Zero Textbook Cost Program

Stephanie Ricks-Albert

California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office

June 22, 2017

12 noon – 1:00 PM, PST

Phase 2 RFA TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE WEBINAR

BACKGROUND / PURPOSE

BACKGROUND: The Zero Textbook Cost program initiative

resulted from a number of study results revealing how the

rising costs of education impacts student attendance and

course selection. Studies demonstrated that students make

a decision to attend college, select a college major and/or

select a class based upon the cost of attendance and cost

of textbooks. These studies captured the attention of

California Legislatures to take action to reduce the overall

cost of education for students and decrease the time it

takes students to complete degree and certificate

programs.

PURPOSE: to develop, implement and sustain the greatest

number (minimum of one) of Zero Textbook Cost program

pathways that benefits a multitude of students.

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ZERO TEXTBOOK COST PROGRAM

Definition: a community college associate degree or career

technical education certificate earned entirely by completing

courses with no cost textbooks. The program uses alternative

instructional materials and methodologies, including open

educational resources.

A ZTC program must be:

Clearly identified in the college catalog and class schedule

In compliance with Federal Americans with Disabilities Act

(Public Law 104-197 and the Federal Copyright Act of 1976

(Public Law 94-553).

Sustainable after the grant funding is exhausted

Courses that eliminate conventional textbook costs refer to

the instructional material as ‘Open Educational Resources’

material.

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OPEN EDUCATIONAL

RESOURCES (OER) COURSE

“Open Educational Resources” is high-quality teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released pursuant to an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others, and may include other resources that are legally available and free of cost to students. OER include, but are not limited to, full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, faculty-created content, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.

All OER materials first developed in draft and in final form pursuant to this Grant Agreement shall, in a prominent place, bear the © (the letter "c" in a circle) or the word "Copyright," or the abbreviation "Copr.", followed by the year created; and the words "California Community Colleges, Chancellor’s Office." In addition, all such materials shall bear the Creative Commons CC BY symbol

All OER materials are required to be posted into California’s repository for higher education (http://cool4ed.org/ ) for use.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Refer to the ZTCD RFA, Appendix C, Article II, Item 18

Work for Hire

Creative Commons License

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WHAT SHOULD BE COMPLETED

College has identified a ZTC program pathway for:

1) majors with the highest number of program awards,

CCCCO Datamart is a resource tool available for CCCs to view the number of

credit program awards issued per CCC per FY.

2) majors known to have the highest textbook cost.

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IMPLEMENTATION GRANT

An implementation grant enables a

college to put a zero textbook cost

degree/career technical education

certificate in place.

The planning process (conduct

research, professional development,

meetings, coordination, and other

resources and activities required to

organize the components of creating

ZTC program pathways) is complete.

By Jan 2019 students are registered

in courses in ZTC program pathways.

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MODELS OF A ZTC PROGRAM PATHWAY

Cohort Design

Student cohorts start course sequences together on a

pathway and take all courses together in course sections

specifically set aside for them. Enabled by California Code

of Regulations, title 5 §58106 (b) (4)

“limiting enrollment in one or more sections of a course to a

cohort of students enrolled in one or more other courses,

provided however, that a reasonable percentage of all

sections of the course do not have such restrictions;”

Hybrid Design (Major/General Education)

Major course sections are OER and general education

course sections are OER with students moving through as a

cohort.

Comprehensive Design

All course sections in a major and general education

course sections are OER.

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ZTC PROGRAM PATHWAY

ENGLISH AA DEGREEMAJOR COURSES COURSE SECTIONS

English 1 Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3 Sec 4

English 2 Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3

English 3 Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3 Sec 4

English 4 Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3

Elective 1 Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3

Elective 2 Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3 Sec 4

Elective 3 Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3 Sec 4

Elective 4 Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3

GENERAL EDUCATION

COURSES COURSE SECTIONS

Area 1. Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3 Sec 4

Area 1. Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3

Area 1. Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3 Sec 4

Area 2. Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3

Area 3. Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3

Area 3. Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3 Sec 4

Area 3. Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3 Sec 4

Area 4. Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3

Area 4. Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3 Sec 4

Area 4. Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3

Area 5. Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3 Sec 4

Area 5. Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3

Area 5. Sec 1 Sec 2 Sec 3

ZTC Pathway9

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

Refer to the ZTCD RFA, Appendix C, Article II, Item 27

New or Substantially modified courses

New or Substantially modified programs

(certificates/degrees)

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POSTING ZTC INFORMATION

The Online Clearinghouse is

the recently launched California

Community Colleges Professional

Learning Network

located at :

https://prolearningnetwork.ccc

co.edu/

The California Digital Open

Source Library is the California

Open Online Library for

Education

located at :

http://cool4ed.org/

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DATA COLLECTION

CCCCO is required to report to the Legislature, Legislative Analyst Office and the Department of Finance on status of the ZTC program.

At a minimum, CCCs are required to collect/report on the following items:

• Number of degrees developed & implemented

• Number of students who completed the ZTC program pathway

• Estimated annual savings to students

• Recommendations to increase, expand, or improve the offering of degrees

The ZTC Technical Assistance contractors will be working with the ZTC grantees and assisting in identifying and gathering additional data for the CCCCO report.

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APPLICATION FORMAT &

INSTRUCTIONS

Use the forms included in Appendix A of this RFA.

Do not submit an alternate/modified version of the

application forms.

Sustainability of the Program – indicate how the college

will sustain the program (funding sources, revised

policies,

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BUDGET CONCERNS

SUBCONTRACTS/SUBGRANTS

ZTC grantees may not use grant funds to pay any individual

or organization for the work associated with preparing the

grant application.

Refer to the ZTCD RFA, Appendix C, Article II, Item 11

Written approval prior to selection of Subcontractor/Subgrant

Requirement to disclose purpose of Subcontractor/Subgrant

Subcontractor/Subgrant requires CCCCO approval to another

Subcontractor/Subgrant

Subcontractor/Subgrant prohibitions

o Former State Employee

o Current State Employee

o Immediate Family/Spouse of current CCCCO Employee

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REGULATORY REFERENCES

California Education Code (Chapter 6, Part 40, Division 5, Title 3, Article 4, §66408)

California Education Code (Chapter 1, Part 48, Division 7, Title 3, Article 4, §78050-78052)

SB 1359 (Block, 2016) Public Postsecondary Education: Course Materials

AB 1602 (2016) (Higher Education Trailer Bill)

AB 798 (Bonilla, 2015) College Textbook Affordability Act

SB 1053 (Steinberg, 2012) California Digital Open Source Library

SB 1052 (Steinberg, 2012) Public Postsecondary Education: California Open Education Resources Council

AB 2261 (Ruskin, 2008) Community Colleges: Open Education Resources Centers

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OER RESOURCES & TOOLS

CCCCO Academic Affairs OER webpage

http://extranet.cccco.edu/Divisions/AcademicAffairs/OpenEducationResources.aspx

o Includes: RFAs, Zero Cost Symbol/Logo, Webinars, etc.

CCC Professional Learning Network

California Open Education Resources Council (COERC)

California Open Online Library for Education (COOL4ED)

Community College Consortium Open Education Resources (CCCOER)

FAQs (ZTC grant program)

Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)

Open Educational Resources Commons (OER Commons)

OpenStax

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