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Strategies and Tools for Finding, Adopting, and Managing OER
February 18, 2016
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Strategies and Tools for Finding, Adopting, and Managing OER
February 18, 2016
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Strategies and Tools for Finding, Adopting, and Managing OER
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Megan Raymond Manager, Events and
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Agenda
• Defining OER.
• Why OER matters.
• Historic view of OER Efforts.
• Current state and challenges.
• User experience from Thomas Edison State University.
• Intellus approach to solving the challenge.
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Moderator and Presenter
Tanya Spilovoy Director, Distance Education and State
Authorization North Dakota University System WCET Steering Committee Member
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Open Educational Resources Definition
“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. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.” The Hewlett Foundation
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• Retain • Reuse • Revise • Remix • Redistribute
Open = Free + Rights
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Openly Licensed/Public Domain
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Why I <3 To Share
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Why This Matters for HE
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Where can I find OER?
University of Minnesota Open Textbook Library Your Institution’s Library Instructional Designers on your campus Merlot Rice OpenStax Khan Academy YouTube TEDx Any Openly Licensed Learning Object
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Presenters
Mark Triest Intellus Learning
President
Matthew Cooper Thomas Edison State
University Associate Provost, The
Center for Learning and Technology
Natalie D. Murray Intellus Learning
Learning Design and Product Lead
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Historic View
• Roots in Distance and Online Learning • MERLOT • MIT OpenCourseWare • Connexions – Rice University • Creative Commons - 2001 • UNESCO - 2002 • Hewlett Foundation • Open Education Conference 2003 • Evangelists and First Movers • OER Commons 2007 • Open Education Consortium • Community College Consortium for OER • Growing Institutional and Policy support
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Current State
Current Efforts: • Legislation passed in CA, WA, MN, UT, ND* • System sponsored efforts underway in CA, WA, AZ, FL, GA,
MD, OH, VA* • ND not included in the SPARC list but is a system
sponsored effort. • Campus based initiatives at over 36 campuses* • Affordability initiatives at countless campuses
Current Conclusions: • EDUCAUSE Report in 2013 – OER 10 years Later • WA State Board of Technical and Community Colleges
Survey of 770 faculty • Babson Survey Research Group – 2100+ faculty
*(above data from SPARC – Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
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“While awareness of OER remains low among teaching faculty, it is not the critical barrier to wider adoption. The time and effort required to find, evaluate, and adopt these materials is the critical factor for faculty.”
Opening the Curriculum, Open Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2014 I. Elaine Allen & Jeff Seaman, Babson Survey Research Group (Based on survey responses from over 2,100 national higher education teaching faculty)
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Poll Question #1
What are your challenges in using OER for a course or across your institution? Answer Options (Multi-select): • Time required for course revision / redesign • Access of OER • Awareness of OER • Quality of OER • Uncertainty about the rules associated with using
open content
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Poll Question #2 What impact do you expect Open Educational Resources to have at your institution? Answer Options (Multi-select): • Improved student access to required resources • Increase in student outcomes • Increase student engagement • Replacement of paid content for free content • Supplement of paid content with free content • Improved course quality
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#efficiency
#affordability
#quality
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Affordability Use Cases
Use Case Today Future
1) Replace Commercial OER (and potentially Commercial)
2) Augment Commercial OER (and potentially Commercial)
3) Supplement Commercial OER (and potentially Commercial)
4) Augment OER OER (and potentially Commercial)
5) Supplement OER OER (and potentially Commercial)
6) Replace OER OER (and potentially Commercial)
(While maintaining Efficiency and Quality)
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•BYU Idaho
•Columbia College
•Indiana University
•Jones County Junior College
•Richard Bland College of William & Mary
•Thomas Edison State University
•University of Alabama at Birmingham
Cohort Institutions
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Matthew Cooper
Matthew Cooper Associate Provost, The Center for
Learning and Technology
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OER: Shared Motivators
• Keep costs low • Design courses to learning outcomes and objectives • Control over the perpetual revision cycle of textbooks
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Positioned for Success Center for Learning and Technology:
• Centralized course design unit • Specialized teams of experts • Partnerships and support across university • Content ownership vested with the institution • Wide influence on catalog
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Early Attempts
Goal: Completely replace commercial textbooks in key General Education courses
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Discoveries Positives:
• Confirmed value of OER in courses • Positive feedback and affirmation from students
and mentors alike • Quality standards upheld
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Discoveries: Part 2 Challenges Faced:
• Assessment development • Difficult to target appropriate learning levels when
evaluating resources • Time investment needed • Awareness of OER opportunities • Multimedia • Disproportionate topic coverage
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Lessons Learned
Adoption at scale would be impossible, without specialized expertise on identifying, aggregating, and indexing of OER sources.
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Natalie D. Murray
Natalie D. Murray Learning Design and Product
Lead
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Survey Data Points
When selecting content for your course, what qualities do you look for in a resource? - Ease of Use, Accessibility, Production Quality What are some of your challenges in using Open Education Resources? - Time it takes to find content What is the average current cost to students per course for resources at your institution? - $101-200 per course How do you use the data you receive today? - Student interventions and Add content to the course
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Join us for our next OER webcast on February 24
Consortia Success Stories: Institutions Working Together on OER Innovations
▪ http://wcet.wiche.edu/events/webcasts/consortia-success-stories
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