Title:

OER Adoption and Development of Ancillary OER for College-Level Film Course

Presenter:

John Acosta, Professor and Director of Media for the City University of New York at Kingsborough Community College in the Department of Communications and Performing Arts.

Presentation:

Case Study

Technology Requirements:

Computer with Internet Connection, Projection and Audio System

Abstract:

Public facing OERs remove access and financial barriers to educational materials and replacing traditional, often expensive, commercial textbooks with them is something to strive for, but one of the main challenges in adopting OERs is the lack of ancillary resources that often come with commercial textbooks.

The presentation will explore the experience of replacing a traditional commercial textbook for a college level film course, that would be taught at high schools across Brooklyn and Staten Island, with an OER that did not have ancillary resources and will discuss the difficulty in arriving at the decision to develop an ancillary OER that would feel like the commercial supplemental materials from a publisher instead of adopting Open Education practices in making students stakeholders in their education by including renewable assignments.

The presentation will discuss the challenge of ensuring the quality and relevance of the resources created and how the team considered the time involved in developing them with the funding thay had. The OER in this case study was not developed specifically for the course, so it was necessary to carefully align the resources with the course learning objectives and ensure that they accurately assessed student learning which also required remixing and making sure the appropriate CC license was selected was a challenge for a team who was only just beginning to understand Open Education and Open Education Resources and Creative Commons licensing.

The presentation will discuss how the adoption of the OER was successful and reveal how well the ancillary OER was received by the teachers and the students at the participating high schools and share best practices based on the teams failures as well as successes in developing, licensing, and sharing their ancillary OER with the global community.