Workshop presented to foreign language teachers in Michigan during the MI World Languages Association Annual Conference on November 11, 2016.

1. No Money? No Problem! Free Open
Educational Resources-Join the
Movement
MI World Languages Association Annual Conference
November 11, 2016
Regina Gong, Librarian and OER Project Manager
Lansing Community College

2. There’s a problem that
OER are trying to solve.

3. Community
college
students

6. Market Failure
5 major
publishers hold
nearly 90% of
the market
Source: Turning the Page by James Koch

8. • Student PIRGS released a groundbreaking report
revealing the new face of the textbook monopoly: access
codes.
• Across institutions and majors, 32% of courses included
access codes as required materials.
• At campus bookstores, the average cost of an access
code alone was $100.24.
• In bookstores, only 28% of access codes were offered in
unbundled form. Even when acquired directly from the
publisher, only 56% of all required access codes were
offered without additional materials bundled in, despite
federal law requiring materials to be sold separately.
Full report at: http://www.studentpirgs.org/reports/sp/access-denied

9. Textbook Cost vs. Student Success
Source: 2016 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus

10. We can do better.

11. Open Educational Resources (OER)
Digitized materials, offered freely and openly
for educators and students to use and re-use
for teaching, learning, and research.

12. Source: The Open Ecosystem by Clobridge Consulting is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License.
Open Education is part of an Open Ecosystem

13. OER come in many forms

14. open > free

15. open = free + permissions

16. Source: http://lumenlearning.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/5Rs-Graphic.jpg

17. open licensing system
www.creativecommons.org

18. puts the “open” in OER

19. Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeblogs/3020966268/sizes/o/in/photostream/

20. Open Content / Open Licenses
Source: Tyler.stefanich_Creative_Commons_Swag_Contest_2007_2_(by).jpg found at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki / BY-SA
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

21. licenses
most
open
least
open
(OER)
(Not OER)
CC license image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 South Africa license

22. • Faculty benefits
• Increased flexibility of how you
use content and ancillaries
• Easy access in many formats
• Possibilities of customization,
can modify/edit as needed
• Student feedback is positive
(students are grateful)
• Supporting our students (social
justice)
• Student benefits
• Low cost or free
• Increased availability
• Opportunity to retain the
textbook & resources
• No heavy, bulky text to tote
• Easy to find and access, even
before course begins

23. Faculty have:
Right to customize
The textbook
Students have:
Day 1 access to that
customized textbook and
CHOICE
+

24. LCC AT A GLANCE
• Located in downtown Lansing
• 26,000 students enrolled/year
• 3rd largest cc in MI
• 262 degree & certificate programs
• 1,200+ courses
• 500 full-time staff & faculty
• 1,800 part-time staff & faculty

25. • Started by a librarian + some
faculty champions
• Administration support was
crucial at the start
• Focused on OER awareness first
• No grants for faculty were given
• Pilot started in fall 2015 semester
OER Initiative at LCC

26. Courses Using OER
•BIOL 127 – All sections
•BIOL 128 – All sections
•BIOL 270 – 1 section
•ECON 201 – All sections
•ECON 202 – All sections
•GRMN 121 – All sections
(50/50)
•GRMN 122 – All sections
(50/50)
HIST 211 – 5 sections
HIST 212 – 4 sections
MUSC 168 – 1 section
PHIL 151 - 3 sections
PHIL 153 - 2 sections
PSYC 200 – All sections
PSYC 202 - (3 sections)
SOCL 120 – 10 sections
WRIT 121 - 4 sections

27. OER Adoptions at LCC

28. Students Impacted by OER

29. Textbook Costs Savings

30. Source: http://bit.ly/2f7ZMaN

31. • Encourage more OER adoptions
• Work on offering Z-degree starting Fall
2018
• Work with faculty to have their own
content openly licensed
• Support faculty with OER creation
through grants
• More faculty engagement with open
education and pedagogy
Source: http://mazeway.com/wp-
content/uploads/2012/08/MovingForwardTogether.jpg
Moving forward

32. Source: https://smart-strutters.wikispaces.com/World+Languages
http://www.mpsaz.org/worldlanguages

33. Sources for Language
Learning OER
Repositories, Collections &
Communities

34. Evaluation Criteria
Match with learner needs
Alignment with curriculum standards
Ease of use and accessibility (open formats, ability to
download source files)
License restrictions (degree of openness)
Reputation of author / peer review
Community support

35. Sources: OER Repositories

36. MERLOT
http://www.merlot.org
Large collection of
language materials
Ability to Browse by
language
Curation, peer review, and
comments help best
resources rise to the top
Materials are not
necessarily OER

38. https://www.merlot.org/merlot/WorldLanguages.htm

39. OER Commons
http://www.oercommons.org/
Languages is under Arts and
Humanities
Includes all types of OER
Can’t browse by languages.

40. https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/mco
OER Hub for all 28
community colleges in
MI
One stop shop for OER
searching
Collection is growing
and curating is ongoing
Languages is under Arts
& Humanities subject
collection

41. http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

42. http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/

43. http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/

44. Sources for Language
Learning OER
Language Centers and
Institutional Archives

45. http://www.nflrc.org/

46. http://www.nflrc.org/lrcs.php

48. http://coerll.utexas.edu/coerll//

49. http://lmp.ucla.edu/

50. Language Open Resources Online (LORO)
http://loro.open.ac.uk/

51. http://capl.washjeff.edu/

52. http://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons

53. http://libguides.lcc.edu/oer

54. Option to find OER materials by discipline

55. Source: Social Media & Individual
Curation

56. #langchat on Twitter

57. Français interactif Facebook
Community

58. Q&A Period
What questions do you have about
finding OER for language learning
or any of the sites shown?

61. If you have any questions
please contact Regina Gong,,
gongr1@lcc.edu
Follow me on Twitter
@drgong