SBCTC Open Education Update 2015
Boyoung Chae, Ph.D.
Policy Associate, eLearning and Open Education
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
Open Policy
http://goo.gl/WzNFdF
• Develop & Execute 4 Open Policy Projects
– Implementation plan for existing open policy.
– Policy development on the distribution of the
state government produced works.
– Policy development on copyright ownership of
faculty produced work using college resources.
– Policy development that sanctions the adjunct
faculty’s use of OER.
How to Use OER training
http://goo.gl/Z5sxgP
• Continue offering How to Use OER training
– Trained 600 faculty and staff since December 2013
– 110 participants for February 2015 training
– Official training for TACCCT grantees
– Next training will be offered mid-April
• Faculty feedback link: http://goo.gl/4GVekb
Open Washington Phase 2
www.openwa.org
• Launch Open Washington Phase 2
– Restructure website
– Add research and presentation feature
– Caption all videos
– Add Share OER feature
– Review the repositories
Open Attribution Builder
openwa.org/open-attrib-builder
Research in Open Education
http://goo.gl/dERBtX
• Continue conducting research to generate
meaningful data to support and enhance OER
adoption in the system.
• A new research report released:
– Qualitative Investigation of Faculty Open
Educational Resource Usage in the Washington
Community and Technical College System:
Models for Support and Implementation.
Next-Generation Courseware Challenge
• Support implementation of NGCC project
– The Lumen Learning-led project for the Gates
Courseware Challenge will develop nextgeneration courseware in four subjects:
Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Introduction
to Business and Principles of Marketing
– Spokane school district and Everett Community
College will participate in Fall, Winter and Spring
pilot.