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Karen Hines
Assistant Professor, Business
Chair of OER Taskforce
Kristine Ricker Choleva
Interim Dean of Business and Technology
OER Taskforce Member
2013:
“Finding OER Resources”Marilyn Billing, UMASS
Librarian
2015:
League of Innovators Conference
“How to Develop OER”Kim Thanos, Lumen
Learning
2016/17:
MA GoOpen Grants
HCC OER Taskforce
HCC’s Brief History
ENVISIONING OER
▪ Drive down the overall cost of college for students
▪ Improve throughputs and student success
▪ Increase student engagement
▪ Connect students with their fields, professions, and communities
▪ Reinvigorate faculty engagement with teaching
▪ Build collaboratives with other public colleges and universities
▪ Build a case for public funding of higher education
POSSIBLE COST SAVINGS TO STUDENTS
HCC STATISTICS
• Full-time students will spend around $600-800 on books and supplies per semester
• A student taking 14 credits can expect tuition, fees, books, and supplies to cost around $3000 per semester.
• Books and supplies represent about 24% of the total cost of tuition, fees, books, and supplies.
• Many students have to borrow student loans to cover the costs of books and supplies.
STUDENT SURVEY RESULTS
• 25% have chosen not to enroll in a class because of the cost of the required textbooks/course materials
• 18% have dropped a course because of the cost of the required textbooks/course materials
• Without access to the required textbooks/course materials student say:
• 22%: I can’t study
• 21%: I can’t follow lectures in class
• 21%: I cannot prepare for discussions
(627 students)
STUDENT SURVEY RESULTS
How likely would it be for you to select a course that uses Open Educational Resources?
DUH!!
THE PLAYERS
STUDENTS
1. No Cost (Free) or low cost (<$40)
2. Accessible○ more equitable access to education○ material available on day one
3. Engaging
4. Retainable: OER materials available after class ends
= All roads lead to higher levels of satisfaction
FACULTY
The use of OER leads to critical reflection by educators, with evidence of improvement in their practice.
● Allows for access to resources from around the world not just those available from one publisher
● Enables personalization of teaching and learning materials● Encourages new pedagogical approaches● Facilitates interaction with subject matter through the creation
of renewable, engaging assignments.
INSTITUTION
Textbook/Materials Affordability is a social justice issue key to the
mission of the CC
The use of OER courses have allowed schools to see:
● higher passing rates
● higher retention rates / lower withdrawal rates
● higher completion and graduation rates
● higher students satisfaction
THE TASKFORCE
REPRESENTATION
Academic Divisions (faculty reps)
Library
Instructional Design
Instructional Technology
Institutional Research
Office of Students with Disabilities
Financial Aid
Administration (Deans)
THE CHARTER
MissionParticipate in the global OER movement by facilitating professional development and dialogue, enhancing student learning and success, reducing structural barriers, and assessing for continuous improvement.
Vision Statement
Foster student success and faculty innovation by expanding the understanding and use of Open Educational Resources (OER), library licensed materials and freely available content to further HCC’s agenda for improved student equity, access and learning. Efforts will be focused on significantly reducing costs for students; aligning curriculum with learning outcomes; encouraging new pedagogical approaches; and developing support systems for OER adoption.
THE CHARTER
Goals
• Increase student access, participation, equity and success• Build consensus around the idea of OER• Integrate OER into the culture and language of HCC• Develop resources, training and professional development for
faculty• Enable clear identification of zero and low-cost course materials
during registration process• Track and assess impact• Cultivate OER leaders
THE PRESIDENT’S DIRECTIVE
1. Be the first Community College in Massachusetts to offer a complete business degree program
2. Go BIG: Business Administration MA Transfer
3. Consider both OER and Affordability
WHERE TO START?
ALIGNING OER WITH CAMPUS CULTURE
Faculty-driven
Students participating in all aspects of the journey
Culture Change is Hard!
OER is not just online
OER Champions are key
CREATING AN OER COMMUNITY
● Increase student awareness
● Encourage/support faculty to create engaging content,
and move along the OER trajectory from adoption to
adaption to creation.
● Create a faculty OER professional development plan to
support further interest and development
● Incorporate OER goals campus-wide including in the
strategic plan
● Measure Success
DEVELOPING COURSES
Increase Zero and Low Cost Courses: (SPRING 2017)
▪ 48 courses at no cost
▪ 48 courses at low cost (<$40)
Fellowships and Open Common Courses -18 faculty
OFFERING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Lumen on Campus
Robin Derosa on Campus
Professional Day Sessions
Northeast OER Summit
Taskforce Members attend GOOPEN
2016 in Richmond VA & 2017 in
Anaheim, CA
PILOTING HCC’S FIRST “TEXTBOOK FREE” DEGREE
Business Administration Mass Transfer
88% developed (2 core classes remaining)
Third largest degree in the college▪ 450 students enrolled▪ 108 graduates per year▪ 80 transfers to four-year institutions last year▪ 40 transfers to UMass Isenberg last year
Approximately $2,200 savings per student from pre-OER
costs = 237,600 saved by one year’s graduating class
• 35 General Education Credits
• Soft Launch Spring 2018
• Official Launch Fall 2018
• Mapped so that students may enter during any semester
MEASURING SUCCESS
▪ Track enrollment, retention and course completion
rates for OER courses and degrees
▪ Measure cost savings for students
▪ Identify return on investment for the institution
▪ Collect anecdotal feedback regarding efficacy
▪ Sustain and Institutionalize OER / Textbook Free
practices
CREATING & MAINTAINING MOMENTUM
GETTING BUY-IN TO SUSTAIN THE MOVEMENT
Presented to HCC Board of Trustees and subsequently asked to create a wish list.
▪ Institution support of OER as a priority in Strategic Planning Initiative
▪ Scheduling OER courses in registration process
▪ Ability to Tell the HCC OER story –Marketing and PR
▪ 15 Hour Coordinator
ONGOING STRUGGLES
▪ Identifying OER Courses tied to Faculty Assignments and Scheduling
▪ Utilization of Banner Designation and Registration booklet as means for students to identify courses
▪ Administrative Buy-In and Funding
▪ Lumen – cost and efficacy for majority of faculty
▪ Scaling development and sustaining interest amongst initiative fatigued faculty
OER PIONEER DAVID WILEY PREDICTS ALL COMMUNITY COLLEGES WILL DUMP TRADITIONAL TEXTBOOKS BY 2024
When asked “How long until we get there?”The question is actually answerable for community colleges—it seems like five to seven years is realistic. There are about 80 all-OER degree programs that are either up and running or on their way. Every one of those programs puts price pressure on the other programs that are geographically close to it. So if it’s 25 percent cheaper to get your business degree here than it is to get it over there, you’re going to go over here, and there will be a competitive advantage. So other schools in the region have to do it just to compete. It’s that ecosystem thing balancing itself out. There really is almost an epidemiology of how OER adoption propagates out that way.
NORTHEAST OER SUMMIT
▪ University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
▪ Thursday, May 31st8:00 am to 4:30 pm
▪ Friday, June 1st
8:00 am to 2:00 pm
