Welcome to OER Basics for the Less Familiar!

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OER Basics for the Less Familiar

Friday, October 5^th 10:30-11:30

ASCCC OERI Weekly Webinar

Jennifer Paris, Regional Lead for Area C

Why do instructors use the content we do?

Share in the chat

• Why you choose the commercial textbooks/course content you do

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• If you have already moved away from commercial content, why you made that choice

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What barriers do students have when accessing your commercial course content?

Now share an answer to one of the following:

1. What has troubled you in commercial content you have adopted or want to adopt?
2. What keeps students from accessing commercial content?
3. What keeps students from learning from commercial content?

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Let’s see OER can address what you have shared

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How we will explore OER during our time together today

• Compelling reasons to use OER
• What OER is
• What OER allows you to do
• Additional compelling reasons to use OER

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Compelling Reasons to Consider OER – The Barriers

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Cost of Books

Price Changes in Selected US Consumer Goods and Services, and Wages

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Source of image: BLS

From Olivier Ballou via the American Enterprise Institute

Basic Needs Challenges for our Students - #Real College Survey 2018

• 40,000 students at 57 California Community Colleges participated. The results indicate:
• 50% of respondents were food insecure in the prior 30 days,
• 60% of respondents were housing insecure in the previous year,
• 19% of respondents were homeless in the previous year.

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Source: California Community Colleges #RealCollege Survey March 2019

Inequitable Impact of Cost – An Example Study

• Textbook prices are an even greater barrier for historically underserved students 
• It is our responsibility as staff, faculty, and administrators to "remove any unnecessary financial barriers to academic success, and to ensure that our students’ learning potential is never limited by their purchasing power."

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 "Textbook Affordability and Student Success for Historically Underserved Populations at CSUCI" by J. Jacob Jenkins, Jaime Hannans, Luis Sanchez, and Jill Leafstedt for openCI is licensed under CC BY 4.0

You can’t learn from a resource you �don’t have

Source: 2018 Student Textbook and Course Materials Survey Executive Summary

Who Are the Voices Behind Our Course Content?

• “What is claimed as “history” — in our everyday language and in institutions of power — is actually a mono-cultural, Western, “upper” Caste, white, male, straight and binary version of human experience. The tellers of history are those who have always had the powers to speak.”
• The majority of authors of commercial textbooks are white male professors from research universities

Source of quote: Aruna, Sanghapali, et al. Decolonizing Our Stories and Knowledges, part 1, 2018, https://whoseknowledge.org/new-resource-our-stories-our-knowledges/

Source of data: Thiede, Malina. Who Writes Traditional Textbooks? Who Writes OERs? An examination. Vision for the Future: Open and Accessible, Eastern New York ACRL Chapter Conference, May 19, 2021. Virtual event. Poster presentation.

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Our Textbooks Are Marginalizing Our Students

Take a moment to reflect and contribute in the chat (if desired):

• What happens when our students cannot see themselves, cannot hear themselves, and do not find their stories and history represented in our content?
• What happens when our books are not culturally responsive nor antiracist?

Exploring What OER Is

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What are Open Educational Resources?

“OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or are released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others”

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-- Hewlett Foundation

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More than just free

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Image by Clipart Library is available for non-commercial use

Creative Commons Licenses

Creative Commons Licenses by D'Arcy Hutchings is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Copyright Symbols by Mike Seyfant is licensed under CC BY 2.0

What Can You Do With Each License

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So what exactly does that mean?

• OER allows you to create free (at least digitally), customized resources for your students
• If you find a great resource you don’t want to change, you don’t have to
• If you find an almost perfect resource, you can make it even better
• If you want to curate bits and pieces of many different OER, you can
• And you and your students will own that OER forever

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When Using OER, You Need to Do Two Things

1. Provide attribution
2. Note if you made any changes

Cropped from Don’t forget reminder by Marco Verch that is licensed under CC BY 2.0

An Important Reminder : Provide Attribution

• There is no one right way
• A good rule of thumb is to use the acronym TASL
• Title - What is the name of the material? (if provided)
• Author - Who owns the material? (follow any requests)
• Source - Where can I find it? (a link whenever possible
• License - How can I use it? (link to license)

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Adapted from "Best practices for attribution" by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0

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An Example

• Title: CC Blue Heart
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CC_blue_heart.png

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• Author: Creative Commons Corporation
• https://stateof.creativecommons.org/

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• License: CC-BY-SA 4.0
• https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

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“CC Blue Heart” by Creative Commons Corportation is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0

Great Resource for Attributions – Open Attribution Builder

"Open Attribution Builder" by Open Washington is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Noting When You Make Changes

• The more details the better
• Should make it clear that you are not using the resource as it was originally created/published

Example Taken from Pressbooks

Adapted from "Blueprint for Success in College and Career" by Dave Dillon is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Let’s Revisit Those Barriers for Students

Added text to cropped version of Man Destroying with Hammer by Gan Khoon Lay from the Noun Project that is licensed under CC BY 3.0

Imagine the Possibilities with OER

• With OER your content is customizable
• You have control of it
• It can serve your students
• You can collaborate with colleagues
• It is equivalent or better quality
• And your students will do better
• Increases equity in outcomes

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Academic Freedom

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Before

After

Opportunity for Greater Representation and Inclusion

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Opportunities for Collaboration

• Curating a book with others
• Adding resources to what’s available

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Open Pedagogy - New Opportunities for Learning

Stepping Up Bloom’s

Cropped from Bloom's Digital Taxonomy, by Fractus Learning which is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

What About…

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Exam Performance: BC Campus

Traditional vs. Open Print vs. Open Digital

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BC Campus Presentation during CCCOER May 11 Webinar: 3 Faculty Perpectives on OER Adoption License: CC Attribution License

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Very Poor

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Below Average

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Average

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Above Average

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Excellent

Overall, how would you rate the quality of your textbook?

TRADITIONAL

3.54

OPEN PRINT

OPEN DIGITAL

3.90

3.73

What do you think would be a fair price for your textbook?

$53.51

$49.90

$47.68

Traditional:

Open Print:

Open Digital:

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Note:

Traditional Print costs $100+

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BC Campus Presentation during CCCOER May 11 Webinar: 3 Faculty Perpectives on OER Adoption License: CC Attribution License

And Perhaps the Best News about OER

• Not only does OER save students money
• It changes their ability to be successful
• And even more remarkably, it benefits our disproportionately impacted student populations the most

Computer Problems by CollegeDegrees360 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

What About the Impact of OER – An Example Study

Source: AAC&U, University of Georgia The Impact of Open Educational Resources on Various Student Success Metrics,  in International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2018

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One More Study from Pasadena City College

Questions?

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Except where otherwise noted, this presentation by Jennifer Paris, OERI is licensed under CC BY 4.0