Presenter: Brenda Perea
Reaping the Benefits of Open
Educational Resources
What, Where and Why?
What is OER?—Open Educational Resources are high-quality, openly licensed, shared educational materials made freely available online
OER is: Open course ware, Learning objects, tutorials, open journals, streaming videos, textbooks, modules and courses
Where is OER?—Many different repositories
Why OER?—Access, Affordability, and Student Success
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Colorado Online Energy Training
Consortium
Colorado Helps Advanced
Manufacturing Programs
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General Benefits of using OER
1. Learning effectiveness
• Better quality or more recent material
2. Access
• Wider variety of learning materials
• There are many complete courses from leading universities
• Enhances opportunities for learning
• Informed decisions as to content and class preparation
3. Scale
• Cost effective
• Adaptability for individual colleges and instructors
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General Benefits continued….
4. Faculty success
• Avoid “reinventing the wheel”
• More Clarity and/or certainty regarding reuse of materials
• Content is compiled and edited by the instructor
5. Student success
• Better quality and easier access
• Better informed decisions in choosing the right course and preparing for class
• Digital OER textbooks are condensed
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What were the “Real” Benefits?• Decreased development time and maximized
resources• Quality improvements through collaboration• Content is compiled and edited by the instructor• Time and effort were saved through the reuse and remixing of
resources• Content is adaptable for individual colleges and instructors
• Avoid the cycle of constant textbook updates• Content sharing “standardized” throughout the
colleges• New Partnerships Opportunities
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A Case Study of OER Benefits
Colorado Helps Advanced Manufacturing Programs Colorado Community College System, Aims Community College
and Metropolitan State University-Denver
• OER Based Advanced Manufacturing Courses—Additive Manufacturing (3D Printing)
• New Field—collaborative course material development
• Shared content between 2 outside institutions, and 3 system colleges
• Ability to create articulate agreements because of transparency of OER developed to meet competencies
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A Case Study of OER Benefits
Northern Virginia Community College
• OER Based Associate Degree Program
• Average cost of Textbooks=$185
• Potential savings of $3700 per student completing full OER AS degree Track (60 hours)
• Student Success
•Overall success rate is 9% higher than the overall success rate average for equivalent textbook-based courses
• WHY?—we know that 30% of all students in a course do not by the required course materials
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Types of Courses Published to OER
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EIC130 National Electrical Code I
EIC225 Programmable Controllers
ELT106 Fundamentals of DC/AC
ELT112 Advanced DC/AC
ENY121 Solar Photovoltaic Components
MAT107 Career Math
PRO100 Intro to Process Technology
PRO110 Safety, Health, and Environment
PRO120 Process Tech 1-Equipment 1
PRO130 Instrumentation I
PRO131 Instrumentation II
PRO240 Industrial Troubleshooting
Writing for Process Technology
TAAA Hydraulics I
TAAA Hydraulics II
TAAA Industrial AC/DC and Print Reading
TAAA Industrial Motors and Control
TAAA Introduction and Intermediate PLC's
TAAA MSHA Supplemental-Mine Safety and Health Admin
TAAA Mechanical Components
TAAA Welding
AEC 207 Construction Methods
AEC220 Surveying
AEC233 Construction Safety/Loss Prevention
EIC105 Basics of AC/DC Electricity
ENY101 Introduction to Energy Technologies
GIS101 Introduction to Global Information Systems
MAN102 Business Ethics
NRE214 Environmental Issues & Ethics
PET101 Petroleum Fundamentals
PRO100 Introduction to Process Technology
PRO120 Process Technology I: Equipment
PRO130 Petroleum Fundamentals: Instrumentation
PRO250 Oil and Gas Production I
PSY150 Environmental Psychology
ELT 175 Fundamentals of DC/AC-compressed
IMA 160 Basic Fluid Power
WTG 100 Introduction to Wind Industry
WTG 110 Power & Control Systems
WTG 210 Wind Turbine Airfoils & Composites
www.cccscoetc.weebly.com
https://www.cccs.edu/partnering-for-success/trade-
adjustment-assistance/taa-champ/taa-champ-projects/
WEL103 Basic Shielded Metal Arc Welding I
WEL104 Basic Shielded Metal Arc Welding II
WEL106 Print Reading for Welders-Fitters
WEL121 Structural Welding I
WEL110 Advanced Shielded Metal Arc I
WEL111 Advanced Shielded Metal Arc II
WEL125 Introduction to Gas Metal Arc Welding
WEL124 Introduction to Gas Tungsten Arc Welding
WEL162 Basic Flux Cored ARC Welding
WEL163 Basic Shielded Metal ARC Welding
Challenges to Using OER!
Technology
Time
Quality Assessment-Reluctance to “share” and the reluctance to “accept other instructor’s work”
Policies on academic freedom, open access licenses (CC BY)
Evolving Online/Hybrid Pedagogy
Differing LMS’s
Competency-based courses use industry supplied manuals for content delivery
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Was OER a “Hard Sell”?
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What Did It Take for “Buy In”
A specific “on message”
Instructional designers or OER savy Media Specialists
Recognition of impact across college departments
Bookstores
Publisher relationships
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Dealing With OER
What Works?
Detailed Plan
Central URL repository for easy access to OER sites
Central website for OER index
Multimedia hosted on an institution channel or institutional account
Allocating enough time to search & revise content
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http://www.symbaloo.com/shared/AAAACMSNVS0AA42Agd4JvQ==
Tools to Encourage the Use of OERVideos:
YouTube, Vimeo or the Internet Archive
Audio/Podcasts:
Soundcloud or the Internet Archive
Presentations:
Slideshare, EverySlide
OPEN Content:
Google Drive
Digital Public Library of America PhET P2PU OpenStax
DOL OER or OPEN information
http://open4us.org/faq/
http://open4us.org/resources/cc-by-license-implementation-deep-dive-
resources/
License Chooser tool
http://creativecommons.org/choose/
OPEN Courses:
Merlot, Connexions,
MIT OpenCourseWare,
Open Yale Courses,
Harvard Open Learning Initiative,
Open Culture, Coursera,
OpenCourseWare Consortium,
MOOC List, edX, OpenCourse
Library,
►Open Educational Resources and Practices
►The Adoption of OER by One Community College Math Department
►OER Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wgqQdYKjIM
http://www.iskme.org/category/tags/oer-research
►http://oer13.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/the-ecology-of-sharing-synthesizing-oer-
research-rob-farrow/
►http://www.slideshare.net/robertfarrow/the-ecology-of-sharing-synthesizing-oer-research
►http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1523/2652
►http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/viewArticle/2013-04/html
Appendix
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