 Okay, welcome everybody. This is a person presentation about the California consortium for equitable change in Hispanic serving institutions with OER. Our acronym is CC Echo, and this will be our project showcase. So just to introduce myself and Ron, my name is Kelsey Smith, I am the OER librarian at West Hills College in Lamor, which is in California, and I'm also the project director of CC Echo. Hi everybody, my name is Ron Oxford, I'm a librarian, and I'm currently working at the College of Moran and at West Hills College in Lamor. Okay, we're going to switch the slide, there we go. So what we're going to cover today is we're going to go over basically what CC Echo is, how it came about processes and procedures that were developed to get, make sure that it is a successful project. So Kelsey will go pretty thoroughly through the project showcase, which is really the highlight of what we're trying to share here today. We'll also share that the projects that are in progress and there's quite a few of those talk a little bit about the data collection, and some of the lessons learned from so far in this project, and hopefully at the end we'll have plenty of time for questions and answers. The open textbook pilot grant, if you're not aware of that there's a link down there at the bottom, and that is a really great project that came out of the Department of Ed. It's been going on for since 2018, and there are 16 projects there. I won't read all of this but really what it's focusing on is what you can see there highlighted. I really suggest if you haven't had an opportunity to take a look at those those programs. Just, just a few of them besides what we're going to share with you here is like Middlesex College. County College has, they're creating 12 high and old textbooks for STEM and CTE gateway courses, which is a great project. Clemson is creating textbooks for robotics and advanced engineering. Of course, UC Davis has LibreText, which is a hub for creation and storage and dissemination of OER, and they've also launched a new project, UC Davis with this grant. The conductor project, which is a place to manage and project management for OER creation. So it's some pretty good stuff there if you have a chance to take a look at that link and all of the projects throughout there. And the next one. So the goals for what we are concentrating on is to create 20 textbooks for high and old courses. We did this thorough job as we could make sure that we weren't duplicating what was already out there in the high and old courses because we wanted to, we didn't want to duplicate anything so we tried real hard to make sure that they were needed, but there wasn't anything there. And of course we're dealing with textbook affordability and we all know the value of it, but we also wanted to put that diversity and equity and inclusion lens on it, particularly at HSI's. And the next one there is to provide the professional development. So I'm trying to create as many resources as possible for the professional development when you're looking at that DEI lens on OER. So we'd like to share it out to all of the HSI's out there which is quite a task. You know there's there's a lot of HSI's, there's 569 HSI's which is 18% of all of the colleges and universities out there, which is quite a task to get it disseminated to all of the HSI's. So that's what we're going to do. And Luna just shared in the chat there that link down at the bottom, Alan Hancock, it shows the completed projects and give you more information about our project as well. And then next one. I'm going to add in there real quickly. CC Echo is a consortium for California Community Colleges. West Hills is, I guess you would call fiscal lead on this. We are also working with Alan Hancock College, which is near the Central Coast College of the Canyons, which is in Southern California and College of Marin, which is in Northern California. Developing the initial application for what we looked at is, and why there's four colleges spread across the state. We have large institutions, small institutions, and rural and urban, and they're all for HSI's. The timeline, January, we got a late start, it was quite a bit of front loading trying to get things developed our processes working with that different branch offices and budgets for different colleges. So it took a probably about six months really to get rolling, but we'll be rolling up until December 2023 when we hope to have all of those 20 projects completed. So it consists of only our textbooks, canvas courses, ancillaries, translations, and revisions. And again, Kelsey will go over those pretty thoroughly in her part of the presentation. So each year we began with as thorough as we could come up with a gap analysis of each one of our colleges. And to see which was the most highly enrolled courses, especially for underserved students that needed OER creation. And that's where we started. And then, of course, we started adding in the other components, which is the DEI framework. And if you're not familiar with the Academic Senate of California, they have a very nice OERI open educational resources initiative page. There's a lot of resources in there. So we use that and along with open stacks framework to develop ours. We also use standardized rubric for peer review and data collection. I'll talk more about that in a bit, but the RP group is a group here in California that we're working with in order to get as much data that we can from this project and the OER specialists. They're available as well. And I think that's on the next slide here. So the OER specialists, this is kind of a nice little perk for the authors of the textbooks, because these are students that Kelsa will talk about the training course that they go through, but these are students or former students that can aid and assist the faculty members and kind of kind tuning and some of the more tedious things that go along with creation of OER textbooks. And that allows the faculty members to focus on the content and the creation. And we feel that this is not only valuable to the faculty members creating the textbooks, but it's also valuable to the students who will then be fully versed in OER as they move on to universities or into the workforce. So that they will be familiar with OER plus they get job skills and working with these types of systems. Okay. And this is the good stuff. Yeah, so now we're going to go into the project showcase so I'm going to go over the projects that have completed from our first kind of, I guess the first half of the grant. So over or highlight a couple of our projects that are in progress. So we just started kind of our year two or the last half of this grant, and we have gosh probably 18 or more projects in progress right now. So, it's pretty exciting. Similar to what Ron was just talking about, one of our first projects that completed was an OER specialist training course. So College of the Canyons has a great group of OER specialists or OER team. This is a group of former and current students that work with their faculty on the things that Ron mentioned on the previous slide so formatting accessibility finding assist image images, things like that so what they did with the help of their instructional designer Helen Graves and then of course James and Joy over at College of the Canyons they created a OER specialist training course. So if you have people on your college campus, either a group of students, maybe classified staff or maybe even faculty or librarians that are working with faculty on helping them create OER. So this is a great course for them to go through. This is also a great course. Let me go to the next slide has a screenshot. This is a great course for anyone kind of starting out in OER and kind of curating OER materials or creating OER materials. This screenshot shows the modules of the course, which is a Canvas course by the way so if you do not use Canvas on your college you can create a free account and you should be able to go into Canvas Commons and browse at least maybe download for your LMS but anyway the modules, they go over getting started, what you would initially want to go over with faculty in the meeting as an OER specialist, finding OER, citing formatting accessibility review and like the finalization of distributing materials. All of these projects I'm going to go over I have a QR code at the top right. If you have a link I don't know if the link to the slides has been put in chat but it should be uploaded to the actual schedule. You can click on the QR code and it will take you it's actually a link to so that's our OER specialist course available in Canvas Commons or just follow the link. Our other a very exciting project that completed during the summer is an Ethnic Studies textbook. This one was particularly important to the California Community Colleges because we have a new GE requirement which is run as an area F. Okay, I get mixed up with the letters. So it's an Ethnic Studies requirement meaning all students need to take an Ethnic Studies course during their time at the peanut colleges. So this is the textbook for that course. The title is Our Lives and Ethnic Studies Primer. It was written by Dr. B.R. Kennedy and Rowena Burmio at West Hills College. I have listed a couple of the chapters in this textbook they kind of call them modules so I did modules last chapters. They try to really highlight kind of some unspoken histories and unheard voices in this textbook. And we also not only are the authors women of color, but the contributors there are little, I guess, call out boxes or personal stories within the chapters of this textbook. Those were all people of color as well. And I drunk faculty, not all of them. One of them was a full time faculty that just just getting started. I wanted to pull in these voices that are sometimes left out of OER or just textbooks in general, and they were all compensated for their work as well. And then coming soon this textbook it will be translated to Spanish that is one of our next projects. It should be done, maybe around this time next year. So what we have our English version here, the link or QR code is up there, and then a Spanish version will be coming. So CC Echo is partnered with California, not sorry, not California Community College Consortium for OER. I think Una is here with us today. They did a wonderful case study with the authors of the Ethnic Studies Primer. And then just I think last week, OEG Voices did a podcast episode with the authors, which is fantastic so I've linked both of those QR codes. So you can hear about the authors experiences what motivated them to get involved with this project. So the next project that just finalized a couple weeks ago was our human sexuality textbook. The title of that is sexuality, the self and society. This was written by Susan Raman at College of Marin. Now this textbook was written by Susan, but she also worked with, I think five students multiple students current and former. I think one sex educator, a couple of medical doctors and a nurse practitioner. So this book has the actual medical science and the biology, but it also has elements from sociology and psychology, all wrapped up into one textbook. So this book may be able to use for multiple courses I know at Marin. This is a sociology course, I believe, but other colleges human sexuality the psychology course. So, I've listed a couple of the chapters there so it goes anywhere from what is human sexuality to pleasure to gender sexual orientation, and then into the contraceptive, like the actual biology the sexual health abortion STI is that sort of thing. And also a quick note, all of these are currently being harvested by Libre Tex, so they should be in there as well soon so they're up on our CC Echo website, and hopefully available other places as well. Also by Susan Raman from College of Marin is a structural racism guidebook that's titled a people's history of structural racism and academia from administration of justice to zoology. So let me pull up my notes. This one is an introduction to how structural recent racism has affected and impacted 42 I couldn't list them all disciplines in higher education. There is some of them on the slide there. She, she talks about the impact that structural racism has had on each discipline and then highlights great thinkers so women people of color, people belonging to the LGBTQ community, those people that are often left out or overlooked in these disciplines and highlights those and so if you're just kind of getting into the diversity equity inclusion type thing and looking to redesign either your or your course. This is a great resource to look at, look up your discipline and get some ideas about how you can integrate these kind of overlooked and unspoken voices in your curriculum. Another project that completed over the summer was a, I wouldn't call it textbook it's kind of an e text slash website or a web resource for computer organization. This course I have found is called all sorts of things all sorts of colleges so it's kind of a begin beginning computing course. The author is Mark Kozel at Allen Hancock College. And I've listed the resource sections here, just in case you're looking to match this to a particular computer course on your college. So he goes into the introduction to computers, which thankfully includes diversity he has a whole section on the breakdown of the, the people that make up the jobs and the computer and mathematics industry, and really calls out how there is a lack of and people of color in that industry, and then talks about things like black girl black girls code and some other things that are trying to get more people into that discipline. So the resource sections are introduction, introduction, foundations and assembly. And this, he used a website generator tool called view press, and it's written in markdown, and then stored in GitHub. So if you're familiar with GitHub you can copy it, make all the edits you need to, and then put it on your website essentially. So, hoping to get this one in LibreTex as well. The format's a little bit tricky to translate, I think, but we'll see. And this is one that we're super excited about just finished up like last week. It's an American government audio book. And the audio book is the audio version of the open stacks American government third edition. And the narration was done by Brian Barrick, who is faculty member, political science faculty member at LA Harbor, and a former student of his, she is now a student at Long Beach, I believe, Sarah. So they translated this book into audio. All of this book is over 900 pages. So it's a whole lot of hours of audio. As of the 10th of this month, and without any advertising or, I don't know, putting it up on Twitter or sharing the link or anything. Students have already found this. The podcast has been downloaded and streamed about 1400 times. YouTube has over 10, or 6000 views, and it has been listening to close to 2000 hours already on YouTube. He just put this onto a website that is working most of the time. Sometimes you might get a malicious content error warning for some reason. So that's in progress but as of a couple minutes before this presentation it worked. It's www.openaudio.us, and he is going to put all the chapters are linked there. You can also search for open stacks on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, and Google podcasts and it should pop up. The website he'll be putting some instructor content there as well. And then also taken from the website where some student feedback or comments that he had gotten from YouTube. So the first one says, this audiobook was so helpful. I have a learning disability and learn better when I read the text while also listening to it. I hate having to use text to speech software because of how it sounds. However, this was amazing. Thank you. And the other comment says, thank you so much for making this. I'm a student who works 12 hours shifts. Having this allows me to listen to the text and then go home and read it. It has helped me immensely and my grade shows it. I wish I had the same opportunity in my other classes. So that's awesome. And I was also going to mention CC Echo really puts an emphasis on students at Hispanic serving institutions. And a lot of our students are either part time they're working to care family. A lot of time they spent commuting and audio versions of we are fantastic it can save them time like you saw in these two comments here. It also helps students with disabilities, because they can read and listen to the same time. So students that were English may not be their first language. They can listen to it while reading which can kind of help with comprehension. So we have a bunch more products to come here's a list of. Most of them some of them are kind of up in the air right now I didn't include them on the list, but our projects to come range from English critical thinking and with the Afrofuturism lens are spent on it. Introduction to kinesiology. We have a couple of art textbooks from to 2D design and basic drawing, oceanography, American literature, criminal evidence, etc. Most of these, if not all of them should be completing in the fall of next year. So just a preview of a couple of our projects that are coming. We have a microscopy slide image collection and a microbiology lab manual that's in progress. The authors are from the College of Marin. Introduction would be this is a free and openly, openly licensed microscopic lab collection and lab manual, and this is the little blurb or description I got from the author. They mentioned that nearly all biology textbooks focus solely on her contributors from the Western European or American people of Caucasian descent. We plan to address these issues by including lab experiments that come from non white cultures. They will also include sections to acknowledge and address racial disparities and healthcare and the epidemiology of infectious disease. So you are able to check out what progress they have made so far and we are commons. If you go to we are commons and then groups and search for college and Marin, or you can click on this link here. You can see all of their slides that they've uploaded already. And these are high quality slides, and they are free and openly licensed, so they can be used in probably multiple courses, not just microbiology. And so we are very excited about that one. Another one CC echo is particularly excited to work with because we are from all of us are from California and this consortium is finally an OER textbook for California geography. So the author is Jeremy Patrick from College of the canyons. He is, I believe he has a written has written we are for the geosciences already so you may be familiar with his name. The textbook chapters that he outlined that will be in this California geography book range from the survey of California to climate to the water crisis as waters of resource and conflict to all the different regional areas of California. And what's cool about Jeremy is that he works with a student to film you can see the screenshot here on the right is a picture of him I can't remember where he's at. But he films these kind of virtual field trips for his students and these will be integrated in this textbook as well. And so he goes to a variety of different places in California and though the students that are either too far or can't make it out to these areas can see for themselves. What this area actually looks like and kind of experience a field trip, sort of in a virtual way. And the last project that I will highlight today is criminal evidence. Some of you might be familiar with the administration of justice kind of being a lagging area in the open education community. And I have worked with this author before he's actually authored a couple administration of justice textbooks in the past his name is George Cartwright. He's a faculty at Madera, Madera Community College. And these are the textbook chapters some of them I couldn't list all of them so this textbook will include the history of evidence the declaration of independence classification of evidence witness self incrimination. Etc. So he's, I believe the criminal evidence we are that's out there I'm only aware of one, I believe it was from British Columbia so it's not good but it doesn't help us in the United States as much. So we're excited to be working with George on this. And go for it. Okay. So yeah, that's, it's always nice to go back and look at all those projects exciting stuff. Well one of the things that Kelsey and we've worked on other grants, dealing with OER and zero textbook cost degrees and we've never really gathered enough data and can you have enough data so one of the things that we were putting an echo together was that we wanted to make sure that we captured as much and the highest quality data that we could so we contracted with the RP group. That's a research and planning group for a California Community Colleges, and they also do professional development. They've been helping us along the way, all from the very beginning on how to capture the best data pulse possible both qualitative and quantitative. And one of the things was the faculty interviews. They interview all of the faculty that are going through and working on most the faculty that are working on these projects to find out how it can be better in the future for other faculty members. And one of the things that came directly out of that was the author guidebook, kind of a guidebook on how to go through and help the upcoming authors create their textbooks more efficiently. Student surveys, those surveys. Initially there it's in its initial stages right now be launched we're going to do focus groups but because of the pandemic and their ramifications and all that that focus groups we kind of mix that and with just the straight surveys. We have a student perspective of what they know, and how we can improve we are from a student perspective perspective because really really boils down to is how beneficial it's going to be to the students. A lot of the data is the outcomes of course you the success retention, all of the things that you would try to gather but we're really trying to gather that as much as possible with the four institutions, and as you can see there. The impact isn't huge at this point but it's moving in the right direction and we think that at the end when we have our final report will have a lot of valuable data to share out. Yeah, Kelsey here. Yeah, I could talk to it real quick if you'd like. So Ron mentioned this on the last slide but out of the data we got from the faculty interviews this is faculty that that completed projects in the first round of this grant. And that was kind of great input and that kind of inspired me to make an author guidebook because they were, they were wanting more of that wrap around support up front and kind of working. They wanted to work more as a cohort or team. And some of them weren't always aware of what resources and support was available to them, as they were creating their we are. So, we've created this CC Echo author guidebook which of course you can use for your own purposes it's specific to our grant but has things that would be helpful for any grant or any project that's supporting. So, we have a lot of different authors and publishing. This is kind of a brand new thing for a lot of people like publishing textbooks is difficult in general but we are there's a whole lot of things to consider when you've got open education in there as well so we cover just kind of grant basics and then project so building a timeline and licensing structure, building up your team, technical assistance and tools that can be used and then we also go into our peer review process which you can adapt there's the peer review guide and our actual peer review rubric in this document. And then we also go into sustainability as well. So that is our guidebook. One of the things that after your one. I think you just covered most of this right, Kelsey. Yeah, that was basically a lot of our lessons learned came from those RP group interviews. I think the lead conductor, I think is an important one. That's. Yeah, I don't know if a lot of people are familiar with that UC Davis project. But it's, I don't know is it complete or is he still working on it you know, Kelsey. Yeah, that's complete. We've decided to implement liberatex conductor as a project management tool this time around, especially because we have. 20 projects, all going at once and it's, it's myself and Ron and our leads and it's a little difficult to keep track of everybody, all the teams. So conductor has been amazing as far as keeping track of who's working on what there's a little discussion board areas you can have a little discussions, and there's a nice timeline so we can keep our, our instructors on task and check in with them and it's been very helpful. I've included some of the resource links that I've covered and that Ron has covered so that there's a link to two case studies at CCC OER has done for us they've done ethnic studies case study, and then another one on the OER specialist training course. Under that is the California academic sentence OER is framework for they've acronym is idea so in inclusivity diversity equity and I believe anti racism or accessibility either one it should be both. That framework is fantastic our authors use it to kind of shape and what they're writing and keep keep them on track as far as DEI goes. There's two links that you are sorry one link the peer review rubric it's also in the guidebook link below but the rubric that we're using that came from the California academic sentence OER eyes rubric that they were using for their project so we tweaked it a little bit and are using it for our peer reviews. And then listed again is our homepage so it's hosted by Alan Hancock, but so all of our resources as they finish or will be linked there. Any presentation recordings. Anything that we think people can find helpful that are developed out of the funding for this grant will be listed on our website. We have time is it seven minutes or so for questions. I'm going to pull up this slide in case you need to get in contact or would like to get in contact with any of us. There is our info there. I'm going to check the chat feel free to unmute as well if you have any questions. Quick question if that's all right. Yeah, go for it. I love all the textbooks that the people are folks are producing and these are all really lovely topics that that people are invested. I wanted to ask. How did you guys coordinate the peer review process I know that you guys mentioned a peer review guide, but how did you coordinate folks reviewing each other, especially with such nation specialized topics. So for the peer review. I actually looked to there was a guide, I think it was. Gosh, I think it's linked in our peer review guide but I looked at another guide on essentially how to do peer review and we basically came up with will let the authors decide what's best for their project on how they want to do peer review so whether that's blind or they pick the peer reviewers or CC echo picks the peer reviewers. All we request is that they fill out the rubric that we have it's linked in there, maybe like in chat or as linked in our document there. The peer reviewers will fill out this rubric and there be at least two of them. One of them should be in academia, at least. The peer review process is pretty open. We wanted to work for our authors. So, yeah, I think that's mostly what I can say. Does I answer the question. Yes, it does. Thank you so much. Yeah, and I just want to mention one of our the computer organization one is, I think our only. There's fundamental evidence to our our career technical education. So with that computer when we actually had somebody from the field and computer science, not in higher education, come and review that textbook for us as an independent contractor which was pretty cool so whenever we can do that we we try to get people from the industry and to review as well. I have a question in the chat on how do you decide on the theme of which to work and develop a project. So, every year, I believe Ron mentioned our gap analysis at the beginning of the presentation every year. During summer we're doing a gap analysis where we look at our colleges for our colleges. What courses are high enrolled and what courses of that list are not implementing we are. We're also looking at other colleges and sources. We also like to go to the California Academic Senate resource site is sort of scope out where their holes in we are resources. And then we put out a call to our colleges seen if faculty are interested in writing in those those areas, and we got a ton of interest so sometimes we'll get interest from areas outside of what we have listed so we gave our faculty a list, invited authors, and we got some that were not on that list so they basically they need to justify why they would like to create know we are in that area so there has to be a gap. If there is a we already existing what are they doing to make it different in some way or if they're going to revise it how are they going to help it fit with that DEI or the diversity equity inclusion lens. So that's what we do that's different and so they need to justify that. Jennifer that's a good question. She asked when the English critical thinking Latin X focus course will be available. That one is actually complete but we myself and L who I think is here from College of Marin we're doing some accessibility tweaks on that one right now so it will be fully ready to go. And then we will post that so I can share. I can share on Twitter I don't know if everyone's on Twitter, but when that course as soon as that course is ready to go and fully accessible we will announce that awesome. Okay, and that'll be on our website as well. We're hoping it's in canvas. It's a canvas course right now. It's a canvas course right now but we L and I are thinking of trying to get it out of that format so we'll have a course but maybe also an e pub or something for people that aren't using canvas, just to make it more usable by more people. Are there any other questions. All this read else comment out loud at College of Marin the authors can recommend a peer reviewer in their own subject the college can then assign another peer reviewer peer reviewer outside the discipline that seems to work best for our process. And like El said, we're at West Hills, we also do something a lot of the instructors creating we are like to have somebody in their discipline or related, and then somebody totally outside of their discipline, which has been really helpful for the ethnic studies textbook that one we actually had. I think it's for peer reviewers I was one of them which was the person kind of outside of. I guess have experience in the ethnic studies field we had a history instructor English and sociology I believe. So, having somebody outside like myself. It's kind of like having a student view the textbook. And I think that's super important so having somebody that doesn't have experience with the subject, and that can kind of come in with fresh eyes. And also a lot of people like having English instructors as peer reviewers just to make sure their grammar punctuation is good to. All right, so we're wrapping up here thank you everybody for coming. Feel free to reach out to us and check out our website for all the resources as they finish we will post them to the CC echo website. Thank you everybody.