Course Design Using Open Educational Resources

1. Course Design Using Open Educational Resources Bob Currie Michigan Virtual School Gary Lopez Monterey Institute for Technology and Education Mary Schlegelmilch Omaha Public Schools

2. Who is MITE? Who Is MITE? Mission To help meet society’s need for access to effective, high-quality educational opportunities in an era of rapid economic, social, and personal change.

3. OER Background

4. The Goals of NROC To create a repository of high-quality, high school, Advanced Placement, and undergraduate courses and distribute them at little or no cost to students and teachers worldwide. • In pursuing this goal, NROC achieves other important outcomes, including, • addressing the needs of underserved students • helping establish content and technical standards for online content • fostering collaboration among content developers and users • become financially self-sustaining • supporting the Open Educational Resource movement

5. A Course as a Set of Objects

6. NROC Library - 2007 High School Course Foundations College Prep Physics I College Prep Physics II Algebra 1a Algebra 1b • College • Course Foundations • US History I • US History II • American Government • Introductory Physics I (algebra-based) • Introductory Physics II (algebra-based) • General Physics I (calculus-based) • General Physics II (calculus-based) • Introductory Calculus I • Introductory Calculus II • General Calculus I • General Calculus II • Environmental Science • Religions of the World • Elementary Algebra • Advanced Placement • Course Foundations • AP Environmental Science • AP Physics B I • AP Physics B II • AP Physics C I • AP Physics C II • AP US History I • AP US History IIAP US Government and Politics • AP Calculus AB I • AP Calculus AB II • AP Calculus BC I • AP Calculus BC II • AP Biology Also in Development Non-Majors Biology General Psychology Statistics for Behavioral & Social Sciences Basic Education Online: Reading, Writing, ELL, Math

7. Where does NROC content come from? • Two sources: • Contributions • from academic institutions • Collaborative Developmentmanaged by NROC Network

8. Contributed:“NROCing” the Content Consistent Organization Course Structure

9. Contributed:“NROCing” the Content Enhancing the Content 1. New content added by instructor or NROC 2. Customize course 3. Enhance group work and interactivity

10. Collaborative Development: NROC Network

11. NROC Network:Members Alabama Department of Education Anaheim Union High School Buena Vista University Cal State Fullerton Chattanooga State Technical & Community College Clark County Virtual High School Colorado Community Colleges Online Colorado Online Learning Florida Virtual School Hamilton County Virtual High School Hawaii Department of Education Idaho Digital Learning Academy Illinois Virtual High School Iowa Community College Online Consortium Kentucky Virtual High School Los Angeles Unified School District Louisiana Department of Education Maryland Virtual Learning Opportunities Michigan Virtual High School Minnesota Online Omaha Public Schools Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College Oregon Department of Education South Carolina Department of Education St. Petersburg College Tennessee Board of Regents University of Texas Brownsville University of Texas TeleCampus Virtual Virginia West Virginia Community College System Corporacion Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet

12. Omaha Public Schools • Omaha Public Schools is the only urban school district in Nebraska. Demographics are as follows: • 47,000 students • Serves 16% of all students in Nebraska • 60% of the student population is eligible for free and reduced lunch • 57% of the students are minorities • 13% of the students are English Language Learners

13. It is All About Standards!!

14. Finding & Developing Content • Commercial • Print publishers (proprietary or ANGEL) • Course vendors (complete courses) • Supplement providers • Non-Profit & OER • Course Developers (complete courses) • Repositories--National Repository of On-Line Curriculum-NROC • District Development • Using the Social Authoring Concept at the local level

15. OPS Social Authoring Process • Recruit and Train Master Teachers in the uses of LMS • Develop the OPS Framework • Create Master Course aligned with district standards • Recruit and train Master teachers to be content/course developers • Create Course developers and reviewer teams to address course needs • Lesson Design • Use a common format for lesson design • Access 3rd party content, preferably at the learning object level • Courses are duplicated for implementation at the building level

16. Design staff/team customize the courses within the LMS Reorganize Add or delete content Modify assignments or assessments Evaluate/continually review

17. Omaha Public Schools • Why Use a Learning Management System (LMS) for a Curriculum Repository to Replace Course Guides? • Approximately 600 new teachers per year • Why On-Line Credit Recovery? • 70.31% Graduation Rate (2005/2006)

18. LMS – The New Course Guide • New teachers need a framework to teach from, to provide more time to focus on “how” to teach and student learning, not “what” to teach. • Course Guides are typically developed at the same time “textbook” adoption occurs, and may not be updated until the next adoption cycle. • As subject areas and course move away from “textbooks” as the primary source of information, OPS was in need of a process to create a more “fluid” course guide.

19. One “e-stop” for Teacher Tools

20. Why Customize and Prioritize On-Line Credit Recovery? • It provides: • an opportunity to align district standards and assessments within the course. • an avenue to individualize instruction to meet credit recovery needs. • multi-modal learning experiences. • activities, assignments, assessments utilizing LMS. • simulations and interactivity. • opportunities for delivery in a blended environment in a traditional school, or for a variety of alternative delivery options.

21. Membership in NROC provides access to course content at the learning object level. • Access to quality content at the learning object level, provided an avenue to develop courses using a variety of resources. • Access to content at the learning object level allows our teacher/developers to align all courses with OPS content standards and assessments.

22. OPS started the transition from an on-line “tutorial” system in June, 2006. • Courses were developed and piloted throughout the 2006/2007 school year. • During the 2007 summer school session, 540 students (approximately 1/3 of the total students in Credit Recovery) took courses in a blended environment.

23. 2007 Credit Recovery Results:Mark Distribution for E-Courses Used During the 2007 Summer School The chart above reflects 700 course enrollments made by 408 individual students.

24. Michigan Virtual School, working in partnership with Michigan schools, is committed to providing cost effective, technology based solutions that strengthen teaching and learning. Michigan Virtual School

25. MVS Information (2006-07) • 8800 Enrollments • 500 AP Enrollments • 130 Course Titles • Content Flexibility • 90+ HQT Qualified Online Instructors • NCA and CITA Accredited • Alignment with Michigan Content Expectations

26. MVS served students in nearly 400 schools in 2006-07 MVS Statewide Participation

27. MVS Curricular Formats • MVS Flex • Advanced Placement • Semester Paced • Student Direct

28. MVS Content Development/Acquisition Process • The 4B’s of developing/acquiring content • Build – Develop original content • Buy – Purchase or License content • Buddy – Form strategic partnerships • Barter – Create partnership exchange

29. MVS Development Process MVS Development Team • Project Lead • Subject Matter Experts • Instructional Designer • Media Asset Manager • MVS Instructor • Quality Standards Based Process

30. MVS Advanced Placement Provides • Equity for smaller schools • College Board certified instructor and audited courses • AP Exam Prep with the course • Unique opportunities to students • MVS NROC Based AP Courses – Environmental Science, Physics, Government, History and Calculus

31. NROC Advantages • Quality Learning Objects • Customizable Course Content • Professional Learning Community • Developer Network • Research and Identification of Resources • Online Community Updates

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