Engaging with Open Educational Resources

Engaging with Open Educational Resources

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  Engaging with Open EducationalResources Tom Caswell Open Education Policy Associate State Board for Community & Technical Colleges Image credit: Marc Wathieu CC BY-NC-SA
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  The Internet changeseverything Anyone can create and deliver almost anything to anyone for almost no cost. Internet + Digital Resources + Open License
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  September 2007 Cape Town Open Education Declaration “…we have an opportunity to dramatically improve the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world through freely available, high- quality, locally relevant educational and learning opportunities.”
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  Where do westart? Photo credit: loop_oh CC BY-ND http://whyopenedmatters.org
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  Strategic Technology Plan  Strategy I: Create a single, system-wide suite of online teaching and learning tools that provides all Washington students with easy access to “anywhere, anytime” learning.  http://www.sbctc.edu/general/a_strategictechplan.aspx
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  June 2010 SBCTC Open Policy All digital software, educational resources and knowledge produced through competitive grants, offered through and/or managed by the SBCTC, will carry a Creative Commons Attribution License.  http://www.sbctc.edu/general/admin/Tab_9_Open_ Licensing_Policy.pdf
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  Textbook Affordability English Composition I 50,000+ enrollments / year x $100 textbook $5+ Million every year
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  Affordances of Open OERallows you to: • Reuse • Redistribute And sometimes: • Revise • Remix Photo credit: mag3737 CC BY-NC-SA
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  Watch. Practice. Learn almostanything for free.
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  The Open CourseLibrary Funded: $1.2 million  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation  Washington State Legislature
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   Goals ofthe Open Course Library  Design and share 81 high enrollment, gatekeeper courses  Improve course completion rates  Lower textbook costs for students (<$30)  Provide new resources for faculty to use in their courses  Fully engage our colleges in the global open educational resources discussion.
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  Open Course Library  Phase 1: 42 courses  http://opencourselibrary.org  http://saylor.org  Phase 2 : 39 courses  Available Spring 2013
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  The first 42courses were released October 31, 2011 Over 80 media mentions worldwide Over 25,000 visits from 125 countries to http://opencourselibrary.org
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  Initial Impact In the first year, students will save $1.1 million in textbook costs That’s more than we spent to develop the courses…
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  Lessons Learned Phase 1 Faculty Concerns:  Many were unfamiliar with ANGEL LMS  No way to compare work between course teams  Too many websites to keep track of Phase 2 Adjustments:  Using Google Docs to collaborate & share as we go  All project information in one Google Site
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  Next Steps Driving Open Course Library Course Adoptions  Regional conferences and workshops  New faculty trainings Building open sharing into existing teaching workflows and technologies  Next LMS will have “open sharing” feature  Explore open sharing via Tegrity  Working with system librarians to track and promote open content
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  Finding Open Resources
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  Great places tofind openly licensed images, video, clipart, etc: search.creativecommons.org.
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  Where can Isearch specifically for Open Educational Resources (OER)? • opencourselibrary.org • oercommons.org/oer • Connexions (cnx.org) • saylor.org • oerglue.com/courses
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  Questions? Please visit: http://whyopenedmatters.org http://creativecommons.org http://bit.ly/openedpledge Tom Caswell tcaswell@sbctc.edu http://tomcaswell.com