SBCTC Open Education Update 2015

Boyoung Chae, Ph.D.Policy Associate, eLearning and Open Education

Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

Open Policyhttp://goo.gl/WzNFdF

• Develop & Execute 4 Open Policy Projects– Implementation plan for existing open policy.– Policy development on the distribution of the

state government produced works.– Policy development on copyright ownership of

faculty produced work using college resources.– Policy development that sanctions the adjunct

faculty’s use of OER.

How to Use OER traininghttp://goo.gl/Z5sxgP

• Continue offering How to Use OER training– Trained 600 faculty and staff since December 2013– 110 participants for February 2015 training– Official training for TACCCT grantees– Next training will be offered mid-April

• Faculty feedback link: http://goo.gl/4GVekb

Open Washington Phase 2www.openwa.org

• Launch Open Washington Phase 2– Restructure website– Add research and presentation feature– Caption all videos– Add Share OER feature– Review the repositories

Open Attribution Builderopenwa.org/open-attrib-builder

Research in Open Educationhttp://goo.gl/dERBtX

• Continue conducting research to generate meaningful data to support and enhance OER adoption in the system.

• A new research report released:– Qualitative Investigation of Faculty Open

Educational Resource Usage in the Washington Community and Technical College System: Models for Support and Implementation.

Next-Generation Courseware Challenge

• Support implementation of NGCC project– The Lumen Learning-led project for the Gates

Courseware Challenge will develop next-generation courseware in four subjects: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Introduction to Business and Principles of Marketing

– Spokane school district and Everett Community College will participate in Fall, Winter and Spring pilot.