Open Educational Resources (OER)

Faculty Conversation Series

MCO OER Faculty Conversations Recordings

• 2021 Faculty Conversation Series Flyer 
• 2019 Faculty Conversation Series Flyer 
• 2018 Faculty Conversation Series Flyer 

MI OER Technical Training Sessions

• MCO OER Group Manager Meeting - January 30, 2018 - A recording of the meeting can be viewed here. 
• MCO OER Group Manager Training - January 23, 2018 
  This training session is designed to provide group managers with the key skills needed to work in the MCO OER Repository.  A recording of the training can be viewed here. 
• An Introduction to Creative Commons  Licensing (Recording)  Presentation slides can be downloaded here. 
• Open Author Training - January 27, 2017   (Recording)
• OER Commons Hub Group Administrators Training Document 
• MCO OER Repository Group Manager Training - December 20, 2016   (Recording)
• OER Repository Group Managers 
• OER Commons Hub Powerpoint 
• OER Commons Metadata Template 
• Hub Administrator Training- May 24, 2016 (recording) 
• Hub Curation Training - June 16, 2016 (recording) 
  • MCO Hub Curation Session Notes, with links to examples 
  • MCO OERCommons Metadata Template and Schema 
  • OERCv4 Metadata Application Profile 

2019 MI OER Summit

The 2019 MI OER Summit was held on October 18, 2019 and hosted by Delta College.  
Links to the presentations and keynote can be found here. 

2018 MI OER Summit

The 2018 MI OER Summit was held on September 21, 2018 and hosted by St. Clair County Community College.  
Keynote speech by Dr. Chris Gilliard can be viewed here. 

2017 MI OER Summit

2017 MI OER Summit was held on September 22, 2017 and hosted by Kellogg Community College (Battle Creek, MI). 
Keynote speech by Dr. Robin DeRosa can be viewed here. 

MCO OER Wiki 
This wiki is a place for Michigan community college staff and faculty to share documents, including policies, processes, and projects related to their use of open educational resources on campus.

Michigan Community College Librarians LibGuide 
Resources for Michigan Community College Librarians providing information, training, and support for faculty adoption of open educational resources.

OER Directory - annotated listing of OER repositories

OER 101 Document   
Share how OER can benefit teaching and learning at your institution.

Student Success

• Colvard, N. B., Watson, C. E., & Park, H. (2018). The impact of open educational resources on various student success metrics. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 30(2), 262-276. (https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1184998.pdf) 

  • "OER improve end-of-course grades and decrease DFW (D, F, and Withdrawal letter grades) rates for all students. They also improve course grades at greater rates and decrease DFW rates at greater rates for Pell recipient students, part-time students, and populations historically underserved by higher education. OER address affordability, completion, attainment gap concerns, and learning."

• Fischer, L., Hilton, J., Robinson, T. J., & Wiley, D. A. (2015). A multi-institutional study of the impact of open textbook adoption on the learning outcomes of post-secondary students. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 27(3), 159-172. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12528-015-9101-x 

  • “In three key measures of student success—course completion, final grade of C- or higher, course grade– students whose faculty chose OER generally performed as well or better than students whose faculty assigned commercial textbooks.”

Student and Faculty Perceptions

• Hilton, J. (2019). Open educational resources, student efficacy, and user perceptions: a synthesis of research published between 2015 and 2018. Educational Technology Research and Development, 1-24.

  • "While the impact of OER on student learning appears to be small, it is positive. Given that students save substantial amounts of money when OER is utilized, this is a particularly important pattern."

  • "The fact that consistent survey data show that both faculty and students who use OER largely rate it as being equal to or superior to CT [commercial textbooks] has important practical and policy implications for those responsible for choosing textbooks."

• Illowsky, B., Hilton, J., Whiting, J., & Ackerman, J. (2016). Examining student perception of an open statistics book. Open Praxis, 8(3), 265-276. https://www.learntechlib.org/p/173536/article_173536.pdf

  • "Survey results show that students generally had at least as good of an experience using the open textbook compared to traditional textbooks."

• Hilton, J. (2016). Open educational resources and college textbook choices: A review of research on efficacy and perceptions. Educational technology research and development, 64(4), 573-590. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11423-016-9434-9

  • "Studies across a variety of settings indicate that both students and faculty are generally positive regarding OER."

Book

• Jhangiani, R. S. & Biswas-Diener, R. (2017). Open: The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bbc. License: CC-BY 4.0

For up to date reports on OER usage across the state, visit the OER Usage page.

MCO OER Repository Usage

• 2016-2017 Usage Data 

MCO OER Faculty Grants

Michigan Colleges Online completed a grant proposal review focused on high-impact and collaborative projects that support the use of open educational resources (OER) to increase student retention and student success and reduce instructional costs for students. There are three types of grants awarded: Adoption of an open textbook; Adaption (remix/reuse) of an existing open textbook; and Development of ancillary resources or complete open textbook not already available.

Twelve grants were awarded to a total of 26 faculty representing six colleges and one ISD collaborator.  Click here  for a review of the successful grants.

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