 All right. Happy Open Education Week again, Una Daly from the Community College Consortium for OER. Our next speaker up is Regina Gong who is a librarian and the OER project manager at Lansing Community College and we've heard a little bit about how librarians are such an important part of this project and so we're so pleased to have Regina here with us who is leading the effort at Lansing Community College. Regina? Yes. Thank you Una and thank you everyone. Happy Open Education Week. I'm so glad to share our story to everyone. First of all let me just give you a brief overview of LCC. We are located in downtown Lansing and we are celebrating our 61st anniversary. We were founded in 1957 and we are currently the third largest community college here in Michigan in terms of enrollment. As you can see we started our OER initiative in fall 2015. That was when our faculty started using OER in their courses and at the time there were no grants, stipends, or incentives that were offered to our faculty. So like many community colleges the goal of our OER initiative is really textbook affordability and access for our students. We initially did a survey of our student workers and selected students here at LCC and the results of that survey told us that they were not buying their textbook and we have a course reserve system in the library and that is the single driver of our circulation figures because our students can't afford to buy a textbook. And also aside from affordability and access we also want to enable our faculty to kind of innovate and find new ways of delivering their educational materials to students through openly licensed materials like OER. And so just a little bit of figures here for courses and sections using OER. So as you can see in fall 2015 we only had five courses in 11 sections using OER and now as of spring 2018 we have 26 courses in 154 sections using OER. So our figures continue to grow. And then in terms of faculty using OER we started with five faculty and now spring 2018 we have 75 faculty using OER. And then in terms of textbook savings we have realized from fall 2015, 31,700, spring 2017, 2018 we have more than 300,000 and if you totaled all of that we have saved our students $1.5 million and that is without stipends or grants for our faculty. And so this are just some of the OERs that some of our classes are using. They're using mostly open stacks and this one for our history 211 and 212 they're using two. They're using American Yop and History in the Making. And then for English 121 course they're using multiple OER. So just want to give you a sampling. But our faculty are not just adopting or remixing or using existing OER. They are also creating. And I just like to point out I'm very proud of Matt Van Cleave here who created his introduction to logic and critical thinking open textbooks. This is the link here is at open textbook library. So if you just type in intro to logic and critical thinking that would be the first I think to come up in the search results. His OER has been widely adopted by a lot of community colleges and you know even four-year colleges here in the U.S. and even in Canada. And he has gotten really good reviews at open textbook library. So if you have courses for philosophy, intro to logic and critical thinking I highly recommend that you recommend this for your faculty. And we also have one psych faculty who created actually two already open textbook. One is psych psychology of personality. This one was he created this even before our OER initiative started. And I just work with him to make this an OER by helping him license it under CC buy. And the second one the tau of positive psychology. He did that. Mark did that for his sabbatical in fall 2016. So that one is good. You can see that also at the LCC OER lip guide and I'll give you the URL later for that. So we wanted to make our OER courses discoverable for our students. Unlike our colleagues at Salt Lake and Maricopa we haven't enabled yet the discovery of OER in banner. But what we did was create a web page. It's part of the rotating banner in our main web page that allows our students to take a look at all the courses using OER. So this is where that link will take you. So we put in all the courses that uses OER. And we also put in a request box here just in case our students would like to if they're not seeing their courses here they can fill out this form so that we have an idea of what courses the students are requesting for OER. And really the rate at which we are traveling here in terms of our OER journey is really very fast. And I am myself is like overwhelmed as the one managing this program. We have a very strong administration support and this is during our kickoff for fall. Oh no not not fall for spring. So this was in January of this year when Dr. Night the LCC president really made OER as the focus area of the college initiative this school year. And this is just what he mentioned during the kickoff. And his dream is to have 50 percent OER results. Now whether that is 50 percent of our students 50 percent of our faculty 50 percent of courses you know I really don't know and I don't know if we are ever going to achieve that. But I am hopeful that with the help of our administration and the very strong faculty buy in we will be able to make a difference. And we are just doing another strategic plan. And last month February we had five Fridays where we talked about the different focus areas of our college strategic plan. And OER is front and center especially in the competitiveness and innovation area of our strategic plan. And so because of our strong administration support we were given actually have been advocating for this along with our other faculty champions. In order for us to scale our OER initiative here at LCC we really need to provide our faculty with you know incentives in order to engage with more adaptation and creation of OER. So last fall the Board of Trustees designated $500,000 to fund the scaling of our OER initiative in the form of awards or grants for our faculty. And so I am the one administering that award program and I also chaired the OER award program committee here on campus. So basically what we have is just similar to you know other faculty incentive awards out there. We provide incentives to our faculty depending on the level of engagement that they want to do with OER. So if it's just a straight up adoption we award $500 per faculty and if it's revised remix it's $1,500 per faculty and if it's new creation it's $3,000. And so far we're actually now on round three. So round three is currently open and the deadline actually would be in two weeks. So this are the first round of our OER awardees. This will be for fall 2018 implementation and these are the courses that were awarded for that round. And all of these courses would be doing adaptation, revise and remix. For our Chem 161 and 162 that is actually creation of lab manuals for those two courses. And then our round two is just concluded. This is for our spring 2019 implementation. So we had a combination of faculty applying for revise, remix or creation of supplemental materials. These are the courses that were awarded that for that award round. And we also have faculty who are doing some development creation of new OER and these are for the courses. Incidentally our foreign language program are close to or will be close to using all OER. So that would be our German, Spanish and French program. By spring 2019 all of those courses will be using OER so that our students can get a certificate in German, Spanish or French without paying anything in textbook costs. And with this OER award program we are projecting an additional savings of $1.6 million for an academic year. So our totals will just add up and the number of our faculty will of course just continue to grow with this OER award program. Fortunately we don't need to spend that. Just for this fiscal year we can carry that over for the next fiscal year. And I think based from the feedback of our board of trustees you know they probably would they are more inclined to have another allocation. I don't know how much but I think they would fund another allocation. I hope it's another $500,000. Anyway just wanted to share with you some of our feedback from our students. We do an OER feedback survey every semester both for the students taking OER classes and also for the faculty teaching those OER courses. And like like most of the you know feedback research survey that we see our students rate the quality of OER about the same as the quality of textbooks in other courses. So I mean this is this is all too familiar it's about the same or better. A few say it's the worst but you know majority of our students say 70% of our students say it's about the same. And then another feedback would be our students are very likely to register for a course that uses an OER. So the question actually in the survey is how likely are you to register for a future course that uses an OER? And they say very likely. And of course they are very grateful for the savings that the OER can give them. And this are just some of the comments that we get. In the survey that we give to our students there is a question the last question actually is you know a free form comment that they can just tell us how the use of OER has impacted their life here at LCC. And a lot of them tell us that it really was life-changing for them. And so part of our strategy and I think the reason why we are successful here at LCC is because we have a robust professional development opportunities for our faculty. So I do a lot of workshops for our faculty, creative comments workshop, you know searching for OER workshop, adapting, adaptation of open textbooks, not just me but also a number of our faculty champions. But I think that the tipping point was the OER summit that we have the privilege of offering to our faculty. And we started in 2015 with David Wiley coming here at LCC, Nicole Allen, Nicole Finkbeiner. First time I met Una was when I asked her if she wants to come here at LCC and she did. She facilitated a faculty workshop along with Quill, Wes, Lisa Young of Maricopa Millions and Preston Davis of NBCCE. And I think that they really inspired not just our faculty but our colleagues also from our other community colleges and even the four year universities here in Michigan. This is just some of the pictures for that OER summit and look there's Una out there. And we also had the second LCC OER summit that was last year and I had Cable Green of Creative Commons talk about open licensing and he also did Creative Commons licensing workshop for our faculty. And we also included our colleagues from Go Open because Michigan is a Go Open state. We also incorporated our K to 12 colleagues and I think that was really helpful. And then that paved the way for a Michigan OER summit that we did last September with Dr. Robin de Rosa talking about open education and open pedagogy and I think that one really also inspired a lot of our faculty to consider creation of OER with their students. And so I think different strategies to help faculty pave the way for a culture of openness here on campus and like I mentioned we are not just consumers of OER but we also give back to the OER community by creating our own openly licensed materials. So from OER we are also transitioning to open educational practices and this is led by one of our faculty champions Jim Luke who heads our open learning lab. LCC is also a domain of one's own so we our students have the opportunity to sign up for their own website with their own domain together with our faculty too. So this is something that's still developing organically and but we have a lot of interest for a faculty especially for those who got the OER award. And we're leveraging the partnerships that that we have. LCC is an institutional member of CCC OER and also we are an open stacks institutional partner for 2016-2017 and that has really helped us a lot with scaling our OER adoptions because as you can see most of our OER adoptions are open stacks materials and I think our success so far is a combination like what I mentioned a combination of bottom up and top down and we are right in the middle of that because I really feel that you need to have that combination of faculty buy-in you know doing the work faculty librarians instructional designers your accessibility experts your staff academic advising but also you need that administration support so that it lends legitimacy to the project and also because administration has the power to give you know the necessary financial support that any OER initiative needs. So just our next step you know continue to implement the OER award program to increase OER courses and of course encourage and support faculty engagement with open education and pedagogy through our open learning lab and also assessment and efficacy studies using the COO framework. I have the honor of receiving the Open Education Group Research Fellowship for 2017-2018 and currently we are doing a study on the effects of OER adoption in terms of cost outcome usage perception in large multi-section courses which is our psych introduction to psychology course our microeconomics and microeconomics course and of course promote and market our OER courses to students accessibility we are working to make sure that all our materials are accessible because there's really a big push for accessibility here on campus we are hoping we can have an OER publishing platform through press books and just recently just last week finally our Lumen learning contract has been signed and so it's a three-year partnership that we are having with Lumen to you know help our faculty especially our math program who until now has not been adopting OER yet because of the reliance on my math lab from Pearson so hopefully with our Lumen learning partnership we'll have them on board so that's it if you want to ask me anything you can just send me an email or you can follow me on Twitter my Twitter handle is drgong wonderful thank you Regina so much for telling your story which is a little unique from some of the other ones we heard today starting out with your faculty and getting them inspired to do the work and then getting this big grant this fall yeah actually roll out faculty stipends and development on a more systematic basis so thank you thank you all righty Regina if you want to put your email in the in the chat window I know you also have that on your slides I'm sure people would like to contact you and I'm gonna go ahead and stop the recording I know Regina will be here for a few more minutes if you'd like to ask her questions now or over email later so thanks once again Regina and thank you to all of our participants and we will be starting our next session in just about five minutes with Austin Community College