A panel of Community College leaders from around the country shared their OER Projects at Lansing Community College's OER Summit Day, Sept 18, 015. Panel was moderated by Una Daly, Director of Community College Consortium for OER. Speakers: Jeff Janowick, Lansing Community College Kari Richards, Lansing Community College Tina Ulrich, Northwestern Michigan Community College Preston Davis, Northern Virginia Community College Quill West, Pierce Community College, WA Lisa Young, Scottsdale Community College, AZ

1. Sept 18, 2015
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Jeff Janowick, Lansing
Kari Richards, Lansing
Tina Ulrich, Northwestern Michigan
Preston Davis, Northern Virginia
Quill West, Pierce, WA
Lisa Young, Scottsdale AZ
Community College OER Panel

2. Welcome
Moderator: Una Daly
Director of Curriculum Design & College Outreach
Open Education Consortium
Image: cc-by-3.0 licensed by Jonasthmello, UNESCO website for OER Global logo in other languages

3. Agenda
• Open Education Overview
• 6 OER Project Overviews
• Audience Questions
• Final Remarks

4. What is Open Education?
• The open sharing of digital learning
materials, tools, and practices that
ensures free access to and legal adoption
of learning resources
U.S. Open Government Commitment 2014
.

5. Increasing
Cross-Institutional Collaboration
“Universities are joining consortia to combine
resources or to align themselves strategically
with innovation”
“Emerging consortia are founded with the
express purpose of helping institutions
continuously adopt best practices for digital
learning.
New Horizon Report 2015

6. Community of Practice
A group of people who share a concern or a
passion for something they do and learn
how to do it better as they interact
regularly.
Etienne Wenger

7. Hundreds of higher education institutions &
organizations committed to advancing open
education and its impact globally.
Open Education Consortium

8. • Expand access to high-quality
open education materials
• Support faculty choice and
development
• Improve student success
Community College Consortium
for OER (CCCOER)
http://oerconsortium.org
Come In, We're Open gary simmons
cc-by-nc-sa flickr

9. Fall 2015 Webinars
• Sept 9: Finding and Adopting OER with
OpenStax, CanvasCommons, & Saylor
• Oct 14: OER and Accessibility with PhET
Simulations & the BCcampus Toolkit
• Dec 2: OER and Competency-based
Learning
Archived webinars at http://oerconsortium.org and OEC youtube channel

10. 250+ Colleges
in 21 States & Provinces

11. Join CCCOER
• Monthly webinars featuring OER thought
leaders
• Access to community of OER experts &
practitioners
• Find & adopt open textbook workshops
• Understanding open licenses
• Designing for online accessibility
• Faculty and student surveys
• Opportunities to collaborate across the world

12. OER History Course
Jeff Janowick
History Professor
Co-chair Competitiveness and Innovation

13. Diary of an OER first-timer

15. OER German Course
Kari Richards
Faculty Chair, Foreign Languages
German Professor, Adjunct

16. COMMUNITY OUTREACH:
EXPLORING FOREIGN LANGUAGE
OER WITH HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS

17. REGINA GONG
Manager of Library
Technical Services &
Systems
CHUCK PAGE
Reference and
Instruction Librarian

18. SPRING 2016
FRENCH 115 –
Conversational French I
Instructor: Darcy Ebert
GERMAN 115 –
Conversational German I
Instructor: Charlotte Steiner
SPANISH 115 –
Conversational Spanish I
Instructor: Sara Bostwick

19. OER Pilot Project
Tina Ulrich
Director of Library Services

20. OER Pilot Project
● $5,000 Innovation grant
from NMC Foundation
● 10 instructors teach one of
their courses using all free
materials
● Each get an IPad or $500
● Evaluate at the end and
make recommendations
for future

21. Pierce Open Pathways
Quill West
OER Project Manager
President, CCCOER

22. Institutional Commitment Increased Access Innovative Learning

24. OER Associate Degree
Dr. Preston Davis
Director, Extended Learning Institute
VP, CCCOER Partnerships

25. Faculty, IDs and Librarians
using free/open digital content

26. NOVA’s Online OER Program
NOVA’s Extended Learning Institute (ELI) offers 40 Digital Open online classes
with two complete AS degree tracks with zero textbook costs for students!
•English – ENG 111, ENG 112, ENG 123, ENG 125
•College Math – MTH 151, MTH 152, MTH 157, MTH 277
•Science – PHY 201, PHY 202, BIO 231, BIO 251
•History – HIS 121, HIS 122
•Communications – CST 110
•Physical Education – PED 116
•Economics – ECO 201, ECO 202
•Student Development – SDV 100
•Information Technology – ITE 115, ITD 132, ITD 160
•Humanities – REL 100, MUS 121
•Fine Arts – ART 101, ART 102, ART 115, ART 116, ART 117, ART 142, ART 151
•Social/Behavioral Sciences – HIS 262, PSY 200, SOC 200

27. A Team Effort
● Access - Over 8000 students have
taken a course in our OER program since
fall 2013, with access to free/open digital
content;
● Affordability – NOVA students enrolled in
OER courses in the ELI Open Educational
Resources AS program have saved over
$1.2 Million;
● Student Success – The overall student
success rates in the pilot OER-based
courses was 9% higher than the overall
success rate for the equivalent textbook-
based courses!

28. Maricopa Millions
Dr. Lisa Young
Faculty Director, Center for Teaching & Learning,
Maricopa Millions Co-Director
VP, CCCOER Professional Development

29. Questions??
@MaricopaOER

30. Textbooks comprise about 30%
of college expenses in Arizona

32. MCCCD OER Steering Team
meets twice each month
established Fall 2013
OER STRATEGIC PLAN
9 Faculty
2 Presidents
MCLI
VP &
Deans
Instructional
Designers
IT
Library Faculty
Executive
Sponsor
http://sha3teely.com/?p=128

33. Grant – funded OER Courses
Business Psychology
Chemistry English
Reading
Biology
Social
Work
Health
Science
http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com/

34. Creating OER Awareness and
Increasing Adoption
• Presentations
• Call for OER Grants
• Dialogue Days
• Department Meetings
• “Water Cooler”
Discussions
• Promotional Items
• CTLs
• College Librarieshttp://www.skmurphy.com/startup-stages/scaling-up-stage/

36. Questions??
@MaricopaOER

37. Questions for the Panelists
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38. Final Remarks
Thank you for participating!
Contact info:
Jeffrey Janowick <janowij@star.lcc.edu>
Kari Richards <richa45@star.lcc.edu>
Lisa Young <lisa.young@scottsdalecc.edu>
"Davis, Preston" <wdavis@nvcc.edu>
Quill West <CWest@pierce.ctc.edu>
Tina Ulrich <tulrich@nmc.edu>
Una Daly <unatdaly@oeconsortium.org>