The document summarizes findings from workshops held with Boston Public School teachers to introduce them to OpenCourseWare collections from MIT, Tufts University, and UMass Boston. The key findings were that while teachers were interested in the materials, they needed more support and guidance on how to integrate and remix OpenCourseWare content into their own lesson plans. Follow up surveys found that teachers made use of the materials after the workshops and found Google Docs and other collaboration tools introduced in the workshops to be helpful. The document proposes several opportunities for OpenCourseWare consortiums to better support teacher adoption, such as developing curriculum tools and hosting online communities for sharing best practices.

1. What Do Teachers Want? Reusing OCW in the High School Classroom ©, UMass Boston photo credit: Harry Brett Eileen McMahon, UMass Boston OCW, Senior Instructional Designer eileen.mcmahon@umb.edu Cheryl Siegel, MIT OCW, Department Liaison csiegel@mit.edu Robbin Smith, Tufts OCW, OCW Editor/Curricular Content Specialist robbin.smith@tufts.edu 1

3. Our OCW collections

4. Workshops discoveries

5. Results from follow-up survey

6. Action Items for OCWC2

7. OCW for BPS Workshops Overview Three day workshops were held in July 2010 at UMass Boston campus Over 30 attendees 75% were teachers 30% of the teachers taught Science, Math or Technology subjects 25% Guidance counselors /administrators 95% of attendees had limited previous knowledge of subjects presented in the workshop Workshop funding made possible by the Boston Foundation as part of a grant awarded to UMass Boston 3

8. MITOpenCourseWare • 2,055Syllabi & reading lists • 17,531 lecture notes • 9,460 assignments • 980 exams • 705 projects Many include: • Audio/video (~60) • Complete texts (~30) • Simulations/animations http://ocw.mit.edu

9. Educators MITOpenCourseWareEducator Use 5

11. Organizes ~70 introductory courses

12. Maps ~2,600 resources to U.S. AP curriculum

13. Provides materials to inspire STEM study http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school 6

14. Tufts OpenCourseWare Official launch June 2005 1 FT staff with support from Technology for Learning in the Health Sciences department Focus on health sciences courses Sustaining member of OCWC Reflection of Tufts’ commitment to open access content, furthering Tufts’ mission of knowledge sharing as part of its non-profit objective and leadership in civic engagement for global active citizenship. 7 Copyright 2005 G. Kaurfman TUSVM. From Zoological Medicine homepage." Published in Tufts OpenCourseWare (2005-2011). http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/60/Coursehome. (Retrieved 4/18/11). Reproduced with permission of the author and publisher. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

15. Who Uses TuftsOCW and Why Statistics from our 2010 Pop-up Survey 8

16. Ranking Tufts OCW Statistics from our 2010 Pop-up Survey Ratings to survey statements consistently > 4.0 (1, lowest - 5, highest) Tufts OCW has/will increase my interest in learning about a particular topic Tufts OCW has/will help me supplement my existing knowledge about a topic Tufts OCW website has/will increase my awareness of Tufts' academic programs I have/will have discussions with colleagues about specific materials or topics from the Tufts OCW website I have/will recommend the Tufts OCW website to others 9 Copyright 2005 G. Kaufmann, TUSVM. From Zoological Medicine homepage." Published in Tufts OpenCourseWare (2005-2011). http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/5/Coursehome. (Retrieved 4/18/11). Reproduced with permission of the author and publisher. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License

17. Consists of 42 graduate and undergraduate courses Launched in 2007 About 12 courses added to the collection each year Team consists of 1 staff member working quarter time and 3 work study students 78,659 unique visitors in 2010 10 UMass BostonOpenCourseWare

18. Topics Covered in Teacher Workshops: General Intro. to OpenCourseWare - What it is and why it's useful Creative Commons License - What it is why it's important to anyone who is developing curriculum Guided Tour of several OpenCourseWare collections Strategies for integrating OCW into the high school classroom workshop and for advising students Guidelines for reusing and remixing curriculum materials found online and for managing and sharing own original materials online Managing OCW materials with Web 2.0 tools such as Zotero, & delicious Creating Curriculum with Google Docs 11

19. Workshop Observations 12 ©, UMass Boston photo credit: Harry Brett

20. What parts of OCW that you saw today would you most likely use in your classroom? 13

21. What additional materials or support would you need to use OCW in your teaching? 14

22. Workshop Findings Presented with OCWC collections teachers were not sure how they would reuse OCW materials Creating curriculum with OCWC materials is not easy for teachers Most teachers are not familiar with the tools necessary to reuse OCW materials Teachers need more resources to guide and support their use of OCW 15

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24. Follow-up Data from Workshop Participants Surveyed nine months after attending the workshop, 75% of teachers who responded said that they made use of OpenCourseWare materials in their classrooms Google docs ranked as the top new tool they were introduced to in the summer workshops On a scale of 1-5 (with 1 being easy to reuse and 5 being difficult) they gave OCWC materials a 3 17

25. Opportunities for OCWC Organize more workshops to train teachers how to reuse and remix OCW materials Create OCWC content in a modular way so it’s easier to remix Develop tools for remixing curriculum Sponsor more research on how teachers remix OCWC materials Develop mobile applications for reusing and remixing OCWC materials 18

27. Showcase best practices for using OCWC

28. Provide links to OCWC recommended tools for remixing curriculum

29. Create OCWC YouTube channel for all videos created by consortium forum for educators who are reusing materials

30. Create Teacher Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

31. Sample lesson plans 19

33. Create teacher handouts with ideas and examples

34. Discussion forum for teachers reusing OCWC materials

35. Provide teachers with direct contact with OCWC publishers

36. Create teacher polls to provide feedback about their use of collection

37. A publishers section that displays poll results20

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40. Boston Public Schools (BPS) – Profile 134 schools in the system Annual budget $821 million 57,050 students 74% students low-income Diversity of ethnic backgrounds in student body 41% - Hispanic 13% - White 36% - Black 9% - Asian 23 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristopherm/

41. MITOpenCourseWareQuotes “Viewing your courses has made me a better teacher and I expect to be sending some of my students to MIT in part because of your efforts.” “Just wanted to say "thank you" for the wonderful content! I teach chemistry and physics at the HS level. I review my content knowledge as well as some wonderful demo ideas. MIT OpenCourseWare is awesome!!!!” 24

43. 17.5 million visits in 2010

44. Translations

45. Chinese (707)

46. Spanish (99)

47. Portuguese (95)

48. Thai (37)

49. Persian (49)16.8% 44.1% 20.0% 4.5% 8.7% 1.5% 4.3% Educators 9% Self learners 43% Students 42%

50. Visitors to Tufts OCW / courses visited Statistics from 2010 Google Analytics Visits grew 23.17% from 2009 to 2010 Visitors came from 218 countries/territories and 20,159 cities Top 10 course homepages visited Basic Human Pathology, Parts I and II; Pathophysiology of Infectious Diseases; Blender 3D Design; Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Medicine I; Cardiovascular Pathophysiology - Human Growth and Development; Microbiology; Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology; Zoological Medicine 26

51. Tufts OCW Faculty Contributor Comments “… the final product is wonderful and I am proud to have my name associated with it.” “… OCW has provided us two wonderful assets: (1) as bridge to many other campuses, scholars, and internet users around the world: and (2) the chance to work with the OCW staff whose professionalism and end-product have made our courses even better than they already were.” “… I’m glad I did it and would do it again…the main reason I support it is that it takes knowledge out of the marketplace and makes it freely accessible to all…this is as it should be .…” 27

52. Tufts OCW User Comments “…Tufts OCW impacted my learning by making available other non-traditional sources of information at my fingertips.” “… I think that this is a good way to share the resources of a nonprofit institution. Tufts cares about the people of the world, and shows its social responsibility to the world through projects such as this ...” “… I’m a South African medical student who’s struggling with an epidemiology assignment and this information you made available helped me tremendously.” 28

53. Ranked Top Components of OCWC Downloadable Tools PowerPoints Projects Syllabi Exams Video Lectures Audio Lectures Course Overview Simulations Podcasts Department Offerings 29 What components of OpenCourseWare do you consider most valuable in guiding or teaching your students? (Check all that apply)