Open Education: Equity & Engagement and the evolving community college

Community Colleges are the original open institutions.In this presentation, Robin and Jim will review why an how Open Educational Resources (OER) and open pedagogy can help recharge and reclaim the community college mission. They will offer faculty a vision for transforming not only their teaching and courses, but also their institutions, to more justly serve the learners of New Hampshire. Most importantly, drawing on their experience, they will share ideas about how “open” can invigorate teaching and learning, and help faculty engage students in work that is meaningful to their personal goals and to the larger world beyond college.

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1. Open Education Equity & Engagement and the evolving community college Robin DeRosa Director, Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative Plymouth State University Jim Luke Professor of Economics Open Learning Fellow, Center for Teaching Excellence Lansing Community College
2. Community Colleges Started as an Experiment in Open
3. But, $$ has increasingly obstructed the door.
4. • A generation ago, public colleges/unis got an average of 75% of budget from state. Today, it's about 50%. • 23% of low-income sophomores worked a job between the hours of 10pm-8am. • Survey at 10 community colleges (4312 students responding): 1 in 5 students were hungry, 13% were homeless. • 50-80% of sticker price comes from non-tuition costs. • The average net price for a year at community college equals 40% of a low-income family's annual income. • 60% of Americans ages 25-64 don't have a college credential, but 22% of them earned credits trying to get one.
5. Putting a real toll on the open door. National Average -CC Full-time Student, full year, [NCES; BLS] 1978 2018 increase Tuition & Fees $ 306 $ 3243 Textbooks $106 $1293 Min Wage $ 2.68 $ 7.25 Tuition - hours 114 hrs 447 hrs 3.9x Textbooks - hours 39 hrs 178 hrs 4.6x
10. Appears to be a $$ problem
11. Money isn’t Real Axel Drainville, CC BY-NC 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/axelrd/8041594578/
12. What really happened? A corporate (market thinking) take-over
13. Market
14. Let’s consider institutional structure & process of higher ed
15. State and Market Views State & Bureau Market & Firm Status - Hierarchy - Scale Measurement & Control
16. Learning is peer-peer & mentor-learner process Commons Household
17. NOT a Commons: The Garrett Hardin Myth: Tragedy of Commons By Bernard Gagnon - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org /w/index.php?curid=5737116
18. #Commons Is A Verb Norms for dealing with Common Pool Resource
19. Learning Commons at the Core: The Civilization Engine Society - Community The Academy Learning Commons
20. Higher Ed Was a Hybrid Society Learning Commons Community
21. What are the Common Pool Resources? Learning Commons • Texts? • Space/Place? • Time?
22. Consider creation, distribution, & use of ed resources (ER) as eco-system
23. The Real resources? Faculty Rainmakers Create Artifacts The Academy Learning Commons
24. Ed resources (ER) aren’t the pool. They aren’t even resources. They are artifacts of the pool. elycefeliz - CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 -https://www.flickr.com/photos/elycefeliz/3936354237
25. Rain fills pools, but they’re unevenly distributed.
26. Printing & publishing tech brought great power and...illusion of scale. Airwolfhound, CC-BY-SA,
27. But with great power comes great costs… enclosure
28. $$ Thinking “...during the 1970s, books started to get expensive...Textbooks became less about educating the masses and more about exclusivity and profitability. By the 1990s, the textbook market was an oligopoly, and prices skyrocketed.” Priceonomics.com
29. Digital changes the economics of ER Natural monopoly ATC MC $/ Q Q Q $/ Q
30. ...but they need barriers to entry to prevent new competition. Which explains current strategies & tactics.
31. Photo credit: Alan Levine, CC0 Public Domain Alan adds more to the pool than he drains. Be like Alan. Investor-based capitalism encloses & extracts. It drains the pool.
32. R’s to Return
33. Professors: Re-Open the Door - OER Create OER The Academy Learning Commons
34. Professors: Reclaim Curriculum
37. Institutions: Restore & Revitalize - Collaborate
38. Building a Collaborative Public Scaling Up, Scaling In • UNH OER Pilot • USNH Open Ed Initiative • CCSNH Open Ed Initiative • New Hampshire Open Ed Public Consortium • New England Board of Higher Education • Space: The Final Frontier
39. System & Institutions: Re-invent the Model Publishing, Tools, Infrastructure, Process
40. System: Re-engage and Re-frame Public Value UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose, CC-BY-NC, https://bit.ly/2BRyj5H Mariana Mazzucato
41. Robin DeRosa & Jim Luke @actualham @econproph