{"id":280,"date":"2011-10-25T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/open-ed-conference-from-shared-to-open-the-evolution-of-open-education-in-washington-state\/"},"modified":"2011-10-25T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T22:01:00","slug":"open-ed-conference-from-shared-to-open-the-evolution-of-open-education-in-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/open-ed-conference-from-shared-to-open-the-evolution-of-open-education-in-washington-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Ed Conference: From Shared to Open: The evolution of open education in Washington State"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"P1030513\"<\/a>Image by textbookrebellion<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/span>Speakers:<\/b> Tom Caswell  & Connie Broughton<\/p>\n

Learn how Washington’s colleges went from a few system shared courses in 1997 to developing 81 courses as part of the Open Course Library.<\/p>\n

Washington’s State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) is currently developing the Open Course Library, an ambitious 2-year project to design open educational resources<\/a> for 81 high enrolling courses. In 1997 SBCTC began developing a way to share courses with a “pooled enrollments” model. For over a decade, SBCTC’s system shared courses have allowed smaller colleges to provide a variety of “long tail” course offerings through a well-organized system of online course sharing. In this presentation we will explain how our system shared courses paved the way to the Open Course Library, providing a culture of sharing as well as the technical framework to allow Washington State’s colleges to engage more fully in the Open Education<\/a> movement.<\/p>\n

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Their strategic plan included shared tools, ANGEL<\/a>, Tegrity, Collaborate, NW eTutoring Consortium, Professional development, and the open course library.<\/p>\n

More information at http:\/\/techplan.sbctc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

“We will cultivate the culture and practice of using and contributing to open education resources.”<\/p>\n

Internet + digital content + open license<\/a> = lower cost, greater access, and greater quality.<\/p>\n

Students were averaging $1000 for textbook costs.<\/p>\n

WA legislation in SSHB1025 asks that faculty consider the lowest cost options (all things equal) that faculty will adopt open content where possible.<\/p>\n

Saylor Foundation adopted their courses that did not use commercial textbooks. They also fixed the broken links and put much of the material into a consistent form.<\/p>\n

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