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Engaging with Open Educational Resources
Tom CaswellOpen Education Policy Associate
State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
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The Internet changes everything
Anyone can create and deliver almost anything to anyone for almost no cost.
Internet + Digital Resources + Open License
Cape Town Open Education Declaration
“…we have an opportunity to dramatically improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world through freely available, high-quality, locally relevant educational and learning opportunities.”
September 2007
Where do we start?
http://whyopenedmatters.org
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Strategic Technology Plan
Strategy I: Create a single, system-wide suite of online teaching and learning tools that provides all Washington students with easy access to “anywhere, anytime” learning.
http://www.sbctc.edu/general/a_strategictechplan.aspx
SBCTC Open Policy All digital software, educational
resources and knowledge produced through competitive grants, offered through and/or managed by the SBCTC, will carry a Creative Commons Attribution License.
http://www.sbctc.edu/general/admin/Tab_9_Open_Licensing_Policy.pdf
June 2010
Textbook Affordability
English Composition I
50,000+ enrollments / year x $100 textbook $5+ Million every year
Affordances of Open
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OER allows you to:• Reuse• Redistribute
And sometimes:• Revise• Remix
Watch. Practice.Learn almost anything for free.
The Open Course LibraryFunded: $1.2 million
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Washington State Legislature
Goals of the Open Course Library
Design and share 81 high enrollment, gatekeeper coursesImprove course completion ratesLower textbook costs for students (<$30)Provide new resources for faculty to use in their coursesFully engage our colleges in the global open educational
resources discussion.
Phase 1: 42 courseshttp://opencourselibrary.orghttp://saylor.org
Phase 2 : 39 coursesAvailable Spring 2013
Open Course Library
The first 42 courses were released October 31, 2011
Over 80 media mentions worldwide
Over 25,000 visits from 125 countries to
http://opencourselibrary.org
Initial Impact
In the first year, students will save
$1.1 million in textbook costs
That’s more than we spent to develop the courses…
Phase 1 Faculty Concerns: Many were unfamiliar with ANGEL LMS No way to compare work between course
teams Too many websites to keep track of
Phase 2 Adjustments: Using Google Docs to collaborate & share as
we go All project information in one Google Site
Lessons Learned
Driving Open Course Library Course Adoptions Regional conferences and workshops New faculty trainings
Building open sharing into existing teaching workflows and technologies
Next LMS will have “open sharing” feature Explore open sharing via Tegrity Working with system librarians to track and
promote open content
Next Steps
Finding Open Resources
Great places to find openly licensed images, video, clipart,
etc:search.creativecommons.org.
Where can I search specifically for Open Educational Resources (OER)?
• opencourselibrary.org • oercommons.org/oer• Connexions (cnx.org) • saylor.org• oerglue.com/courses
Questions?
Please visit:http://whyopenedmatters.orghttp://creativecommons.org http://bit.ly/openedpledge
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