Foothill Community College Tech Conference Presentation: October 12, 2012 Using OER to expand access to education and enhance teaching and learning.

1. advancing formal and informal learning through the
worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality
education materials organized as courses.
Expand Your Classroom Walls
with Open Educational
Resources (OER)
Una Daly
Community College Outreach Director
OCW Consortium
Oct 12, 2012

2. Welcome
Please introduce yourself, what you
teach, and your interest in OER
– Una Daly, facilitator
• Community College Outreach Director at
the OCW Consortium

3. Agenda
• Community Colleges & Open
• Definition of OER?
• What is an “Open License”?
• Discovering open images, videos
• Finding open textbooks
• Sharing best practices for adoption in
our classrooms

4. Community College Consortium
for OER
• Enhance teaching & learning
• Expand access to education
• Join global open education
Dr. Martha Kanter
U.S. Undersecretary of
movement
Education (2009-12)
Funded by William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
2007-2012

5. 100+ Community & Technical College
members in OCW Consortium
Community College Consortium for OER

6. Motivations to use OER
• Save students $$$
• Empower Faculty
• Frequent revisions to
textbooks eliminate used
• Copyright violations
Origamidon cc-by-nc-nd
alcatraz www.photolib.noaa.gov.jpg

7. 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
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8. Examples
Includes –
• Course materials
• Lesson Plans
• Modules or lessons
• Open CourseWare (OCW)
• Open textbooks
• Videos
• Images
• Tests
• Software
• Any other tools, materials, or techniques used
to support ready access to knowledge
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license 8

9. Characteristics of OER
• Digital
– Easily modified
– free distribution
• Open License
– Reuse, Revise, Remix,
Redistribute
• Low cost
– Lowers barriers to education

10. 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 10

11. Creative Commons licensing
• Works with existing copyright law
• Promotes sharing
• Internationally recognized
• Author/creator can specify re-uses
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12. Finding Images, Videos, Music
search.creativecommons.org

13. Finding OER
3 minute exercise
http://search.creativecommons.org

14. Discover open textbooks:
Repositories & Listing Sites
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10/13/2012 How to Adopt an Open Textbook 14
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15. Economics Textbook
Traditional Textbook Open Textbook
Free online
New From $155.85
PDF: $ 24.95
10/13/2012 How to Adopt an Open Textbook Paperback: $49.95
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16. College Open Textbooks
• Open textbook list by
subject
• Peer reviews
• Accessibility reviews
• Online Community
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17. How to Search in OER Commons
Step 1: Go to http://oercommons.org
Step 2: Click on Advanced Search
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license 17

18. Finding Open Textbooks
5 minute exercise
http://collegeopentextbooks.org
http://oercommons.org

19. Discipline-specific Sources
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license 19

20. Adopting Open Textbooks
• Selection and Evaluation
• Adding other materials
WIREDSTEVE CC-BY-NC-SA
• Department and College Approvals
• Student Access

21. Evaluating OER
• R1: Degree of Alignment to Standards
• R2: Quality of Explanation of the Subject Matter
• R3: Utility of Materials Designed to Support
Teaching
• R4: Quality of Assessment
• R5: Quality of Technological Interactivity
• R6: Quality of Instructional Tasks and Practice
Exercises
• R7: Opportunities for Deeper Learning
• R8: Assurance of Accessibility
Achieve.org

22. How to Make Best Use of OER
• Enhance existing materials with OER
• Enhance an existing Open Textbook
– E.g. Translations, Images, etc.
• Replace existing materials with an
Open Textbook
• Invite students to generate OER
cc-by-nc-nd eslenkphoto
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license 22

23. Why Customize and Remix
OER?
• Adapt material to make it more accessible for students
with disabilities
• Insert cultural references for better understanding
• Translate it into another language
• Correct any errors or inaccuracies
• Keep it up to date by adding recent discoveries
• Insert more media or links to other resources
• Adapt it for a different grade level
• Insert a different point of view to that originally given in
the material
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license 23

24. Customize, Remix, Organize
–Interoperability
–Accessibility
–License type
–Cultural relevance
–Translations
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license 24

25. Promote Open Education …
• Join the CCCOER Advisory Group
– Stay in the Loop
– Find partners for OER projects
• Become a member of the OCW
Consortium and help create a
„sustainable open future …

26. Learn More at CCCOER
Webinars
• 9/11 Reduce Costs and Improve Outcomes with
Open Textbooks
• 9/25 OER Adopter Communities
• 10/9 OER Faculty Development
• 10/29 OER & Accessibility
• 11/13 MOOCs & Community Colleges
• 12/4 OER & Research
SPRING 2013 WEBINARS TBD

27. Making OER Sustainable
• Openly license your own work
• Contribute your work to OER
repositories
• Mentor others in use of OERs
adapted from Judy Baker cc-by license

28. Thank you for attending!
Contact Information
Una Daly unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org

29. Photo credits:
Share
http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4424154829/in/photostream/
IMG_4591 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/4700979984/ cc-by-sa
La belle tzigane http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/21063837 cc-by-sa
http://images.cdn.fotopedia.com/flickr-3981449410-original.jpg
Sipapu Bridge photo by Zruda on Flickr cc-by-nc-sa
Asian Library Interior 5 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubclibrary/453351638/ cc-by-nc-sa
Petru http://www.flickr.com/photos/joyoflife/23724427/ cc-by-nc-sa
Opensourceways http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4371000710/ cc-by-sa