OER Authoring and Delivery
Platforms
Clint Lalonde, BCcampus
Judy Einstein & Etienne Pelaprat, Courseload, Inc
Domi Enders, Open Assembly
April 8, 2015, 10:00 am PST
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Clint Lalonde
Open Ed Manager
BCcampus
Judy Einstein
VP Business Dev
Courseload
Moderator: Una Daly
Director of Curriculum Design & College Outreach
Open Education Consortium
Etienne Pelaprat
User Design Director
Courseload
Domi Enders
CEO & Founder
Open Assembly

Agenda
• CCCOER Overview
• Courseload Delivery Platform
• The Pressbooks Authoring Tool
• Open Assembly Platform
• Q & A

• Expand access to high-
quality materials
• Support faculty choice
and development
• Improve student success
Community College Consortium
for OER (CCCOER)
http://oerconsortium.org
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250+ Colleges in 21 States
& Provinces

OER Authoring &
Delivery Platforms
• Faculty need easy-to-use authoring tools
• Institutions need to integrate OER into existing
CMS infrastructures
• Students need easy search and access to OER
• Leverage the inherent shareability of OER to
build communities of interest

Courseload
Judy Einstein
VP Business Dev.
Etienne Pelaprat
UX Director

Strictly Confidential
Courseload’s role in OER success
1. Deliver OERs alongside other course materials in a
seamless, unified content experience.
2. Focus on content-enhancement tools that benefit
instruction and learning.
3. Enable institutional content and metadata management.
4. Flexible, customizable discovery and adoption capabilities.
5. System integrations: LMS, SIS, catalogs, content
repositories.
6. Business models that meet institutional needs.

Strictly Confidential
Courseload Engage
Diverse content
• OER (text-based)
• Video
• Journal articles, library content
• Proprietary content
• Upload content
Features & apps
• Accessible web application
(508(c), WCAG 2.0AA+, ARIA, etc.)
• Native mobile apps
• Offline access
Integration
• Seamless LMS integration
• Content preparation and
rendering

Strictly Confidential
Courseload Engage
• Exceptional content / mobile delivery
• Clean, sleek, attractive, usable
• Day 1 access to students
• Class-wide content enhancements
• Instructionally oriented – scaffold, Q&A, etc.

Strictly Confidential
Ingest & Curate
• Harvest content.
• Ingest diverse catalogs and
metadata.
• Generate custom content
catalogs for your institution,
program, department, etc.
• OER-specific catalogs.
• Metadata curation capabilities
via custom tools.

Strictly Confidential
Discover & Adopt
• Expose catalogs of content to
federated search tools.
• Integrate with campus systems
(e.g., SIS) to facilitate specific
content discovery.
• Ordering tools to acquire new or
custom content.
• Faculty freedom to peruse
catalog offerings and adopt
them for their courses and
sections.

Strictly Confidential
Content analytics
• Content-use data to drive
adoption and ordering
decisions.
• Request custom publisher
textbooks to reduce costs.
• Generate course packs based
on common use patterns.

Strictly Confidential
Student analytics
• Real-time, class-wide reading
data.
• Real-time, class-wide content
interaction data.
• Correlate to outcomes.
• Map data to various content
enhancement strategies.

BCcampus Pressbooks
Clint Lalonde
Open Education Manager

Open Textbook Authoring with
PressBooks Textbook
Clint Lalonde
Manager, Open Education, Bccampus
CCCOER Webinar April 8, 2015
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Connect the expertise, programs, and resources of all BC post-secondary
institutions under a collaborative service delivery framework
• Promote & support the development & use of Open Educational Resources
• System wide initiatives to facilitate the enhancement of a high quality teaching & learning
culture.
Open Education & Professional Learning

The BC Open Textbook Project
40 free & open textbooks for highest
enrolled 1st & 2nd year post-secondary
subjects in BC
2014 – 20 for skills & training
First province in Canada
2014 – AB & SASK MOU
$1 million
2014 - $1 million
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Don’t reinvent it by Andrea Hernandez released under CC-BY-NC-SA and based on Wheel by Pauline Mak released under CC-BY license

Students Faculty
1. Free
2. Choice of formats
a. Web
b. Print
c. eBook
3. Can retain
1. Easy to find
2. Address Quality
3. Support Adapt/Create

Beyond a “book”
“the thing that interests me most about where we are in the world of books is
imagining new and different kinds of models for book publishing. To build new
models, we need open platforms that allow people to experiment with new
ideas.”
Hugh McGuire http://codepoet.com/2013/08/29/hugh-mcguire-interview/
The blurring lines between books and the internet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5iNeDwve1U

Publish Many
Write Once/Import

PressBooks.com
Hosted, commercial service
PressBooks Plugin
Self-Hosted Open Source WP plugin
PressBooks Textbooks Plugin
Extends PB plugin
Pro
• Hosted. Need little tech support
Pro
Con
• No control of platform
• Designed for fiction, not TB
• Cost
• Full control of entire platform
• Open source
Con
• Designed for fiction
• Requires tech support
• Proprietary PDF engine (PrinceXML)
Pro
• Full control of entire platform
• Open Source
• Textbook specific features
Con
• Requires tech support
• Proprietary PDF engine (PrinceXML)
BCcampus developed

Development Cycle
BCcampus develops & contributes code
To PressBooks OS plugin
PressBooks OS plugin code merged
with PressBooks.com

Pressbooks Textbooks Plugin
Extends PB plugin • Add Creative Commons licenses
• Add Textbook specific features
• Learning Outcomes, Exercises &
Key Takeaways
• Search
• Annotation (Hypothes.is)
• Added API (Application Program
Interface)

More than a book (book as application)
"An API, or "Application Program
Interface", is a set of routines and
protocols that provide building
blocks for computer programmers
and web developers to build
software applications."
http://code.tutsplus.com/articles/the-increasing-
importance-of-apis-in-web-development--net-22368

More than a book (book as application)

What we are working on now
• Accessibility features (FLOE Project)
• Replace PrinceXML with Open Source PDF engine
• New ODT output (Word Compatible)

Finding us
Open Textbook Project: open.bccampus.ca
PressBooks plugin: wordpress.org/plugins/pressbooks
PressBooks Textbook plugin: wordpress.org/plugins/pressbooks-textbook
PressBooks Textbooks GitHub (developers): github.com/BCcampus/pressbooks-textbook
Example of a PBTB book: opentextbc.ca/geography

Thank You
open.bccampus.ca
@bccampus @clintlalonde

Open Assembly
Domi Enders
Founder & CEO

Open Learning
powered by
Open Educational Resources
Domi Enders, Founder & CEO | www.openassembly.com

THE PROBLEM: ACCESS
Non-traditional students & adjunct instructors are often poorly
integrated with institutions due to their circumstances, and therefore:
Less likely to be reached by OER initiatives on their campuses
Have limited access to peer communities
How can we use technology and the inherent shareability of OER
to increase access to resources and peer communities?

THE SOLUTION: OPEN ASSEMBLY
Anytime, anywhere
access to peer
communities and
learning resources.
Open Learning Architecture for OER

THE SOLUTION: OPEN ASSEMBLY
Anytime, anywhere
access to peer
communities and
learning resources.
Open Learning Architecture for OER
Personal technology
owned by the adjunct or student,
course to course, year to year
Modularized OER collections
optimized for micro-learning and
ease of adaptation
Collaborative content curation
enabling every user to become a
producer/curator of OER
P2P learning
facilitating connection & interaction
w/ peers, within courses or groups

Content Integration
API Integration
LMS Integration
THE SOLUTION: OPEN ASSEMBLY
• Plug-and-play in any LMS
• Access all your learning resources in a single interface
• Use analytics to personal the learning experience
Open Learning Architecture for OER

THE PLATFORM: OVERVIEW
Analytics
Easy Adaptation
Drag and drop remixing
Contextualized resources
Collaborative
Content Curation
Live chat
Groups
Modularized OER collections
Modularized OER collections

Contracted pilot: 2015
60k students & 5k adjuncts1,132 institutions
12.8M students
644K adjuncts
INSTITUTIONAL PILOTS 2015: PROOF OF CONCEPT
Anticipated pilot: 2015
13k students & 1k adjuncts
OTHER CCCOER PILOTS UNDER
DEVELOPMENT

INSTITUTIONAL PILOTS: EFFICACY STUDIES
Teaching with modularized and curated OER
a. Time-savings in class prep time
b. Increase/decrease in OER adoption
c. Value of OER curation to
• Departments
• Instructors
• Students
d. Increase/decrease of instructor-student
interaction via
• Use of live chat
• Use of analytics
• Collaborative content curation
Learning with modularized and curated OER
a. Increased engagement via
• Affordability of resources
• Increased opportunities for P2P learning
• Increased opportunities for interaction with
faculty
• Anytime anywhere access to OER
b. Improved student outcomes
• Course completion
• Engagement with college as community
METRICS

openassembly.com
Domi Enders: domi@openassembly.com

May 13, 10:00 am PST
See you at our next webinar!
Community College
OER Projects
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Open Education Global 2015
The theme for Open
Education Global 2015 is
Entrepreneurship and
Innovation, emphasizing the
exciting directions and
developments in open
education around the world.
Organized by OEC and
Athabasca University.
Where: Alberta, Canada
When: 22-24 April, 2015
http://conference.oeconsortium.org/2015/

Thank you for coming!
Contact Info:
Una Daly: unatdaly@oeconsortium.org
Clint Lalonde : clalonde@bccampus.ca
Judy Einstein : judy@courseload.com
Etienne Pelaprat : etienne@courseload.com
Domi Enders : domi@openassembly.com
Questions?