Supporting Student Success With OER
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1) The document discusses open educational resources (OER) which are freely accessible teaching and learning materials that can be reused and adapted without cost. 2) Studies have shown that students using OER have lower withdrawal rates, higher pass rates, and greater retention compared to commercial textbooks. 3) Lansing Community College has been increasing its adoption of OER, with over 300 courses now using OER, saving students over $2.2 million in textbook costs.
Supporting Student Success With OER
- 1. Supporting Student Success With OER Regina Gong, OER Project Manager Lansing Community College @drgong http://libguides.lcc.edu/oer Student Success Summit Western Michigan University, October 31, 2018 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- 2. Open Educational Resources (OER) “Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions." ~William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
- 4. OER make it possible to: •Have free and unfettered access to learning materials on day one of class. •Save money for students. •Improve student success (retention, completion, GPA). •Increase opportunity for faculty creativity, collaboration, and innovative teaching.
- 5. OER come in many forms: • open textbooks • full courses • modules • syllabi • lectures • homework assignments • quizzes • lab activities • games • simulations
- 7. Why use OER? • Provides faculty with more choices for their courses. • Allows for permission-free editing and adaptation. • Prevents faculty from being locked into a particular system or platform. • Eliminate textbook cost as barrier to student success.
- 8. OER > Cost savings
- 9. Free OER
- 10. OER = Free + Freedom
- 11. Open License a type of license that grants permission to access, re-use and redistribute a work with few or no restrictions. www.creativecommons.org
- 12. Graphic from http://tlinnovations.populr.me/copyright Limits and regulates sharing
- 13. • Copy • Mix • Share • Keep • Edit • Use The 5Rs: 1. Retain 2. Reuse 3. Revise 4. Remix 5. Redistribute
- 15. licenses most open least open Source: CC license image from Copyright in Education & Internet in South African Law used under CC-BY 2.5 South Africa license
- 16. OER is about access and equity.
- 19. Source: Florida Virtual Campus: 2016 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey
- 20. Source: Covering the Cost, 2016 t by the Student Public Interest Research Groups (Student PIRGs) www.studentpirgs.org/textbooks High textbook prices have a disproportionate impact on students at community college
- 21. Florida Virtual Campus Survey Results 22,000+ students in FL across all higher education institutions
- 22. So what are we using here at LCC?
- 23. BIOL 127 – Cell Biology BIOL 128 – Organismal Biology BIOL 270 - Human Genetics PSYC 200 – Intro to Psychology ECON 201 –Microeconomics ECON 201 – Macroeconomics BIOL 201– Human Anatomy SOCL 120 – Intro to Sociology BIOL 121 – Biol Foundations for Physiology PHYS 200 – Intro Physics w/Applications
- 24. HIST 211 - U.S. History to 1877 HIST 212 - U.S. History: 1877 to Present ENG 121 – Composition I
- 25. OER Authored by LCC Faculty Dr. Matthew Van Cleave, Philosophy faculty PHIL 151 - Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.as px?bookId=457
- 26. Dr. Mark Kelland, Psychology faculty Personality Theory: A Multicultural Perspective https://www.oercommons.org/courses/personality- theory-a-multicultural-perspective PSYC 202 - Psychology of Personality OER Authored by LCC Faculty Tao of Positive Psychology https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/19643-tao- of-positive-psychology PSYC 180 – Intro to Positive Psychology
- 27. Coming soon OPEN ESL textbooks Foreign Language OER – German, French, Spanish Intro to Philosophy Public Speaking
- 28. Let’s look at our adoption figures
- 29. OER Adoptions at LCC 5 10 4 14 16 12 27 26 22 49 11 23 6 101 100 33 150 154 60 299 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017 Spring 2018 Summer 2018 Fall 2018 Courses and Sections Using OER Courses Using OER Sections Using OER
- 30. OER Adoptions at LCC 5 12 4 46 48 26 74 75 41 136 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017 Spring 2018 Summer 2018 Fall 2018 Faculty Using OER
- 31. Students Impacted by OER 317 540 129 2,825 2,558 724 3,724 3,711 1,177 5,989 - 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017 Spring 2018 Summer 2018 Fall 2018 Students Enrolled
- 32. Textbook Costs Savings $31,700 $54,000 $12,900 $282,500 $255,800 $72,400 $293,200 $371,100 $117,700 $598,900 $- $100,000 $200,000 $300,000 $400,000 $500,000 $600,000 $700,000 Fall 2015 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017 Spring 2018 Summer 2018 Fall 2018 Total Textbook Savings ($100/student)
- 33. $2.2M Photo by Fabian Blank on Unsplash
- 34. OER and student success
- 35. OER Efficacy Research • Studies show that students assigned OER have lower withdrawal and drop rates; • More likely to pass with a C or better; • Higher persistence and retention rates.
- 36. Course Performance PerformanceSample Size 66 Same 605 Same 690 Maybe better 1393 N/A 1295 Maybe better 1400 Same 478 Same 1274 Sometimes better 4909 Sometimes better 95 Sometimes better Study Lovett et al. (2008) Bowen et al. (2012) Hilton &Laman (2012) Feldstein et al. (2012) Pawlyshyn et al.(2013) Hilton et al. (2013) Allen et al. (2015) Robinson (2015) Fischer et al. (2015) Jhangiani et al. (2015)
- 37. Hilton et al. (in press) Commercial vs. OER
- 38. OER and the state of MI
- 42. Multi-state collaboration • OER State Policy and Implementation Summit for Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) states. • MHEC is a legislatively-created agreement among the 12 Midwestern states to work together to further higher education within the region. The member states of the Compact are: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. • Attendees will form a state OER action team which will assess the current scope and level of OER usage in their respective states and craft a plan to coordinate OER efforts within their states.
- 44. Get involved SPARC OER Forum CCCOER Listserv Twitter Open Textbook Network Open Education Conference Open Education Week OA Week
- 45. Image source: https://unsplash.com/collections/167234/questions?photo=i--IN3cvEjg Regina Gong, gongr1@lcc.edu ; @drgong