This document summarizes an OER faculty workshop that was held on October 21, 2017. The workshop covered definitions of OER, types of OER resources such as textbooks and courses, how to search for OER content using repositories like Merlot and OER Commons, and had participants find OER materials to incorporate into their courses. Participants then shared their findings in small groups and completed a planning activity to identify how they would adopt or adapt OER into their spring 2018 courses and assess student satisfaction. The workshop aimed to educate faculty on open educational resources and help them begin incorporating OER into their teaching.

1. OER Faculty Workshop
October 21, 2017
Kelvin Bentley, PhD
eLearning Consultant

2. Unless otherwise noted
this presentation is licensed by CC BY 4.0

3. Today’s Schedule
• 9:00am-9:15am Introductions and Review of Survey Results
• 9:15am-9:30am What is OER?
• 9:30am-10:15am Types of OER
• 10:15am-10:30am Break
• 10:30am-11:45pm Small Group Activity
• 11:45am-12:00pm Small Group Recap
• 12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch
• 1:00pm-3:00pm OER Adoption/Adaption Planning

4. Workshop Objectives
• Define what “Open Education Resource” means
• Identify the differences among the Creative Commons licenses
• Use different resources to find OER content that aligns with your
teaching discipline(s)
• Create a summary of your initial plans to adopt and/or adapt OER
content for one or more of your Spring 2018 and assess student
satisfaction with selected OER resources

5. OER Landscape at Imperial Valley College

6. Reviewing Your Instructional Resources
• What instructional resources do you currently use?
• How well are your resources aligned with your learning objectives?
• What feedback have you collected about your instructional content?
How have you used student feedback to update the content you
normally use? How often do you make these types of changes?

7. Survey Results

8. Do you agree with these findings?
Source: Cengage’s White Paper-”Open Educational Resources (OER) and the Evolving Technology Landscape”

9. Your Survey Results (as of 5:12pm on Oct. 20th)
• 13 Respondents
• 54% response rate
• Faculty type
• 61.5% represent adjunct faculty
• 38.5% represent full-time faculty
• Disciplines represented included
• English, Film, Theater,
• Spanish
• Math
• Library Science
• Business, CIS
• Spanish
• Health, Nursing

11. OER Defined

12. Hewlett Foundation Definition
•“OER are 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 and re-purposing by others.
Open educational resources include full courses,
course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming
videos, tests, software, and any other tools,
materials, or techniques used to support access to
knowledge.”
Source: https://www.hewlett.org/strategy/open-educational-resources/

13. CA Education Code Section 78052(a)
Mentioned my Una Daly via a 10-19-17 CCCOER email:
“California Ed Code has been updated to include the following
definition of OER:
… high-quality teaching, learning, and research resources that
reside in the public domain or have been released pursuant to
an intellectual property license that permits their free use and
repurposing by others, and may include other resources that
are legally available and free of cost to students.”

14. What is OER?
Image from
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/What_is_OER%3F

15. Creative Commons Licenses

16. David Wiley’s 5R Permissions of Open
Retain Reuse Revise
Remix Redistribute
Source: http://opencontent.org/definition/

17. Attribution International 4.0
(CC BY 4.0)
• Credit the author
• Link to the license
• Indicate if changes were made

18. Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-SA 4.0)
• Give appropriate credit
• Share
• Adapt

19. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC 4.0)
• Give credit
• Share
• Adapt
• Material cannot be used for
commercial purposes

20. Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
(CC BY-ND 4.0)
• Give Credit
• If your create a new version, you
cannot distribute it.

21. OER Types
• Non-textbook Instructional Items
• Textbooks
• Courses
• Courseware
• Degrees
• Consortia and Other Initiatives

22. OER Degree Initiatives

23. District-Wide OER Initiative

25. OER Degree Example:
Tidewater CC

26. OER Degree Example: Northern VA CC

27. California’s Zero-Cost Degree Initiative

28. Searching for and Finding OER

29. Source: https://flic.kr/p/7etzz

30. Merlot

31. Merlot

32. Merlot Community Example

33. OER Commons

34. OER Commons: Module Builder

35. OER Commons

37. Canvas Commons

38. Courseware

39. ”Open” Courseware Examples
Open Learning
Initiative (Carnegie
Mellon, Stanford) OpenStax Tutor
Lumen Learning
Waymaker
Cengage OpenNow

40. Lumen Learning

41. Lumen Waymaker

42. OpenStax Tutor Beta

43. Cengage OpenNow

44. “Creative Commons Searching”
• Creative Commons
• Google
• YouTube
• Flickr

45. Creative Commons Search Engine

46. Small Group Activity
• Business, CIS
• ESL, Spanish, Communication, Music
• Nursing, Allied Health, Health
• English
• Math
• Psychology, Counseling, Sociology, Political Science
• Library

47. Small Group Activity
• Organize into small groups
• Discuss what types of OER content you are interested in finding to
help your students be successful in your respective courses
• Use any of the previously mentioned sites for your OER search by
going to http://bit.ly/IVCOER
• Report back at 11:45am

48. Post-Lunch OER Planning Activity
• Complete the OER Workshop Google spreadsheet’s “OER Planning”
sheet:
• Find 3 OER content items that you can add to your current or Spring 2018 ace-
to-face, hybrid, or online course. Describe which learning objectives each OER
item aligns with
• Survey your students to their level of satisfaction with the learning objects
you selected; Briefly describe this information in the spreadsheet
• Encourage your colleagues to review the spreadsheet and contribute to it

49. Some Final Thoughts
• Take small steps toward adding OER to your courses; Remember to
track student satisfaction
• Collaborate with your colleagues both within and outside of your
discipline; Share your OER experiences and learn from them
• Open does not always equate with ACCESSIBILITY
• Open is making a difference in student success. Be part of the
movement 
• To review today’s slides, please go to http://bit.ly/IVCOERSlides

50. Contact Information
• Cell: 810-513-6192
• Email: timelord33@gmail.com
• Twitter: blacktimelord
• LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/kelvinbentley

51. Questions?