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Presentation by Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources at the American Association of Community Colleges Workforce Development Institute 2013 in San Diego
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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
Credit: Timothy Valentine & Leo Reynolds CC-BY-NC-SA
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
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