Image by textbookrebellion Speakers: Tom Caswell & Connie BroughtonLearn how Washington's colleges went from a few system shared courses in 1997 to developing 81 courses as part of the Open Course Library.
Washington's State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) is currently developing the Open Course Library, an ambitious 2-year project to design open educational resources for 81 high enrolling courses. In 1997 SBCTC began developing a way to share courses with a "pooled enrollments" model. For over a decade, SBCTC's system shared courses have allowed smaller colleges to provide a variety of "long tail" course offerings through a well-organized system of online course sharing. In this presentation we will explain how our system shared courses paved the way to the Open Course Library, providing a culture of sharing as well as the technical framework to allow Washington State's colleges to engage more fully in the Open Education movement.
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Their strategic plan included shared tools, ANGEL, Tegrity, Collaborate, NW eTutoring Consortium, Professional development, and the open course library.
More information at http://techplan.sbctc.edu
"We will cultivate the culture and practice of using and contributing to open education resources."
Internet + digital content + open license = lower cost, greater access, and greater quality.
Students were averaging $1000 for textbook costs.
WA legislation in SSHB1025 asks that faculty consider the lowest cost options (all things equal) that faculty will adopt open content where possible.
Saylor Foundation adopted their courses that did not use commercial textbooks. They also fixed the broken links and put much of the material into a consistent form.
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