 All right. Welcome back everybody. This is Oona Daley from the Community College Consortium for OER and we are now on our eighth presentation in our Open Education Week Tour to Force of OER Degree and Adoption Showcases. It's my pleasure to introduce Juville Dario-Becker who is Biology Faculty and and also the OER Degree Lead at Central Virginia Community College and we heard from another Virginia Community College earlier. Virginia has a long history of OER degrees, not only with Achieving the Dream which is the most recent one, which Central Virginia is participating in, but also they had an earlier OER Degree program that was partially state funded through, of course, through the state of Virginia. So I'd like to turn it over now to Juville to tell us more about that. Thank you and good afternoon everyone. I am from Lynchburg, Virginia. That is where Central Virginia Community College is located. So let's begin and I hope you can see this was taken, I believe, last year. That's the whole campus of Central Virginia Community College. We are a small college and here is our college profile. We have about 2,300 FTEs. The average of our students age is 22 and we are about 37 percent on financial aid. Full-time in state tuition is 4,100 and average amount of financial aid is 3,300. So that's where about a typical community college in the in the state. We have 73 full-time faculty and we offer 27 associates and 27 career certificates, two diplomas and four certificates. As Una said, we started in 2015 with a Z times 23 degree, which was funded partially by the state of Virginia and partially by the ULIT Foundation. And from there we applied for the ATD OER degree initiative and we were lucky to get the grant. We are one of the six community colleges in the state that is part of the Virginia Community College Consortium. And just like everybody else, our primary rationale for the grant application is to help students financially to shorten the degree completion time and we are adhering to the guided pathways initiative, which I believe most of you are familiar with. We also are into pedagogical innovation. So the faculty, the faculty champion that we have in this grant are all into open pedagogy. And since the materials that we are using are online, we also are responding to our students' lifestyle now. I'm sure you know this, that students no longer read most of the time printed materials. They are all on their phone and that's how they read the textbook. So we are just responding to their lifestyle changes. Our goal for the OER degree initiative is to create three degrees, degree programs. We have a one-year, 10-course, 30-credits certificate in general education. We have a two-year, 19-course, 61-credits AA and S in science in general studies. We have a an 18-course, 61-credits AA and S in general studies. And these are all faculty-driven initiatives and the major impetus for this is to address the rising cost of textbook in the system. So for our adoption process, we have faculty and administration buy-in. We encourage professional development and we in fact require all faculty that are developing and teaching OER to undergo professional development training through a pathway scores that we adopted from Tidewater Community College. And to encourage participation, we offer a faculty stipend for both developing a new course or adopting an existing OER course. We also have a robust CVCC lip guide that is continuously updated by our librarians. So the resources are there for the faculty that are adapting and developing the OER courses. Today, 77 percent of the required courses in the three academic curricula that I just mentioned have been developed and have been certified by Lumen as OER certified courses. So we have until the end of this year to make it 100 percent. We have more adjuncts that are considering teaching and adopting the OER courses that we have developed and we still have a lot of faculty that are kind of on the wayside but they are beginning to warm up to the OER philosophy and the students are becoming more and more aware of the OER. And in order to make the adoption of OER easy, we have created the LMS course template. In other words, we have a Blackboard course template for biology, for English, and we are now moving into the other courses so that a faculty who comes in, especially the adjunct, all they do is log on to that Blackboard site and then they can modify and adopt and do whatever they need to do to suit their teaching preferences. So we are making it easy for them to adopt the existing OER course. This semester, this is spring 2018, we have 85 sections taught with OER materials. We have adapted the broad definition here including the Z-course, the Locos, and the Hybrid courses that are taught with OER and copyrighted materials. But for the ADD grant, we are strictly considering OER in broadest definition of the 5R permissions. We have 14 classes and we are currently serving almost 1400 students and the faculty are actively promoting OER through presentations at conferences and now we have branched out to the high schools. So we have counselors that go to the high school and do their recruiting and we have given them the resources to tell the students and the parents of these high school students that at the college we now are adopting open educational resources. This is as of fall 2016 but we have gone farther than this. We started actually, I started in fall 13 with one course up until the summer of 2015. I was the only one teaching a course but as you can see with the grant that we got starting in the fall of 2015 we have made a lot of progress in there. The challenges that we have faced to college-wide OER adoption, we still have a lot of faculty who are skeptical about OER and they mistrust the model. The faculty training has been kind of there's a lot of pushback in that because of the time constraint as well as the workload and the commitment that must be in there. Also there are problems or perceived problems with specific disciplines for example in modern literature or American literature it is very difficult to find materials that are in the public domain or that are CC by license so that is we are still working on that one. So proprietary materials for applied sciences like for example in most of in some of our business courses that are using Microsoft products we cannot move away from that because that seems to be the standard right now of the business community. As far as registration for OER you can see here that in our SIS OER is displayed in there so when a student comes in and register so if you click on the OER tab and then you just click on the course that we have here what it will do is it will take you to the courses that are OER so here we are. All of these are OER sections and as I said there was 81 sections that we have right now that are OER. So sustainability now we have a student a student and faculty awareness campaign going on we are making sure that our students are buying into the program. We are observing and we are sensing that there is a cultural shift happening as far as accessing the course materials. There is also community awareness because we are you know word of mouth we have also contacted the other higher institutions of learning. We have three other colleges within our area and we have been talking to their faculty and asking them if they are using OER or if they are willing to learn about it and we are certainly going to share with them what we have. So we are actually planning in the fall of having a Creative Commons Licensing Workshop. We are thinking of bringing somebody from Virginia Tech to do the workshop and we are inviting the other faculty from the other higher education institutions nearby. So how do we promote OER? I am always present at the student techniques. We have announcements in the daily bulletin. We have brochures that are included in the high school recruitment package. We also have some ruffles that are giving them promotional materials that are OER such as coffee mugs and pens and we are currently in discussion about how we are going to sustain the efforts that we have made as far as having this OER courses at the college. So here are some of our promotional materials. So this one here is a poster, standard text poster size. We have peppered our campus with these posters and then here is a brochure. This is the folded brochure. This is the brochure that goes into the student recruitment packets and when a student goes comes over to campus these are placed in strategic locations so it's easy for them to just pick up the brochure and see what's in there. Here's our coffee mug and this is a big hit. So let me know if you want some. I still have a few left. Now these are the two announcements that has a specific real estate location in our daily bulletin so five days a week. This is peppered in the daily bulletin at Central Virginia Community College and that's all I got. So I'll be happy to entertain some questions if you have any. Well thank you so much, Jubil for sharing the work at Central Virginia Community College and really interesting to hear about growing the program and doing outreach into the high schools as well. It sounds like a theme that a number of other colleges are pursuing as well. Indeed. So if there are no questions can I stop sharing my screen now? Yeah absolutely. So thank you Jubil for presenting with us and sharing the great work at Central Virginia Community College and we have a case study at the cccoer.org website as well that talks a little bit more about the work at Central Virginia. And thank you to everyone who joined us today. We will have another session in about 15 minutes and we will be hearing from West Hills College Lamour in California and we'll be hearing from the head librarian there Ron Oxford. So see everyone in just a few minutes.