Appendix B

Community College Open Textbook Collaborative (CCOTC) Training Overview

Train-the-Trainer Workshops for Campus Advocate/Trainers
Una Daly and David Coal

The Collaborative created and delivered six-hour workshops for Community College Advocate/Trainers. These workshops were delivered face-to-face in multiple cities and in two online formats. “How to Adopt an Open Textbook” is a three-hour workshopwithin- a-workshop in these training sessions. About two-thirds of the participants attended primarily for this smaller workshop. The Advocate/Trainers participate in the other three hours designed to teach them to advocate for open textbooks and deliver adoption workshops on their campuses. Both Advocate/Trainers and Collaborative staff delivered one-to-three-hour adoption workshops in face-to-face and online formats.

Depth of Participation

Both in the Collaborative workshops and in the on-campus advocacy and workshops, depth of participation was surprisingly high. Participants included faculty, academic managers, distance learning staff, librarians, bookstore managers, administrators, and more. Many Advocate/Trainers exceeded the advocacy tasks required for the stipend.

Some took the initiative to present at conferences and state meetings. These are examples:

• St. Petersburg Community College Sociology Professor Lisa McDonnell presented her adoption story at a Collaborative workshop at her college, on a national live online workshop, and in a videotaped testimonial available to all: http://collegeopentextbooks.org/images/Lisa_McDonnell.wmv
• Central Florida Physics Professor Erik Christensen adopted an open physics textbook because traditional textbooks did not use enough calculus. Erik shared his story at the Orlando workshop and on video now available on YouTube. He created a three-fold flier for his workshop that is now in use nationwide. Erik traveled to Colorado and presented open textbooks to 100 college and high school physics instructors.
• College of the Redwoods Instructional Design Director Geoff Cain invited participants from another northern California college to his workshop on his college campus. He also provided a studio-recorded workshop “Open Textbooks – Open Doors” available to all at http://tinyurl.com/2d4bo8e
• Renee Lightner of the Florida State College at Jacksonville computer science division gave a presentation for the student government on the Kent campus.
• To foster support from Central Florida Community College deans and managers, Instructional Systems Designer Chuckie Delano asked to be added to the Learning Management Team's agenda. He used the time to inform them of how to use an Open Textbook in a course.
• Ken Ronkowitz, Passaic County Community College Writing Initiative Director, gave an open textbook presentation for the NJEDge.Net's Educational Activities Task Force. He made the slides publicly available. Ken plans to present at the Two Year College Association Conference in Washington in November.
• Onondoga Community College faculty passed this resolution on textbook affordability. Advocate/trainer Sheila Scilia will make the faculty aware that open textbooks are another resource for this initiative.

Train-the-Trainer Workshops

Twelve train-the-trainer workshops occurred in the first year of the Collaborative in cities throughout the United States. Two of the workshops were online. More than 250community college faculty, bookstore managers, administrators, and other staff members participated. Foothill College, Florida Distance Learning Consortium, Houston Community College, Words & Numbers, Walla Walla Community College, North Seattle Community College, and Spokane Community College contributed instructors.

Advocacy and Workshops by Community College Faculty and Staff

Of the 254 participants in the workshops, more than 60 have agreed to become Advocate/Trainers. Their tasks include promoting open textbooks on their campuses, urging their colleges to join CCCOER, and providing adoptions workshops on their campuses. Due to these efforts, several colleges have joined the consortium. In the first year of the Collaborative, 42 adoption workshops were provided by the following 35 Advocate/Trainers: