Community College Consortium Colleges OER Panel at eLearning 2013. Featuring Jean Runyon, Anne Arundel CC, Carol Laman, Houston CC, Kathryn Rhodes, Roane State CC, James Glapa-Grossklag, College of the Canyons, Una Daly, Open Courseware Consortium

1. Expanding Student Access & Fueling
Faculty Innovation with the
Community College Consortium for OER
Jean Runyon, Anne Arundel College
Carol Laman, Houston College
Kathryn Rhodes, Roane State College
James Glapa-Grossklag, College of the Canyons
Una Daly, OCW Consortium
February 2013

2. Welcome!!
• Introduction
• National STEM Consortium and Bridge-to-
Success NGLC Project
• Customizing an OER Textbook Study
• Open Textbook Adoption and OER
Curriculum Development
• Faculty Authoring & Adoption of Open
Textbooks and Courses.
• Q&A

3. What are Open Educational
Resources?
U.S. Dept. of Education
– Teaching, learning, and research
resources that reside in the public
domain or have been released under an
intellectual property license that permits
their free use or repurposing by others.
cc-by donkyhotey/flickr
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license 3

4. Examples
Includes –
• Course materials
• Lesson Plans
• Modules or lessons
• OpenCourseWare (OCW)
• Open textbooks
• Videos
• Images
• Tests
• Software
• Any other tools, materials, or techniques used
to support ready access to knowledge
adapted from Judy Baker’s ELI 2011 OER Workshop cc-by license
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5. What is an Open License?
• Free: Free to access online, free to print
• Open: Shared, usable and re-usable: licensing
that is less restrictive than standard copyright
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license 5

6. Creative Commons license
• Works with existing copyright law
• Promotes sharing
• Internationally recognized
• Author/creator can specify re-uses
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7. CCCOER Mission
• Promote adoption of OER to enhance
teaching and learning
– Expand access to education
– Support professional development
– Voice for open education at community
colleges.
Funded by the William & Flora
Hewlett Foundation

8. 150+ Community & Technical College
Members
Community College Consortium for OER

9. Spring Faculty Development
Webinars
• OER for Workforce Training & Job Search
Skills (Jan 29)
• Critical Role of Librarians in OER Adoption
(Feb 26)
• Open Education Week (Mar 11-15)
• OER Authoring Tools (Mar 26)
• California’s Higher Education OER
Initiatives (April 30)
• Trends in Open Education (June 4)

10. Bridge-to-Success and
National STEM Consortium
Jean Runyon
Dean, Learning Advancement and the Virtual
Campus
Past Chair of Instructional Technology Council

11. Open Learning: Bridge to Success
Bridge to Success was made possible through a Next Generation Learning Challenge grant awarded to Anne Arundel
Community College, the Open University (UK), University of Maryland University College (UMUC) and Massachusetts
Institution of Technology (MIT). NGLC is led by EDUCAUSE in partnership with The League for Innovation in the
Community College, the International Association of K-12 Online Learning and the Council of Chief State School
Officers. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation helped design the
Next Generation Learning Challenges and fund the initiative.

12. Bridge to Success Courses and Resources
• Courses
• Learning to Learn
• Succeed with Math
• Resources
• Instructor’s Toolkit
• Student’s Toolkit
• Math Anxiety Webshop

13. For more information about
Bridge to Success, visit:
http://bridge2success.aacc.edu

14. http://www.nationalstem.org/

15. What is the NSC?
A consortium of ten leading community colleges, in
nine states, organized to:
Develop nationally portable, certificate-level programs in
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
Build a national model for multi-college cooperation in the
design and delivery of high-quality occupational programs
responsive to labor-market needs

16. NSC Industries
Composite Materials
Cyber Technology
Electric Vehicle Development and Repair
Environmental Technology
Mechatronics

17. NATIONAL STEM CONSORTIUM STEM BRIDGE
STEM READINESS: 45-hour online course co-developed with Carnegie Mellon
Open Learning Initiative (OLI) and CAST designed to quickly refresh “rusty” skills
for TAA and dislocated workers entering certificates directly. Closely working
with industry partners to develop real-life workplace scenarios.
Math – 15 Hours
Critical Thinking and Workplace Communication – 15 hours
Professional Skills – 15 Hours
FAST TRACKS: Accelerated 8-10 week “on-ramp” designed to quickly build key
skills for lower level learners immediately prior to entry in the Credit Certificate
programs. This part will be backward designed from STEM Bridge and will be
offered in intensive format 4-5 days per week.

18. To access the STEM
Bridge course, visit
Carnegie Mellon
University, Open
Learning Initiative:
http://oli.cmu.edu/learn-with-oli/
see-our-free-open-courses/

19. For more information:
Jean M. Runyon, Dean
Learning Advancement and the Virtual Campus
jmrunyon@aacc.edu
410-777-1249
Susan L. Gallagher, Project Director
sgallagher5@aacc.edu
410-777-2124

20. Customizing
an OER Textbook
Dr. Carol Laman
Professor, Social & Behavioral Sciences

21. OER Research Project at HCC
Presenter: Carol Laman, Ph.D.
Project participants: FT – Robert Morecook, Eileen Mello, Saundra Boyd, Karen
Saenz, Rob Trevino, Joe Moon,
Adjunct – CC Huong Ho, Sandi Greenstone, Sheila Weick, Antonio Gonzalez, Jennifer
Suarez, Kenneth Woodruff
Published in Open Learning, Fall 2012. Hilton, J. & Laman, C. (2012) One College’s Use
of an Open Psychology Textbook, Open Learning, 27(3), 265-272.

22. Problem, Hypothesis & Method
• Problems– incorrect books, no books the first
week, no books at all (COST)
• Hypothesis – An OER could work
as well as a traditional text.
• Customize OER (FlatWorld Psyc text- Stangor) for
reading level, objectives, organization, examples
• Added custom
TB, flashcards, quizzes, videos, ppts.
(animation, links, exercises, ?s, illustrations), activ
ities, links, exercises, adapted supplemental
handbook, YouTube final exam review.
• Measure & Compare: GPA, Drops, Dept. Final

23. Results -- Complete Data Sets*
* 3 other instructors – consistent but incomplete data sets (N*300)
Instructor A, 3 campuses Spring 2011 Fall 2011
N= 158 Traditional Text N=182 Free Text
GPA 1.64 2.0
W’s 21% 16%
Dept. Final 65.4 73.2
Instructor B, 1 campus + DE Spring 2011 Fall 2011
7 sections Traditional Text 8 sections Free Text
GPA 1.37 1.78
W’s 9.7% 0.75%
Dept. Final 65.86 66.25%

24. Student Survey;
Conclusion; Analysis
• Student Survey Highlights:
• 84% “Having a free book helps me go to college.”
• 35% Also purchased a paper copy of the text.
• Conclusion – OERs Can Work (Alternate hypotheses:
volunteer bias, Hawthorne Effect)
• Advantages:
• Ability to customize content (reading level;
objectives, organization, examples, supplements)
• Ability to focus supplements/resources on core
objectives – quality v. quantity
• All students had access from Day 1 to learning materials.

25. Further Information:
• http://www.hccs.edu
• Search: Laman

26. Open Textbook Adoptions
M. Kathryn Rhodes
Interim Vice-President of Student Learning

27. Can you tell the difference?

28. BUS 281 Management and Supervision
– Principles of Management; Mason
Carpenter, Talya Bauer, and Berrin Erdogan;
Flatworld
– Cost of $37.75 versus $247.00 for Cengage
Publisher
– Can customize the book online yourself; delete
and add content
– Supplements include Test Bank, PPTs, Instructor
Manual
– POLC (Planning, Organizing, Leading, and
Controlling) course organization

29. Economics Adoption
• ECON 2010
– Principles of Macroeconomics, Rittenberg;
Flatword
• ECON 2020
– Principles of Microeconomics, Rittenberg;
Flatword
• Cost of $37.35 each versus $188.50 print or
$114.25 e-text of similar priced textbooks
from Pearson

30. RSCC Grants
• USDOL Trade Adjustment Assistance
Community College and Career Training
Program (TAACCCT) National STEM Grant
• USDOL TAACCCT RX TN Grant
• Both grants require collaboration and sharing
of resources across colleges and systems

31. RSCC Communication Plan
to Faculty
• Breakfast meetings in Spring semesters
• $1,000 for redesign of web/hybrid courses
that include OER textbooks

32. TBR Community College
Common Curriculum Alignment Initiative
• Goal is to align and develop curricula that can
be shared across the community colleges in
the TBR system
• Reduces time for implementation
• Reduces cost for development
• Shares resources throughout the TBR system
• Encourages collaboration throughout the TBR system

33. College of the Canyons
James Glapa-Grossklag
Dean, Educational Technology, Learning
Resources, & Distance Learning
President of CCCOER Advisory Board

34. OER @
College of the Canyons
• Playlists
• Open Textbooks
• Local repository

35. Open Textbooks
• Water
Technology = $250,000
• Sociology student savings per year
• Statistics

36. Local Repository
• Equella
• 0  520 objects in 3 years
• Pros
• Cons

37. Lessons Learned
• Times change
• Technology changes
• People change

38. Questions for Panelists
Una Daly: unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org
Jean Runyon: jmrunyon@aacc.edu
Carol Laman: carol.laman@hccs.edu
Kathryn Rhodes: rhodeskc@roanestate.edu
James Glapa-Grossklag: James.Glapa-Grossklag@canyons.edu
Thank you for coming!!

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