California Open Online Library Presentation at the California Community College's Distance Education Coordinator's meeting on June 27, 2014.

1. Una Daly, CSU Chancellor’s Office
June 27, 2014
Discover Free & Open
Educational Resources with
California Open Online Library
(COOLforEd)

2. Welcome
Una Daly
CCCOER Director
OER Library Services Manager, CSU

3. Agenda
• The Legislation
– Why
– What
• Role of the Council
• Faculty Survey Results
• Digital Open Source Library
• Faculty Adoption OER Portfolios
• Summer/Fall 2014 Plans

4. Textbooks Rising 6% per year

5. • 65% choose to not buy
textbook
• 94% report concern that
grades affected
• 48% take fewer classes
or different classes
Student Impact
CC BY Center of Public Interest Research

6. Student Debt
• Federal Student Loan Debt
– 1-Trillion Dollars
• Avg. loan upon graduation
– $25,000+
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed, Forbes Magazine, Aug 2013
http://www.forbes.com/sites/specialfeatures/2013/08/07/how-the-college-debt-is-crippling-students-
parents-and-the-economy/
Image: Welcome Back to CAL licensed
CC-BY-NC by Black Hour on Flickr

7. Education is about Sharing
• Teachers share knowledge freely
• Students share
their understanding
• Teachers share
with each other.
Source: David Wiley, Why be Open, slideshare 2012
Image: Engineering Expo 10, licensed
by Westpoing CC-BY-NC-ND

8. Solution:
Open Educational Resources
• Online access to textbook on first
day of class.
• Free online, low-
cost print option
• Faculty can adapt for students
Licensed for re-use by
OpenSourceWay

9. 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
free use or repurposing by others.
Image license: cc-by donkyhotey/flickr

10. Goal: Make college more affordable by
promoting use of high-quality open educational
resources for 50 highest enrolled college
courses.
SB 1052, 1053 signed by Governor Brown September 2012
California Open Textbook Law
Image: http://gov.ca.gov

11. California Open Textbook Law
• SB 1052
–Open Educational Resources Council
(COERC)
• SB 1053
–Digital Open Source Library
(COOLforEd)

12. Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation ($500,000)
Gates Foundation ($500,000)
Match CA State funding, mandate by SB 1052 & SB 1053.
Grant administered by CSU Chancellor’s Office
CSSA June 014
Funding

13. California OER Council
(COERC)
• Established by ICAS
– 3 faculty appointed from each system and non-
voting chair = 10 members
• Council Tasks
– Identify 50 highest enrolled course
– Survey Faculty and Students for awareness
– Establish peer review rubric for open textbooks
– Manage peer review panels for open textbooks

14. COERC – alifornia Open Educational Resources Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
CCC UC CSU
Dianna Chiabotti,
Child & Family
Studies & Education,
Napa Valley
Bob Jacobsen,
Physics, Berkeley
Diego Bonilla,
Communication,
Sacramento
Cheryl Stewart,
Library & Information
Science, Coastline
Peter Krapp,
Film, Media/Visual
Studies, Informatics,
Irvine
Ruth A. Guthrie,
Pomona, begins Fall
2014
Kevin Yokoyama,
Mathematics,
Redwoods
Randy Siverson,
Political Science,
Davis
Larry Hanley,
English, San
Francisco
Katherine D. Harris, English, San Jose State (CSU)
Project Coordinator/Chair (non-voting)
COERC Membership
(formed Jan 2014)
CSSA June 2014

15. CORC – California Open Educational Resources
Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Faculty Survey: By Discipline
1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
CSSA June 2014

16. CERC – California Open Educational Resources Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Faculty Survey: By Institution
1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
CSSA June 2014

17. CORC – California Open Educational Resources
Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Faculty Survey: Awareness
1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
CSSA June 2014

18. CORC – California Open Educational Resources
Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Faculty Survey: Peer Review
1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
CSSA June 2014

19. COER – California Open Educational Resources Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Faculty Survey: Administrative Support
1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
CSSA June 2014

20. Council
Katherine D. Harris, Project Coordinator
Faculty Survey: Cost Reduction
1,005 Responses (out of 48,000 faculty from CCC, UC & CSU) as of 5/30/14
CSSA June 2014

21. California Open Online Library
(COOLforEd)
• Digital collection of curated open
textbooks, peer reviews, accessibility
info, and faculty adoption stories
• Administered by the California State
University System.
Image: Licensed cc-by 3.0
OpenSourceWay

22. Publisher: Wiley & Sons Publisher : OpenStax College
Amazon $167. 19 Digital Access - $0
Softbound: $34.31
Traditional vs. Open Textbook

23. Faculty OER Adoption
ePortfolios
• Statistics
• Chemistry
• History
• Micro Economics
• Public Speaking
• Physics
Image: licensed for reuse by Helen
Barrett

24. COOLforEd and Accessibility
http://oeraccess.merlot.org/

25. Open Textbook Accessibility Reviews
Textbook: Collaborative Statistics
Accessibility reviewed by: Virtual Ability, Inc.

26. California Open Textbooks
Summer/Fall 2014
• Establish peer review process
– Create faculty panels
– Post reviews for 5 initial areas
• Roll-out communications plan
• Create student review panels
• Promote OER adoption through
faculty development opportunities
• Curate OER collection for 50 highest
enrolled courses including
accessibility Image: Licensed cc-by 2.0
Photologue_np on flickr

27. Existing Resources
• COERC Project Description
icas-ca.org/coerc
• COERC Glossary: icas-ca.org/oer-
glossary
• More to come this summer …

28. Thank you!
Contact Information
Una Daly udaly@calstate.edu
Una Daly unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org