Community College OER

Projects

Paul Golisch, Paradise Valley College, AZ

Thea Alvarado & Kathryn Coleman, College of the

Canyons, CA

Todd Digby, Minnesota State College & Universities

May 13, 2015, 10:00 am PSTUnless otherwise indicated, this presentation is licensed CC-BY 4.0

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Paul Golisch

CIO & Dean of IT

Paradise Valley College

Thea Alvarado

Faculty

College of the Canyons

Moderator: Una Daly

Director of Curriculum Design & College Outreach

Open Education Consortium

Kathryn Coleman

Faculty

College of the CanyonsTodd Digby

Systems Director of AT

MnSCU

Agenda

• CCCOER Overview

• Maricopa Millions & Oregon Update

• Sociology OER Adoption at College of the Canyons

• OER Awareness and Adoption at Minnesota State Colleges & Universities

• Q & A

• Expand access to high-

quality open materials

• Support faculty choice

and development

• Improve student success

Community College Consortium

for OER (CCCOER)

http://oerconsortium.org

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250+ Colleges in 21 States

& Provinces

Community College OER

Project Growth

• Open textbooks and open educational resources

• Open access mission

• Federal and state grants & legislation

• Adoption vs. creation of OER

• Focus on teaching and student learning

Maricopa Millions & More

Paul GolischAdjunct Math faculty

CIO & Dean of Information Technology

Tri-chair of Maricopa Millions Project

Course Development Progress

BIO156, CHM130, ENG091, HES100, SWU292

Pilot complete.

Peer review this

summer.

MyOpenMath in Maricopa

Mathematical Association of America

MathAS

12

MyOpenMath Sections in

Maricopa

33

4138

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30

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1015202530354045

Spring 2015 184 sections

13

Percent of Math Courses using

MyOpenMath in Maricopa

180, 13%

1220, 87%

Number of SectionsSpring 2015

MyOpenMath

Traditional

Current MyOpenMath Page

Potential MyOpenMath Page

classes.sis.maricopa.edu

Helping Students Find OER

Classes

What I Learned about OCCDLALongtime CCCOER Members

Efforts to Increase OER Adoption

Students Faculty

Legislators

My Sabbatical - Lumen Learning

Leadership Summit Support Research20+ Full Courses

impact.lumenlearning.com

Questions?Please use chat box

www.maricopa.edu/oer

Twitter: @MaricopaOER

Text Message I received this

week

Sociology Open Textbook

Thea Alvarado, EdDFaculty

Kathryn Coleman, MAFaculty

The Introduction to Sociology Open Source

TextbookDr. Thea S. Alvarado

Professor Katie ColemanCollege of the Canyons

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History

• Intro to Sociology text was written by Paul Hammond and Ron Cheney of Utah Valley University

• Underwent two rounds of editing and revisions by two Sociology faculty members at College of the Canyons in 2010. By 2012 two more faculty joined and made editorial contributions

• Marriage and Family text was edited and launched with the four faculty members

• Texts are updated, edited for content and relevant (local, timely) examples and pictures are added each academic year

Logistics

• Revisions are posted on department website within LMS

• Over 4,000 students have used Open Source text

• Text is provided for students on COC’s LMS (Black Board)

• Also available on collegeopentextbooks.org

OER in Sociology

• Currently three courses use OER materials en lieu of for-profit texts

1. Introduction to Sociology

2. Intimate Relationships, Marriage, and Family

3. Sociology of Aging

Sociology of Aging Course

Articles, textbook chapters, and Power Points from openstax, Merlot, Sofia, and collegeopentextbooks

Introduction to Aging

Social Theories of Aging

Social and Physical Consequences of Aging

Personality and Mental Health in Old Age

Family and Aging

Love, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Old Age

Living Arrangements and Social Roles

Paid and Non-Paid Roles of Productive Aging

Social Policies to Address Social Problems

Death, Dying, and Bereavement

OER Usage and Savings

• 33 Soci faculty at COC, almost half are using OER in their classes

• OER in three courses, 25 sections total

• 30-35 students in each course

• Assuming a new, for-profit text would be about $100, students have saved about $75,000 this semester

Latest research shows….

• 17% of COC faculty currently use OER materials

• 87.6% of those using OER say they are satisfied or extremely satisfied with the content

• 88.7% not currently using using OER are interested in learning more about it

Chapters for Introduction to Sociology AgingCrime and Social ControlCultureDevianceEducationFamilyPolitics and EconomyPopular Culture and MediaPopulations and UrbanizationRace and EthnicityReligionSex and GenderSocial Groups and Collective BehaviorSocial StratificationSocial TheoriesSocializationSociological BeginningsSociologists Doing ResearchThe Sociological ImaginationPlus: Glossary & Getting Through School

Advantages and Disadvantages for Students

Advantages:• It’s free!• Accessible to EVERYONE from

the first day of class• Students can save, print,

email, share files without restrictions

• There are no heavy textbooks to be carried around or forgotten

• Text can be accessed by most mobile devices, so most students have access to text all the time

Disadvantages:• Students have to print it out if

they want a paper copy

Advantages and Disadvantages for Professors

Advantages:• No orders need to go through the

bookstore

• Able to adapt the textbook to lecture, not the other way around

• Examples, photos, stats are updated to stay current

• Standardized content to begin

• Faculty become intimately familiar with content

• Chapters can be used in any order

• Student success, retention, and participation goes up

Disadvantages:• Initial time investment and

revision cycles

• Chapters can be edited by individual instructors as well, leading to a loss of standardization

• Potential loss of big publisher resources

Open Education ExcellenceEducator of 2015

Anne Marenco, PhD

Sociology Department Chair and co-author of several open textbooks. Sociology faculty members have saved COC students

millions of dollars over 5 years.

Questions for Katie and Thea?

Thea Alvarado: thea.alvarado@canyons.edu

Kathryn Coleman: kathryn.coleman@canyons.edu

Minnesota State College OER

Todd DigbySystems Director of Academic Technology

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.

Todd Digby @todddigbySystem Director of Academic Technology

Open Textbook Initiative

Background

The Minnesota State Colleges and

Universities (MnSCU) system

• 31 institutions with 54 campuses

• 24 technical and community

colleges and seven state

universities

• 430,000 students

Background

2013 MN Legislative Performance Goal

Lower cost associated with textbooks

through the increased usage of OERs

Open textbook awareness

GRADE LEVEL, 2014 – Tracking Online Education in the United States - http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/2014Survey

Open textbook initiative

• Awareness

• Locating materials

• Quality concerns

• Faculty support

Open textbook initiative

www.asa.mnscu.edu/open

Open textbook initiative

Faculty participation by discipline

Accounting 6

Biology 20

Mathematics 19

Psychology 7

Open textbook network

open.umn.edu

Open textbook initiative

Initial results

Already Adopted 22%

Planning on Adopting 47%

Undecided 28%

Do not plan on adopting 3%

Faculty perspective“The savings is the major part for my

decision. I really like my current textbook for

Math 97 and Math 98, but the cost is

becoming too high for my students. The

textbook that I reviewed could certainly be

adapted for my needs.”“I would like to know more about

open online HW systems for

math classes, and perhaps be

involved in creating them.”

“The open textbook project is terrific. My only

concern is adopting one that doesn't have some of

the publisher online study materials.”

Next steps

• Develop a campus/departmental

workgroup that involves multiple

stakeholders across campus

• Ensure that faculty are supported

in their efforts

• Facilitate campus-based peer

review efforts

May 20 @

noon PST, 3:00 pm EST

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Thank you for coming!

Contact Info:

Una Daly: unatdaly@oeconsortium.org

Paul Golisch : paul.golisch@paradisevalley.edu

Thea Alvarado: thea.alvarado@canyons.edu

Kathryn Coleman: kathryn.coleman@canyons.edu

Todd Digby Todd.Digby@so.mnscu.edu

Questions?