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Open Educational Resources
The document outlines a workshop on Open Educational Resources (OER) aimed at promoting educational equity and reducing textbook costs for students. It discusses the low awareness of OER among faculty, the rising costs of traditional textbooks, and initiatives taken by CUNY and John Jay College to support the adoption of OER. The workshop emphasizes the benefits of OER in enhancing student learning experiences and offers resources for finding and implementing OER in courses.
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- 1. OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES IN PURSUIT OF EDUCATIONALEQUITY Vee Herrington, Ph.D.Vee Herrington, Ph.D. Adjunct Assoc. Professor /OER Librarian Lloyd Sealy LibraryLloyd Sealy Library John Jay College of Criminal JusticeJohn Jay College of Criminal Justice Faculty Development DayFaculty Development Day January, 2018January, 2018 ““Food for Thought”Food for Thought” 1
- 2. PURPOSE OF THISWORKSHOP • Overview of OER • Why should I care? • How is CUNY and John Jay promoting OER? • OER basics • The 5 R’s • Creative Commons • AOR – Library licensed content which are zero cost to the student • Searching for OER materials • Repositories and LibGuides • Putting it together, using information technology • Searching activity Open educational resources (OER) are free and openlyOpen educational resources (OER) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used forlicensed educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, research, and other purposes.teaching, learning, research, and other purposes.
- 3. 2017 NATIONAL HIGHEREDUCATION REPORT OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER) • Bad news • Only 10% of faculty reported that they were “Very aware” of open educational resources, with 20% saying that they were “Aware.” • Good News • The awareness and adoption levels may be low, but they also show steady year-to-year improvements. • OER also addresses a key concern of many faculty: the cost of materials. • The rate of adoption of OpenStax textbooks among faculty teaching large enrollment courses is now at 16.5%, a rate which rivals that of most commercial textbooks.
- 4. POLL: Rate Yourself 1.Novice 2. Emerging 3. Pretty Good 4. Expert OER?OER? Just learning Could use some advanced knowledge I am a Pro!
- 5. John Jay doesit differently! •We are committed to educational equity •We want to change the learning experience •We are student centered •Student success is our objective •John Jay embraces innovation, technology, and collaboration PREMISES These premises are a starting pointThese premises are a starting point for embracing the OER movementfor embracing the OER movement!
- 6. THE BROKEN TEXTBOOKMARKET • 65% of students choose not to buy a college textbook because it’s too expensive • 94% report that they suffer academically because of this choice • 82% of students say they would do significantly better in a course if the textbook were free online and a hard copy was optional! Case studies at both Houston Community College and Virginia State University suggest that classes using open textbooks have higher grades and better course completion rates Textbook industry facts •College textbook prices have increased over 800% in the past ten years…this is 3x the rate of inflation PIRG=Public Interest Research Group, 2014
- 8. • Textbooks aretoo expensive •Average student spends as much as $1,200 each year on textbooks* • Students do not purchase textbooks and do not like textbooks* • If a course centers around a textbook, and the students won’t purchase it, students will not be successful! • Inequality exists if some students can’t or won’t purchase the textbook *Source: NY EdTech Week, OER OpenLab, 12/20/17, Grand Central Tech
- 9. WHO IS ENGAGEDIN OER? 300 institutions in 46 countries
- 10. CUNY AND OER •In 2017, CUNY was granted $4 million from New York State to create new open educational resources initiatives. • These initiatives include: • Convert high-enrollment courses to use OERs; • Create "zero-degree" programs where an entire degree in some majors are free of textbook costs; • Support faculty to adopt and create OERs. • There are over 200 courses that are listed in CUNYfirst as "z" courses, courses without textbook costs.
- 11. WHAT IS JOHNJAY DOING TO PROMOTE OER? “The Zero-cost Textbook Initiative” • John Jay is promoting OER with the Course Conversion Project: An eight- workshop OER conversion seminar focusing on course design, pedagogy and the selection of identifying and compiling open/alternative materials for the course • Objective is to create at least 5 total zero cost sections of the course and run the courses by fall 2018. • 16 participants identified, so far. Stipend for the participants. • The creation of an open access / zero cost John Jay College Justice eReader • The Justice e-Reader will bring together a collection of key texts on the topic of justice, broadly defined, that will function as an intellectual hub for conversations about justice among undergraduate students and their teachers across the college Savings of $255,000 in text bookSavings of $255,000 in text book costs for the students!costs for the students!
- 12. OER IS ABOUTSHARING • Why does the principle of "open" matter to education? • Because "openness" is about sharing • Vision to not only save the students money, but to enhance their learning experiences • Use information technology to equalize the distribution of high quality knowledge and educational opportunities for all students • Many colleges and universities are collaborating in building OER Let the learning outcomes, not a commercial textbook, drive the curriculum! It isn’t just about the $$ It isn’t just about the $$
- 13. OUR DEFINITIONS! • Whatis open? • Content licensed for us to re-use • What is free? • Cost free to students • What is alternative? • Library licensed content OER BASICSOER BASICS
- 14. READY-TO ADOPT OPENCONTENT REPOSITORIES OpenStax (Rice U) https://openstax.org/ Open Textbook Library https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks / (U. of Minnesota platform) Merlot repository (Cal State) https://www.merlot.org Open Textbooks (Community College Consortium for OER). https://www.oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/ OER Commons https://www.oercommons.org/ SUNY Open Textbooks https://textbooks.opensuny.org
- 15. “At the heartof the open educational resources movement is the simple and powerful idea that the world’s knowledge is a public good and that technology in general, and the World Wide Web in particular, provide an extraordinary opportunity for everyone to share, use, and reuse that knowledge” Mike Smith, Director of the Hewlett Foundation Education Program, 2006.
- 16. Hewlett Foundation definition:https://www.hewlett.org/strategy/open- educational-resources/
- 17. Open content iscopyrightable work published freely under a Creative CommonsCreative Commons license. Users have permission to: •Retain – the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage) •Reuse – the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video) •Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language) •Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup) •Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend) OPEN CONTENT The 5 R’s
- 18. CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CreativeCommons_license 1.2billion Creative Commons1.2 billion Creative Commons licensed works!licensed works!
- 19. ALTERNATIVE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (AER):CONTENT LICENSED BY THE LIBRARY • Videos • Journal articles • Encyclopedia articles • Electronic books and e-book chapters John Jay Library: http://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/ AER is not open, but is zero cost to students!AER is not open, but is zero cost to students! • Always use a Permalink to link to aAlways use a Permalink to link to a copyrighted articlecopyrighted article • Do not upload a copyrighted articleDo not upload a copyrighted article
- 20. SEARCHING FOR OER •OER come in a wide variety of types: •Individual media elements, such as photos, graphics, videos, and audio •Online curriculum modules to augment their courses •Complete eTextbooks to replace a publisher’s textbook •Curriculum for the complete coursework (called open courseware).
- 21. WHERE TO FINDOER •Use OER Repositories •Use LibGuides •Use Google •Use Creative Commons search Although not OER, don’t forgot theAlthough not OER, don’t forgot the library licensed content, which arelibrary licensed content, which are a zero cost to the studenta zero cost to the student
- 22. USE OER REPOSITORIESTO FIND OER • OER Repositories • OpenStax (Rice University) https://openstax.org/ • Open Textbook Library https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ • Merlot Repository (Cal State) https://www.merlot.org • Open Textbooks (Community College Consortium for OER) https://www.oerconsortium.org/discipline- specific/ • OER Commons https://www.oercommons.org/ • SUNY Open Textbooks https://textbooks.opensuny.org
- 23. USE LIBGUIDES TOFIND OER • Use LibGuides for OER • John Jay: Zero-Cost Textbook Alternatives and Discipline specific OER http://guides.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/zerocost • Other college and university OER LibGuides Do a Google search (LibGuide OER Biology)
- 24. FINDING OER • SearchGoogle for OER with Creative Commons licensing • Google‘Settings’ (bottom right hand side) •Select ‘Advanced search’ •Filter for CC licensed content… scroll down in advanced search and set “usage rights” parameters to be “Free to use, share, or modify”. • Use Creative Commons search (https://search.creativecommons.org/ “I am looking for a free biology textbook”
- 25. CREATING A “VIRTUALPLACE” Think of the LibGuide as a class package or module…or even a mini- website! • Need a “virtual place” to host the course so the students can easily access it • Various platforms can be used to publish the course (Blackboard, ePortfolio, WordPress, LibGuides), etc. • With learning outcomes and a good syllabus, start building the class using the LibGuides platform…revise and edit easily • “Build” as you go…when you find an OER with possibility, you will have a place to save it The visual display of the course isThe visual display of the course is motivation to keep building andmotivation to keep building and editing!editing! My favorite
- 26. Prototype created asan example of using LibGuides to publish the course: •OER: CSCI 171 Nature of Computers and Computation http://guides.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/oer/CSCI171Hunter Once you get started entering your content,Once you get started entering your content, the visual display of the course is motivationthe visual display of the course is motivation to keep building and editing!to keep building and editing!
- 27. LET’S MOVEON TO OUR OER SEARCHING ACTIVITY Verlene Herrington ([email protected]) for assistance identifying, using and displaying/hosting OER materials 212-237-8222 or 520-236-3997 Raymond Patton ([email protected]) for grant administration questions Contacts:
Editor's Notes
- #2 I know everyone is stressed and overworked. My job as your librarian has always been to help you and support you, not give you more work to do. I’m also the Director of Academic Technology and spend and am always looking for technology to enhance learning and success for our students.
- #12 Can’t focus on the grant details. If you want more info contact Vee.