Presentation by CCCOER on Finding and Selecting OER at De Anza OER Workshop held on May 31, 2013. Organized by students and faculty!

1. Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director
OpenCourseWare Consortium
Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director
OpenCourseWare Consortium
Discovery and Adoption of High
Quality OER
May 31, 2013 1

2. Today’s Agenda
• Discovery & Adoption of OER
– 10:30-10:50
• Finding OER in teams
– 11:10-11:30
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3. Community College Consortium
for OER
Dr. Martha Kanter
U.S. Undersecretary of
Education
• Founded at Foothill-DeAnza
College District in 2007
• Joined OCW Consortium
2011
• Growth to 200+ colleges in
North America
Funded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

4. 200+
Community & Technical Colleges

5. What are Open Educational
Resources?
U.S. Dept. of Education
– 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.
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cc-by donkyhotey/flickr
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license

6. 66
Save Costs & Empower Faculty
Traditional Textbook
New Hardback from
$213.00
Free: online, pdf, ePub
Printed copy from
$49.75
OpenStax College

7. 7
Steps to Adopt
Open Educational Resources
1. Discover & Select
1. Adopt & Use
2. Advocacy & Training
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San Miguel stairs creative commons licensed by
larry&flo 2007

8. Step 1: Discover & Select
•Review selection
criteria
•How to find OER?
•Find an OER adopter
community
How to Adopt an Open Textbook -- Adopt & Use Section 888
Image: capl@washjeff.edu cc-by-nc-sa

9. Establishing Selection Criteria
• Quality of content, pedagogy
• Alignment with course objectives
• Reading & writing level
• Cultural relevancy
• Author’s credentials
• Clarity of material
• Ancillaries
• Articulation
• Format of materials
How to Adopt an Open Textbook 9

10. 1010
Discover OER
Repositories & Listing Sites
How to Adopt an Open Textbook

11. Peer reviewed, highest-enrolled open courses
You can download and use for teaching. All
content is stored in Google docs making it
easy to access, browse and download.
Washington State Board Community & Technical Colleges
Unless otherwise specified, this work is licensed
Open Course Library

12. Connexions
• Collections of learning modules
• Searchable by subject areas
• Organizations may endorse content
• ePub, PDF, web, Print on Demand
• Registered users may author & publish
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13. OpenStax College
Ultimate Goal – High-quality books for top 20+ courses. All
books licensed
Spring 2012 Spring 2012 Spring 2013 Spring 2013 Fall 2013
Adapted from David Harrison CCCOER webinar cc-by 13

14. 14
MERLOT
• Open textbook list by category (2200+)
• Some peer reviews, accessibility reviews
• Open licenses vary
• Registered users may create personal
collections and comment.

15. 15
College Open Textbooks
• Open textbook list by subject
(750+)
• Peer reviews (150)
• Accessibility reviews (100)
• Licenses vary

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CK-12
• Math and science open textbooks,
interactive lessons, online study help.
• Curated STEM content targeted at middle
school and advanced placement.
• Standards aligned
• Registered users may adapt materials

17. Finding OER in Teams
• Work with partner(s) and visit one or more
– opencourselibrary.org
– cnx.org
– openstaxcollege.org
– taste.merlot.org/opentextbooks
– collegeopentextbooks.org
– orangegrovetexts.com
– ck12.org
– oercommons.org
• Share your findings 17

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Steps to Adopt
Open Educational Resources
1. Discover & Select
1. Adopt & Use
2. Advocacy & Training
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San Miguel stairs creative commons licensed by
larry&flo 2007

19. Step 2: Adopt and Use
• Announce to the
stakeholders
• How will students
access it?
• How soon must title
be available?
• Add other open
resources?
How to Adopt an Open Textbook -- Adopt & Use Section 191919
FREE PUPPIES
WIREDSTEVE CC-BY-NC-SA

20. Student Access to Textbooks
• Classroom/Lab usage
– Print, PDF, online, mobile
• Students still want print copies
• Repository access
– Copy to LMS
– Link to materials
20How to Adopt an Open Textbook – Adopt & Use Section 20

21. How to Adopt an Open Textbook 21
Steps to Adopt
Open Educational Resources
1. Discover & Select
2. Adopt & Use
3. Advocacy & Training
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San Miguel stairs creative commons licensed by
larry&flo 2007
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22. • Promote open practices
and policies
• Help faculty find OER
• Get student input
• Openly license your work
• Join an open education community
Step 3: Advocacy & Training
How to Adopt an Open Textbook -- Adopt & Use Section 22

23. Join the Open Community
• Become a member of the leading open
education organization worldwide:
• Contact info:
– unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org 23