Open Access Week: College of Du Page Keynote
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The document discusses the evolution of open education and its impact on teaching and learning through Open Educational Resources (OER). It highlights the barriers to education, the need for increased awareness, and the benefits of using OER to reduce costs, increase access, and improve educational outcomes for students. Additionally, it outlines strategies for launching OER initiatives and emphasizes the importance of collaboration among educational institutions, industry, and government.
Open Access Week: College of Du Page Keynote
- 1. Choose Generation Open: Transforming Teaching and Learning with Open Educational Resources Una Daly, Open Education Consortium Kate Hess, Kirkwood College Except where otherwise noted these materials are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY)
- 2. Welcome Una Daly Community College Director Open Ed Consortium OER Library Manager, CSU Kate Hess Faculty Librarian Library Coordinator Kirkwood Community College
- 3. Open Access Illinois Open Access to Research Public Act of 2013
- 5. Agenda • Open Education is evolving • Barriers to Education • How Openness Enables Sharing … • Case Studies • Student and Faculty Impact • Launching an OER Initiative • Sustainability of OER • Challenges on Your Campus
- 6. Second Open Government Action Plan September 2014 • Promote open education to increase awareness and engagement: – Start dialogues and partnerships with academia, industry, and governments. – Pilot new models that use OER – Launch an online skills academy for high demand career training
- 7. What is Open Education? … encompasses resources, tools and practices that employ a framework of open sharing to improve educational access and effectiveness worldwide. --- Open Government … combines the traditions of knowledge sharing and creation with 21st century technology to create a vast pool of openly shared, free educational resources that are more responsive to learner’s needs. -- Open Education Consortium
- 8. Worldwide Participation in Higher Education is Expected to Grow ~60% by 2025… Worldwide Participants in Tertiary Education, 2011 and 2025 Projected 165M 263M 2011 2025 In order to accommodate these 98 million new students, four major universities of 30,000+ students would need to open every week for the next 15 years Source: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/a-different-world/2001128.article; OECD indicators Education at a Glance 2012 and Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution, UNESCO 2009
- 9. …and Employers are Increasingly Seeking Skilled Workers ~90-95M low-skill workers (2.6% of the global workforce) will not be needed by employers by 2020 Employers will need ~45M more medium-skill workers and ~38-40M more high-skill workers than will be available by 2020 Source: McKinsey Global Institute
- 10. The Opportunity Decreased Cost Increased access Higher percentage of individuals educated
- 11. Open Education Consortium Membership
- 12. Community College Consortium 250+ colleges in 18 states/provinces
- 13. Education as Human Right “ Education is both a human right and a vital means of promoting peace and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms … to realize this potential, education must be made universally available and equally accessible to all “ World Education Report 2000, “The right to education: Towards education for all throughout life”. http://www.unesco.org/education/information/wer/PDFeng/wholewer.PDF
- 14. 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
- 15. Tuition and Fees • Undergraduate costs rose 42 percent at public institutions 2001-2011 Source: National Center for Education Statistics http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.a sp?id=76
- 16. Student Debt • Federal Student Loan Debt – 1-Trillion Dollars • Avg. loan upon graduation – $25,000+ Image: Welcome Back to CAL licensed 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/ CC-BY-NC by Black Hour on Flickr
- 17. (Article): University Business: College textbook forecast: Radical change ahead http://www.universitybusiness.com/article/college-textbook-forecast-radical-change-ahead
- 18. Student Impact • 65% choose to not buy textbook • 94% report concern that grades affected • 48% take fewer classes or different classes
- 19. Solution: Open Educational Resources • Online access to textbook on first day of class. • Free online, low-cost print option Licensed for re-use by OpenSourceWay • Faculty can adapt for students
- 20. But how to set the content free? CC BY NC redjar flickr 20
- 21. Use an Open License • Free: Free to access online, free to print • Open: Shared, usable and re-usable • Creative Commons: less restrictions than standard copyright but author retains full rights.
- 22. Creative Commons Licenses Simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions Permission: Attribute-BY Non-Commercial? Share alike? http://creativecommons.org Adapted from Ronda Neugebauer Slidesshare
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- 24. CC licenses are unique because they are expressed in three ways. Slide adapted from Paul Stacey slideshare
- 25. Slide adapted from Cable Green slideshare Make it easy to find!
- 26. Slide adapted from Cable Green slideshare Modify for special needs!
- 27. Publisher: Wiley & Sons Publisher : OpenStax College Amazon $167. 19 Digital Access - $0 Softbound: $34.31 Make it affordable!
- 28. Who creates open educational resources? • Private Foundations • Grant funded projects • Educational institutions • Faculty and other experts Source: lumen learning slideshare $100 million from private foundations in the last decade.
- 29. Where to Find Peer Reviewed OER? How to Adopt an Open Textbook
- 30. Large scale OER Projects • U.S. Department of Labor • OpenStax College • Maricopa Millions • NOVA’s OER-based General Ed • Kaleidoscope/Lumen Learning CC-BY-NC-SA by Cascade Hiker
- 31. TAACCCCT Grants $2 billion over four years Materials licensed with CC-BY Source: Cable Green, Creative Commons, 2013
- 32. TAACCCT Grants Environment Health & Safety • College of Lake County • College of DuPage Building Illinois’ Bioeconomy (BIB) : • Southeastern Illinois College (SIC), • Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, • Carl Sandburg College, • Lincoln Land College, • Lewis & Clark College
- 33. OpenStax College Foundation funded, peer reviewed open textbooks for top 20+ courses. Adapted from David Harrison CCCOER webinar cc-by
- 35. NOVA’s OER-Based General Education Project • 25 OER-based GE Courses • Team development – Faculty, Librarian, Instructional Designer • Saving students $200,000 per term • Student success rates improved in most courses.
- 36. Costs of Textbooks ENG 111: $140 ENG 112 : $93 ENG 125: $89 MTH 151: $263 PHY 201: $269 PHY 202: $244 HIS 121: $109 HIS 122: $109 ART 101: $226 ART 102: $226 HIS 262: N/A (new course) SDV 100: $77 Average cost of Textbooks = $185 CST 110: $140 ECO 201: $281.80 ECO 202: $281.80 ITE 115: $182.70 MTH 152: $161.80 MTH 157: $123.55 MUS 121: $141.45 PED 116: $92.85 PSY 200: $107.15 REL 100: $138.55 SOC 200: $114.65 Potential savings of $3600 per student
- 37. OER Teaching Impact 23% 22% 19% 18% 16% 14% 14% 13% 6% 21% 2% 2% 2% 2% 2% 4% 3% 1% 5% 3% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% I make more use of culturally diverse resources I collaborate more with colleagues I use a broader range of teaching and learning methods I have a more up-to-date knowledge of my subject area I more frequently compare my own teaching with others I have improved ICT skills I now use OER study to develop my teaching I have broadened my coverage of the curriculum I reflect more on the way that I teach I make use of a wider range of multimedia strongly agree– agree– neither agree nor disagree– disagree– strongly disagree–
- 38. Maricopa Millions: Saving Students $5 M in 5 Years • District-wide funded OER project – 10 Colleges, over 250,000 students • Developing OER courses for General Education. • Finalizing OER quality rubric • Students can search for courses that use OER when registering.
- 39. Student Savings and Student Voices
- 40. Open Textbook Ratings by Students 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Worse quality Same quality Better quality Number of Students • “It was very concise and aligned with exactly what we were working on in the class.” • “Having the textbook catered to us by our teacher was perfect.” 3% 56% 41% Source: Bliss, Hilton, Wiley, Thanos (2012)
- 41. Adapted from slides by David Wiley available under CC BY at http:// www.slideshare.net/opencontent
- 42. Launching an OER Initiative
- 43. The Roadmap Step 1: Needs Assessment Step 2: Strategic Planning Step 3: (Re)Write The Plan Step 4: Implement the Plan Step 5: Evaluate how it went
- 44. Step 1: Needs Assessment • Surveys or interviews with stakeholders – Faculty – Librarians – Students – Deans – Curriculum Committee – Bookstore Manager – President, Board of Trustees, etc – Other College OER Leaders
- 45. Step 2: Strategic Planning • Set measurable goals with timeline – Alignment with college planning • Identify sponsorship and funding – Internal and external • How to create awareness – Campus activities • IT Support requirements – Web pages, blogs, social media
- 46. Step 3: Write the Plan • Faculty and staff development plans – Training and incentives • Marketing plans – Internal and external • Student outreach • How to measure the outcomes – Adoptions, $$$ saved, student success • Second phase funding
- 47. Step 4: Roll-out the Plan • Regular Communications – Website, blog, emails? • Mechanisms for feedback – Making adjustments • Surveys for faculty and students – Enough but not too many • Recognize champions on campus
- 48. Step 5: Evaluate and Regroup • Evaluating the feedback – Follow-up with key constituents • Measuring outcomes • Publishing the results • Thanking the contributors • Strategic planning Phase 2
- 49. Open Education Sustainability • Add OER to strategic plans • Support faculty OER adoption • Include students • Openly license when possible • Ensure OER is accessible • Track your progress, celebrate the heroes • Join the open education community Judy Baker, 2010 and Cable Green, 2014
- 50. November 19-21 | Washington, D.C. www.openedconference.org
- 51. Need Help Getting Started? • Find & adopt open textbook workshops • Understanding open licenses • Online accessibility • Faculty and student surveys • Access to community of OER practitioners & experts • Monthly webinars
- 52. Fall 2014 Webinars 2nd Wed, 10:00 PST (1:00 PM EST) Finding and Adopting Open Textbooks Wed, Sept 10, 10:00am Pacific (1:00 pm EST) Featuring speakers from OpenStax College, BCcampus, and the California Open Textbook Initiative Open Course Design and Development with UMUC, Lumen Wed, Oct 8, 10:00 am Pacific (1:00 pm EST) Featuring speakers from Lumen Learning, UMUC.and Northern Virginia Community College. Opening up Pedagogy with Open Educational Resources Wed, Nov 12, 10:00 am Pacific (1:00 pm EST) Featured speakers will include college instructors and their students sharing how the use of open educational resources changed their learning experience. OER Research and Open Access Wed, December 10, 10:00 am Pacific (1:00 pm EST) Featured speakers will include those actively involved in system-wide and global OER research projects and the SPARC Open Education project. Archived webinars available at http://oerconsortium.org
- 53. Thank you! Contact Information Una Daly unatdaly@oeconsortium.org Kate Hess Kate.Hess@kirkwood.edu