Why should you care about OER is an overview of OER and the California Open Online Library for Education (cool4ed.org) given for faculty at the Porterville College Summer Institute on May 25, 2015. Una Daly, CCCOER Director (May 2016)

1. Why Should You
Care about
Open Educational Resources?
Una T. Daly,
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
May 25, 2016

2. Welcome
Una Daly, CCCOER Director
Instructional Design @One
CCC
Chancellor
250+ Colleges in 21 States and
Provinces
http://oerconsortium.org

3. Introductions
What courses do you teach?
Thanks to Sarah Phinney for inviting me today!

4. OER Quiz
• Textbook prices increasing at
same rate as consumer index
• eBooks = Open Textbooks
• Open Educational Resources
(OER) are Public Domain

5. Open Educational Resources
Openly licensed learning materials that can be used for
teaching, learning, & assessment without cost. They can be
modified and redistributed without violating copyright law.
U.S. Department of
Ed, Office of Ed Technology

6. Examples
• Lesson plans
• Open Courseware
• Open textbooks
• Videos
• Images
• Tests
• Software
• Tools, materials, or techniques to access
knowledge freely
adapted from Judy Baker’s ELI 2011 OER Workshop cc-by license

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

9. Exercise Your Rights: The 5 Rs

10. Student Learning

11. Students spending less??
• The bad news is students often not
purchasing their textbooks
• Students concerned about grades
• Faculty expect students to have access to
instructional materials
Student PIRGs, Covering the Cost, 2016

12. Faculty Choice

13. Put Faculty in Charge
• No more covering extra chapters because
book is so expensive
• No requirement to change versions every
couple of years
• You can customize your instructional
materials
• Many open textbooks have ancillaries

14. Taxpayer Cost

15. • 30% of students used financial aid to buy
textbooks
– $300+ (on average) per semester
– 50% of community college students
– 28% of 4-year college, univ students
• $3 billion per year of financial aid used to
purchase textbooks by undergraduates
Student PIRGs Survey, Covering the Cost, 2016
Financial Aid & Textbooks

16. Funding Now Available

17. California Textbook
Affordability Act 2015
• Incentive grants to CCC and CSU to
accelerate adoption of OER to save
students money. (AB 798)
• OER Degree programs for CCC (California
Governor’s Proposed Budget 2016-17)
– http://www.lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3392

18. What textbooks do you use?
How much do they cost?

19. Top 50 College Courses
Geography
History
Kinesiology
Math
Music
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Spanish
Statistics
Accounting
Art History
Biology
Business
Chemistry
Child Development
Communication
Computer sciene
Economics
Education
English
Electronic Media
http://cool4ed.org

20. Faculty Showcases
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Communications
• History
• Political Science
• Spanish
http://cool4ed.org/facultyshowcase.html

21. Biology 140
Organismal Biology

22. History 130
US History to 1877

23. SPAN 100
Spanish
http://cool4ed.org/reviews.html#humanities

24. Criminal Justice Open Textbook
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks
/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=66
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to Criminal Law
Chapter 2: The Legal System in the
United States
Chapter 3: Constitutional Protections
Chapter 4: The Elements of a Crime
Chapter 5: Criminal Defenses, Part 1
Chapter 6: Criminal Defenses, Part 2
Chapter 7: Parties to Crime
Chapter 8: Inchoate Offenses
Chapter 9: Criminal Homicide
Chapter 10: Sex Offenses and Crimes
Involving Force, Fear, and Physical
Restraint
Chapter 11: Crimes against Property
Chapter 12: Crimes against the Public
Chapter 13: Crimes against the
Government
Chapter 14: Appendix A: Case Listings

25. Open Licensing
• Google Images
– Advanced Search Settings
• YouTube
– Filter keywords with CC for creative
commons
• Flickr
– Go directly to Flickr.com/CreativeCommons

26. Open Course Resource Guides
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Communications
• History
• Political Science

27. Released April 1, 2016
Permalink for online version: http://tinyurl.com/WPOERAdoption040116
Printable PDF with Appendices: http://tinyurl.com/WPOERPrintVersion2
Video Synopsis: https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=vwVIrv0iSgE

28. 351 students completed
survey about their use of OER
• When students were asked if the OER textbook
chapter(s) were better than the traditional, 42% said
the OER textbook as better, 39% said they were about
the same, 11% rated the textbook as worse than the
traditional textbook and 8% declined to answer.
• Of the 351 students in the survey, 71 printed the
textbook and 209 used a PDF
• Students find OER Textbooks to be readable with
respect to organization, format, graphics and
examples used
"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John
Hilton III, Open Education Group

29. 351 students completed
survey about their use of OER
• 16% of students wanted to have the option to purchase
a printed copy of the textbook from the bookstore for a
small fee (10% of students wanted to print the textbook
themselves)
• The predominant platform for reading e-textbooks is a
laptop computer (only 89 of 351 students reported
reading from their cell phones)
• 100% of the students in the study wanted to use OER
textbooks in the future and would recommend the use
of OER to friends
"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John
Hilton III, Open Education Group

30. 16 faculty shared
perceptions about their use of OER
• Seven faculty of sixteen felt that the OER textbook was
superior to the traditional textbook for the course. Five
faculty rated the OER as equivalent to the traditional
textbook.
• Faculty were not as positive about the support materials
(PowerPoints, Test banks) available with the OER textbooks.
Half of the faculty felt that the support materials lacked
quality. 25% of faculty felt that implementing the support
materials took a significant amount of time. In their
comments, the biggest comment made by faculty was about
the need for support materials or the amount of time they
spent in developing them for this adoption.
"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John
Hilton III, Open Education Group

31. 13 Peer Reviewed Studies
of OER Efficacy
http://openedgroup.org/
"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John
Hilton III, Open Education Group

32. 119,720 Students
http://openedgroup.org/
"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John
Hilton III, Open Education Group

33. 95% Same or Better Outcomes
http://openedgroup.org/
"Recent Studies in OER Adoption, May 2016" by John
Hilton III, Open Education Group

34. • Access to high-quality OER
• Faculty choice & development
• Student success
Community College Consortium
for OER (CCCOER)
http://oerconsortium.org
Come In, We're Open gary simmons
cc-by-nc-sa flickr

35. Free Webinars Spring 2016
• Feb 10: OER Faculty Development Best
Practices
• March 10: OER Adoption to Scale: Stories from
4 States
• April 23: NOBA OER Psychology Community
• May 11: Faculty Perspectives on OER
• June 8: Open Pedagogy (LAST ONE LEFT!)
Archived webinars available
https://oerconsortium.org/cccoer-webinars/

36. Join our Community
• Access to a community of OER experts
• Online advisory email list
• Collaboration opportunities: grants, conferences
• OER Professional development services
Email: cccoer@oeconsortium.org
Twitter: @unatdaly, @cccoer
http://oerconsortium.org