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Hanley, Christie, Glapa Grossklag Affordable Learning Solutions
This document provides an overview of open educational resources (OER) and affordable learning solutions. It discusses the motivations for using OER, including reducing student costs and leveraging taxpayer funding. It also covers challenges such as quality assurance and sustainability. The document outlines how faculty can find, use, author, and engage with OER through technologies and integration with learning management systems. It emphasizes the importance of institutional policies and support for OER use and recognition.
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- 1. Affordable Learning Solutions James Glapa-Grossklag College of the Canyons Gerard Hanley & Brett Christie CSU Academic Technology Services 1
- 2. Session Overview &Outcomes • Introduction to Open Educational Resources o What are the motivations to use OER? o What are the challenges to using OER? o How can you learn more about OER? • Affordable Learning Solutions o Raising OER awareness at your campus o Engaging your campus in OER use o Ways your faculty can author OER 2
- 3. “OPEN” DOORS • OpenEducational Resources (OER) – Wide range of “size and shapes” • OpenCourseWare (OCW) • Open TextBooks • Open Access Journals • Open Source (Software Code)
- 4. Open Educational Resources: Simulations Animations Tutorials Presentations Drill and Practice ePortfolios Assessments Collections PhET Interactive Simulations etc Copyright © 2004-2009 Univ of Colorado. Some rights reserved. Visit http://phet.colorado.edu 4
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- 9. Why is OPEN Important? Openness enables us to build upon other people’s work, materials, expertise with appropriate attribution. – Openness enables academic initiatives to leverage the “Academic Way” http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsimmonsonca/3285952133/
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- 11. OER Defined Digitized materials offered freely and openly for educators, students and self- learners to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2007 Also see William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education-program/open-educational-resources 11
- 12. OER Attributes • Foreducation/teaching/learning • Access is Free (no cost) • Digital (and often online) enable free distribution of resource • “Liberally Licensed” – free from restrictions on use/re-use/modifications/redistribution 12
- 13. Why Engage inOER? Institutional Mission “The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and …. The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge ….” Open Access – California Community Colleges
- 14. Reduce Student Costs Studentspends $180 on a textbook for a course and $30 on a textbook supplement • SUBTOTAL = $210 CCC Class • 3 units • Current cost per unit = $36 • Cost of class itself = $108 The textbook and supplement represent 76% of the overall cost of the course!
- 15. Leverage Taxpayer Funding English Composition I • 55,000+ enrollments / year • x $100 textbook • = $5.5+ Million every year Source: Cable Green, The Obviousness of Open Policy (2011)
- 16. Scale Education 1/3 ofthe world’s population is under 15 158 million enrolled in higher education today 263 million by 2025 How to accommodate 105 million more students? Build 4 major universities every week for the next 15 years? Source: Sir John Daniel, President & DEO of the Commonwealth of Learning
- 17. Who Is Engagedin OER? P2PU
- 18. Who Is FundingOER?
- 20. Freedom/Permission to UseContent • Traditional Copyright - All Rights Reserved • Acceptable Use Policies – Locally defined rights of use • Creative Commons License – http://creativecommons.org – Some Rights Reserved and Some Rights Given 20
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- 22. CC License Conditions http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/6/62/Creativecommons-informational-flyer_eng.pdf 22
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- 24. Issues and Challenges • O’erwhelming! • Quality Assurance • Technical Requirements and Standards • Sustainability • Evidence of Impact • Policy 24
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- 27. Finding & UsingOER w/ Technologies • MERLOT Discovery and Federated Search • • LMS building blocks and Portal Integration – MERLOT web services is part of Moodle 2.X – MERLOT/OER Finder is part of NOOK Study app • Content Development Integration 27
- 28. Quality Assurance • PeerReviews • Community Annotations – User Comments & Ratings – “Citations” – Endorsements • Authoritative Sources 28
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- 32. Technical Standards inOER •Open file formats •Open Source Software •Metadata Standards and Packaging
- 33. Policies for Guiding and Recognizing OER Use • Access to free content - Affordability • Integration of OER use into Institutional Initiatives- Local relevance of course redesign • Retention and promotion recognition • MERLOT’s peer review process • Accreditation Standards – Institutional drivers for change
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- 35. Why Accessibility Now? •It’s the federal and state law. • The digital revolution is occurring and if we do not make accessibility a requirement now, we will “enable” the institutionalization of another “Digital Divide” & another “Achievement Gap” for people with disabilities. • Every Person Makes A Difference
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- 38. Making Progress atYour Institution • Works best as integrated effort o Executive Leadership, Library, Bookstore, Faculty Senate, Academic Technology, Faculty Development • Involves many decisions and activities o Library integration, training, and support o Bookstore commitment and communication to faculty, staff, and students o Academic technology expertise (e.g., IDs) o Faculty development programming related to effective use and authoring of OER
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- 41. Planning Next Steps • Your campus status? • What has been useful today? • What questions remain? • What is your next task so OER possibilities reach more of your faculty and students? • How will you proceed to accomplish this? • What allies can you enlist? • What obstacles will you need to overcome?
- 42. Contact Information James Glapa-Grossklag,Dean Educational Technology, Learning Resources, & Distance Learning College of the Canyons [email protected] Gerard Hanley, Senior Director CSU Academic Technology Services [email protected] Brett Christie CSU Academic Technology Services [email protected]
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