Open Educational Resources Alternatives to Textbooks

1. OpenEducationalResourcesAlternatives to Textbooks Susan Dean De Anza College December 13, 2008 http://faculty.deanza.edu/deansusan

2. http://www.studentpirgs.org http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org For prospective students, the first test is often their ability to afford the textbooks.

3. The Problem: College textbooks are too expensive • Students spend an average of $900 a year on textbooks. • For students already trying to finance college, the cost of textbooks often forces the student to either go into debt, accept an inferior academic experience, or to drop out.

4. What areOpen Educational Resources? • High quality educational content and tools • Freely available from the internet, anytime, anywhere • All languages • Shared • Usable and re-usable

5. OER Survey

6. OER Tutorial: http://cnx.org/content/col10413/latest/ (Access cnx.org; find content by author Judy Baker)

7. Benefits of OER Lowers the costs of educational materialsfor students

8. Benefits of OER Fosters pedagogical innovation and relevance that avoids“teaching from the textbook”

9. Benefits of OER Gives faculty tools to gain control over learning content and delivery.

10. Benefits of OER • Share and remix learning materials for customized and localized use • Fast feedback loop on quality and relevance of learning materials => continual improvement and rapid development

11. FREE

12. Statistics Open TextbookNow Available at Connexions http://cnx.org/ FREE Collaborative Statistics by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean

13. Other Examples • Rupi Sekhon wrote a Finite Math book that several sections of Math 11 at De Anza use. The course transfers to UC and CSU.  Available at http://faculty.deanza.edu/sekhonrupinder/stories/storyReader$8 • You can download or view a copy of Burzynski & Elllis' "Elementary Algebra" for viewers at - http://www.box.net/signup/collablink/d_21592010/3b648f2c3b5e4 • You can download or view a copy of Burzynski & Elllis' "Fundamentals of Mathematics" at - http://www.box.net/signup/collablink/d_21592228/32a9c44c04524 • John Redden has an • "Elementary Algebra: Solving Linear Equations in One Variable" • module posted to Connexions at - http://cnx.org/content/m18033/1.1/

14. Challenges • Articulation and transfer issues • Compliance with accessibility (ADA) requirements • Printing and computer lab demands on campus by students • Coordination with campus bookstores

15. OER Resources and Tools • Tools for locating, organizing, and delivering • Tools for collaboration and development • Discipline-specific sources • Open courseware

16. Tools for Locating, Organizing,and Delivering OER

17. Tools for Collaborationand Development

18. Discipline-specific Sources

20. Community College Consortiumfor Open Educational Resources Joint effort to develop and use open educational resources and open textbooks in community college courses cccoer.wordpress.com

21. cccoer.wordpress.com • 1: Develops and expands the Community College Consortium for OER toward sustainability • 2: Has a website that houses current information about high-quality Open Textbooks appropriate for community college instruction including • development • identification • standards • criteria (articulation, accessibility, interoperability, and cultural relevance) • Links to sites (like CNX) and to textbooks

22. www.collegeopentextbooks.org

24. Learn how to use Connexions as your toolkit • to discover, customize, and adopt open textbooks. • Complete Booklet PDF   Text         • Get Account PDF Video Text • Login PDF Video Text • Set Password PDF Video Text • MaintainAccount PDF Video Text         • Search Connexions PDF Video Text • Use Materials PDF Video Text         • Check Out Materials PDF Video Text • Edit Materials PDF Video Text • Publish Materials PDF Video Text • Update Collections PDF Video Text • Publish Collections PDF Video Text      • Getting Textbooks PDF Video Text Discover… Customize… Adopt…

25. Disseminate Open Textbooks • Digital formats • Printed format • Student (DIY) • Campus bookstore • Campus printshop services • Proprietary services

26. Faculty Role Encourage faculty to develop, locate, review, and and promote OER Support sabbaticals for development and modification of open textbooks Give credit toward tenure for faculty work on open textbook development

27. Project Partners

28. 83 colleges from AZ, CA, MD, NY, WA, NV, Ontario…

29. AB 2261 by Ira Ruskin • Section 1 (b) states that “Community colleges need to take greater advantage of open education resources, especially for basic skills and general education classes, including, but not limited to, algebra, that use course content that remains generally unchanged over time.” • http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/asm/ab_2251-2300/ab_2261_bill_20080930_chaptered.pdf

30. Creative Commons and ccLearn “ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons dedicated to support open learning and open educational resources. Our mission is to minimize barriers to the creation, sharing, and reuse of educational materials—legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers.” http://learn.creativecommons.org/