The Future is Wide Open with OERs

The Future is Wide Open with Open

Educational Resources at NOVA

Wm. Preston Davis, Ed.D. wdavis@nvcc.eduDirector of Instructional Services

Natalie Clewell, M.S. nclewell@nvcc.eduELI Librarian

What are OER?

“OER are 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 re-

purposing by others.”– The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

OER

OpenCourseWare

Modules

Textbooks

Streaming Videos

Open Journals

Tutorials

Learning Objects

Why use OER?

Access – Open Educational Resources allows for all students to have equal access to all course materials

Affordability – Open Educational Resources are free or very low cost, significantly reducing educational expenses

Student Success – Open Educational Resources are high quality educational materials available in a variety of engaging formats for all learners

How is ELI addressing OER?

Faculty workshops for OER

OER Google site

OER-based General Education

Project

NOVA’s OER-Based General

Education Project at ELI

Offer twelve (12) OER GenEd Certificate courses Fall 2013;

Offer twenty-two (22) OER GenEd degree courses Fall 2014;

Create greater awareness of OER at NOVA;

Help faculty to identify existing OER and/or create new OER materials to increase faculty control of course content and improve teaching and learning;

Make education more accessible and affordable for all learners at NOVA and throughout the VCCS by doing away with the requirement for students to purchase and rely on expensive textbooks for these gateway courses.

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Current ELI OER Courses We selected high-impact courses for a broad population for phase 1 of the project:

English – ENG 111, 112,125

Math – MTH 151

Science – PHY 201, 202

History – HIS 121, 122

Humanities/Fine Arts – ART 101, 102

Social/Behavioral Sciences – HIS 262

Student Development – SDV 100

These courses can be completed individually or as an entire certificate program. An entire OER degree option will be available starting Fall 2014.

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Project Resources

Faculty were provided grant funded stipends

to redesign a course using OER instead of

traditional textbooks.

ELI resources (Librarian, Instructional

Designers) were provided to assist in course

design and development, and OER curation.

All course material developed for this project

will be shared throughout the VCCS and

licensed through Creative Commons after the

pilot.

Team Designed Course

Approach

Administrative leadership

and advocacy

Faculty are the course content experts

Instructional Designers are content delivery experts

ELI Librarian is OER course material expert

OER Content Development

Faculty work with ELI

Instructional Designers

to create engaging course

materials and learning

assessments using high

Quality OER.

Online Tools and Resources

Librarian curated and maintained OER

Professional Development

course site for faculty

to help them to identify

and utilize appropriate free

and open course materials.

Costs of Course Textbooks ENG 111 – $140/105

ENG 112 – $93/70

ENG 125 – $89/67

MTH 151 – $263/226

PHY 201 – $269/201

PHY 202 - $244/183

HIS 121 - $109/82

HIS 122 – $109/82

ART 101 – $226/169

ART 102 – $226/169

HIS 262 – N/A (new course)

SDV 100 – $77/58

Average cost for textbooks = $185 (new)

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Significant Cost Savings

A student completing the entire OER-Based

Gen Ed Certificate would potentially save

$1845 over the cost of new textbooks in the

traditional textbook-based courses.

The current estimated savings to students

enrolled in the fall OER pilot courses is in

excess of $140,000!

Anticipated Outcomes These courses will be more affordable and

accessible to community college students.

Students will save thousands of dollars

and all students will have equal access

to all OER course materials.

Student Success rates will improve.

Student demand for these courses

will drive future OER course

development leading to a full

OER-based AS degree.

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Some Resources for Implementing

OER OER Google Site: http://bit.ly/ELIOERforFaculty

MERLOT

Openstax

Open Courseware Consortium

The Saylor Foundation OCW

Boundless

iTunes U

Khan Academy

Connexions

College Open Textbooks

Creative Commons

Questions?

Email us nclewell@nvcc.eduwdavis@nvcc.edu

Thank You!