Presentation from Open Education Week, March 13, 2013 From a "Basic Arithmetic MOOC” to an “OER-based General Education Certificate”, learn about the innovation at our two-year public colleges and how to best support institutional adoption of OER at your college. Website: http://oerconsortium.org How to participate Webinar time: 19:00-20:00 GMT/UTC Webinar language: English PRIOR TO THE MEETING Test Your Computer Readiness Use the following link to login to the webinar: http://www.cccconfer.org/MyConfer/GoToMeetingAnonymousely.aspx?MeetingSeriesID=7f5ae919-67a1-4e98-8cf7-861fc0692b93 When prompted, please enter first and last name, email address, and screen name and click on the Connect button to proceed to webinar. Speakers Una Daly MA, Community College Outreach, OpenCourseWare Consortium Dr. Wm. Preston Davis Director of Instructional Services, ELI, Northern Virginia Community College Dr. Donna Gaudet Math Professor, Scottsdale Community College, Arizona Quill West OER Project Director, Tacoma Community College, Washington

1. The
Community
Colleges
OER
Innovation
Panel
Dr. Preston Davis, Northern Virginia Community College
Dr. Donna Gaudet, Scottsdale Community College
Quill West, Tacoma Community College
Una Daly, OCW Consortium
March 2013

2. Collaborate Window Overview
Audio & Video
Participants
Chat

3. Welcome
Please introduce yourself in the chat
window. Tell us about your OER
interests.
– Una Daly, moderator
• Community College Outreach Director at
OCW Consortium

4. Agenda
• Introduction
• Community College Consortium
• OER-based General Education
Certificate
• Basic Arithmetic MOOC Case Study
• Institutional Adoption of OER
• Q&A

5. 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 5

6. Examples
Includes –
• Course materials
• Lesson Plans
• Modules or lessons
• OpenCourseWare (OCW)
• Open textbooks
• Videos
• Images
• Tests
• Software
• Any other tools, materials, or techniques used
to support ready access to knowledge
adapted from Judy Baker’s ELI 2011 OER Workshop cc-by license
6

7. 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
CreativeCommons.org
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license 7

8. Mission
• Promote adoption of OER to enhance
teaching and learning
– Expand access to education
– Support professional development
– Voice for open education at community
colleges.
Funded by the William & Flora
Hewlett Foundation

9. 150+ Community & Technical College
Members
Community College Consortium for OER

10. Spring Faculty Development
Webinars
Webinar Topic Date
OER for Workforce Skills & Job January 29
Search
Critical Role of Librarians in OER February 26
Adoption
Open Education Week Webinars March 10-15
OER Authoring Tools March 26
California’s Open Textbooks & April 30
MOOC Strategies
Future Trends in Open Education June 4

11. OER-Based General Education
Certificate Program
Wm. Preston Davis, Ed.D.
Director of Instructional Services

12. NOVA’s OER-Based Gen Ed
Certificate
The Northern Virginia Community College
(NOVA) Extended Learning Institute (ELI)
was awarded a CIF Grant to create a series
of general education course options utilizing
free, high-quality Open Educational
Resources (OERs).

13. Goals of This Project
 Create greater awareness of OER at NOVA;
 Help faculty to identify existing OER and/or
create new OER content to improve teaching
and learning;
 Make education more accessible and
affordable for all learners at NOVA and
throughout the VCCS by doing away with the
requirement for students to purchase and rely
on expensive textbooks for these courses.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/uafcde/1817132666

14. Courses Selected
 English – ENG 111, 112,125
 Math – MTH 151
 Science – PHY 201, 202
 History – HIS 121, 122
 Humanities/Fine Arts – ART 101, 102
 Social/Behavioral Sciences – HIS 262
 Student Development – SDV 100
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43602175@N06/4070018828

15. Faculty Commitment
The faculty participating
in the OER project were
carefully selected based on:
 A history of providing high quality and
innovative instruction;
 A clear understanding and application
of sound online teaching pedagogy;
 And demonstrated knowledge of and
prior use of some open course
content.
http://openclipart.org/detail/6970/reference-desk-by-stevelambert-6970

16. Project Resources
 Faculty are provided small stipends to
redesign the courses using OERs instead
of traditional textbooks.
 ELI resources (librarian, Instructional
Designers) are provided to assist in course
development
 All course material developed with grant
funds will be shared throughout the VCCS
and licensed Attribution-NonCommercial-
ShareAlike Creative Commons license.

17. Outcomes
 This project will be promoted to
students at NOVA as both a Certificate
Program and individual course
options.
 These courses will be more affordable
and accessible to community college
students.
 Student demand for these
courses will drive future
course development.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sepblog/3941048713/

18. Basic Arithmetic
An OER MOOC delivered via the
Canvas Network
Donna Gaudet, Scottsdale Community College, donna.gaudet@scottsdalecc.edu

19. Word Source: New York Times article, “The Year of the MOOC” http://nyti.ms/Vmap9a

20. Source:
http://elearningindustry.com/subjects/general/item/438-the-rise-and-history-of-moocs-infographic-prezi-presentation

21. Source:
http://elearningindustry.com/subjects/general/item/438-the-rise-and-history-of-moocs-infographic-prezi-presentation

22. Source:
http://elearningindustry.com/subjects/general/item/438-the-rise-and-history-of-moocs-infographic-prezi-presentation

23. What does OPEN really mean?
Massively Open Online Course
Open Educational Resources

24. Basic Arithmetic – Just one of the 118….
To find a MOOC: http://www.class-central.com/

26. Course Specifics
Category Detail
Enrollment Limit 500
Materials - print Free download/print cost only
purchase from Lulu.com
Materials – Online assessment Free – WAMAP system (similar
to MyOpenMath)
Tuition $0 – no enrollment or
processing through SCC
Term 10 weeks –hard start and end
dates
Content Print and video
Assignments Self and computer graded
Certificate Completers receive
Completion Statement

27. The Potential…500 Students!

30. The Reality…
Activity Participation
Orientation Quiz 103
Created MathAS Account 75
Completed Lesson 1 53

31. Lessons Learned…Future Offerings
• Enrollment Size – increase to 2500
• Decrease time span between
advertising and class start
• Advertise Certificate of Completion early on
• Don’t split off discussion groups into
smaller segments…leave them
all together to promote more
interaction and sense of community

32. The Promise of MOOCS for CC’s
• Still early…not many CC’s in the MOOC space
• Completion numbers are not encouraging
• May be some potential for a hybrid MOOC
(online option with in-person, regular
instructor support)

33. Institutional Adoption of OER
Quill West
OER Project Director

34. The TCC OER Project
Increases student learning
opportunities.
Invests in teacher and
student freedom.
Invites faculty and student
participation.

35. TCC OER Project commits to
saving students $250,000 in two
years.
Progress So Far*:
$128,000.00 in two quarters.
6 courses, 16 sections in fall
10 courses, 20 sections in winter
18 courses, 39 sections in spring
*For statistics, satisfaction surveys and more information, email me later.

36. Advice goes here.

37. Audience Participation
Click the green check-mark: How many people
have their own OER Projects?
In the chat window:
What do you hope to get out of this presentation?

38. The roots of the TCC OER Project.
What is working.
What we think about changing sometimes.
Dreams for the future.

39. The roots of the TCC OER Project.
What is working.
What we think about changing sometimes.
Dreams for the future.

40. The roots of the TCC OER Project.
What is working.
What we think about changing sometimes.
Dreams for the future.

41. The roots of the TCC OER Project.
What is working.
What we think about changing sometimes.
Dreams for the future.

42. The roots of the TCC OER Project.
What is working.
What we think about changing sometimes.
Dreams for the future.

43. Thank you. Please contact me to talk more.
qwest@tacomacc.edu
Photographs by Tacoma Community College. Photographs in this presentation are not licensed for reuse.
Liberate$250K Drawing by Trudi Cedar West for Tacoma Community College OER Project is licensed with an Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.

44. Questions for Panelists
Una Daly: unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org
Preston Davis, wdavis@nvcc.edu
Donna Gaudet, donna.gaudet@scottsdalecc.edu
Quill West, qwest@tacomacc.edu
Thank you for coming!!