Presentation by Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources at the American Association of Community Colleges Workforce Development Institute 2013 in San Diego

1. Community Colleges
and
Open Education
Una Daly, OpenCourseware Consortium
James Glapa-Grossklag, College of the Canyons
Workforce
Development
Institute 2013

2. Agenda
• Open Education 101
• True or False ?
• What is OER?
• Who’s Doing OER?
• Opportunities
• Challenges & Risks
• Rewards
• Q&A

3. OpenCourseWare Consortium
(founded MIT in 2001)
―Advance formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-
quality education materials organized as courses.‖
Nearly 300 institutions in 46 Countries

4. 100+ Community & Technical Colleges

5. CCCOER Mission
• Promote academic and career goals
through adoption of OER to expand
access and fuel faculty innovation
– Lower cost of materials
– Support professional development
– Advance community college mission
Funded by the William & Flora
Hewlett Foundation

6. True or False?
• All OER is in the public domain
• Publisher produced material is better
than OER
• eBooks are the same as open
textbooks

7. Many Flavors of Open
• Open Educational Resources aka OER
• Open Textbooks
• OpenCourseWare aka OCW
• Massive Open Online Course aka MOOC
• Open Access Journals
• Open Source (Code)

8. 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.
cc-by donkyhotey/flickr
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license 8

9. What is an Open License?
• Free: Free to access online, free to print
• Open: Shared, usable and re-usable: licensing
that is less restrictive than standard copyright
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license 9

10. Creative Commons licensing
• Works with existing copyright law
• Promotes sharing
• Internationally recognized
• Author/creator can specify re-uses
10

11. Who is funding OER?

12. Who is engaged in OER?

13. What are colleges doing?
• Adopting OER
• Developing OER
– E.g. TAACCCT Grantees
• Developing MOOCs
• Offering credit for MOOCs
• Sharing OER

14. Community College MOOCs
• Developmental Math
– Cuyahoga, Wake Tech Community Colleges
• Developmental English
– Mount San Jacinto Community College
• EdX Partnership
– Mass Bay and Bunker Hill Community Colleges

15. Washington’s Open Course Library
A collection of openly licensed(CC-BY)
educational resources for 81 high-enrollment
community college courses
Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds CC-BY-
NC-SA

16. Saylor.org
Clinton Global Initiative
• Professional Development OER
– Workplace skills
• Writing, Word processing, Spreadsheets
– Job search skills
• Resumes, Interviewing, Etiquette
– 12 Career Development Modules
• E.g. Accounts Payable,HR, etc.
• Mobile Access on iTunesU

17. Challenges
• Finding content
• Vetting for quality and accessibility
• Licensing content
• Incentivizing content developers
• Adopting content by instructors
• Responding to publisher incentives

18. Rewards
• Lower costs
• Promote institutional profile as leader
• Leverage existing resources for
curriculum development
• Provide timely updates of materials
• Develop custom texts—re-mixing

19. Opportunities
• Train faculty to find and adopt OER
• Articulate benefits of OER
• Workflow management for OER
production and distribution
• Accessibility compliance training
• Partner with educators engaged in OER

20. Questions?
• Contact Info:
– Una Daly, unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org
– James Glapa-Grossklag, james.glapa-
grossklag@canyons.edu

21. Photo credits:
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4424154829/in/photostream/
IMG_4591 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/4700979984/ cc-by-sa
La belle tzigane http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/21063837 cc-by-sa
Asian Library Interior 5 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubclibrary/453351638/ cc-by-nc-sa
Petru http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/23724427/ cc-by-nc-sa
Opensourceways http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4371000710/ cc-by-sa