This document summarizes an event celebrating Open Education Week from March 5-10. It discusses open educational resources (OER) which are openly licensed teaching and learning materials that can be freely used and adapted. Examples of OER include open textbooks, courses, videos and images. The benefits of OER include reducing costs for students and enabling collaboration. Various organizations that support OER are mentioned including the OpenCourseWare Consortium and the Community College Open Educational Resources Consortium.

1. Celebrate
Open Education Week
March 5-10
Una Daly, Open Courseware Consortium
James Glapa-Grossklag, College of the Canyons

2. March 5-10 Webinars
• Accessibility
• Bridge to Success
• Kaleidoscope
• Open Course Library
• OpenStaxCollege
• Open University
• UNESCO ….

3. 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 3

4. 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
4
Creative Commons CC-BY license, Dr. Judy Baker

5. 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

6. 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

7. Who is engaged in OER?
P2PU

8. Why Practice Openness?
Institutional Mission
“The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge
and …. The Institute is committed to
generating, disseminating, and preserving
knowledge ….”

9. Who is funding OER?

10. 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

11. CCCOER Mission
• Empower Faculty to
– Find
– Select
– Adopt
– Share
High quality, accessible OERs
Funded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation 11

12. The Community College Mission

13. Why Practice Openness?
• Reduce student costs
• Collaborate across disciplines
• Improve learning
• Leverage taxpayer investments in
education
• Scale education

14. CCCOER Priorities 2012
• Grow the Community
• Educational Outreach
• Online Resources for Faculty
– http://oerconsortium.org
• Conferences & Meet-ups
• Research & Grant Opportunities
• Partnerships for Sustainability

15. Help Us Grow CCCOER-OCW

16. Monthly
Education 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

17. Why Join the
CCCOER-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.

18. Adopter Communities:
Sustainability
• Increase Adoptions
• Encourage Reuse
– Ancillaries
• Collaboration
– Faculty and students
• Collect Best Practices & Replicate

19. Open Policy: Sustainability
• Education is about sharing
– Maximize our investments
• Sharing provides benefits back
– New partners
– Translations
– Enhancements
From Creative Commons Store
Cable Green, Creative Commons Director

20. Contact information
Una Daly
Community College Outreach Manager
OpenCourseWare Consortium
unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org
James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean
Educational Technology, Learning Resources, & Distance Learning
College of the Canyons
James.glapa-grossklag@canyons.edu