Una Daly, OpenCourseware ConsortiumJames Glapa-Grossklag, College of the Canyons

Community Colleges and

Open Education

Workforce Development Institute 2013

Agenda

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

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

100+ Community & Technical Colleges

• 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

CCCOER Mission

Funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

True or False?

• All OER is in the public domain• Publisher produced material is better

than OER • eBooks are the same as open

textbooks

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)

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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.

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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

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Creative Commons licensing

• Works with existing copyright law

• Promotes sharing

• Internationally recognized

• Author/creator can specify re-uses

Who is funding OER?

Who is engaged in OER?

What are colleges doing?

• Adopting OER• Developing OER

– E.g. TAACCCT Grantees

• Developing MOOCs• Offering credit for MOOCs• Sharing OER

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

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Washington’s Open Course Library

A collection of openly licensed(CC-BY) educational resources for 81 high-enrollment

community college courses

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

Challenges• Finding content

• Vetting for quality and accessibility

• Licensing content

• Incentivizing content developers

• Adopting content by instructors

• Responding to publisher incentives

Rewards

• Lower costs

• Promote institutional profile as leader

• Leverage existing resources for curriculum development

• Provide timely updates of materials

• Develop custom texts—re-mixing

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

Questions?

• Contact Info:

– Una Daly, unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org– James Glapa-Grossklag,

james.glapa-grossklag@canyons.edu

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