Una Daly, Quill West, James Glapa-Grossklag, Richard Sebastian, Preston Davis Northern Virginia Community College

1. OER Degrees Panel:
Impact at U.S. Community
Colleges
Richard Sebastian, Achieving the Dream
Quill West, Pierce College, WA
James Glapa-Grossklag, College of the Canyons, CA
Preston Davis, Northern Virginia Community College, VA
Una Daly, Open Education Consortium
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2. Welcome to Panel
Moderator: Una Daly
CCCOER Director
James Glapa-Grossklag, Dean
Ed Tech, Learning Resources &
Distance Learning
College of the Canyons
Quill West, Manager
Open Education Project
Pierce College District, WA
Preston Davis, Director
Instructional Services ELI
NOVA Community College, VA
Richard Sebastian, Director
OER Degrees Initiative
Achieving the Dream

3. Community College History
• Junior colleges
• Vocational education
• Evolution post-WWII
• New college every week in the 1960s
• 1108 colleges as of 2017
• 7.3 million students
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Source: http://time.com/4078143/community-college-history/

4. Community College Mission
• Open enrollment
• Teaching focused
• Career development
• College preparation
• First two years of university
Source: American Association of Community Colleges Fast Facts (Feb 2016).
http://www.aacc.nche.edu/AboutCC/Pages/fastfactsfactsheet.aspx
Image: Community College of Allegheny County

5. Average age 25-39 years: 45%
Employed while attending full-time: > 60%
Undergraduates at community colleges: 45%
Source: American Association of Community Colleges Fast Facts (Feb 2016).
http://www.aacc.nche.edu/AboutCC/Pages/fastfactsfactsheet.aspx
Who are our Students?

6. Female: 57%
Single parents: 17%
Receive financial aid: 58%
First in family to attend college: 36%
More about our Students

7. OER Degree Goals
Complete pathway of courses converted to
use OER instead of traditional textbooks
• Access & equity
• Degree completion
• Faculty choices
• Enhance pedagogy
• Grow open course repositories

8. Achieving the Dream
Dr. Richard Sebastian, @rsebastian
Director OER Degree Initiative

10. The mission of Achieving the Dream
is to lead and support a national
network of community colleges to
achieve sustainable institutional
transformation through sharing
knowledge, innovative solutions
and effective practices and
policies leading to improved
outcomes for all students.

12. Administrative champion
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Institutional Strategy

14. Faculty Ownership
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16. Offer at least one OER degree with at least
one (1) section of every required course and at
least one (1) section of a sufficient number of
general education and other elective courses
Collect and share student data to support the
initiative’s research and evaluation program
Grantee Goals

17. Share all educational materials developed
through this project with the public
Ensure access by and support for low
income students and students of color in
their OER degree programs
Grantee Goals

18. Research & evaluation
Educational outcomes of OER Degrees
Economic outcomes of OER Degrees
Implementation of OER Degrees

19. Funders Partners

20. Timeline

21. Pierce Open Pathways
President, Community College Consortium for
Open Educational Resources (CCCOER)
Quill West, @quill_west
Open Education Project Manager

22. ● Tuition Assistance does not pay for books
● Full pathway saves $2,200 on average
“Student Rally” by The Puyallup Post, Used with Permission.

23. Start with savings,

24. The path has to go
somewhere

25. OER Associate Degrees
Dr. Preston Davis, @lazyphilospher
Director of Instruction, Extended Learning Institute
VP, CCCOER Partnerships

26. Creating a Shared Vision
• Established goal of degree without textbook costs
• Selected popular online degree programs
• Partnered with innovative faculty
• Built a team (faculty, IDs, librarians, IT)
• Leveraged internal capacities and technologies
• Relied on OER community support
• Followed best practices of other OER leaders
• Shared OER courses with other institutions
• Used success to foster grassroots culture shift

27. Putting NOVA Students First
• 50+ courses online and on-campus using free digital and Open
Educational Resources with zero textbook costs to provide
degree pathways at lower cost to students
• Two complete OER-based Associate Degree programs online
and third campus OER degree pathway under development
• Students can save $150 per course, $3000 per degree
• Lowering cost of course materials can result in more credits
taken and quicker degree completion
• 20,000 NOVA students have completed an OER course and
saved nearly $3,000,000 USD since 2013

28. We are the Future of Education

29. Z-Degrees in California
James Glapa-Grossklag @jglapagrossklag
Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources,
and Distance Learning
President, OEC Board of Directors

30. Leadership & Vision

31. Listen to Students

35. Contact Info:
Una Daly : unatdaly@oeconsortium.org
Richard Sebastian: rsebastian@achievingthedream.org
James Glapa-Grossklag: James.Glapa-Grossklag@canyons.edu
Quill West: CWest@pierce.ctc.edu
Preston Davis : wdavis@nvcc.edu
Questions for our Panelists