Agenda for December 2010 OCL All-Hands meetings

1. Welcome and Introductions (Cable Green)2. Project Update / Timeline Overview (Cable)3. Introduction: Tom Caswell, SBCTC Open Education Program Manager4. Tom’s Demos5. Institutional Researchers’ Update - Maureen Pettit and Chris Johnson6. Tegrity Lecture Sharing Demo - Scott Dennis7. Instructional Designers’ update - Lisa Chamberlin8. Librarians’ update - Nicole Longpre9. Accessibility update - Rebecca Cory10. Sharing our experiences with others11. Open Discussion

2. Project Update / Timeline Overview (Cable)

1. lots of support to help everyone succeed2. but … if you can’t hit the major timelines, option to move course to Phase 2 (FA11 -

FA12)3. reminders

1. must use open / common file formats … e.g., no Word docs - not everyone has MS Office (use RTF for editable docs or PDF for non-editable)

2. all courses must be digital, online and available in an open standards format so we can easily share the OCL courses within the system and with the world.

3. Learning Management System (LMS) options:1. Build in ANGEL

1. Get support from IDs, College eLearning staff2. For additional ANGEL technical help contact Scott Dennis

2. Build in Blackboard, then migrate to ANGEL (College eLearning staff / Scott Dennis will assist)

3. Other (wiki, etc)1. Please provide links to all course materials2. Also provide guest accounts if needed

4. watching for Chronicle story … next 2 weeks

3. Tom Caswell, SBCTC Open Education Program ManagerIntroduction / brief backgroundTom’s contact information: Email: tcaswell@sbctc.edu Office: 360-307-4363

4. Tom Demos...1. New opencourselibrary.org homepage coming...2. Project plan / matrix

1. I will be working with all of you to get this filled out soon1. I will be a hands-on project manager to make sure

(a) everyone has the resources and information they need to succeed and (b) all courses are on timeline and progressing.

3. OER course matrix: Open resources for each course1. Still adding content, but will be ready soon2. Show what we have so far

5. Institutional Researchers’ UpdateMaureen Pettit and Chris Johnson

1. Results from the first OCL Participant Survey2. Gathering Suggestions for the Student Survey3. Baseline Update4. Winter OCL Participant Survey

6. Tegrity Lecture Sharing Demo - Scott Dennis

Instructional Designers’ Update - Lisa Chamberlin1) Take notes while you teach this course this time

a. For Revision purposesb. For Teacher’s Guide

2) If your course is not in Angel/Blackboard already, we want to see you moving it that way.a. Text should be “in” Angel (use the html editor), not Word docsb. Limit attachmentsc. Compress images for fast web loading – use jpg or

pngd. Audio – mp3e. Video – Between Apple’s issues with Flash, and Firefox/IE8’s issues with .mp4, the most shareable option

for a video you have is to have it hosted on a site like Youtube where the user can use their own browser/phone app to access it . Another good option is Archive.org.3) Refer to Google Site for resources and checkpoints from your ID team - https://sites.google.com/site/waoclid/

4. Checkpoints and Deliverable Remindersa. First draft - “How to teach this course” guideline

(early Spring quarter date)b. Share feedback with your ID Lead

1. SME Course Reviewers (Spring quarter date) Reviewers Directions.

2. Students regarding the course (Spring quarter date) - from ID or IR

c. Revisions final draft of course guide due (end of Spring quarter date)

d. Final ID “walk thru” and any last edit checks date (end of Spring quarter date)

e. ID Sign off, course sent to Tom Caswell for Sign off (Summer Date)

f. Course conversions to Connexions (Summer Qtr)g. Course Launch (Summer Qtr)

Open Course LibraryLibrarians Update

Session 1: Laura StaleySession 2: Nicole Longpre

OCL Librarians have found open source materials in such diverse fields as:OceanographyAnthropologyArtEconomics Accounting

In the last 8 months OCL Librarians have:

Collected syllabi to give an idea of the range of topics typically covered in a class Found case studies and open access imagesIdentified open source textbooks

In the last 8 months OCL Librarians have:Contacted copyright owners for

permission to use  articles, books, images and videos

Helped faculty design assignments to incorporate required information literacy components - https://opencourselibraryrepository.pbworks.com/w/page/28588373/InfoLit-Assignment-Ideas

In the last 8 months OCL Librarians have:Established Creative Commons

Licenses for content created by OCL faculty

Helped faculty to appropriately cite materials in the course content

Reviewed assignment language to ensure there are no references to proprietary sources

What can we do for you? 

Contact your OCL Librarian!

Accessibility Update - Rebecca Cory1. Resources for support in ADA/UD issues2. ADA review in Winter

1. Accessibility Checklist coming3. Video captioning at end of phase I – Summer 2011

Sharing our experiences with others1. Inside our system: presentations @ system Commissions & Councils2. Outside• The Connexions Conference in Houston, TX -

Wednesday, February 9th.• OCWC Global 2011 Conference in Cambridge, Mass -

May 4-6 (call for papers closes Dec 15!)• Open Education conference in Park City, UT - Fall

2011 (more info later)

Open Discussion (please raise your hand)1. What’s going well?2. Problems that need to be solved?3. Some people are not getting any support or the

support they need or the actual payment from their colleges. 1. Tell Tom – He will help the College follow the

grant budget.4. Additional support needed?