There is no program more appropriate for transforming to textbook-free than an instructional design degree. When our campus launched a training program for faculty to adopt affordable and open course content, the director of our Master of Science in Instructional Design and Technology (MSIDT) program signed up all of her faculty. A year later, every single one of the program's courses have no additional cost for instructional materials beyond the cost of tuition. A transformation this quick resulted in a hybrid model: faculty use a variety of library-licensed content, open educational resources, and external web content to eliminate textbook costs for students. While already successful, the journey has just begun. The program's director, faculty, and liaison librarian continue to work to locate and adapt the perfect instructional resources. One course has a unique textbook that is out-of-print, so our campus used a grant to hire a third party vendor to develop custom content. Program faculty continue to remix their chosen resources to include better accessibility features and to incorporate Universal Design principles. In this presentation, the MSIDT Director will describe her motivation, goals, and victories, as well as the challenges with enacting a transformation of this magnitude. MSIDT's liaison librarian (also the campus Instructional Design Librarian) will discuss her role in advising on library-licensed content, copyright, and OER identification, as well as her experience teaching with these resources in her dual role as a part-time MSIDT faculty member.

1. The Perfect Opportunity
TRANSFORMING A GRADUATE INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN DEGREE WITH
AFFORDABLE AND OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

2. Who We Are
Lindsay O’Neill
 Instructional Design Librarian &
Subject Liaison to MSIDT
 Part-time faculty in MSIDT program
 OER librarian by default
Dr. Cynthia Gautreau
 Director of MSIDT
 Long-time faculty in MSIDT
 Associate Professor,
Elementary and Bilingual Education

3. About California State University, Fullerton
 CSUF has 40,000 students: one of the largest campuses in the 23-campus Cal State system
 Predominantly undergraduate and master's-level programs
 Regional commuter university
 5 miles from Disneyland (as the crow flies)

4. About the MSIDT program
 MSIDT: Master of Science in Instructional Design and Technology
 Completely online two-year program that uses a cohort model
 Fairly small (but growing!) program: ~100 students total

5. CSU’s Affordable Learning Solutions
Cal State system-wide push to promote adoption of affordable instructional materials (OER and library
materials!)

6. Affordable Learning Solutions Ambassadors
2016:
 CSUF received grant money from state of California for training & support (AB 798)
 Director of OET launched first cohort of Affordable Learning Solutions “Ambassadors”
 Funding for faculty for course redesigns!

7. MSIDT & Affordable Learning Solutions
 MSIDT Director signed up all of her faculty for year-long program!
 Photo of 1st ALS Ambassador class:

8. ALS Ambassadors Program 2016-17
 Two-day workshop on Affordable/Open learning resources and on Universal Design for Learning
 Ambassadors got $500 for attending training, and $500 more for redesigning their courses within the
next year (2016-17)
 All funded by the state grant

9. Perfect opportunity!
 Instructional design = systematic design of instruction
 We are all about learning objectives and educational technology!
 Critical instructional design: Practice what we’re teaching!

10. Video Testimonial – Dr. Gautreau
View via YouTube: https://youtu.be/jUtISUKNRqE

11. MSIDT & Affordable Learning Solutions
 All MSIDT faculty attended summer workshop
 Additionally, money set aside from state grant to work with third-party OER curator
 Limited OER on instructional design/elearning development
 Two-day workshop was in June 2016, but MSIDT faculty transformed fall courses by the beginning of
the semester at end of August 2016!

12. Pre-Redesign (Examples)
$39 $200 $25

13. Post-Redesign
Open Textbook Library +
Library Ebook
Library EbookNot open, but Free
Module from
GCFLearnFree.org
Identical Library Ebook +
Lynda.com

14. Software: Adobe Captivate
 $300 software purchased for students by campus IT

15. Not 100% Open. But 100% Zero-Cost!

16. On that third-party OER curator...
 Ended up not working with them!

17. Next step...
 Continue to review course materials and seek OER
 Hope to get on the path to open pedagogy!
◦ Perhaps student-written textbooks and job aids on learning theories and interface design?
◦ Faculty collaborations to write our own texts and create our own supporting materials?

18. Open Ed Conference Success Story
https://lidtfoundations.pressbooks.com/

19. Lessons Learned
 Time-intensive to investigate and adopt each title!
 Fast turnaround meant some bumps to implementation

20. Takeaways
 Library ebooks put us on the path to fully open but we are not open!
 In any case, no-cost course materials are huge marketing tool for MSIDT program, and much
appreciated by students!
 Continual education: free ≠ open!

21. Questions?
Lindsay O’Neill
jloneill@fullerton.edu
Slides: jlindsayoneill.com/perfectopp