FREE OR LOW COST TEXTBOOKSKale Braden, ASCCC North Representative, CaOERC member

Phil Crawford, ASCCC North Representative

SOME CONTEXT

DEFINITIONSOpen Educational Resource

OER are 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. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.(http://www.hewlett.org/programs/education/open-educational-resources)

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EXAMPLES OF OERPolitical Science, Sociology, and Social Problems

The work involved in re-tooling your courseOnline and face to face

Long term benefits to students. Evolution to include test banks, power points, and links.

SOCIOLOGY THE CROSSOVERS $$ N OPEN SOURCE

WHAT WE’VE BEEN WORKING ON

THE CALIFORNIA OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCE COUNCIL (CAOERC)SB 1052 & 1053 (Steinberg, 2012) authorized the creation of the CaOERC and an Open Source Digital Library

The Legislature designated the Inter-Segmental Council of Academic Senates (ICAS) to be responsible for the project ICAS designated the CSU Chancellor’s Office as the fiscal agent for the project

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FUNDINGGrants

William and Hewlett Foundation ($500,000)Gates Foundation ($500,000)

Matching funding from the State

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STRUCTUREICAS

Project InvestigatorCSU Chancellor’s

Office

Project Coordinator (CSU Faculty)

CaOERC

Ca Legislature

Gates and Hewlett

Foundations

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STRUCTURE?

ICAS

Project InvestigatorCSU Chancellor’s

Office

Project Coordinator (CSU Faculty)

CaOERC

Ca Legislature

Gates and Hewlett

Foundations

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STRUCTURE??

ICAS

Project InvestigatorCSU Chancellor’s

Office

Project Coordinator (CSU Faculty)

CaOERC

Ca Legislature

Gates and Hewlett

Foundations

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STRUCTURE???

ICASProject InvestigatorCSU Chancellor’s

Office

Project Coordinator (CSU Faculty)

CaOERC

Ca Legislature

Gates and Hewlett

Foundations

DELIVERABLES

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FROM THE LEGISLATION

Select 50 courses

Create & administer rigorous

review process

Promote production,

access & use

Solicit input from student associations

RFP to create OER materials

Identify available free

and open eTextbooks

Selected using C-ID

Identify what already exists

and where there are gaps

Peer Review

Structure

Creating Digital Library

On hold until gaps are identified

FROM ICAS1. Meet goals of SB 1052 legislation.2. Work collegially under the direction of

the CAOERC Project Coordinator to produce the deliverables specified in the Hewlett grant proposal timeline.

3. Submit policies and processes to ICAS for review and approval; document and archive policies and processes approved by ICAS.

4. Develop policies for building the collection of open textbooks in the California Open Source Digital Library. The COOL4Ed (California Open Online

Library for Education, www.cool4ed.org) is the first library service of the Digital Library.

5. Develop a process for review teams

6. Send regular reports to ICAS about disciplines, texts, challenges, etc.

7. Prepare content for the COOL4Ed website and ICAS webpage.

8. Prepare and administer (or delegate) professional development opportunities by or across segments.

9. Develop policies for defining data that will need to be collected and analyzed to track the success of the project.

10.Develop process for outsourcing work to "complete" a text.

11.Support review teams

WHAT HAS BEEN DELIVERED?

CAOERCThe CaOERC consists of three faculty representatives from each of the three California higher education segments.

Three faculty representatives representing the ASCCC were Cheryl Stewart (Coastline College) Kevin Yokoyama (College of the Redwoods) Diana Chiabotti (Napa Valley College, served through the fall) Kale Braden (Cosumnes River College—Served in the Spring). 

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MATERIALS FOR 50 LOWER DIVISION COURSES

CaOERC developed criteria for selecting 50 highly-enrolled courses common across the three segments and compiled a list of these 50 courses in spring of 2014.

From spring 2014 into fall 2014, Ca OERC identified more than 150 appropriate, open educational resources textbooks (OER) for these 50 courses.

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REVIEW & APPROVE OER MATERIAL

In spring of 2014, Ca OERC created a standardized peer review and approval process for OER textbooks attached to the 50 highly- enrolled courses.   Ca OERC began soliciting faculty reviewers from among the three segments.   To date, 519 faculty have signed up to review OER textbooks and materials.

To date, the review and approval process has been completed for 10 courses.   For these 10 courses 22 faculty reviewed approximately 34 OER

textbooks.   At least three OER textbooks have been approved for each of these 10 courses.

As of spring 2015, Ca OERC continues to recruit faculty reviewers.   The review process is currently being coordinated for an additional 40 courses

and 120 additional reviews.

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PUBLICIZE & PROMOTE OERSince spring 2014, CA OERC has worked with http://www.COOL4ED.edu to make all peer- reviewed OER textbook reviews available to students, faculty, and libraries.  

The COOL4ED website currently features reviewed materials for 10 of the 50 selected courses.  Links to the original materials are on the COOL4ED website.

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CONTINUED PRESSURES From the Legislature

AB 798 College Textbook Affordability Act of 2015 (Bonilla, 2015)

From our StudentsFrom external grantors

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NEXT STEPSOER materials, where appropriate, on C-ID descriptors?

RFPs and support for material creation?And…?