Reaping the Benefits of
Open Educational
Resources
Presenter: Brenda Perea
What, Where and Why?
What is OER?—Open Educational Resources are
high-quality, openly licensed, shared educational
materials made freely available online
OER is: Open course ware, Learning objects,
tutorials, open journals, streaming videos,
textbooks, modules and courses
Where is OER?—Many different repositories
Why OER?—Access, Affordability, and Student
Success
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Colorado Online
Energy Training
Consortium
Colorado Helps
Advanced
Manufacturing
Programs
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General Benefits of using OER
1. Learning effectiveness
• Better quality or more recent material
2. Access
• Wider variety of learning materials
• There are many complete courses from leading
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universities
Enhances opportunities for learning
Informed decisions as to content and class preparation
Scale
Cost effective
Adaptability for individual colleges and instructors
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General Benefits
continued….
4. Faculty success
• Avoid “reinventing the wheel”
• More Clarity and/or certainty regarding reuse of
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materials
Content is compiled and edited by the instructor
Student success
Better quality and easier access
Better informed decisions in choosing the right
course and preparing for class
Digital OER textbooks are condensed
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What were the “Real” Benefits?
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Decreased development time and
maximized resources
• Quality improvements through collaboration
• Content is compiled and edited by the instructor
• Time and effort were saved through the reuse and
remixing of resources
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Content is adaptable for individual colleges and
instructors
• Avoid the cycle of constant textbook updates
• Content sharing “standardized” throughout
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the colleges
New Partnerships Opportunities
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A Case Study of OER Benefits
Colorado Helps Advanced Manufacturing
Programs
Colorado Community College System, Aims Community
College and Metropolitan State University-Denver
• OER Based Advanced Manufacturing Courses—Additive
Manufacturing (3D Printing)
• New Field—collaborative course material development
• Shared content between 2 outside institutions, and 3 system
colleges
• Ability to create articulate agreements because of
transparency of OER developed to meet competencies
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A Case Study of OER Benefits
Northern Virginia Community College
• OER Based Associate Degree Program
• Average cost of Textbooks=$185
• Potential savings of $3700 per student completing full OER AS
degree Track (60 hours)
• Student Success
• Overall success rate is 9% higher than the overall success
rate average for equivalent textbook-based courses
• WHY?—we know that 30% of all students in a course do
not by the required course materials
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Types of Courses Published to OER
AEC 207 Construction Methods
AEC220 Surveying
AEC233 Construction Safety/Loss
Prevention
EIC105 Basics of AC/DC Electricity
ENY101 Introduction to Energy
Technologies
GIS101 Introduction to Global Information
Systems
MAN102 Business Ethics
NRE214 Environmental Issues & Ethics
PET101 Petroleum Fundamentals
PRO100 Introduction to Process
Technology
PRO120 Process Technology I:
Equipment
PRO130 Petroleum Fundamentals:
Instrumentation
PRO250 Oil and Gas Production I
PSY150 Environmental Psychology
EIC130 National Electrical Code I
EIC225 Programmable Controllers
ELT106 Fundamentals of DC/AC
ELT112 Advanced DC/AC
ENY121 Solar Photovoltaic
Components
MAT107 Career Math
PRO100 Intro to Process
Technology
PRO110 Safety, Health, and
Environment
PRO120 Process Tech 1Equipment 1
PRO130 Instrumentation I
PRO131 Instrumentation II
PRO240 Industrial
Troubleshooting
Writing for Process Technology
ELT 175 Fundamentals of DC/AC-compressed
IMA 160 Basic Fluid Power
WTG 100 Introduction to Wind Industry
WTG 110 Power & Control Systems
WTG 210 Wind Turbine Airfoils & Composites
WEL103 Basic Shielded Metal Arc Welding I
WEL104 Basic Shielded Metal Arc Welding II
WEL106 Print Reading for Welders-Fitters
WEL121 Structural Welding I
WEL110 Advanced Shielded Metal Arc I
WEL111 Advanced Shielded Metal Arc II
WEL125 Introduction to Gas Metal Arc
Welding
WEL124 Introduction to Gas Tungsten Arc
Welding
WEL162 Basic Flux Cored ARC Welding
WEL163 Basic Shielded Metal ARC Welding
TAAA Hydraulics I
TAAA Hydraulics II
TAAA Industrial AC/DC and Print Reading
TAAA Industrial Motors and Control
TAAA Introduction and Intermediate PLC's
TAAA MSHA Supplemental-Mine Safety and
Health Admin
TAAA Mechanical Components
TAAA Welding
www.cccscoetc.weebly.com
https://www.cccs.edu/partnering-for-success/trade-adjustment-assistance/taachamp/taa-champ-projects/
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Challenges to Using OER!
Technology
Time
Quality Assessment-Reluctance to “share” and the
reluctance to “accept other instructor’s work”
Policies on academic freedom, open access licenses
(CC BY)
Evolving Online/Hybrid Pedagogy
Differing LMS’s
Competency-based courses use industry supplied
manuals for content delivery
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Was OER a “Hard Sell”?
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What Did It Take for “Buy In”
A specific “on message”
Instructional designers or OER savy Media
Specialists
Recognition of impact across college
departments
Bookstores
Publisher relationships
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Dealing With OER
What Works?
http://www.symbaloo.com/shared/AA
AACMSNVS0AA42Agd4JvQ==
Detailed Plan
Central URL repository for easy
access to OER sites
Central website for OER index
Multimedia hosted on an
institution channel or
institutional account
Allocating enough time to search
& revise content
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Tools to Encourage the Use of OER
Videos:
OPEN Courses:
YouTube, Vimeo or the Internet Archive
Merlot, Connexions,
Audio/Podcasts:
MIT OpenCourseWare,
Soundcloud or the Internet Archive
Open Yale Courses,
Presentations:
Harvard Open Learning Initiative,
Slideshare, EverySlide
OPEN Content:
Open Culture, Coursera,
Google Drive
OpenCourseWare Consortium,
Digital Public Library of America PhET P2PU OpenStax MOOC List, edX, OpenCourse
Library,
DOL OER or OPEN information
http://open4us.org/faq/
http://open4us.org/resources/cc-by-license-implementationdeep-dive-resources/
License Chooser tool
http://creativecommons.org/choose/
Appendix
► Open Educational Resources and Practices
► The Adoption of OER by One Community College Math Department
► OER Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wgqQdYKjIM
http://www.iskme.org/category/tags/oer-research
► http://oer13.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/the-ecology-of-sharing-synthesizingoer-research-rob-farrow/
► http://www.slideshare.net/robertfarrow/the-ecology-of-sharing-synthesizingoer-research
► http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1523/2652
► http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/viewArticle/2013-04/html
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