© copyright, vivian sinou & william pritchard, 2004. william h. pritchard (willie) vice...

© Copyright, Vivian Sinou & William Pritchard, 2004.

William H. Pritchard (Willie) Vice Chancellor and Chief Technology OfficerFoothill-DeAnza Community College DistrictLos Altos Hills, CA

At the End of the Day

We Will Have Given It All Away:

The Convergence of Open-Source CMS

and Open Courseware

Vivian Sinou (Vivie)Dean, Distance & Mediated Learning

Foothill CollegeLos Altos Hills, CA


Brief History

Foothill developed home grown CMS (ETUDES) in 1995

245 classes are now using ETUDES in classes

Expanded to full use in 28 CA CCs; altogether 50 total (ETUDES Alliance)


Brief History

MIT’s Open CourseWare success

Hewlett Foundation vision for open contentApproached Foothill-De Anza to lead effort

Foothill-De Anza developed pilot grant proposal

Funded in February, 2004

Publication date, January 4, 2005


“Sofia - the wisdom and intellectual virtue achieved when striving after the best ends and using the best means.”

-Aristotle

Sharing Of Free Intellectual Assets


Establish a system that facilitates the methodical open exchange, publication, and free access to community college-level content via the World Wide Web.

Sofia – open content initiative


Pilot


The Process

Contributions

Inclusive participation– Tap into existing faculty content– Embrace nationwide faculty talent


Participation

Pilot -- 17 course submissions


Licensing

Creative Commons License


Licensing

Included in the footer of ALL pages


The Role of Faculty

“I'm excited for how this will help all of our students - those in my classes, those in others' classes, those who miss a class, those who can benefit from hearing and seeing the lecture one more time outside of the traditional classroom.”

“I'm excited for how this will help all of our students - those in my classes, those in others' classes, those who miss a class, those who can benefit from hearing and seeing the lecture one more time outside of the traditional classroom.”

Barbara IllowskyProfessor of MathematicsDe Anza College


The Role of Faculty

“Finally a place to share the best of the best! We have always suspected that something like Sofia would give us a place to nurture, develop, and share the new discoveries in teaching modalities.”

“Finally a place to share the best of the best! We have always suspected that something like Sofia would give us a place to nurture, develop, and share the new discoveries in teaching modalities.”

Don MegillMusic Professor

Mira Costa College


Call for Sofia Peer Reviewers

Peer Reviewers (40) Editorial Board (6)

Online Application (call for reviewers)

Recommendation letter

Web-learning experience

Online Application (call for reviewers)

Recommendation letter

Web-learning experience


Review Criteria

Objective Rating

1. Educational Content2. Instructional Design3. Interactivity & Community4. Use of Multimedia

1. Definitely worth publishing

2. Worth publishing with minor enhancements

3. Needs significant enhancement

4. Does not meet quality criteria

1. Definitely worth publishing

2. Worth publishing with minor enhancements

3. Needs significant enhancement

4. Does not meet quality criteria


Finalists -Rewards

“I am incredibly honored and flattered to be chosen among the first to be part of the Sofia project. I am awed by the quality of the work others are producing and reviewing really made me re-think some of the things I am doing in my courses. Thank you so much! ”

“I am incredibly honored and flattered to be chosen among the first to be part of the Sofia project. I am awed by the quality of the work others are producing and reviewing really made me re-think some of the things I am doing in my courses. Thank you so much! ”

$1,000 to finalists


4. QA Review

2. Redesign Strategy

3. Convert

5. Revise

7. Publish

6. Final QA

1. Plan

Publication Process


Planning

Documenting the process


Consistent Presentation


Celebrate Teaching

The Story Behind Each Course


Sharing Forums


Technology

Use our CMS to publish open contentEstablished technology infrastructure

Established support infrastructure

Same platform as that used for teaching


Evaluation

Review ProcessContributions

Rating/reviews

Publishing

Technology

Address Challenges Required textbooks Copyright/IP issuesAccessibility Compliance

Determine/Lower CostsSustainability


Why use a CMS?

Easy adoption of content by our community of users Ease of modification Portable content Lower/no conversion costs Collaborative development

Standard presentation format Built-in collaboration (i.e. forums) Built-in interactive assessment Standard development environment

And…


Why Open Source

Control of destiny

Only path to sustainability

Wide adoption of tools/content

Innovation and collaboration

Develop tools for open publishingCC licensing

Public view

IP workflow

Authoring


Open Source Tools


Pilot Courses

Sofia Pilot Publication: January 4, 2005

1. Introduction to Java2. English Literature3. Physical Geography4. Elementary Statistics5. Enterprise Network Security6. Creative Typography7. Introduction to Flash8. Web/HTML Authoring9. Music Theory10. Musicianship

Go to: http://sofia.fhda.edu


Next Phase

Publish Core Gen. Ed. CurriculumHigh enrollment coursesHigh-stakes coursesSelect elective courses

Improve Technology for Open PublicationEncourage Collaborative Publication

Enable faculty to build upon published contentMaintain current open content

Support faculty and learnersPromote best teaching and learning practices


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Website: http://sofia.fhda.edu

Vivian Sinou (Vivie)Dean, Distance & Mediated LearningFoothill CollegeLos Altos Hills, [email protected]

William H. Pritchard (Willie) Vice Chancellor and Chief Technology OfficerFoothill-DeAnza Community College DistrictLos Altos Hills, [email protected]

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