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HippoCampus and the Value of Open Educational Resources
Terri Rowenhorst
Dani Pedrotti
NROC Membership ServicesMonterey Institute for Technology and Education
February 20, 2009
Open Educational Resources
So, if OER is GOOD, and its FREE,
Living Up to the Promise
why isn’t everyone using it?
OER Check List
What you are looking for in OER . . .
curricular
complete
quality
easy to use
teaching tool
We have been listening to you!
NROC is unique among OER initiatives:• Curricular content for both
higher education and high school
• Complete course foundations with a flexible learning object structure
• Customizable by an instructor, a district, or a state
• Correlated to popular textbooks and (soon) to state standards
• Classroom and online teaching tools
Quality
• Editorially rigorous
• Media rich
• Instructionally sound
NROC Network Case Studies
Offering Course Content Statewide
CHALLENGE:
Offer high-quality online course content statewide
“The (NROC courses) were a unique find. The quality is extraordinary, the flexibility is exceptional, and the feedback we’re getting from our teachers is the content is amazing.”
Steve Nelson Chief Information Technology Strategist, ODOE
Flexible
Customizable by a teacher, a district, or a state.
Can be used within popular CMS’s and repositories.
NROC Network Case Studies
Credit Recovery
CHALLENGE:
High percentage of students not passing or completing courses
“The use of the new OPS-branded HippoCampus site is very exciting for us, providing an additional resource for our teachers and giving
them the ability to create their own HippoCampus pages.” Rachel Wise, Ph.D.Director of Secondary Education, OPS
Curricular
Complete teaching materials
Correlated with popular textbooks &
state standards
NROC Network Case StudiesReplacing Costly Textbooks
CHALLENGE:
Textbook prices are too high.
On teaching US History without a textbook
“. . . we turned to NROC. I left my discussion questions, midterms, and finals the same as they were when we used the textbook, so I could compare outcomes. I was happy to find that my students are right on track with the digital alternative . . . “
Karen KaemmerlingChair of Social Sciences, CCCOnline
NROC Library - 2009
High School Course Foundations
College Prep Physics ICollege Prep Physics IIAlgebra 1a Algebra 1b
College Course Foundations
US History IUS History IIAmerican GovernmentIntroductory Physics I (algebra-based)Introductory Physics II (algebra-based)General Physics I (calculus-based)General Physics II (calculus-based)Introductory Calculus I Introductory Calculus II General Calculus I General Calculus II Environmental ScienceReligions of the WorldElementary AlgebraPsychologyCalculo General I (Spanish)Calculo General II (Spanish)Statistics for the Social Sciences
Advanced Placement Course Foundations
AP Environmental ScienceAP Physics B IAP Physics B IIAP Physics C IAP Physics C IIAP US History IAP US History IIAP US Government and PoliticsAP Calculus AB IAP Calculus AB IIAP Calculus BC IAP Calculus BC IIAP Biology
Also in Development
Non-Majors BiologyCurso de Algebra 1A (Spanish)Curso de Algebra 1B (Spanish)
Coming in 2010Algebra 1 (NEW)
HippoCampus: Free for Everyone
HippoCampus
“THIS IS RADICALLY AWESOME! This program has helped me a bunch. Please make more of these programs. It is helping me understand concepts much better. Keep up the good work!”
“I am thoroughly impressed by the content and the presentation of the HippoCampus site.”
What People Are Saying About HippoCampus
“Incredible resources!! I did not know these were available for the general public!! Thank you!”
“First of all let me thank you for your efforts in open education! It is really inspiring.”
“I have just discovered HippoCampus and I am very impressed with the algebra and calculus sections.”
Thank you for such a wonderful tool.”
.“ . . . sustainability problems plague open
educational resources . . . the inherent
contradiction in the idea of sustaining and
upgrading a product that is given away.”
The Promise of Open Educational Resources, Marshall S. Smith
and Catherine M. Casserly, Change, September/October 2006
The Challenge of OER
NROC Network
Educators, designers, technologists, and administrators working together to promote the continuous improvement of online courses through collaborative development of high-quality content and instruction.
NROC Network Online
Community
Alabama Department of Education
Anaheim Union High School
Albuquerque Public Schools
Cal State Fullerton
Chattanooga State Technical & Community College
Clark County Virtual High School
Colorado Community Colleges Online
Colorado Online Learning
Florida Distance Learning Consortium
Georgia Department of Educaiton
Grossmont Union High School District
Hudson County Schools of Technology
Idaho Digital Learning Academy
Illinois Virtual High School
Iowa Community College Online Consortium
Kentucky Virtual High School
Los Angeles Unified School District
Louisiana Department of Education
Maryland Virtual Learning Opportunities
Lubbock Independent School District
Michigan Virtual High School
Mid-Hudson BOCES Consortium
Minnesota State College and University System
Mississippi Department of Education
Nebraska Partnership for Innovation
North Carolina Community College System
Oregon Department of Education
South Carolina Department of Education
University of Texas Brownsville
University of Texas TeleCampus
Virtual Virginia
Corporacion Universitaria para el Desarrollo de
Internet
NROC Network
A Sampling of our Members
Custom Member Sites
Value of Membership
Member institutions may adapt NROC material to:
Enhance an existing course
Launch a new course
Supplement
Distribute in a variety of ways
and to address a variety of
challenges.
NROC Network Case Studies
Special Needs Students
CHALLENGE:
How to connect with mildly autistic and ADHD students
“For students with ADHD, it’s there when they’re ready and can focus on it; for students who are mildly autistic, it allows them to limit the stimuli in a way that’s more comfortable for them.”
Liz WoolardAdvanced Placement Physics teacher, RCHS
NROC Network Case Studies
Struggling Students
CHALLENGE:
ESL and struggling students falling behind in class
“I’ve noticed that they’re testing well on vocabulary words we reviewed in HippoCampus . . . The HippoCampus lessons really help reinforce their vocabulary with nice, clear audio, video, and animations.”
Rebekka StoneBiology Teacher, HSHS
NROC Network Case StudiesCourse Redesign & Blended LearningCHALLENGE:
Replace some classroom time with online course components
“We chose the NROC content because it is high quality, and includes lessons, learning objects, activities and assessments, all of which may be used separately. The fact that lessons can be “chunked” in ways that work for the individual faculty member make them more desirable than other third party content.”
Michael Anderson, Assistant Director, UT System TeleCampus
NROC Network Membership
If you’re interested in membership for your institution . . .
Dani PedrottiNROC Membership ManagerMonterey Institute for Technology and [email protected] 253-858-0889
• Link to HippoCampus• Make HippoCampus assignments• Blog about it, add links to directory sites• Introduce faculty to HippoCampus tools• Offer feedback on HippoCampus • Know of great content? Suggest HippoCampus as
a sharing vehicle• Consider other institutional uses possible through
membership
OER success is measured by usage
Share it---with LEARNERS!
Membership Inquiries:Dani Pedrotti
or email Terri at [email protected]
HippoCampus:www.hippocampus.org
Community:www.nrocnetwork.org
For more information:www.montereyinstitute.org/nroc
Questions?
