Washington Open Course Library:
Free/Open Complete Course Materials
David Lippman
Pierce College Ft Steilacoom
Dale Hoffman
Melonie Rasmussen
Bellevue College
Pierce College Ft Steilacoom
Tyler Wallace
Federico Marchetti
Big Bend Community College
Shoreline Community College
What is the OCL Project?
Design 81 high-enrollment courses (42 in phase 1)
for face-to-face, hybrid, or online delivery
Reduce cost of course materials (< $30)
New resources for faculty to use in their courses
Creating ready-to-use course modules
This is NOT
Mandated curriculum
Canned courses
An effort to force classes to go online
-----The courses will be digital and modular so faculty
can take the pieces they want to use and ignore
the rest
Who did what?
Tyler Wallace, Big Bend CC
Beginning and Intermediate Algebra
Federico Marchetti, Shoreline CC
Intro Statistics
Melonie Rasmussen & David Lippman, Pierce CC
Precalculus 1 and 2
Dale Hoffman, Bellevue College
Calculus 1, 2, and 3
Common Features
 A free online textbook or readings that can be
printed for under $30
 Sample syllabi with outcomes
 Homework (paper and/or online)
 Sample assessments (quizzes, tests, etc.)
Beginning and Intermediate
Algebra
 Open Textbook
 Open Student Solutions Manual
 Open Workbook
 Online Homework
 Videos online by section and topic
All Resources Available for “Free”
Learn math by doing math…
 Five minute video per topic
 On their own: 2 problems
 After 4-5 related videos, do homework
 After 6 homework assignments, do review
 After review, test
What it looks like (book)
What it looks like (homepage)
What it looks like (topics)
What it looks like (homework)
Link to download related textbook section
Calculus 1-3
 Open textbook
 Sample assessments
 Class handouts / worksheets
 Some online exercises (not yet on MyOpenMath)
What the book looks like
Statistics
 Free online text: combination of original work
and remixing of Rice Univ’s online stats book
 Weekly assignments based on data sets
 Designed for online delivery
Precalculus 1 and 2
 Free online book, printed for $15
 Sample syllabus with outcomes
 Sample assessments (quizzes and tests)
 All materials are available in Word or text format
if you want to modify or customize at a section or
sentence level
Precalculus 1 and 2
 Instructor guide, detailing the contents
 Discussion forums to promote interaction
 Additional online resources, including links to
other textbooks, video sites, and technology tools
 Day by Day guide showing suggested lecture pace,
and how handouts, activities, and assessments fit
in the course structure
 Lecture outlines, with examples
 Online algorithmically generated homework for
each section, in addition to book homework
 Videos related to online homework for most
sections
Approach
 Focus on the story of functions
 Contextual motivation
 “Rule of four” integrated throughout
 Stepping stone in level of thinking
 Integrated circle/triangle trig approach
 Distributed approach to trig identities and
solving trig equations
How to get them
 All courses on opencourselibrary.org
 Preview, or download for Angel or IMS CC
 With online homework
- Beginning and Intermediate Algebra
- Precalculus 1 and 2
 Preview: www.myopenmath.com
Username/password: OCL
 Ready to copy shell: www.myopenmath.com
 Calc: is.gd/oclcalc1, is.gd/oclcalc2, is.gd/oclcalc3