Abstract
California’s three public higher education systems (University of California, California State University, the California Community College System) enroll nearly 3 million undergraduate students and employ almost 100 thousand faculty. In 2012, the California State Legislature directed the three systems to create an online library of open educational resources to encourage the use of free or affordable textbooks and other materials throughout California’s public higher education system. Composed of faculty representatives from each of the three systems, the California Open Educational Resources Council (CAOERC) was formed and charged in January, 2014, with collecting, peer-reviewing, helping to curate, publicizing, and cultivating the adoption of these open educational resources. As we end the first phase of this massive effort, our paper will: 1) outline what we’ve learned about scale and collaboration among California’s three distinct higher education systems; 2) present the results of CAOERC’s ongoing research (via surveys and focus groups) about open textbook use and adoption; 3) briefly discuss issues of OER sustainability in the context of cooperation among state, university, and non-profit sectors.
Highlights
California public higher education’s three systems—or segments—enroll nearly 3 million undergraduate students and employ almost 100,000 faculty
Based on our experience as members of California Open Educational Resources Council (CAOERC), this paper focuses on three areas of possible interest to others in the Open Educational Resources (OERs) movement: scale and complexity; our preliminary findings on open textbook adoption and use; and, sustainability
The research projects that were pursued by the CAOERC seek to understand factors related to the adoption of open textbooks specific to the faculty and students of the state of California
Summary
California public higher education’s three systems—or segments—enroll nearly 3 million undergraduate students and employ almost 100,000 faculty. Student transfer between the three systems, especially from community colleges to the four-year universities of CSU and UC, has been a fundamental principle of California public higher education.
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