Targeted Approach
2016-2020 Instructional Services – Strategic Plan
• 1.4.3: Work with Academic and Workforce Programs to expand the
number of totally online degrees and certificates with free or low-cost
textbooks and instructional materials.
• 2.3.2: Identify open and low-cost
textbooks by course in the class
schedule

15. Rural Information
Technology Alliance
Jake McBee
Instructional Designer

16. Creating and Reusing OER
Learning Objects
Jake McBee
Instructional Designer

17. Brainerd & Staples Corinth & Gainesville
Pine City Willmar & Hutchinson

19. Goals
• Must create OER or reuse existing OER in
Computer Information Technology programs
• Courses
• Modules
• Learning objects

20. Challenges
• Obsolete material
• Proprietary materials
• Faculty turnover (not a pastry)

21. Solutions and Outcomes
• Start with CCCOER resources
• Scour all the usual OER suspects
• Faculty Heroes
• Video tutorials
• Innovative Labs
• YouTube Resource Permissions
• Textbook Author Permissions
• RITA members sharing frameworks

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23. RitaConsortium.org
Come Share WITH Us!
Jake McBee
jmcbee@nctc.edu

24. OER Adoption to Scale
Cynthia Alexander
Faculty, Distance Education Coordinator
OER Champion
Vice-President, CCCOER

25. Cerritos College
Kaleidoscope Project (2011-2014)
– CIS
– Math
– Earth Science
– Political Science
– Education

26. Two Years Later
• Computer Information Systems
– CIS 101 Introduction to Computers (2 sections)
• Earth Science
– ESCI 110 Introduction to Earth Science (2 sections)
• Math
– Math 40 PreAlgebra* (18 sections)
– Math 60 Elementary Algebra
• Political Science (7 sections)
– Pol 101 American Political Institutions
* Department adopted textbook

27. What Faculty Said
• Student perspective: saved $172 on text;
Faculty perspective: OER text needed to be
supplemented
• Not enough release time to create materials
to supplement book
• Can tailor exactly to lab and classroom
activities
• Text can be downloaded as .pdf and can
organize and edit as needed

28. Grassroots Textbook
Affordability
Cheryl Knight
Senior Instructional Designer
OER College Leader

29. Cheryl Knight
Cleveland, OH

30. Grassroots Textbook Affordability
Project
•Find out who is
teaching with
OER.
•Increase new
adopters
•Calculate $$$
saved

31. Getting Started: Planting the Seed
• Top 10 Enrollment
Courses
• Math faculty
• Gathered dollars
and data
• Promotion
• T-shirts
• College-wide
conferences
• Departmental

32. Success! Needs Fertilizer
2014-2015 Data:
• $117,155 saved
• 811 students reached
• 34 sections
• 5 subjects
• 4 campuses.
*Dollars saved are calculated by the cost of the most
frequently used textbook at a new cost. New and in the
bookstore is the only guaranteed option for the students.
2015-2016 Data
77 Sections
10 Subjects
DOUBLED the
SECTIONS!
On target for $250,000

33. 2015-2016, Year 2: Variety Planting
• Tracking and scaling is hard!
• Faculty champions are key!
• Course shells or support
groups
• PROMOTION
• Faculty coordinators
• Deans
• Administration
• Swag and recognition

34. Lessons to Share: Selective Planting
•Focus Textbook $$$
•Find Champions
•Use OER Community
•Gain Administrative
Support
•On Demand Printing

35. Maricopa Millions
Lisa Young
Faculty Director, Teaching and Learning Center
Maricopa Millions Tri-Chair
Vice-President, CCCOER

36. Questions??
@MaricopaOER

37. Textbooks comprise about 30%
of college expenses in Arizona

39. MCCCD OER Steering Team
meets twice each month
established Fall 2013
OER STRATEGIC PLAN
9 Faculty
2 Presidents
MCLI
VP &
Deans
Instructional
Designers
IT
Library Faculty
Executive
Sponsor
http://sha3teely.com/?p=128

40. Grant – funded OER Courses
Business Psychology
Chemistry English
Reading
Biology
Social
Work
Health
Science
http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com/

41. Creating OER Awareness and
Increasing Adoption
• Presentations
• Call for OER Grants
• Dialogue Days
• Department Meetings
• “Water Cooler”
Discussions
• Promotional Items
• CTLs
• College Librarieshttp://www.skmurphy.com/startup-stages/scaling-up-stage/

43. Questions??
@MaricopaOER

44. Join our Community
• Access to a community of OER experts
• Online advisory email list
• Professional development
• Collaboration opportunities
email:cccoer@oeconsortium.org

45. Collaboration Opportunities
• Monthly webinars, advisory meetings
• Conferences: meetups, workshops, panels
• Mentoring, research, grants

46. Spring Webinars 2016
• Feb 10: Best Practices for OER Faculty
Development
• March 9: OER to Scale
• March 10: Student Role in Adoption
• May 12: OER Efficacy Research
• June 8: Open Pedagogy for Faculty

47. openeducationweek.org

48. Thank you for coming!
Una Daly : unatdaly@oeconsortium.org
Lorah Gough: lorah.gough@hccs.edu
Jacob McBee: jmcbee@nctc.edu
Cynthia Alexander: calexander@Cerritos.edu
Cheryl Knight: Cheryl.Knight@tri-c.edu
Lisa Young: lisa.young@scottsdalecc.edu
Questions for Panelists