A background on the CSU Affordable Learning Solutions initiative and program -- discovering and selecting open and affordable content.

1. C a f é L e a r n B o o t c a m p , S u m m e r 2 0 1 5
Leslie Kennedy, EdD
AL$ Director, CO
Fred Neely
AL$ Outreach, CO
Naomi Moy
Librarian Extraordinaire
Dominguez Hills
Curating Open and Affordable
Course Content

2. Workshop
• Background on AL$
• Discovering and selecting open and affordable
content
• Learning Outcome
– Evaluate and select from at least four strategies
for curating open and affordable course content
for your course(s)

5. • 60,000 title Choices for students
• 8 publishing partners and affiliates
• Over $4.5 M savings and counting
CSU Rent Digital Program

6. Bookstores

8. Adaptive Learning Software
● Personalized learning
● Café Learn
● McGraw Hill LearnSmart
● Adapt Courseware
● Cengage
● MacMillan

9. Custom Publishing Services
Redshelf.com XanEdu.com Softchalk.com

10. Library Resources

11. Library Resources

12. Potential OER Resources
Journal of Online Learning and Teaching
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Open CourseWare
Open Chemistry, Open Courseware, UC Irvine
Open Collections Program, Harvard
Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative
Center for Open and Sustainable Learning, Utah State University
Rice University
OpenStax College
MIT OpenCourseware
Project
Open University UK
UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning
African Virtual
University

13. MERLOT.ORG
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

14. A professor has been using a textbook
for several terms and is looking for
engaging and supporting material.
or
You want to find relevant materials
quickly in MERLOT.

15. Type
ISBN of
your
chosen
textbook
and find
related
OER
OER Finder Widget

16. ISBN Finder

17. You are considering an open textbook
because of the quality content and the
affordability.
In particular, you like their potential
ancillary materials.

18. You are looking for a new text that has been
selected and reviewed by higher education faculty.

19. Participating AL$ Faculty
Saving students money with low or no
cost course materials

20. Participating CSU Campuses

21. 279 Faculty
Made Digital
Choices
~ 6,900+
Students
Enrolled
$650,000
Savings in
One term

22. Steve Stewart: SOCI 301
➢ Savings to students overall.
- 130 students have saved approximately $15 each from
online book. = Savings $1950.
- 130 students will save approximately $85 each from using a
textbook 2-3 versions back. = Savings $11,050.
- 130 students able to access articles from The Economist via Bb Learn.
Copyright clearance savings approximately $20 each. = Savings $2600.
- Total Savings = $15,600 every semester.

23. “CALMED” Course Example – WMST 303
WMST 303: Education, Race and
Gender, Dr. Natalie Wilson
• Reconstructing Gender $90.26
• Troubling Education $49.95
• Teaching to Transgress $21.36
• Total: $161.50
CALMED course
• Breaking Bad Habits of Race and
Gender 24.95
• Pearson Custom Book 24.65
• OER videos, websites, and
organizational publications (eg
FMF’s report on gender equity and
education)
• Library Materials including Course
Reserves, journal articles, and Media
Library Holdings
• Total: $49.60
Savings: $111.90
(x40 students = $4,467)
2/21/2014 Instructional Development Services - CSUSM 28
Cougars Affordable Learning Materials (CALM)

24. What the CSU San Marcos Students Are
Saying…
“I would use eBooks. I think they would be easier to use and to do homework with.” –
Annette, Kinesiology
“EBooks help me because I have to pay for rent and food so that money I saved helped
me go towards that.” –Alyssa, Economics (graduate student)
“I wish it was offered more by my teachers.” –Kevin, Entertainment Marketing
“More spending more stress, less spending less stress.” – Andrew, Philosophy
“You won't stress about working to get more money to pay everything off.”
–Alex, Electrical Engineering
"The library reserve is great when I'm on campus and don't want to carry my book to
school. I can check it out and study or do homework for a while.“
–Kim, Architecture

25. ALS “Featured Faculty” @ Cal Poly Pomona

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28. Mark Stoner, Ph.D.,
Professional Communication Studies
Sacramento State

29. Open Resources for ComS 5 The Communication Experience
Main text from Flatworld Knowledge publishing
Communication in the Real World:
An Introduction to Communication Studies, v. 1.0
Secondary text from Wikibooks
Survey of Communication Study

33. State of California Legislature
Senate Bill 1052: CA OER council
• Bill to address textbooks’ price inflation
• Establishes the CA OER Council
• Select free or affordable textbooks for 50 high
impact courses
• High impact = High enrollment, quality, availability
• Establish a peer-review process
•Increase awareness and adoption among faculty
• Identify high impact courses for which open
textbooks are not available, or if the current open
textbook options require improvement
State of California Legislature
Senate Bill 1053: COOL4ED
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18 courses selected with peer-reviewed free or affordable textbooks
Goal:
50 courses selected with free or affordable textbooks
150 curated, free or affordable textbooks
450 faculty reviews

35. Faculty eTextbook Reviews
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36. Faculty Showcases
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37. Find open or affordable textbooks, and
other open educational resources.
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38. http://tiny.cc/findTextbook
Activity
Find an OER for your course.
Method 1
Use the find tool in COOL4ED to look for:
1) Open textbooks or,
2) other open educational resources.
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39. Information provided by the authors
Information provided by others
http://tiny.cc/findTextbook
Activity
Find an OER for your course.
Method 1
Use the find tool in COOL4ED to look for:
1) Open textbooks or,
2) other open educational resources.
h t t p : / / c o o l 4 e d . o r g

40. http://tiny.cc/advancedFind
Select Open Textbook
Activity
Find an OER for your course.
Method 2
Use the Advanced Search tool in MERLOT to look for:
1) Open textbooks or,
2) other open educational resources.
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41. Mandatory term. It will find all the
material that can be used for free
Common terms in the Open
Educational Resources
movement
Subjectmatter in the title or
anywhere else
Words to refine the search
"creativecommons" "opentextbook" intitle:microeconomics introduction
textbook microeconomics advanced
oer
eBook
resources
education
Search recommendations: intitle, site, and the use of quotation marks
Examples:
“creative commons” “open textbook” intitle:microeconomics “
creative commons” “open textbook” microeconomics
“creative commons” “open textbook” intitle:microeconomics introduction
“creative commons” oer intitle:microeconomics
“creative commons” resources intitle:microeconomics
“creative commons” education intitle:microeconomics
Activity
Find an OER for your course.
Method 3
Use a refined search in Google to look for:
1) Open textbooks or,
2) other open educational resources.
C a f é L e a r n B o o t c a m p u s , S u m m e r 2 0 1 5
Diego Bonilla, PhD. Professor,
Communication Studies, Sac State

42. C a f é L e a r n B o o t c a m p u s , S u m m e r 2 0 1 5
AffordableLearningSolutions MyOpenMath
ALS:Open EducationalResources byCollege OERCommons
BC Campus Open Ed OER Research Hub
Open Textbook Library Open Course Library
CaliforniaOpen Source Textbook Project OpenCourseware Consortium
CMU Open Learning Initiative Open ProfessionalsEducationNetwork
College Open Textbooks OpenStax
Connexions OpenTextBookStore
CreativeCommons Search SaylorFoundation
LumenLearning The Orange Grove
Merlot UMN Open Academics
MerlotX Affordable Learning Georgia
Other portals/repositories/directories of Open Educational Resources
Activity
Find an OER for your course.
Method 4
Look for an open educational resource by
browsing specialized directories/repositories

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