OER Authoring and Delivery Platforms

OER Authoring and Delivery

Platforms

Clint Lalonde, BCcampus

Judy Einstein & Etienne Pelaprat, Courseload, Inc

Domi Enders, Open Assembly

April 8, 2015, 10:00 am PSTUnless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0

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Clint Lalonde

Open Ed Manager

BCcampus

Judy Einstein

VP Business Dev

Courseload

Moderator: Una Daly

Director of Curriculum Design & College Outreach

Open Education Consortium

Etienne Pelaprat

User Design Director

Courseload

Domi Enders

CEO & Founder

Open Assembly

Agenda

• CCCOER Overview

• Courseload Delivery Platform

• The Pressbooks Authoring Tool

• Open Assembly Platform

• Q & A

• Expand access to high-

quality materials

• Support faculty choice

and development

• Improve student success

Community College Consortium

for OER (CCCOER)

http://oerconsortium.org

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250+ Colleges in 21 States

& Provinces

OER Authoring &

Delivery Platforms

• Faculty need easy-to-use authoring tools

• Institutions need to integrate OER into existing CMS infrastructures

• Students need easy search and access to OER

• Leverage the inherent shareability of OER to build communities of interest

Courseload

Judy EinsteinVP Business Dev.

Etienne PelapratUX Director

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Courseload’s role in OER success

1. Deliver OERs alongside other course materials in a

seamless, unified content experience.

2. Focus on content-enhancement tools that benefit

instruction and learning.

3. Enable institutional content and metadata management.

4. Flexible, customizable discovery and adoption capabilities.

5. System integrations: LMS, SIS, catalogs, content

repositories.

6. Business models that meet institutional needs.

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Courseload Engage

Diverse content

• OER (text-based)

• Video

• Journal articles, library content

• Proprietary content

• Upload content

Features & apps

• Accessible web application

(508(c), WCAG 2.0AA+, ARIA, etc.)

• Native mobile apps

• Offline access

Integration

• Seamless LMS integration

• Content preparation and

rendering

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Courseload Engage

• Exceptional content / mobile delivery

• Clean, sleek, attractive, usable

• Day 1 access to students

• Class-wide content enhancements

• Instructionally oriented – scaffold, Q&A, etc.

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Ingest & Curate

• Harvest content.

• Ingest diverse catalogs and

metadata.

• Generate custom content

catalogs for your institution,

program, department, etc.

• OER-specific catalogs.

• Metadata curation capabilities

via custom tools.

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Discover & Adopt

• Expose catalogs of content to

federated search tools.

• Integrate with campus systems

(e.g., SIS) to facilitate specific

content discovery.

• Ordering tools to acquire new or

custom content.

• Faculty freedom to peruse

catalog offerings and adopt

them for their courses and

sections.

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Content analytics

• Content-use data to drive

adoption and ordering

decisions.

• Request custom publisher

textbooks to reduce costs.

• Generate course packs based

on common use patterns.

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Student analytics

• Real-time, class-wide reading

data.

• Real-time, class-wide content

interaction data.

• Correlate to outcomes.

• Map data to various content

enhancement strategies.

BCcampus Pressbooks

Clint LalondeOpen Education Manager

Open Textbook Authoring withPressBooks Textbook

Clint LalondeManager, Open Education, BccampusCCCOER Webinar April 8, 2015

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Connect the expertise, programs, and resources of all BC post-secondary

institutions under a collaborative service delivery framework

• Promote & support the development & use of Open Educational Resources

• System wide initiatives to facilitate the enhancement of a high quality teaching & learning

culture.

Open Education & Professional Learning

The BC Open Textbook Project

40 free & open textbooks for highest

enrolled 1st & 2nd year post-secondary

subjects in BC

2014 – 20 for skills & training

First province in Canada

2014 – AB & SASK MOU

$1 million

2014 - $1 million

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CC-SA license

Don’t reinvent it by Andrea Hernandez released under CC-BY-NC-SA and based on Wheel by Pauline Mak released under CC-BY license

Students Faculty

1. Free2. Choice of formats

a. Webb. Printc. eBook

3. Can retain

1. Easy to find2. Address Quality3. Support Adapt/Create

Beyond a “book”

“the thing that interests me most about where we are in the world of books is

imagining new and different kinds of models for book publishing. To build new

models, we need open platforms that allow people to experiment with new

ideas.”

Hugh McGuire http://codepoet.com/2013/08/29/hugh-mcguire-interview/

The blurring lines between books and the internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5iNeDwve1U

Publish Many

Write Once/Import

PressBooks.com

Hosted, commercial service

PressBooks Plugin

Self-Hosted Open Source WP plugin

PressBooks Textbooks Plugin

Extends PB plugin

Pro

• Hosted. Need little tech support

Pro

Con

• No control of platform

• Designed for fiction, not TB

• Cost

• Full control of entire platform

• Open source

Con

• Designed for fiction

• Requires tech support

• Proprietary PDF engine (PrinceXML)

Pro

• Full control of entire platform

• Open Source

• Textbook specific features

Con

• Requires tech support

• Proprietary PDF engine (PrinceXML)

BCcampus developed

Development Cycle

BCcampus develops & contributes code

To PressBooks OS plugin

PressBooks OS plugin code merged

with PressBooks.com

Pressbooks Textbooks PluginExtends PB plugin • Add Creative Commons licenses

• Add Textbook specific features

• Learning Outcomes, Exercises &

Key Takeaways

• Search

• Annotation (Hypothes.is)

• Added API (Application Program

Interface)

More than a book (book as application)

"An API, or "Application Program

Interface", is a set of routines and

protocols that provide building

blocks for computer programmers

and web developers to build

software applications."

http://code.tutsplus.com/articles/the-increasing-

importance-of-apis-in-web-development--net-22368

More than a book (book as application)

What we are working on now

• Accessibility features (FLOE Project)

• Replace PrinceXML with Open Source PDF engine

• New ODT output (Word Compatible)

Finding us

Open Textbook Project: open.bccampus.ca

PressBooks plugin: wordpress.org/plugins/pressbooks

PressBooks Textbook plugin: wordpress.org/plugins/pressbooks-textbook

PressBooks Textbooks GitHub (developers): github.com/BCcampus/pressbooks-textbook

Example of a PBTB book: opentextbc.ca/geography

Thank You

open.bccampus.ca

@bccampus @clintlalonde

Open Assembly

Domi EndersFounder & CEO

Open Learningpowered by

Open Educational Resources

Domi Enders, Founder & CEO | www.openassembly.com

THE PROBLEM: ACCESS

Non-traditional students & adjunct instructors are often poorly integrated with institutions due to their circumstances, and therefore:

Less likely to be reached by OER initiatives on their campusesHave limited access to peer communities

How can we use technology and the inherent shareability of OER to increase access to resources and peer communities?

THE SOLUTION: OPEN ASSEMBLY

Anytime, anywhere access to peer

communities and learning resources.

Open Learning Architecture for OER

THE SOLUTION: OPEN ASSEMBLY

Anytime, anywhere access to peer

communities and learning resources.

Open Learning Architecture for OER

Personal technology owned by the adjunct or student, course to course, year to year

Modularized OER collections optimized for micro-learning and ease of adaptation

Collaborative content curation enabling every user to become a producer/curator of OER

P2P learningfacilitating connection & interaction w/ peers, within courses or groups

Content Integration

API Integration

LMS Integration

THE SOLUTION: OPEN ASSEMBLY

• Plug-and-play in any LMS• Access all your learning resources in a single interface• Use analytics to personal the learning experience

Open Learning Architecture for OER

THE PLATFORM: OVERVIEW

Analytics

Easy AdaptationDrag and drop remixing

Contextualized resources

CollaborativeContent Curation

Live chat

Groups

Modularized OER collections

Modularized OER collections

Contracted pilot: 201560k students & 5k adjuncts 1,132 institutions

12.8M students644K adjuncts

INSTITUTIONAL PILOTS 2015: PROOF OF CONCEPT

Anticipated pilot: 201513k students & 1k adjuncts

OTHER CCCOER PILOTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT

INSTITUTIONAL PILOTS: EFFICACY STUDIES

Teaching with modularized and curated OERa. Time-savings in class prep time b. Increase/decrease in OER adoptionc. Value of OER curation to

• Departments • Instructors • Students

d. Increase/decrease of instructor-student interaction via

• Use of live chat • Use of analytics• Collaborative content curation

Learning with modularized and curated OERa. Increased engagement via

• Affordability of resources• Increased opportunities for P2P learning• Increased opportunities for interaction with

faculty• Anytime anywhere access to OER

b. Improved student outcomes• Course completion• Engagement with college as community

METRICS

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Domi Enders: domi@openassembly.com

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Open Education Global 2015

The theme for Open

Education Global 2015 is

Entrepreneurship and

Innovation, emphasizing the

exciting directions and

developments in open

education around the world.

Organized by OEC and

Athabasca University.

Where: Alberta, Canada

When: 22-24 April, 2015

http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2015/

Thank you for coming!

Contact Info:

Una Daly: unatdaly@oeconsortium.org

Clint Lalonde : clalonde@bccampus.ca

Judy Einstein : judy@courseload.com

Etienne Pelaprat : etienne@courseload.com

Domi Enders : domi@openassembly.com

Questions?