cccoer: open course design and development
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Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for a free, open webinar on emerging guidelines for the design and development of open courses to enhance teaching and learning. Open courses are designed and developed collaboratively by faculty and instructional specialists (designers, librarians, technologists) using open educational resources rather than traditional publisher materials to lower costs and improve outcomes for students. Speakers will share the process of designing open courses using competency-based methodology, adaptive learning, and other strategies. Date: Wed, October 8 Time: 10 am PST, 1:00 pm EST Featured Speakers: Karen Vignare, Associate Provost, University of Maryland University College (UMUC), Maryland sharing the lessons learned as UMUC has converted 50 percent of undergraduate courses to free and open electronic resources at no cost to the students by Fall 2014. Kim Thanos, CEO and Co-Founder, Lumen Learning sharing the process that Lumen Learning uses to develop Supported Open Courses, which compare with traditional publisher etexts, and Open Mastery Courses, which take advantage of adaptive delivery and competency-based course design. Wm. Preston Davis, Director, Extended Learning Institute, Northern Virginia Community College sharing the process that his unit used to design, develop and implement a successful OER program at NOVA. He will also share how the OER program is impacting NOVA, and influencing other community colleges in Virginia.TRANSCRIPT
Open Courses: Design and Development
Wm Preston Davis, Northern Virginia Community College
Karen Vignare: University of Maryland University College
Kim Thanos, Lumen Learning
Oct 8, 2014, 10:00 am PST
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Agenda
• Introductions• CCCOER, Open Education Consortium• Northern Virginia Community College• University of Maryland University College• Lumen Learning• Next webinar is Nov 12, Open Pedagogy• Questions?
WelcomePlease introduce yourself in the chat window
Karen VignareVice Provost
University of Maryland University College
Wm. Preston DavisDirector, Extended Learning
InstituteN. Virginia Community College
Moderator: Una DalyDirector of Community College Consortium
Open Education Consortium
Kim ThanosCEO and Co-Founder
Lumen Learning
• Promote adoption of OER to enhance teaching and learning
– Expanding access to education– Supporting professional development– Advancing the community college
mission
CCCOER
Funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
250+ Colleges in 18 States & Provinces
OER-based Course Design & Development
• Students• Faculty • Pedagogy and Outcomes• Institutional Benefits and
Challenges
OER-based General Education
Wm. Preston Davis, EdDDirector, Extended Learning Institute
OER
OpenCourseWare
Modules
Textbooks
Streaming
Videos
Open Journals
Tutorials
Learning
Objects
Why are we using OER? Increasing Access – Open Educational Resources allows
for all students to have equal access to all course materials
Increasing Affordability – Open Educational Resources are free or very low cost, significantly reducing educational expenses for students
Increasing Student Success – Open Educational Resources are high quality educational materials available in a variety of engaging formats for all learners
How is NOVA addressing OER through ELI?
Faculty workshops and training on OEROER Resource sites for faculty & studentsRobust collections development programMaximizing digital content delivered onlineOER-based Certificate program & Associate
Degree tracks open to all students
NOVA’s OER-Based General Education Project at ELI
Developed 25 OER-based courses to date saving students over $200,000 in textbook costs per term.
Innovative broad-impact Gen Ed approach benefits more students and creates greater awareness of OER.
Helping faculty identify or develop free/OER materials increases faculty control of course content and improves teaching and learning outcomes.
Makes education more accessible and affordable for all learners at NOVA and throughout the VCCS by doing away with the requirement for students to purchase and rely on expensive textbooks for many gateway courses.
Current ELI OER Courses English – ENG 111, 112, 125College Math – MTH 151, 152Science – PHY 201, 202History – HIS 121, 122, 262Humanities/Fine Arts – ART 101, 102Physical/Health Education – PED 116Student Development – SDV 100Communications – CST 110College Statistics – MTH 157 Information Technology – ITE 115Economics – ECO 201, 202Humanities/Fine Arts – REL 100, MUS 121Social/Behavioral Sciences – PSY 200, SOC 200
Project Resources
NOVA Faculty were provided small grant funded stipends to redesign an online course using OER and free material instead of traditional textbooks.
ELI team resources (Librarians, Instructional Designers) were provided to assist in course design and development, and with OER curation.
NOVA’s Shared Services Distance Learning (SSDL) Program makes these OER courses potentially available at 21 community colleges across Virginia.
Faculty CollaborationFaculty invited to launch ELI’s OER project were carefully selected based on:
A history of providing high quality and innovative instruction;
A clear understanding and application of sound course design and online teaching pedagogy;
Demonstrated knowledge of and/or prior use of library collections and/or open course content;
Supporting the project goals of increasing access, affordability, and student success without textbooks.
Some Resources used for Implementing OEROpenstaxOER CommonsSaylor.orgOpen Textbook LibraryBC CampusCollege Open TextbooksCreative CommonsLumen LearningHoward Hughes Medical InstituteLibrary Collections Materials
Costs of Course Textbooks
ENG 111: $140 ENG 112 : $93 ENG 125: $89 MTH 151: $263 PHY 201: $269 PHY 202: $244 HIS 121: $109 HIS 122: $109 ART 101: $226 ART 102: $226 HIS 262: N/A (new course) SDV 100: $77
Average cost of Textbooks = $185
CST 110: $140 ECO 201: $281.80 ECO 202: $281.80 ITE 115: $182.70 MTH 152: $161.80 MTH 157: $123.55 MUS 121: $141.45 PED 116: $92.85 PSY 200: $107.15 REL 100: $138.55 SOC 200: $114.65
Potential savings of $3600 per student
OutcomesThese online OER-based courses are more affordable
and accessible to community college students.Students can save thousands of dollars, and all
students have equal access to all course materials.Student Success rates have improved in almost all
OER courses.NOVA is participating in the Kaleidoscope Project and
currently working on several campus-based OER courses to pilot in spring.
Other VCCS Schools have adopted NOVA’s OER model.
NOVA’s OER project received a prestigious national WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Award.
Massive Open Adoption Resources
Karen VignareVice Provost
• Pioneer in adult and distance education since 1947• One of 11 accredited, degree-granting institutions in the
University System of Maryland• Focus on the unique educational and professional
development needs of adult students• More than 90,000 students enrolled worldwide
About UMUC
E-Resources Project
Goal: No cost materials for all studentsMaximize use of high quality Open Education Resources (OER)
OPEN COURSEWARE• Saylor.org Free Education• OpenCourseWare Consortium• MIT Open Courseware• Open Yale Courses• National Repository of Online
Courses• Stanford Online• Notre Dame OpenCourseWare
E-BOOKS• College Open Textbooks• Books 24x7 (subscription)• Community College Consortium for
Open Educational Resources• Openstax College• Project Gutenberg
LEARNING OBJECTS• MERLOT• OER Commons• iLumina
Types of Sources
Web site for Eresource Teams
Targets
• Fall 2014– 50% of all undergraduate courses have free embedded
electronic resources– DONE
• Status– Currently, 538 of 745 (72%) stateside TUS courses
have completed the eResources process.– By Spring 2015 (December), we should have an
additional 11% complete.
Timeline and Targets
Targets
• Fall 2015– 100% of undergraduate courses have free e-resources
• Fall 2016– 100% of graduate courses have free e-resources
Timeline and Targets
Estimated Student Savings From eResource implementation of $5 Million Calculations based on previous textbook costs These savings will be repeated as these
courses are offered throughout the year! Working on public facing website for
documentation
Concerns
• Curation of resources is very time consuming• As UMUC transforms its learning model to a
personalized competency based tools and tools like adaptive do we have the right/enough resources
• Can we improve our no cost materials to fully OER?
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Lumen Learning Open Courses
Kim ThanosCEO and Co-Founder
lumenlumenlearning.com
Lumen Learning Course Development Process
Kim Thanos, CEO, Lumen [email protected]
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Lumen Learning’s mission to improve student success through the use of open educational resources and learning analytics.
Create and share high-quality open courseware using OER (CC-BY license on all development work)
Provide hosting, services and support to institutions for a per enrollment fee
Provide unfettered access to students from day 1
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Supported Open Courseware$5 per enrollment
traditional textbook replacement
Open Mastery Courseware$40 per enrollment
competency-based, adaptive
LUMEN’S PRODUCTS
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Step 1: Define and map outcomes
SUPPORTED OPEN COURSEWARE
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Step 2: Build Master Course
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Step 2: Build Master Course
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Step 2: Build Master Course
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Step 2: Build Master Course
SUPPORTED OPEN COURSEWARE
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Step 3: Complete Quality Review
SUPPORTED OPEN COURSEWARE
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Step 4: Publish
SUPPORTED OPEN COURSEWARE
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Step 5: Faculty Align, Refine and Adopt
SUPPORTED OPEN COURSEWARE
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Step 5: Faculty Align, Refine and Adopt
SUPPORTED OPEN COURSEWARE
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Supported Open CoursesDesign Goals
Provide one click adoption of high-quality open courses
Empower all faculty archetypes: build, adapt, adopt
Fully enable ALL 5 R’s (retain, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute)
Support a data-driven continuous improvement process for courses and OER
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Open Mastery CoursesDesign Goals
Provide a cost-effective, OER solution for personalized learning
Use a “1 size fits 1” approach to learning, enabled by derivative works and learning data
Balance learning science-driven design and faculty need to revise and customize
Generate new OER that can be used outside of Lumen courseware
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Mastery Learning:Solve for known pitfalls of competency-based learning
Common Issues with Competency-
based Learning
• Break down competencies into tiny pieces
• Students have trouble putting the pieces together
• Mastery of complex, non-recurrent skills is elusive
“Holistic” Mastery Learning Course Design
1 Relevance: What this is and why it matters
2 Context: Describing the sub-competencies and individual skills that comprise the competency
3 Diagnostic: How much do you already know?
4 Pathway: Align educational content with student needs
5 Skill-building: Content, exercises, and interactives that develop individual recurrent and non-recurrent skills
6 Integration Level 1: Explicit support for putting skills together into sub-competencies
7 Integration Level 2: Explicit support for putting sub-competencies together into competencies
8 Summative Assessment: Human-graded artifacts demonstrating workplace-caliber mastery
Course workflow for each competency:
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Mastery Design: Competency Based
OPEN MASTERY COURSEWARE
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Mastery Design: Relevance
OPEN MASTERY COURSEWARE
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Mastery Design: Diagnostic
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Mastery Design: Context
OPEN MASTERY COURSEWARE
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Mastery Design: Synthesis
OPEN MASTERY COURSEWARE
Next CCCOER WebinarWed, Nov 12
Open Pedagogies featuring faculty and students.
Una Daly: [email protected]
Karen Vignare: [email protected]
Kim Thanos: [email protected]
William Preston Davis: [email protected]
Thank you for coming!
Questions?