Starting an Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiative: What

You Need to Know

Regina Gong, Librarian & OER Project Manager

gongr1@lcc.edu; @drgong

http://libguides.lcc.edu/oer

Central Michigan University Library

November 17, 2017

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What we’ll do today:• Textbook market overview

• OER basics

• Creative Commons licenses

• LCC OER Project

• Strategies to help you start

• Discussion – Q & A

• Roadmap to OER worksheet

2017 • 15 year anniversary of the term “Open Educational

Resources”

• 10 year anniversary of the Cape Town Open

Education Declaration

• 5 year anniversary of the Paris OER Declaration

• Year of Open

There’s a problem that

OER are trying to solve.

Average Estimated Undergraduate Budgets, 2017-18

https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/average-estimated-undergraduate-budgets-2017-18

Market Failure

Students are captives,not consumers

Market Failure

5 major

publishers hold

nearly 90% of

the market

Source: Turning the Page by James Koch

Source: Florida Virtual Campus: 2016 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey

Source: Covering the Cost, 2016 t by the Student Public Interest Research Groups (Student PIRGs) www.studentpirgs.org/textbooks

High textbook prices have a disproportionate

impact on students at community college

Source: Photo by Aidan Bartos on Unsplash

education = sharing

Photo by Thomas Kvistholt on Unsplash

Handwriting Printing Press Internet

Copying a book

$1000s per copy $1s per copy $0.0001s per copy

Distributing a book

$1000s per copy $1s per copy $0.0001s per copy

Source: David Wiley presentation

unprecedented capacity

©

CopyrightRegulates

Handwriting Printing Press Internet

Copying a book

$1000s per copy $1s per copy $0.0001s per copy

Distributing a book

$1000s per copy $1s per copy $0.0001s per copy

InternetEnables

Copyright

Forbids

Open Educational Resources (OER)

“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."

~William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

Open Educational Resources (OER)

“Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning and

research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise –

that reside in the public domain or have been released under

an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation

and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions."

~William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

My OER Elevator Pitch

Open educational resources are freely available,

openly licensed (usually Creative Commons)

learning materials that can be legally downloaded,

edited, and shared, to better serve all students.

OER come in many forms:

• open textbooks

• full courses

• modules

• syllabi

• lectures

• homework assignments

• quizzes

• lab activities

• games

• simulations

OER > Cost savings

OER = Free + Freedom

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open licensing systemwww.creativecommons.org

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Open Content / Open Licenses

Source: Tyler.stefanich_Creative_Commons_Swag_Contest_2007_2_(by).jpg found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki / BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

licenses

most

open

least

open

Source: CC license image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 South Africa license

LCC AT A GLANCE

• Located in downtown Lansing

• Founded in 1957

• 26,000 students enrolled/year

• Teaching faculty 90% adjuncts

• Faculty started using OER in fall

2015 semester

• No grants/stipends/incentives

were offered

• Started from the bottom up

• Administration support was strong

• Academic Senate resolution on OER passed in

March 2015

• Embarked on extensive OER awareness

• Started offering OER courses in fall 2015

semester

OER Initiative at LCC

Textbook affordability

Allow faculty exploration and innovation in finding new,

better, and less costly ways to deliver quality learning

materials to students

OER Initiative Goals

OER Adoptions at LCC

510

4

14 16 12

27

11

23

6

101 100

33

150

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017

Courses and Sections Using OER

Courses Using OER Sections Using OER

OER Adoptions at LCC

5

12

4

4648

26

74

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017

Faculty Using OER

Students Impacted by OER

317

540

129

2,825

2,558

724

3724

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

4000

Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017

Students Enrolled

Textbook Costs Savings

$31,700.00

$54,000.00

$12,900.00

$282,500.00

$255,800.00

$72,400.00

$372,400

$-

$50,000.00

$100,000.00

$150,000.00

$200,000.00

$250,000.00

$300,000.00

$350,000.00

$400,000.00

Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017

Total Textbook Savings ($100/student)

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$ 1,081,700

Fall 2015 Spring 2016

Summer

2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017

Summer

2017 Fall 2017

Running

Total

Faculty Using OER 5 12 4 46 48 26 74 215

Courses Using OER 5 10 4 14 16 12 27 88

Sections Using OER 11 23 6 101 100 33 150 424

Students Enrolled 317 540 129 2,825 2,558 724 3,724 10,817

Actual Textbook

Savings (based on new

print book) $63,286.75 $92,077.75 $26,792.50 $351,449.00 $318,974.50 $90,642.50 $470,718.25 $1,413,941.25

Total Textbook Savings

(no. of students*$100) $31,700 $54,000 $12,900 $282,500 $255,800 $72,400 $372,400 $1,081,700

OER Adoptions Summary

BIOL 127 – Cell Biology

BIOL 128 – Organismal Biology

BIOL 270 - Human Genetics

PSYC 200 – Intro to Psychology

ECON 201 –Microeconomics

ECON 201 – Macroeconomics

BIOL 201– Human Anatomy MATH 106 – Math Literacy with Review BIOL 121 – Biol Foundations for

Physiology

PHYS 200 – Intro Physics

w/Applications

OER adopters OER creators

OER Authored by LCC Faculty

Dr. Matthew Van Cleave, Philosophy faculty

Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=457

Dr. Mark Kelland, Psychology faculty

Personality Theory: A Multicultural Perspectivehttps://www.oercommons.org/courses/personality-theory-a-multicultural-perspective

OER Authored by LCC Faculty

Tao of Positive Psychologyhttps://www.oercommons.org/authoring/19643-tao-of-positive-psychology

https://lcc.edu/resources/oer/

http://libguides.lcc.edu/oer

OER OEP

Open Learning Lab

Domain of One’s Own

Renewable assignments

Leveraging Partnerships

Institutional member of CCCOER

OpenStax institutional partner

http://libguides.lcc.edu/oer/award

$1,600,000

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Strategies that work

Photo by Michał Parzuchowski on Unsplash

Strategies that work

•Meet faculty individually and as a group

•Continued, ongoing professional development

•Encourage and turn OER believers into OER champions in your campuses

“I see this as an issue of access to education and even an issue of justice. If education is necessary for securing certain basic human rights, then lack of access to education is itself an issue of justice. Providing high quality, low-cost textbooks is one, small part of making higher education more affordable and thus more equitable and just. This open textbook is a contribution towards that end.”

Dr. Matthew Van Cleave, Professor of Philosophy

OER Textbook Author “Intro to Logic and Critical Thinking”

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=457

“Our students are poor and most of them on Pell grant. When I had to escort two of my students to the food pantry, I knew I had to change my textbook to OER and I’m glad I did so maybe you should too.”

Dr. Sharon Hughes, Professor of Psychology

Adopted OpenStax Psychology

•Meet faculty individually and as a group

•Continued, ongoing professional development

•Encourage and turn OER believers into OER champions

•Communicate success college-wide and beyond

https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2017/07/26/midwest-community-college-pushes-widespread-use-oer

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2017/08/15/lansing-community-college-cutting-costly-textbooks/551936001/

http://web.lcc.edu/lookout/2017/10/20/oer-helps-students-save-on-books/

http://www.fox47news.com/entertainment/shows/the-morning-blend/lansing-community-college-111617

http://www.fox47news.com/brand-spotlight/oer-increases-textbook-access-for-students-lansing-community-college

http://openedgroup.org/fellowship

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Appointments-Resignations/241331

•Meet faculty individually and as a group

•Continued, ongoing professional development

•Encourage and turn OER believers into OER champions

•Communicate success college-wide

•Pursue partnerships and collaborations within & outside of your institution

Feedback – Faculty and Students

Evaluation and Feedback

Evaluation and Feedback

Evaluation and Feedback

Evaluation and Feedback

Evaluation and Feedback

Evaluation and Feedback

Evaluation and Feedback

Evaluation and Feedback

Evaluation and Feedback

“I think this is a really great option for the poor

starving student. Everybody should have

access to education and this really helps level

that playing field.”

Here’s what our students say about OER:

“I've always been bitter about buying a

textbook that I only need to use maybe 700

words (total) throughout the semester. This is

so much better.”

Here’s what our students say about OER:

“College is expensive enough as it is. Lots of

kids don't bother or can't afford purchasing

new $150 books for every class and it ends

up hurting their grade. Free textbooks are

good for everyone.”

Here’s what our students say about OER:

• Implement the OER Award Program to increase OER courses

• Encourage & support faculty engagement with open education

and pedagogy

• Assessment & Efficacy Studies – COUP Framework

• Disseminate research studies from Regina’s Open Education

Group Research Fellowship 2017-2018 Award

• Promote/market OER courses to students through SIS

• Accessibility of OER

• OER publishing platform

• Lumen Learning partnership

Our Road Ahead

Get involved

SPARC OER ForumCCCOER Listserv

TwitterOpen Textbook Network

Open Education ConferenceOpen Education Week

Are you prepared, ready, & willing to lead the OER initiative in your

campuses?

YES or NO or Maybe?

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Regina Gong, gongr1@lcc.edu ; @drgong