Open Educational Resources

Work Group Leader: Marie Rustemeyer

Work Group Secretary: Vicki Sievert

SBCTC lead: Tom Caswell

Group Members: Marie R., Kelly M., Connie B., Vicki S., Brandy L., MaryAnn G..

Goals:

• Recruit others for this group! Action plan: Ask at winter meeting.Vicki S., Brandy L., MaryAnn G.. joined

  • Increase group size by 100% (from 2 to 4) through all means necessary. (See also: bribery, blackmail)

• Accelerate adoption of open course library course by faculty in the CTC system.Action plan:Provide subject-specific regional workshops aimed at the the first 42 courses, plus a broader ATL presentation on OCL.

• Accelerate adoption of open textbooks.Action plan:

• Survey faculty and students to gauge interest for using open textbooks offline. Possibly support the distribution of 10,000 open textbook licenses. SBCTC is considering launching a $100K RFP for open textbook licenses. This would buy 10,000 licenses to full PDF versions of open textbooks such as Flatworld Knowledge at or under $10 per license. (These normally cost around $30.) We could distribute sets of 40 licenses to faculty until the 10K licenses ran out.

• Track usage of open course library materials by faculty in CTC system.Action plan:

  • Tracking is tricky with open resources. Two approaches:

    • Use Mark for analytics on WAOL ANGEL

    • Arrange to get Google Analytics from Saylor.org folks. (We could measure traffic coming from WA as well as total OCL hits on the Saylor.org site.)

• Work with ITC to research business intelligence software that will help to evaluate the use of and effectiveness of the Open Course Library project. Need recommendation for software to evaluate OCL.

Winter Meeting

Discussion:

• Workshops currently being offered using TATC & WACT funding. Can we expand this effort? Where can we get the funding?

• Take the workshops "on the road".and expand their scope (see open texts below)

• Ask for help from LMDC to research content and copyrights.

• The RFP for textbook licenses could better be spent to promote adoption of existing materials.

• Assess materials on individual campuses by respected faculty

• Open access texts need to be included in the adoption of OCL modules and materials.

• Create a survey to monitor adoption?

• Difficult if not impossible to capture all who adopt bits and pieces of the modularized content.

Action Plan:

• Create a "tool kit" to be used by individual campus workshops and presentations. Present to eLC at spring meeting?

• Ask eLC how we can impliment using the "tool kit" workshops on their campuses. Spring meeitng?

• Build a list of adopters who are willing to give testimonials about the rewards of using the OCL content. Identify from survey?

• Develop a mentoring program to allow early adopters to receive the recognition and possibly some monies.

• Use the FLC model for collabotative adoption by discipline.

• Create a survey to track adoptions, Boyoung is currently working on this.

• See what Connie's committee to devlop coding to identify open course library courses to students comes up with so that we can possibly utilize that data.

• Maybe bring IRC on board for advice in tracking and data collection.

• ITC is putting together a committee to research business intelligence software that will help to evaluate the use of and effectiveness of the Open Course Library project, and develop a recommendation for software to evaluate OCL. We will provide a representative to them.