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Kaleidoscope Open Course InitiativeWashington Canvas Users Group ~ 27 March 2014

Ronda Neugebauer!Lumen Learning Faculty Success Lead

Kaleidoscope Founding Member

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David Lippman!Lumen Learning Math Lead

MyOpenMath Founder/Developer

Kim Thanos, M.B.A. David Wiley, Ph.D.

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Tuition is Very Political

Textbook adoptions are less political

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Textbook Costs

$1200 per year = 39% tuition 65% did not buy textbooks 31% choose not to register

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uspirg.org  openaccesstextbooks.org        

Targets barriers to academic success using technology solutions

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Use open educational resources (OER) to eliminate textbook cost barrier

and improve student success

What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?

(1) Any kind of teaching materials – textbooks, syllabi, lesson plans, videos, readings, exams

(2) Are free for anyone to access, and (3) Include free permission to engage in “5Rs”

What are Open Educational Resources (OER)?

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• Make  and  own  copies Retain

• Use  in  a  wide  range  of  ways  Reuse

• Adapt,  modify,  improve  Revise

• Combine  two  or  more  Remix

• Share  with  others  Redistribute

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The 5Rs

creativecommons.org

Creative Commons licenses provide a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to creative work.

Attribute? Commercial use? Share alike?Permission:

500+ million items

Licenses provide simple, standardized, legally robust way to grant copyright permissions

OER

Course Developers ~ 30+ Courses

Discipline Teams Accounting Art Biology Business Chemistry Earth Science Economics Educ: Intro Teaching Eng Comp I & II Geography

Info Systems Marketing Math Music Online Learning Poli Sci Psychology Sociology Speech US History

Defining the Roles Faculty! Collaborative Course Developer Course Adopter

Lumen! Support Faculty Collaborations Ensure Accessibility Share with Community

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Course Development Support

Professional development •  Mining and vetting OER •  Identify and fill gaps in content •  5Rs: retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute Open Course Framework Design •  Backwards design •  Customization •  Accessibility compliance

Mercy  College  -­‐  (Wallace  Algebra)  Percentage  passing  with  C  or  be"er  

63.60% 68.90%

48.40%

60.18% 55.91%

64.50%

0.00%

10.00%

20.00%

30.00%

40.00%

50.00%

60.00%

70.00%

80.00%

Fall 2011 No OER

Fall 2012 OER

Spring 2011 No OER

Spring 2013 OER

Total No OER

Total OER

n=2,842 including pilot

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US  History  –  LTI  Textbook  h"ps://lumen.instructure.com/courses/204135  

Psychology  –  Text  In  Canvas  h"ps://lumen.instructure.com/courses/204120  

Demo

It’s about learning

Increasing learning by: lowering costs

enabling and supporting faculty

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