Ope Educational Resources or OERs improve student outcomes, learning objectives and retention. This is the collection of slides from my presentation with J. Slichko outlining the details of our incentivized worshops offered as a partnership between UAlbany IT Services and the Libraries, funded by a SUNY IITG grant.
3. Why Open?
• Improve access and student outcomes
• Increase enrollment and retention
• Promote success of international students
• Leverage existing expertise
• Create a community for OER adoptees
7. WE GOT IT!!!!!
A Three-Pronged Course Redesign Program
to Incorporate OERs into Online Classes:
Instruction, Interaction, Incentive
(Tier II , $20,000)
8. Project Objectives
1. Development of online course materials
• 300 students,12 courses, saving $43,500/semester.
2. Sustainable course redesign model
• Workshop, Consultation, Community of Practice
3. Incentive for participation
• $1,500 stipend upon completion of program
9. Participants receive $1500 upon:
• Complete workshop (November 3, 2017)
• Participate in follow-up support consultations
• Revise of online course w/demonstrable savings to enrollees
• Document learning outcomes & retention information
10. Workshop Overview
Michael Daly
Assistant Professor, Instruction/Public Services Librarian
Fulton Montgomery Community College
SUNY OER Services Mentor and Trainer
Laura Murray
OER Coordinator & Librarian
SUNY OER Services & CUNY OER
Dr. PD Magnus
Associate Professor of Philosophy, OER Author
University at Albany
13. Congratulations!
Lenore Horowitz - INF 108: Programming for Problem Solving
Luis Luna-Reyes - PAD 504: Data, Models and Decisions
Li Niu - CHM 120/121: General Chemistry
Krassi Rangolova - IELP: Intensive English Language Program
Jildys Urbaeva - SSW 610: Human Behavior and Social Environment
Stephen Weinberg - RPAD 503: Principles of Public Economics
14. 2018 and Beyond
• Call for Proposals will be announced in December
• Next workshop will be March 2nd
For more information
OERprojects@albany.edu
Editor's Notes
Julie – 5 R definition – One common definition - resources that you are free to use, you may revise, remix them with other OERs, redistribute, and retain.
SUNY Definition - Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits repurposing by others.
EL
Student - Bureau of Labor stats reported that in 10 years- tuition increased 63% - textbooks increased 88%
Instructor / Institution– Recent research showed that use of OA materials improved retention and student learning outcomes
Researcher –furthers collaboration and increases visibility
EL – Not just textbooks
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
shareware is used in contrast to open-source software, in which the source code is available for anyone to inspect and alter, and freeware, which is software distributed at no cost to the user but without source code being made available.
Julie
IITGs come from an Innovative Instruction Transformation Team
A vision for a “network of networks” emerged, including tools and practices that will collaboratively increase efficiency and capacity for SUNY-wide delivery of high quality instruction. Encourage community of practice across disciplines and institutions
JS - Suggested themes that achieve the grant proposal and focus on applied teaching and learning models ….
These are all of the themes – our grant proposal addressed
Faculty Development – Best Practices
Instructional Design – Online Education
Instructional Technologies – Open Source Programs or Apps
EL
Conceptualized a model – researched models
Examples of funded projects - other R1 institution initiative
Goal – providing incentives for faculty
Goal – step 1 adoption , not creating
Online coursework – access and international pop – strategic university ___
EL –
Faculty accepted have to meet 2 objectives 1) Redesign - 6 fac per semester – total 12 courses – by avg # students x avg textbook cost $145 = total savings per semester - substantial significant
Faculty had to demonstrate savings in their proposal
Ongoing support – Instruction session, Expert guidance , and Peer Support ( workshop, F/U consultation with a design team of and community of practice via Blackboard and suite of resources from Library Guide )
Incentive – completing the model and providing outcomes data
JS
Workshop attendance –
Follow-up support consultations with Elaine and myself – gain assistance on evaluating OERs and application to an online course
Redesign of an online course – with no cost or low cost resources
Commitment Documentation of learning and retention outcomes
EL - Participants will attend a full-day workshop featuring SUNY wide experts on adoption and remixing OERs.
The featured speakers are Michael Daly from FM CC and SUNY OER services, Laura Murray from SUNY and CUNY and Dr. PD Magnus our very own early adopter and author of an internationally-utilized OER Text.
JS –
Keeping in line with SUNY's mission – to foster a community of practice – A blackboard Organization has been developed.
In this organization, faculty can find resources and support one another. We envision this online organization will engender interdisciplinary discourse that is sustainable and grows beyond the grant.
EL – deep resources and evaluation protocol …. In development
We have a nice cross-disciplinary mix of instructors for our first cohort.
We are very excited to work with this group, and we’d like to acknowledge the participants at this time.
If the instructors could stand or raise a hand when your name is called!
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Thank you for participation and we look forward to working with you all