Affordable Learning Solutions
Gerry Hanley, Ph.D.
California State University Office of the Chancellor
Academic Technology Services and MERLOT
March 8, 2013
New Mexico State University
The fun we’ll have in 2 hours
• Do you like gifts?
• Review the components of the Affordable
Learning Solutions (AL$) Initiative
• Demonstrate how the CSU is implementing the
AL$ initiative
• If You Ruled the World: Planning how you might
use AL$ services in your classes and campus
• Answer questions about how you can applying
AL$ to your institutional initiatives
GIVE A GIFT
AND
NOT A BURDEN
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WHAT’S THE NATURE OF
A GIFT?
WHY DOES IT MATTER?
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Ready with the right
institutional context?
California State University -CSU
• 23 campuses; 427,000
students; about 80%
undergraduate
• During the 2011-2012
college year, the CSU
conferred almost 100,000
degrees.
• 46 percent of all bachelor’s
degrees and 30 percent of all
master’s degrees granted by
California colleges and
universities
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The CSU: Our Dreadful Situation
• 30% cut of our state funding in last 3 years
• Tuition Fees more than doubled in the last 3 years
• 1/3 of our students get enough financial aid to
cover the cost of tuition and books/supplies
• Our Mission: Provide access to an excellent
education
• High priority: Reduce the cost of education for
our students because affordability is an barrier to
access
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Student Responses to Costs
• Nationally, 7 of 10 students report not buying at
least 1 required text because of cost.
• 79% of all students state that they would do
“worse/much worse” in without their own text.
High costs have multiple effects on our
students’ ability to succeed and graduate
in a timely manner.
Choice
Affordability
Accessibility
CSU’s Affordable Learning Solutions
Combining Global & Local Strategies
• Shared System Services available to all CSU
campuses
– Economies of scale lowers costs
– Consistency of services improves quality
• Campus Initiatives leverage local
leadership and resources
– Builds on trusted culture
and meaningful purposes
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CSU Provides System Access to
No and Low Cost Textbook Alternatives
1. Open Educational Resources: Through ALS site, find over
1,000,000 FREE online instructional materials, including over
2,300 FREE online textbooks that you can use
2. CSU Library Resources: Our electronic library collections
provide students FREE access to extensive resources
3. Faculty Customized and Authored Materials: Published and
distributed in a variety of ways
4. Lower Cost Publisher Content in both electronic and
hard copy formats.
Did Thermodynamic Equilibrium
Excite Your Curiosity?
Why Are We Learning?
• Student Learning Outcome: Student will be able to:
– Plan, conduct, & analyze experiments (scientific method)
– Apply the findings to a real world problem that demonstrate an
accurate understanding of thermodynamic equilibrium.
• Why:
– Thermodynamics is foundational knowledge to be a professional
chemist, physicist, engineer, science teacher
• Why in the real world:
– People spend many trillions of dollars heating and cooling their
living spaces.
– If you want to design ways to have “Green” heating and cooling
systems, you must understand thermodynamic equilibrium.
www.merlotx.org
7/17/2016
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MERLOTx
• LEARN the prerequisites
• FIND supplemental and accessible materials as
well as experts
• EXPLORE subjects for the future
• PERSONALIZE and ORGANIZE your
online learning materials into a collection
• SHARE your personal collection, explore others'
personal collections, and contribute to the online
learning revolution
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THINK-PAIR-SHARE about MERLOTx
and OER
• THINK about what you learned from the
presentation and how you could apply it to your
teaching and your students learning
• PAIR up with 1 or 2 other people, enjoy the wit
and wisdom of your colleagues and talking
through your ideas
• SHARE your plans and feedback with your
colleagues and with the entire group (as
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requested).
AL$ Initiative Strategy
Enabling
Ecosystems
with policies, leadership,
business models
Developing Demand
with communications, training,
professional development
Creating Capabilities
with convenient & affordable access to
content (CSU Digital Marketplace)
Leveraging Content Providers
Publishers--Libraries-- Academic Authors-Open Education Resources (CSU-MERLOT)
LEVERAGING CONTENT PROVIDERS
&
CREATING CAPABILITIES
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Demonstrate CSU’s Implementation:
Leveraging Content Providers
http://als.csuprojects.org
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ACADEMIC PUB
California State University Brand for faculty
custom publications
Readers, anthologies, custom content
Faculty: Easy search, instant download, quick
copyright permission
 GREAT FEATURE: Faculty see the final cost to students build as they go
and edit!
 AcPub CLEARS THE COPYRIGHT ON ALL YOUR MATERIALS!
Students: Download, buy print, print out, read onthe-go
 Support, hard copy, print-on-demand available through each campus
bookstore
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CSU’s Custom Version Of AcademicPub
Visit http://csu.academicpub.com and choose your campus
Learning Management Systems
make it easy for
institutions and individuals
to
CONVENIENTLY ADOPT Digital
Course Materials
for
Teaching and Learning
Moodle Integration
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Search For MERLOT Content
Within Blackboard
Search Result From
MERLOT
MERLOT Content
Inserted Into
Blackboard
Barnes & Noble
Nook Study
Integration
AL$ OER Search Results
If You Ruled the World…
• What is your department’s or campus’ readiness
to leverage content providers and create
capabilities?
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Awareness and support for using OER
Library Integration into instructional mission
Faculty authoring & Content integration into LMS
Partnering with Publishers and your bookstore
• What are the barriers facing your department or
campus in achieving “readiness”?
• What would you do about it?
DEVELOPING DEMAND
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CAMPUS INITIATIVES
TURN CAPACITY
INTO OUTCOMES
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Developing Demand: I Want My AL$
• “If you build it, they will come”…Assumes
you know what people really want.
• Communication Campaigns Are Critical
– Awareness of choices
– Overcoming fears and misunderstandings
– Opportunities to achieve an advantage
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Communication With & By Stakeholders
• President
• Academic Affairs: Provost, AVP, Deans, Assoc. Deans,
Library Deans
• Faculty & Staff: Academic Senate, Faculty Development
Directors, library staff, faculty innovators
• Business & Finance: CFO, Auxiliary Director, Bookstore
manager, financial aid, public affairs/development
• Student Affairs: VP, AVP, Director of Center for Students
with Disabilities, Outreach, etc.
• Students: Associated Students, Student Newspaper
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Developing Demand: I Want My AL$
• “If you build it, they will come”…Assumes
people know how to “play ball”
• Professional development and training
– Create the human capabilities to OER and
digital media confidence and success
• Recognize exemplary people and practices
– Be part of a campus priority
– Add to a tenure/promotion portfolio
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Fall 2010 Fall 2011
105 Faculty
Made Digital
Choices
6,900+
Students
Enrolled
Potential
$490,000
Savings
http://library.csudh.edu/ALS/
Demonstrate CSU’s
Affordable Learning Solutions
Implementation
http://als.csuprojects.org
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If You Ruled the World…
• What is your department’s or campus’
readiness to “develop demand”?
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Who will manage and own your AL$?
What messages and messengers can be delivered?
What professional development is critical?
Are you ready to “go the distance”?
• What are the barriers facing our institution in
achieving “readiness”?
• What would you do about it?
ENABLING ECOSYSTEMS
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Enabling Ecosystems:
“You Want My AL$”
• Leadership – “Top to bottom”
– Connecting “silos” for students’ benefits
• Business deals – Partnerships vs. Vendors
• Campus Policies – can represent the values
and provide “good guidance”
– Intellectual property, “textbook” adoption, HEOA
implementation, accessibility
• Responding to legislators intent and actions
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Politics matter a lot….
HOW DO YOU MAKE AL$ A PRIORITY
OVER OTHER COMPETING DEMANDS
FOR ATTENTION?
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What Drivers Will Attract Attention?
• Affordability - Access to higher ed dependent on “Total
Cost of Education“ (MD)
• Higher Education Opportunity Act – Cost transparency
that requires changes in campus business practices (CD)
• Section 508 of Rehabilitation Act – timely delivery of
accessible content to students with disabilities (CD)
• Consumer demands for digital services & products (MD)
• Learning outcomes for accreditation (CD)
• OTHERS????
WHAT IS THE COMPETITION FOR ATTENTION?
(MD= Market Driver
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CD=Compliance Driver)
If You Ruled the World…
• What is your department’s and campus’
readiness to “enabling ecosystems”?
– Who will lead and expect outcomes?
– Are “you” in the position to make business deals?
– What campus policies need development or
changes?
– Are you ready to “go the distance”?
• What are the barriers facing our institution in
achieving “readiness”?
• What would you do about it?
AL$ Initiative Strategy
Enabling
Ecosystems
with policies, leadership,
business models
Developing Demand
with communications, training,
professional development
Creating Capabilities
with convenient & affordable access to
content (CSU Digital Marketplace)
Leveraging Content Providers
Publishers--Libraries-- Academic Authors-Open Education Resources (CSU-MERLOT)
Project Management:
Methods for Making Your Dreams Real
• Basics of Project Management
– Scoping
– Staffing
– Funding
– Nagging
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Project Management:
• Scoping your project
– Campus, Discipline, System, Other strategy
– Define REASONABLE objectives
• Start where you have LEVERAGE and FRIENDS
• Start where you are ready to succeed
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Leadership with visible commitment
Program and support commitment
Communication process commitment
Program evaluation process commitment
Management of continuous process improvement46
AL$ Initiative Strategy
Enabling
Ecosystems
with policies, leadership,
business models
Developing Demand
with communications, training,
professional development
Creating Capabilities
with convenient & affordable access to
content (CSU Digital Marketplace)
Leveraging Content Providers
Publishers--Libraries-- Academic Authors-Open Education Resources (CSU-MERLOT)
Innovations are bridging and blending the
valuable services that have matured in the
libraries, bookstores, and open education
libraries. In higher ed,
– Innovations must be CONVENIENT
– Innovations must make people’s lives
successful
– Innovations frequently changing the locus of
control
– Innovations must save money
Shall We Give the World of People
Gifts…
Together?
Mass = Open Education Community
QUESTIONS?
Thank You
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