Keynote at Holyoke Community College on OER and Open Pedagogy
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The document discusses how adopting open educational resources (OER) at HCC can help reduce costs for students, improve student success rates, and increase engagement. It notes that many students currently struggle to pay high textbook costs, which can negatively impact their grades and course completion. The document outlines benefits seen at other institutions that have implemented OER, such as improved throughput rates and students developing a deeper appreciation for course material. It also discusses moving beyond traditional textbooks to embrace open pedagogy through collaboratively building open resources, incorporating multimedia, and making materials interactive and openly licensed. Workshops are proposed for faculty to learn tools to annotate readings, build ePortfolios, create open textbooks, and make syllabi more open.
Keynote at Holyoke Community College on OER and Open Pedagogy
- 1. OER and Beyond: Reducing Costs, Transforming Teaching All photos CC0 Alan Levine from Flickr #GoOpenHCC @actualham Presentation CCBY Robin DeRosa Images CC0 Alan Levine
- 2. How Open Education Can Work for HCC • Drive down the overall cost of college for students • Improve throughputs and student success • Increase student engagement • Connect students with their fields, professions, and communities • Reinvigorate faculty engagement with teaching • Build collaboratives with other public colleges and universities • Build a case for public funding of higher education
- 3. Book Costs Move Off the Charts
- 4. • 56% of students pay more than $300 per semester • 20% pay more than $500 per semester (that’s equal to 56% of tuition at HCC!) • Students worry more about paying for books than they worry about paying for college.
- 5. Effects of Textbook Prices • 67% did not purchase a required textbook • 38% earned a poor grade • 20% failed a course • 48% occasionally or frequently took fewer courses • 26% dropped a course • 21% withdrew from a course 2016 Survey of 22,000 students, Florida Virtual Campus, comprised of the 12 universities and 28 colleges in the Florida state system.
- 8. Student Success “students who use OER perform significantly better on the course throughput rate than their peers who use traditional textbooks, in both face-to-face and online courses that use OER.” (2016) Throughput Rate an aggregate of: drop rates, withdrawal rates, C or better rates.
- 10. Quality “The classes with traditional published textbooks I study and memorize to pass tests. In this class I have a greater appreciation for the things I learned because I actually experienced the material and lesson as opposed to simply passing a test. This knowledge will last a lifetime.” Tidewater Community College (2015 Report)
- 11. OER Open Pedagogy Tidewater Community College (2015 Report)
- 12. Where I Began
- 13. Collaboratively Built: Alums, Incoming Students, Professor
- 16. Interactive and Public Annotation
- 17. An Open “Textbook” Can Be: • Interactive • Collaborative • Dialogic • Dynamic • Empowering • Contributory • Current • Accessible • Multimedia • Public • (Free)
- 18. Open Pedagogy •Improves access to education. •Treats education as a learner-driven process. •Stresses community and collaboration over content. •Connects the college to the wider public.
- 19. CCBY Jonathan Brodsky https://flic.kr/p/37z2C2 Access, broadly writ. digital divide & redlining, accessibility, online safety & harassment,
- 21. Content ≠ King • Rhizomes • Networks • Communities • Collaborations
- 22. Public Blogs, PLNs, ePorts • @gardnercampbell • @anrikard • @audreywatters
- 23. Personal Reflective Portfolio Portal for sharing and collaborating
- 24. to OPEN (vb.) • Challenge barriers to access. Be honest and critical. • Center learners. Be radical and real. • Facilitate connection. Be a sticky node, not a gate. • Share your practice. Be generous and just.
- 26. Partnerships • First Movers: Maricopa Millions ($7.5 in 4 years), The Tidewater Z-Degree • #GoOpen: Dep’t of Ed. • Mass #GoOpen: $1 million+ in 2017-18 • Achieving the Dream • CCCOER • 2 + 2 Agreements (UMASS Amherst)
- 27. Public Higher Education We can’t save public higher education by privatizing it. Instead, let’s focus on access, on connected learning, and on sharing our resources. Instead of competitors and comparators, we will build a network of collaborators. Open Education offers us real strategies to increase student success and empowerment, engage learners with the world outside the college walls, and invite the public to share in the knowledge commons.
- 28. Afternoon Workshop Tools/Techniques • Annotating Readings with Hypothes.is • Building ePorts with Domain of One’s Own • Building Personal Learning Networks with Twitter • Creating Open Textbooks with PressBooks • “Opening” your syllabus Tweet to #GoOpenHCC
Editor's Notes
- #4: CC by Nicole Allen, SPARC
- #7: I can show you how to choose a license CC ND is not OER
- #13: Could be an OpenStax book or public docs or whatever
- #22: Rhizome slide
- #23: Gardner – personal cyberinfrastructure, tied to students not courses, lose the LMS Andrew- complexity of fac/student power Audrey- who is data for?
- #24: Not the LMS, not a template, control to the student