Una Daly and James Glapa-Grossklag from the Community College Consortium for OER at the Open Education Consortium were keynote speakers for the Maryland Online OER Day held at University of Maryland University College in Largo. Over 150 faculty, staff, and administrators registered for the daylong event held on June 2, 2014.

1. Finding and Adopting High
Quality Open Educational
Resources
Una Daly & James Glapa-Grossklag
University of Maryland University College, Largo
June 2, 2014
1Except where otherwise noted these materials
are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY)

2. Welcome
Una Daly
Community College Director
Open Ed Consortium
OER Library Manager, CSU
James Glapa-Grossklag
Dean, College of the Canyons
Vice-President, Open Ed
Consortium

3. Open Education Maryland

4. Open Education Consortium
• Worldwide community of higher
educational institutions committed to
promoting open education
• Expanding access to education through a
shared body of knowledge
• Driving change through our global network
of experts and position as leading voice of
open education worldwide

6. Community College Consortium
250+ colleges in 17 states/provinces

7. Agenda
• True or False
• Barriers to Education
• How Openness Enables Sharing …
• Case Studies
• Student and Faculty Impact
• Finding and Adopting Open Textbooks
• Sustainability of OER
• Challenges on Your Campus

9. Education as Human Right
“ Education is both a human right and a vital means of
promoting peace and respect for human rights and
fundamental freedoms … to realize this potential,
education must be made universally available and
equally accessible to all “
World Education Report 2000, “The right to education: Towards education for all
throughout life”. http://www.unesco.org/education/information/wer/PDFeng/wholewer.PDF

10. Education is about Sharing
• Teachers share knowledge freely
• Students share
their understanding
• Teachers share
with each other.
Source: David Wiley, Why be Open, slideshare 2012
Image: Engineering Expo 10, licensed
by Westpoing CC-BY-NC-ND

11. Tuition and Fees
• Undergraduate costs rose 42 percent
at public institutions 2001-2011
Source: National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?
id=76

12. Student Debt
• Federal Student Loan Debt
– 1-Trillion Dollars
• Avg. loan upon graduation
– $25,000+
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed, Forbes Magazine, Aug 2013
http://www.forbes.com/sites/specialfeatures/2013/08/07/how-the-college-debt-is-crippling-students-
parents-and-the-economy/
Image: Welcome Back to CAL licensed
CC-BY-NC by Black Hour on Flickr

14. • 65% choose to not buy
textbook
• 94% report concern that
grades affected
• 48% take fewer classes
or different classes
Student Impact
CC BY Center of Public Interest Research

15. Solution:
Open Educational Resources
• Online access to textbook on first
day of class.
• Free online, low-
cost print option
• Faculty can adapt for students
Licensed for re-use by
OpenSourceWay

16. 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
free use or repurposing by others.
Image license: cc-by donkyhotey/flickr

17. 17CC BY NC redjar flickr
But how to set
the content free?

18. Use an Open License
• Free: Free to access online, free to print
• Open: Shared, usable and re-usable
• Creative Commons: less restrictions than standard
copyright but author retains full rights.

19. Creative Commons Licenses
Simple, standardized way to grant copyright
permissions
Adapted from Ronda Neugebauer Slidesshare
Permission: Attribute Commercial? Share alike?
http://creativecommons.org

20. 20

21. CC licenses are unique because they
are expressed in three ways.
Slide adapted from Paul Stacey slideshare

22. Make it easy to find!
Slide adapted from Cable Green slideshare

23. Modify for special needs!
Slide adapted from Cable Green slideshare

24. Publisher: Wiley & Sons Publisher : OpenStax College
Amazon $167. 19 Digital Access - $0
Softbound: $34.31
Make it affordable!

25. Who creates open educational
resources?
• Private Foundations
• Grant funded projects
• Educational institutions
• Faculty and other experts
Source: lumen learning slideshare
$100 million
from private
foundations
in the last
decade.

26. Large scale
OER Projects
• U.S. Department of Labor
• OpenStax College
• BCcampus Open Textbooks
• California Open Textbooks
• Kaleidoscope/Lumen Learning
CC-BY-NC-SA by
Cascade Hiker

27. $2 billion over four years
Materials licensed with CC-BY
TAACCCCT Grants
Source: Cable Green, Creative Commons, 2013

28. Maryland TAACCCT Grants
IT Education &
Career Pathways
(INsTEP)

29. OpenStax College
Adapted from David Harrison CCCOER webinar cc-by
Foundation funded open textbooks for top 20+
courses.

30. British Columbia
• Find & develop 40 open textbooks for
highest-enrolled college courses.
– Launch October 2012
– BC faculty peer reviews
– Saved students $234,770.
• Funded by Ministry of Education
http://open.bccampus.ca/forums/topic/list-of-textbooks-with-reviews/

31. California Open Online Library
• 50 open textbooks for highest impact courses
• Peer reviewed by faculty from:
– Community colleges
– State Universities
– University of California
• State and private foundation funding
Image: Licensed cc-by 2.0
Photologue_np on flickr

32. South Africa’s Siyavula
“we are opening”
• Free High School Science Textbooks
• Department of education adopted for all
10, 11, 12th grades in 2010

33. Lumen Learning
• Create and adopt course designs for high-
enrollment courses collaboratively across
multiple institutions
– Use best of existing OER
• First round:
– 6 two-year and 2 four-year colleges.
• Second round:
– Extended to 20 more colleges
– 30+ open courses developed

34. Student ratings of open texts
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Better quality
Same quality
Worse quality
Number of Students
• “It was very concise and aligned with exactly what we were
working on in the class.”
• “Having the textbook catered to us by our teacher was
perfect.”
3%
56%
41%
Source: Bliss, Hilton, Wiley, Thanos (2012)

35. Teaching Impact
6%
13%
14%
14%
16%
18%
19%
21%
22%
23%
3%
5%
1%
3%
4%
2%
2%
2%
2%
2%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
I make use of a wider range of multimedia
I reflect more on the way that I teach
I have broadened my coverage of the curriculum
I now use OER study to develop my teaching
I have improved ICT skills
I more frequently compare my own teaching with
others
I have a more up-to-date knowledge of my subject
area
I use a broader range of teaching and learning
methods
I collaborate more with colleagues
I make more use of culturally diverse resources
strongly agree– agree– neither agree nor disagree– disagree– strongly disagree–

36. Open Textbook Adoption
1. Find and Select Open Textbooks
Peer Review
2. Adoption Process
Support for customization
3. Feedback and Research
Students, faculty, and staff
4. Revisions
Sustainability & Support
San Miguel stairs
creative commons
licensed by larry&flo
2007

37. Establishing Selection Criteria
• Quality of content, pedagogy
• Alignment with course objectives
• Reading & writing level
• Cultural relevancy
• Author’s credentials
• Clarity of material
• Ancillaries
• Format of materials
How to Adopt an Open Textbook

38. Repositories and Ratings
How to Adopt an Open Textbook

39. Adoption Process
• Involve all campus stakeholders
– Academic Senate
– Department Dean
– Students
– Librarians
– Instructional Designers
– Bookstore
– Researchers
– Professional Organizations
Image cc-by Sujin Jetkasettakorn/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net

40. • Promote open practices
and policies
• Help faculty adopt OER
• Get student input
• Ensure OER is accessible
• Openly license your work
• Join the open education community
Open Education Sustainability

41. • Find & adopt open textbook workshops
• Understanding open licenses
• Online accessibility
• Faculty and student surveys
• Access to community of OER
practitioners & experts
• Monthly webinars
Need Help Getting Started?

42. What are the challenges on your campus?
OER Adoption

43. Thank you!
Contact Information
Una Daly unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org
James Glapa-Grossklag, james.glapa-
grossklag@canyons.edu

44. Share
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