Achieving the Dream OER Degree Initiative

1. Achieving the DreamOER Degree Initiative March 10, 2016 3 PM EST With support from Shelter Hill and Speedwell Foundations

2. Presenters and Resource Persons Carol Lincoln and Tran Le, Achieving the Dream David Wiley and Kim Thanos, Lumen Learning Una Daly and Quill West, CCCOER Rebecca Griffiths and Linda Shear, SRI International Linda Williams and Steve Litherland, Tidewater CC Richard Sebastian, VA Community College System

3. Overview of OER Initiative • The Tidewater Experience • The VA CC Experience • TA and Other Supports • RFP Requirements • Q&A and Discussion (use the question box to send questions to the presenters) • www.achievingthedream.org/oer Agenda

4. Initiative Goals • Boost college access and completion, particularly for underserved students, by engaging faculty in the redesign of courses and one-year or two-year degree programs through the replacement of proprietary textbooks with open educational resources • Lay the groundwork for wide scale adoption of OER degrees Overview of OER Degree Initiative

5. Definitions • OER = teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others – full courses, course material, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and another other tools, materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge • OER Degrees = one-year or two-year postsecondary programs which are offered to students using openly licensed resources in place of proprietary textbooks Overview of OER Degree Initiative

6. IMPLEMENATION by early adopters demonstrates the model --20-30 sites in US and Canada receive grants, establish OER degrees Overview of OER Degree Initiative All community college students have access to an OER Degree, increasing college completion and learning, particularly for underserved students TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE delivers successful degree programs –valued at $100K per college Building a COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE sustains grassroots culture change RESEARCH & EVALUATION establishes the impacts of OER degrees FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES Expand the supply of materials, communicate results, advocate for uptake

7. Grants up to $100k or $300k with 25% match requirement • Integrated with ongoing success efforts to increase access, improve student learning and teaching, and increase student academic outcomes • Supplemental support for colleges participating in quasi-experimental evaluation or cost study Overview of OER Degree Initiative

8. Eligible Applicants • Community colleges • State consortia • Other consortia • Why consortia? Expand and scale more quickly Overview of OER Degree Initiative

9. Expectations/Requirements • Data sharing and participation in evaluation • Cross functional, faculty-led teams • West Coast Kickoff June 12-14 (Tentative date) • At least one OER degree (1 year or 2 year) • At least one section of every required course including electives offered as open educational resource course • Some courses offered by start of 2017 • All materials must be licensed using most recent version of the Creative Commons Attribution License • Share new OER materials • Strategies to assure access by low income students • 25% match funding • Annual convenings Overview of OER Degree Initiative

10. Z Degree • Business Administration & more to come • Impact on Students (costs, satisfaction, performance, etc.) • Pathways Course Tidewater Experience

11. Zx23 Project • 16 of 23 Virginia community colleges developing Z-Degrees • 6 degree programs: business admin, business management, criminal justice, general education, liberal arts, social science • OER courses shared with all VCCS faculty in LMS (Blackboard Learn) Virginia State CC System Experience

12. Achieving the Dream • Oversee initiative • Make grants • Ensure programmatic fidelity • Assistance with building data capacity • ATD Connect learning platform • Communications support TA and Other Support

13. Lumen Learning • On campus workshops to help plan OER courses/degrees, guide faculty • Mentors • Help identifying course materials • License and attribution review • Degrees with rich OER resources: general ed, business administration, general science, social science, and some computer science TA and Other Support

14. Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources • Community building for long-term sustainability and support of OER degrees • Best practices, networking, timely support for faculty, staff and administrators • Showcase and collaboration opportunities at local and international level • Scope will include all applicants, not ​just those selected to receive grants TA and Other Support

15. SRI International • Lead the research and evaluation • Impact on student progression to credential • Economic impact on students and colleges • Best practices, barriers, facilitators • Quasi-experimental studies with 10-12 “research partner” colleges • Cost study with 5-6 “cost analysis partner” colleges TA and Other Support

16. OER Readiness Assessment • Proposal Narrative • Faculty Narrative • Budget • CEO Commitment Letter(s) • Institutional Data • Checklist for Research Capacity and Data Availability RFP Require-ments

17. Q & A Discussion

18. Questions or general support: oer@achievingthedream.org Look for webinar recording onATD YouTube channel Contact

19. Thank You!