Open Education

"What is OER?" by The Council of Chief State School Officers, https://youtu.be/LDTCdMKlDQw (1.5 minutes)

"Intro to Open Education: Chapter 1 - What is Open Education" by Robin DeRosa, Plymouth State University, https://youtu.be/Bd-GAFCHwKc (3 minutes, watch from 0:20 to 3:15)

"Zero Cost Textbooks: A PimaOnline Student Vine"; this short vine was designed for "What Students Want: A Pima Student Panel" at the PimaOnline Educators' Conference, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS0USP3Z5gI (12 seconds)

2024 UN Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Faculty Fellowship 

This global award-winning fellowship provides faculty with the opportunity to work with colleagues and students worldwide to impact change through open pedagogy and community engagement.

This fellowship is designed to support faculty with creating renewable assignments (all of which will carry a Creative Commons license) to help students become agents of change in their own communities.

The fellowship's conceptual framework is based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), which is a set of 17 goals that address a wide range of social, economic and environmental issues, such as poverty, inequality, climate change and peace and justice. The SDGs are designed to achieve and maintain social justice and a sustainable future, with a target of the year 2030 set for the attainment of each goal.

Application open March 4- April 7 for Summer/Fall 2024 Faculty Fellows. Check out Renewable Assignments form past Faculty Fellows.


Want to learn more about the Open Education and OER? 

Check out these events and resources:

Outcomes:

2024 UN Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship 

Application open March 4- April 7 for Summer/Fall 2024 Faculty Fellows. Check out Renewable Assignments form past Faculty Fellows


PCC-TLC Led Events:

NEW!!! TLC Faculty Certificate in Open Education


Copyright and CC Licensing. Join our OER & Course Materials Director, Chelsea James, for an overview of identifying and using copyrighted materials in your courses. Learn about alternatives to copyright, like Creative Commons licensing, which can allow you to freely distribute, remix, adapt and build course materials. Understand how OER is licensed and why it is important. Chelsea James, Tuesday, March 5, 3pm-4pm meet.google.com/oeb-vbdr-osm



Open space for open conversations about OER, ZTC, course materials and more. Do you have questions about OER or other course materials? Do you need someone to bounce ideas off or voice concerns? Do you have questions about copyright or licensing of materials? Do you need help getting started with finding OER for you course? Do you just want to connect with colleagues? PCC's OER & Course Materials Director will hold drop-in virtual office hours during the Spring semester on Mondays from 4pm-5pm and Thursdays from 9am-10am. meet.google.com/gqa-zqnq-jhb

"What are OERs, the 5Rs and ZTCs?"

by Kris Swank, Faculty Librarian, NW Campus; Certificates in Open Education Librarianship & Community Commons Licensing 

The cost of textbooks increased 162% from 2000 to 2022, that's much faster than the average rate of inflation (see Fig. 1). In recent studies, nearly two-thirds of students reported not purchasing a required textbook because of the high price, while 25% and 11% reported, respectively, working extra hours or skipping meals in order to pay for textbooks (see Fig. 2).

Pima Community College strongly supports the move toward more affordable course content. No one should have to skip eating to buy a textbook. One way to make courses more affordable is for faculty to adopt “Open Educational Resources (OERs)." OERs are materials that are either (1) in the public domain or (2) licensed in a manner that provides everyone with free and perpetual permission to engage in the "5R" activities, that is, permission to retain, revise, remix, reuse, and redistribute the resources (see: David Wiley, "Defining the 'Open' in Open Content and Open Educational Resources," n.d., https://opencontent.org/definition).

Another way to reduce course costs is for faculty to design a course with Zero Textbook Costs (ZTCs), where there is no cost for required textbooks, workbooks, lab manuals, readers, or specialized software like online homework systems. ZTC courses may include OERs, as well as copyrighted readings, videos, art images, music tracks, etc. from library databases. The College pays to provide library databases but they are free for students to use.

"Inclusive Access" packages and online homework systems from publishers are not OERs or ZTCs because students have to pay fees in order to access them, may not retain them after the course is over (or after they withdraw from a course), may not reuse them for another semester without incurring additional access fees, and may not redistribute them to others.

OER information that might be of interest....


A study finds increasing levels of buy-in of open resources, with about three in 10 instructors requiring OER in their courses.