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slides for Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources presentation at the Open Education Week reception with Cathy Casserly.
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Celebrate Open Education Week
March 5-10
Open Courseware Consortium
Una Daly, Open Courseware ConsortiumJames Glapa-Grossklag, College of the Canyons
March 5-10 Webinars
• Accessibility
• Bridge to Success
• Kaleidoscope
• Open Course Library
• OpenStaxCollege
• Open University
• UNESCO ….
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What’s OER?
• Openly licensed educational content, commonly referred to as open educational resources
• US Dept. of Ed. 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 or repurposing by others. cc-by donkyhotey/flickr
Creative Commons CC-BY license, Dr. Judy Baker
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What are Open Educational Resources?• Freely available from the internet, anytime, anywhere
• Shared, usable and re-usable
• An openly-licensed learning materials offered online by its author(s)
• Allows users to read online, download, or print content at no cost
• Licensed in a way that grants a baseline set of rights to users that are less restrictive than standard copyright
Creative Commons CC-BY license, Dr. Judy Baker
Examples
Includes –
• Course materials• Modules or lessons• Open CourseWare (OCW)• Open textbooks• Videos• Images• Tests• Software• Any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support ready access to knowledge
Creative Commons CC-BY license, Dr. Judy Baker
An open textbook is…
• Modifiable by the instructor– Digital, Modular– Creative Commons
• Low cost to the students– Free online– Printable for free or low cost
paper bound copies ($10-$60)
Labeled for reuse by MrKCoolsPhotostream
Why Practice Openness?
Institutional Mission
“The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and …. The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge ….”
Who is funding OER?
A Voice for Community Colleges
• Dr. Martha Kanter, founder– Foothill-De Anza College District, 2007
• Open Courseware merger 2011
Funded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
CCCOER Mission
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• Empower Faculty to – Find– Select – Adopt – Share
High quality, accessible OERs
Funded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
The Community College Mission
Why Practice Openness?
• Reduce student costs• Collaborate across disciplines• Improve learning• Leverage taxpayer investments in
education• Scale education
CCCOER Priorities 2012
• Grow the Community• Educational Outreach• Online Resources for Faculty
– http://oerconsortium.org
• Conferences & Meet-ups• Research & Grant Opportunities• Partnerships for Sustainability
Help Us Grow CCCOER-OCW
MonthlyEducation Webinars
Month Topic
January 31 Open Math Home Assessment Systems
February 28 Writing Commons: Open Textbook Community
March Fostering OER-friendly policies at your college
April Finding and Selecting high-quality OER
May Open Course Library : Public Speaking
June Peer and Accessibility Reviews of OER
Why Join theCCCOER-OCW?
• Information: Stay in the loop on
issues in open education.
• Collaboration: Participate in community, attend webinars, join the advisory board.
• Collective Visibility: Gain global exposure through OCWC’s website and shared media exposure.
• Direction: Provide direct input to OCWC’s focus on community colleges.
NASA image
Adopter Communities: Sustainability
• Increase Adoptions• Encourage Reuse
– Ancillaries
• Collaboration– Faculty and students
• Collect Best Practices & Replicate
Open Policy: Sustainability
• Education is about sharing– Maximize our investments
• Sharing provides benefits back– New partners– Translations– Enhancements
Cable Green, Creative Commons Director
From Creative Commons Store
Contact information
Una DalyCommunity College Outreach ManagerOpenCourseWare [email protected]
James Glapa-Grossklag, DeanEducational Technology, Learning Resources, & Distance LearningCollege of the [email protected]