MCO OER Initiative

1. MCO OER Initiative

2. Federal Efforts • TAACCCT Grants - http://www.skillscommons.org/ • Open digital library for workforce training materials • US Department of Education • Regulation - all products from federal grants are open licensed • Currently delayed • FASTR: Fair Access to Science & Technology Research Act (H.R. 3427/S.1701) • Requires federal agencies with research budgets in excess of $100M to have a public access policy for federally funded research. • Introduced July 26C, 2017

3. State Efforts • California – College Textbook Affordability Act of 2015 • Colorado – Using Open Educational Resources in Higher Education (05/03/2017) • Florida – Postsecondary Access & Affordability (4/14/16) • Maryland – Textbook Cost Savings Act of 2017 • Ohio – Operating Budget & Statutes (06/30/2017) • Oregon – OER Grant Program (2015) • Texas – Use of OER (06/09/2017) • Washington – HB 1375 (04/21/2017)

4. MCO OER Initiative Goals: • Improving student success • Lowering costs for students • Increasing inter-institutional faculty collaboration

5. The Best Reason Student Success – • Completion • Passing with a C- or better grade • Course grade • Enrollment Intensity in current term • Enrollment Intensity in next term Source: A multi-institutional study of the impact of open textbook adoption on the learning outcomes of post-secondary students. Lane Fischer , JohnHilton III, T. Jared Robinson, David A. Wiley. http://tinyurl.com/q2dp6na

6. MCO OER Initiative • Statewide Steering Committee • Representation from all 28 community colleges • Meets every 6 – 8 weeks • Activities to support Initiative Goals

7. MCO Repository Hosted by OER Commons • Connection to over 65,000 resources • Low maintenance costs • Authoring tools • Training

8. https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/mco

9. The OER Commons Hubs • Statewide Hubs • Michigan Colleges Online • Minnesota OER Commons • Washington OER Project • Alamo Colleges • Topical Hubs • Open Textbook Hub • Common Core • STEM Literacy • OER Commons Partner Hubs • OpenStax

10. Search a Hub Working with the team at OER Commons, the MCO Repository has content collections curated specifically for our faculty and staff. Additionally, unique keywords can be used to further populate a Collection.

11. Search a Hub Within the MCO Repository each college is organized as a Group - a community of practice on OER Commons where members can curate resources, organize them, collaborate on authoring, and hold discussions using the Discussion board.

12. Tutorials are available for faculty wanting to create an OER, along with guidance for group managers and anyone wanting to save and share in the repository.

13. Professional Development Offered 7 webinars on the following topics: • Creative Commons • Open Author Training • Repository Group Manager Training • Hub Administrator Training • Hub Curation Training • Best Practices for Faculty Involvement • How to Create an OER Initiative on Campus

14. OER Usage & Savings • 2016 – 17 Academic Year • Includes fall, winter/spring and summer • 14 colleges • Estimated Savings $3,103,500

15. OER Usage • Fall 2016 • 14 colleges reported • 120 courses • $1,523,200 savings • Winter/Spring 2017 • 14 colleges reported • 116 courses • $1,197,800 savings • Summer 2017 • 11 colleges reported • 73 courses • $382,500 savings

16. OER Usage • Biology • Anatomy & Physiology • US History • Chemistry • Sociology • Physics • Psychology

17. Faculty Grants • Adopt – an existing open textbook • Adapt – remix an existing open textbook or ancillary resources • Develop – create a new ancillary resource or open textbook.

18. Faculty Grants - Adoption

19. Faculty Grants - Adaption World History • Our project would "disassemble" and rearrange the chosen text (World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500) in a more global manner. Instead of five thousand years of the middle east followed by five thousand years of China and five thousand years of India, our remixed text would present a snapshot of the entire globe during a chronological period, allowing students to more clearly see the similarities and differences in the development of human societies through time as well as the interconnections between civilizations. Mott Community College- Aaron Gulyas & Brian Harding Cell Biology & Human Genetics • Our goal is to improve the coverage of the scientific method and key experiments in the OpenStax biology text. In order to accomplish this, we will use supplemental videos and interactive animations with embedded questions that focus on identifying hypotheses and interpreting the results of experiments. Lansing Community College - Arthur Wohlwill

20. Faculty Grants - Adaption American History • Michigan has 13 Native-American reservations and the largest Native-American population east of the Mississippi River yet U.S. History books barely mention Natives except for pre-Columbian History and the Indian Wars of the late 1800s. Native people have had, and continue to have, a profound effect on U.S. History. In order to rectify this omission we propose to add a great deal of Native history to the regular narrative. The Native history will be integrated into the various chapters of both Openstax and Yawp in order to show cause and effect of native peoples on U.S. History through a combination of text, video, illustrations and other multimedia. Northwestern Michigan College - Mindy Morton Lansing Community College – Anne Heutsche

21. Faculty Grants - Adaption Psychology and Communication • We are hoping to elaborate upon the intersections between communication and psychology—the points at which they connect or layer—for our learners. We, as faculty representing both psychology and speech/communications, plan to coordinate OER efforts to illustrate for students the interweaving of curricular outcomes, content, and knowledge in these two disciplines. Our final project will be revised/remixed Open Education Resources that can be used in both introductory speech and psychology courses. Mid Michigan Community College - Maria Gross, Kelly Eltzroth, Diane Miller

22. Faculty Grants - Adaption Psychology • This project will focus on a History and Systems approach to teaching Introduction to Psychology. The significant modifications will be in the sequence of presentation in such a way as to enhance the student experience and facilitate learning and retention by increasing contextual learning and activation of prior knowledge. The adaption will be in a spiral curriculum format with a History-based contextual sequence of chapters which research has shown to be more engaging to students and which better facilitates the acceptance of, retention of and proficiency with content material (Bergman, et al., 2015). A History and Systems approach allows for major complex concepts to be revisited several times in the natural course of historical, scientific progression. Kirtland Community College - Michael Peters

23. Faculty Grants - Develop Spanish • This project will produce interactive Spanish multimedia ancillary resources using virtual partners, interactive multimedia presentations, practice exercises with immediate feedback, etc. These tools advance student learning by providing real-time feedback and assistance to the students outside of the classroom, which enables them to master pronunciation, grammar, and advanced vocabulary much more quickly. Perhaps the most important component will be the engaging, age-appropriate, tutorial-type resources that not only facilitate instruction of material but effectively permit student participation. Lansing Community College – Kari Richards, Sara Bostwick and Stephanie Throne

24. Faculty Grants - Develop Forensic Science • The outcome of this project will be a college level open textbook that covers the entire subject area span in the field of forensic science. Within each unit/chapter there will be links to cases, videos, flashcards, web-based quizzes and recommend resources for hands-on and/or on-line exercises that are open and at college level. In addition the textbook will be linked to K-12 standards for forensic science to allow it to be used in whole or part by advanced placement level high school classes. Mott Community College – Jennifer Fillion Genesee Career Institute - Dawn Bright

25. Faculty Grants - Develop Fashion • We will be creating a textbook with a workbook that covers the Principles & Elements of Design as well as historical silhouettes. The text can be used in the first 4 courses of our program and then as a reference text during the rest of the student’s coursework in our program. The project will include demonstration and tutorial videos in order to provide other delivery methods for student learning. We will create a text that utilizes sketches, illustrations, and graphics to aid in student exploration of the principles and elements of design, and historical silhouettes. The workbook will include assignments and projects that will require students to create their own responses. Lansing Community College – Christine Conner, Ann Wojtkowski, Andrea Bartlett, Samantha Bartlett

26. 2017 MI OER Summit • Over 175 faculty, administrators & staff from MI community colleges and four-year universities • Keynote – Robin DeRosa focused on Open Pedagogy • 13 Breakout sessions • Discipline-specific roundtables

27. Questions?

28. Ronda Edwards Executive Director redwards@mcca.org