2011Creating Collaborative Connections
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This document summarizes a panel discussion on open educational resources (OER) from the WCET Annual Conference in Denver. The panelists discussed their organizations' efforts to support OER, including MERLOT's collection of over 30,000 materials, the Orange Grove's work on open textbooks in Florida, and Kentucky's Learning Depot which provides open resources aligned to common core standards. The panel explored how partnerships can help increase access to high quality open textbooks and other materials to reduce costs and support student success.
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2011Creating Collaborative Connections
- 1. Creating Collaborative Connections Russ Adkins (Moderator) Broward College Susie Henderson EDUCAUSE Phil Moss MERLOT Enid Wohlstein Kentucky Virtual Library WCET Annual Conference Denver, Colorado October 28, 2011
- 2. Sharing OER – Enabling Factors Modular, flexible, affordable, accessible Technical requirements, standards IP/Copyright Quality Assurance Services supporting effective use Communities
- 4. MERLOT: A free digital collection of online teaching and learning materials that is open for all to use… 30,000+ materials across disciplines contributed by members A free & open community for all who use, share, advise & evaluate online teaching & learning materials since 1997… 98,000 members growing at 1,000+ per month A consortium of higher education institutions, professional societies, digital libraries, corporations, and other organizations supporting educational improvement through technology
- 5. Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Biology Business Chemistry Communication Sciences and Disorders Criminal Justice Engineering English Faculty Development Fire Safety Health Sciences History Information Technology Library and Information Services Mathematics Music Physics Psychology Sociology Statistics Teacher Education Technical Allied Health World Languages
- 14. Copyright MERLOT
- 16. Type in key word and choose other digital libraries to search Federated Search
- 19. Type in ISBN of your chosen textbook and find related OER
- 21. Leverage means moving from here… Mass = 1
- 22. To here…. Mass = MERLOT Community Mass = Educational Practices
- 23. Creating Collaborative Connections Susan (Susie) Henderson Director, Online Strategies and Programs, EDUCAUSE Former Director, The Orange Grove, Florida’s Digital Repository Principal Investigator, FIPSE Open Access Textbook Grant www.openaccesstextbooks.org [email_address]
- 29. www.theorangegrove.org Launched September, 2009
- 30. Open textbooks are : SPIRG (Student Public Interest Research Group) Definition : Freely accessible digital textbooks that can be read online, self-printed, or downloaded via any computer with internet access at no or low cost . In addition, students may often be able to order a commercial print-on-demand copy at a modest cost . What’s missing from this definition?
- 31. Open textbooks are : … freely available through an open license (often Creative Commons creativecommons.org ) that permits users to : read, download, copy, distribute, self-print, search or link to the full texts without financial, legal or technical barriers. Copyright Permissions are selected and set by the author or whomever is paying the textbook development costs
- 32. Basic Conditions Optional Conditions Copy and distribute the textbook without giving credit to the author/s Add, remove or alter content (derivative works) Derivative works must offer the same license (share alike) Use the textbook commercially Provide attribution to author/s Non-commercial purposes
- 33. Open Textbook Priorities Afford able Adapt able Access ible
- 34. WebAssign Press University Press of Florida Authors Books Partners OG Repository
- 35. Provides: File Storage and URLs for content Metadata = Discoverability Access Download Purchase commercial print copy Link to Self-print Solution to Identified Need : faculty have difficulty finding open textbooks
- 36. The University Press of Florida Highly recognized and regarded scholarship dissemination for state Acquisitions : select and guide textbook projects Development : editing, design, index, ISBN #, proof, print, marketing, sales Distribution : bookstores (malls and campus) Solution to Identified Need : Quality is #1 priority for both faculty and student leaders when selecting or using textbook
- 37. Print-On-Demand Publisher (POD) Low cost print copy On-line commerce Quality commercial book Minimum order = 1 and no maximum order limits 0-48 hour turn around Multiple print locations around the world Solution to Identified Need : 70% of students want to be able to purchase a commercial print edition at low cost. (Yes, but what do they really do?)
- 38. Authors like Dr. Sergei Shabanov Co-Author of Concepts in Calculus I and II Associate Professor Mathematics Affiliate Professor of Physics University of Florida Teacher of the Year
- 39. Online Homework Service @ Fair Cost: WebAssign Solution to Identified Need : 89% of student survey respondents indicate that practice problems improve their grades
- 40. A supply of high quality
- 41. Or…A Team
- 42. NEW DIRECTIONS
- 43. Partnerships to develop the 25 General Education Open Textbooks Commitments Alabama Akron Athabasca Calgary Fordham Michigan Michigan State New Mexico Nevada North Georgia Purdue Rutgers Temple Tennessee Wayne State Yale Looking for additional partners! Join us!
- 45. Contact Information Susie Henderson [email_address] 850-591-4309
- 46. Collaborating Across P-20, Across Borders with Standards Alignment Kentucky’s P20 Repository for Quality Digital Learning Content
- 47. Mandate enacted 2009 for -- the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), the Kentucky Board of Education (KBE), and the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) -- To create a Unified Strategy for College and Career Readiness to reduce college remediation and to increase the college completion rates by 2014 Kentucky’s Senate Bill 1
- 48. To align revised K-12 academic standards with college readiness requirements and expectations and promote degree completion: Accelerated Learning Opportunities Secondary Intervention Programs College and Career Readiness Advising Postsecondary College Persistence and Degree Completion Four Key Strategies
- 49. Kentucky was the first state to adopt the Common Core Standards (Feb. 2010): To be known as the Kentucky Core Academic Standards for English/Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics Provides grade by grade level content standards linked to college and career readiness standards Integrate final standards into agency work and processes to ensure that all Kentucky students experience a successful and productive future K-12 Common Core Standards
- 50. KY Council on Postsecondary Education’s Objectives College Readiness – increase a number of Kentuckians college-ready and entering postsecondary education and college-ready GED graduates, and increase effectiveness of K-12 teachers and school leaders Student Success – increase high-quality degree production at all levels, close achievement gaps, decrease financial barriers to college access & completion Research, Economic & Community Development Efficiency & Innovation Higher Ed Strategic Agenda 2011-15
- 51. P-20 consortium for digital newspapers, magazines and journals covering wide range of subjects and interests, since 1999 400 dues-paying members with 1,500 locations at schools, universities, community colleges and public libraries Savings of almost $19 million a year in digital subscriptions and services Shared library catalog for nearly 20 agencies & universities Kentuckiana Digital Library sponsor – putting KY’s history and primary sources online Interlibrary loans, distance learning course materials and lab kits Training and professional development Kentucky Virtual Library
- 52. Integration Quality educational resources from Kentucky educators along with the best free courses, videos, lesson plans and open access textbooks on the web Search for, select and add new content from inside an online course Integrates seamlessly with Blackboard, Moodle and ANGEL course management systems Package once/reuse many times in the classroom Mix & Match
- 53. Publication Add original resources to the Depot under Creative Commons copyright licensing Usage tracking of original resources with Depot reporting Receive feedback from the Depot community in the form of comments and starred reviews Find OER textbooks and other digital content from colleagues across the U.S. Share & Rate
- 54. Collaboration Learning community of members contributing, commenting, evaluating or suggesting resources for the Depot’s collection Depot Scholars provide peer review for quality control and improvement Work with colleagues to create original content using the Depot’s built-in collaboration tools Act as volunteer reviewer, have about 90 Scholars Co-Create or Review
- 55. Common Core Standards PD resources on the new Common Core standards , whether postsecondary or K-12, posted in the Kentucky Learning Depot Access and share Common Core standards materials across borders and collaborate with educators in other states Shared taxonomies provide metadata, tagging and connective “language” Standards & Taxonomies
- 56. Connecting 1 st Screen for a Depot Member with Task & Admin Roles
- 57. Advanced Search – Checkbox OR Choose a Taxonomy
- 58. Depot to Other Repositories 1 2 3
- 60. Connecting
- 61. The Depot Inside Blackboard
- 62. Using open source materials
- 65. http://www.kylearningdepot.org/contact/ Enid Wohlstein, Director Kentucky Learning Depot [email_address]
- 66. Questions & Discussion Contact Info: Susan Henderson [email_address] Phil Moss [email_address] Enid Wohlstein [email_address]
Editor's Notes
- #5: Open “Digital Library” of OER and Open Educational Services that enable faculty, students, staff, administrators, and everyone else to use and participate in the Community’s library Worldwide community of members who collaboratively contribute to MERLOT’s library and services Higher education leadership community which plans, manages, & finances MERLOT’s services
- #20: 9780077354763 = Chemistry 9780070050235 = Statistics
- #22: t eaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use textbooks that are freely available with nonrestrictive licenses. available to download and print in various file formats from several web sites and OER repositories. Open textbooks can range from public domain books to existing textbooks to control textbooks created specifically for OER. Open textbooks help solve the problems of the high cost of textbooks, book shortages, and access to textbooks as well as providing the capacity to better meet local teaching and learning needs j ournals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. "open access“ the right of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles “ The journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality . software code that is published & freely available for people to use, develop, share,.educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.
- #23: t eaching and learning materials that are freely available online for everyone to use textbooks that are freely available with nonrestrictive licenses. available to download and print in various file formats from several web sites and OER repositories. Open textbooks can range from public domain books to existing textbooks to control textbooks created specifically for OER. Open textbooks help solve the problems of the high cost of textbooks, book shortages, and access to textbooks as well as providing the capacity to better meet local teaching and learning needs j ournals that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. "open access“ the right of users to "read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles “ The journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality . software code that is published & freely available for people to use, develop, share,.educational materials and resources offered freely and openly for anyone to use and under some licenses to re-mix, improve and redistribute.
- #32: Budapest Open Access Initiative. http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtm
- #67: The premise is that by working together, faculty from our institutions in specific topical areas can provide higher-quality learning experiences in more cost-effective ways. Moreover, this academic collaboration can be accomplished without diminishing academic freedom or losing the individualistic creative ingenuity that is the hallmark of outstanding colleges and universities.” “ The product of this work would be a toolkit of teaching processes/materials for voluntary use in specific topical areas that can be used by faculty across Oklahoma colleges and universities.”