Academic Libraries & Open Educational Resources: Developing Partnerships

ALA Annual ConferenceOrlando, FLSaturday, June 25, 2016

Academic Libraries & Open Educational Resources: Developing Partnerships

ACRL Program Evaluation https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ALA16ACRLeval

PanelistsHeather BlicherOnline Learning LibrarianNorthern Virginia Community CollegeExtended Learning Institute

Jeremy SmithDigital Projects Manager in Scholarly CommunicationUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

John ShoppertDirector of Library ServicesColumbia Gorge Community College (OR)

ModeratorRobert KellyCoordinator of Library ServicesHutchinson Community College (KS)

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OER Overview

“Teaching, learning, and research resources that

reside in the public domain or have been released under

an intellectual property license that permits their

free use and re-purposing by others.

-William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Types of Open Educational Resources

What makes OER open? The 5Rs▷ Retain▷ Reuse▷ Revise▷ Remix▷ Redistribute -www.opencontent.org

▷ Free: Free to access online, free to print

▷ Open: Re-use, Revise, Remix, Redistribute

▷ Creative Commons: Free and open allows author to share with others but retain copyright

What is an Open License?

LICENSING OER WORK WITH CREATIVE COMMONS

LICENSING OER WORK WITH CREATIVE COMMONS

Free vs Open Resources

Cost to

Students

Permissions To Teachers & Students

Commercial Textbooks

Expensive Restrictive

Library Resources

Free Restrictive

Open Education

Resources

Free 5Rs

Why OER?

Why OER?

2014 survey of 264 students in OEI classes

Student Choices

2016 survey of 54 students in OEI classes

Student Choices

Seeding the SoilDeveloping Open

Education

Connecting Librarians to OER

Educate yourself

Align your strengths to your contributionsGet involved & educate others

Librarians as:▷ Resource/Guide▷ Researcher▷ Content creator▷ Curator▷ Copyright Go-to

Library OER Guide

AccessOver 10,000 students have completed an OER course

Student Success9% average increase of student success in OER courses

AffordabilityStudents saved $1,500,00 since Fall 2013

Outcomes

▷ Achieving the Dream Grant achievingthedream.org/

▷ OTN Campus Leader Program (VIVA) vivalib.org/

▷ OER-based General Education Certificate Program (online)eli.nvcc.edu/oer/

▷ 2 OER-based Associate of Science degrees (online) eli.nvcc.edu/oer/

▷ Zx23 Project (VCCS)edtech.vccs.edu/z-x-23-project/

▷ zELI Open Degree Pathway (online) lumenlearning.com/partner-nova-zeli/

Seeking SolutionsOpen Education

Initiative

The OEI is a faculty incentive program that encourages

▷The creation of new teaching materials and models

▷The use of existing open (free) information resources

▷The use of library subscription materials

▷The development of open technologies

COLLABORATION ACROSS CAMPUS

Libraries

Teaching Excellence & Faculty Development

Academic Computing

LIBRARY OER WEBSITE

FACULTY SUCCESS STORIES

Carlos Gradil● Animal Sciences 421: Fundamentals of Reproduction● Cost Savings to date: $7,680

Miliann Kang● Women’s Studies 187: Gender, Sexuality and Culture● Cost Savings to date: $8,475

Hossein Pishro-Nik● Electrical and Computer Engineering 314: Introduction

to Probability and Random Processes● Cost Savings to date: $25,833

Faculty Project Types AdoptReplace commercial textbook with open textbook

AdaptCombine existing OER, library resources, and newly created material

CreateCreate entirely new open course materials

GO - Gorge Open

Columbia Gorge Community College

GO - Gorge OpenCommercial Textbook Alternative Program

Columbia Gorge Community CollegeThe Dalles, Oregon

Library as Gateway

▷Resources▷Research ▷Fair use▷Faculty Liaison

“Gate”, John Schoppert is licensed under a CC - BY Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Talk isn’t Cheap, It Takes Time

▷Administration▷Faculty▷Bookstore & Foundation▷Student Government▷Outside Media ▷Listservs -

Oerconsortium.org sparc-liboer@arl.org

Build a Brand

Student AssessmentsQ: Would you take another course using open resources?

“I loved that I got to use the articles that we were asked to use, and apply our knowledge creatively.”

CGCC OER course assessment

Build partnerships

OpenOregon.org grants funded -

● Community college collaborations● K12 / CGCC OER development● Oregon OER CC coordinator

Oregon HB2871- “The OER bill”

● $1.1 mil. Grant funding for both 4-year & 2-year institutions

● Oregon OER coordinator● Requires designation of OER

classes in schedule

OpenOregon.org

OER Challenges

OER Challenges

▷Bookstore pushback

▷Time

“Textbook Canyon” by Alan Alfaro is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License.

OER Challenges

▷Lack of awareness

▷Faculty: the second wave

Opening the Curriculum: Open Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2014 is licensed under a CC - BY Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Report available at: http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/oer.html.

OER Challenges

▷Lack of central location of OER

▷Funding: sustainability - OER fee?

“veleta* Quijote y Sancho” by Jacinto Iluch Valero is licensed under a CC-BY-SA 2.0 Generic License.

OER Trends

State-wide Initiatives

Zx23 Project (VA)A one-year grant-funded project to support the Virginia Community College System’s goal of creating zero textbook-cost Degrees to be available at all 23 VCCS colleges.

OpenOregon.org▷ Statewide

community college OER program

OR. HB 2781▷ Funds 2-year & 4-

year college’s OER projects

Massachusetts Go Open

OER Trends - Achieving the Dream

OER Trends - K12 OER

● #GoOpen K12 teams will develop a strategy for the implementation of openly-licensed educational materials.

● Commit to replace at least one high school textbook with openly-licensed educational materials in the next year.

● Document and share their implementation process.

OER Trends - Dept of Labor

Advantages to requiring a CC BY license on DOL-funded resources:● Increases the impact, reach and scalability of grants

● Creates conditions for maximum potential value created from of all resources it funds, more efficiency, and better stewardship of public funds

● Public has access to the education resources it funded

● Innovative and entrepreneurial uses of openly licensed materials are enabled

● Resources are available for reuse by anyone

OER Assessment

5 year data at UMass Amherst

Total Savings Over Time By CollegeCollege # of Students per college Savings per college over time

College of Natural Sciences 4,746 $818,168.50

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences 1,248 $155,877.00

College of Humanities & Fine Arts 875 $117,727.00

College of Engineering 739 $133,722.00

College of Education 703 $74,283.00

College of Nursing 117 $15,900.00

Honors College 187 $7,835.00

Stockbridge School of Agriculture 275 $37,058.00

Isenberg School of Management 282 $7,682.25

School of Public Health and Health Sciences 175 $40,779.00

9,347 $1,409,031.75

Material Types

Thanks!Any questions?

Heather Blicherhblicher@nvcc.edu

Jeremy Smithjlsmith@library.umass.edu

John Shoppertjschoppert@cgcc.edu

Robert Kelly kellyr@hutchcc.edu

2016 ALA Annual Conference Planning Committee

Chair - Robin Brown, Borough of Manhattan CC, CUNYLisa Eichholtz, Jefferson Comm & Tech CollegeDeborah Farber, Casa Loma CollegeRobert Kelly, Hutchinson CC (KS)Katie Hoskins, Northern Virginia CCStephen Phelan, Maricopa County CC DistTed Chodock, College of Southern NevadaCynthia Wetzel, Pearl River CCMonica Lopez, Cerritos CollegeMaryAnn Niles, Middlesex CCSamantha Hines, Missoula College - University of MontanaAshley McMullin, DePaul University

Academic Libraries & Open Educational Resources: Developing Partnerships

ACRL Program Evaluation https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ALA16ACRLeval

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