community college open textbook project scholar/experts meeting january 16, 2008

Community College Open Textbook Project

Scholar/Experts MeetingJanuary 16, 2008

Sponsored by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

& the Foothill-De Anza Community College District

Community College Open Textbook ProjectSponsored by The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation & the Foothill-De Anza Community College District

AGENDA

9:00- 9:15 a.m. Welcome & Introductions9:15-10:15 a.m. Community Colleges and the Open Textbook Landscape

Why the Focus on Open Textbooks and Why the Need for a Community College Consortium for OER?• Cathy Casserly, Director, Open Educational Resources,

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation • Martha Kanter, Chancellor, Foothill-De Anza CCD

Critical Distinctions: Open Textbooks, Courses, Articulated Courses and Community College State System Requirements for Distance Learning - The California Example• Martha Kanter

• Barbara Illowsky, Academic Senate President, Foothill-De Anza CCD

Community Colleges and Connexions Rich Baraniuk, Founder, Connexions at Rice University

Growing the Use of Community College Open TextbooksGroup Discussion


AGENDA (continued)10:15-10:30 a.m. Break

10:30-12:00 noon Accessibility Implications for Using Community College Open Textbooks: Understanding Legal Mandates and Campus Responsibilities

• David LaDue, U.S. Dept. of Ed, Office for Civil Rights, SF • Sarah Hawthorne, Assistant Provost, Academic Compliance

& Disability Standards, UC Berkeley • Carl Brown, Director, High Tech Center Training Unit • Sean Keegan, Web Accessibility Specialist, High Tech

Center Training Unit12:00-12:45 p.m. Working Lunch12:45-2:00 p.m. Open Textbook Development & Repurposing: Proposed Work Flow, Timeline & CC Licenses

• Judy Baker, Dean of Global Access, Foothill College • Barbara Illowsky • Group Discussion

2:00-3:00 p.m. Conclusion and Next Steps • Group Discussion


The OER Landscape and the Context for Open

Textbooks: The Flyover

Dr. Cathy Casserly, DirectorOpen Educational Resources

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Community CollegeOpen Textbook Project

Dr. Martha Kanter, ChancellorFoothill-De Anza Community

College District

Vision

Open Textbooks for the Community College Transfer Core Curriculum

Open Textbooks in Math, English and ESL for the Community College Basic Skills Curriculum

Community CollegeOpen Textbook

Project


College Level # Students

Mathematics 543,145

English 503,757

Physical Education 313,614

Psychology 270,581

History 269,303

Speech 209,182

Biology 166,643

Music 162,086

Sociology 149,859

Political Science 149,695

Philosophy 125,623

Health Education 114,824

Spanish 109,807

College Level # Students

Art 109,574

Child Development 106,231

Anthropology 100,166

Economics 99,683

Chemistry 89,606

Accounting 85,501

Business 73,959

Information Technology 71,716

Geography 59,726

Anatomy & Phys. 48,196

ESL College Level 18,980

College Reading 8,368

* California Community Colleges Research & Planning Unit, January 2007


Pre-Collegiate/ Basic Skills

# Students

Pre-Algebra 58,814 ESL (General) 52,999 Reading Skills 47,420 Writing 27,589 ESL Survival Level 2,862

Basic Skills (Gateway) CoursesHighest Demand Courses (California Sample)

* California Community Colleges Research & Planning Unit, January 2007


Overarching Goal

To make the CCOT Project a success by building engagement and investment from community colleges, universities, state higher education and K-12 systems, professional associations, and foundations.


Goal of Today’s Meeting

To identify opportunities, challenges and next steps in the creation, repurposing and adoption of high-quality, accessible, culturally relevant Community College Open Textbooks for the Transfer Core Curriculum

Creating the Road Map:Expected Outcomes from the

Scholar/Experts’ Meeting

1. Best methods to identify and load CC open textbooks onto an easily accessible central website for community colleges

• Determine most efficient infrastructure & support needed2. Best ways to document CCOT attributes (e.g., high quality, articulation requirements, accessibility review, operability requirements, cultural relevance, etc.)3. Explicit commitment(s) to support the CCOT Project from each partner (e.g., confirm partner support & contributions of content, process, etc.)4. Best approach to determine the workflow process for quality assurance,

institutional buy-in and marketing 5. Critical elements of a business/sustainability plan for the CCOT Project


Critical DistinctionsOpen Textbooks

Courses

Articulated Courses

Community College State System Requirements for Distance Learning


1,550 courses to date

1,800 courses by 2007

33 disciplines

MIT OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW)

MIT OCW reports:

100 institutions worldwide are openly publishing courses

Over 2,000 courses are now openly published globally, one third from institutions other than MIT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources

http://oerqa.sixfeetup.com/

FULL COURSES OFFEREDFULL COURSES OFFERED

31 Courses Now Available

14 AP high school courses

Algebra 1A & 1B

College Prep Physics I & II

13 College Courses

http://faculty.deanza.edu/publicdomain/

Published Eight Open Published Eight Open CoursesCourses

http://sofia.fhda.edu/gallery

Open Publishing in Sakai

http://www.oercommons.org/



PUBLIC DOMAIN SURVEYPUBLIC DOMAIN SURVEY

Key Findings80% interested in using OER in their classes31% already using OER in their classes61% viewed them as high quality BUT39% viewed them as lacking in qualityDiscuss the findings broadly and widely

Link findings to current technology projects underway

Where Are We Now?Where Are We Now?

Follow-up to OER Spring Survey119 faculty respondents in spring 2006New statewide & national surveys underway to determine their specific OER involvement, needs and interests

Stimulate interest among facultyGrow the Community College Consortium for OER from 30-100 institutions (2008-2010)

Open TextbooksContent Standards

High Quality Content

Community College-University Articulation

Culturally Relevant & Appropriate

Technical StandardsAccessible for Students with Disabilities

Ease of Use

Interoperability

CMS Interface


Specific Goals

1: Develop and expand the Community College Consortium for OER toward sustainability

2: Design an easily accessible website to house current information about the development, identification, standards and criteria (articulation, accessibility, interoperability and cultural relevance) and links to high-quality Open Textbooks appropriate for community college instruction which satisfy the standards and criteria supported by CCCOER


Specific Goals3: Create and document a work flow process for collecting,

using and disseminating community college Open Textbooks (quality assurance, institutional buy-in and marketing)

4: Prepare to conduct formative and summative evaluations to assess the effectiveness of the CCCOER faculty network and student use of community college Open Textbooks

5: Prepare a business plan to sustain the use of Community College Open Textbooks


community college open textbook project scholar/experts meeting january 16, 2008

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