Steve Isachsen Sabbatical Web Site
Spring 2011
Sabbatical Proposal
During the 2008-2009 academic year,
through my work as Chair
of the Faculty Textbook Affordability Committee, I developed an acute
understanding of the ways textbook prices can impact MiraCosta students. One of the
outcomes of the Committee’s work
was the MiraCosta Faculty Textbook Affordability Guidelines that were
approved
by the Academic Senate in April of 2009.
One of the many recommendations in
this document was that
faculty consider investigating the ways in which open educational
resources
might be used to enhance their course materials.
Open educational resources are defined as
those that, through a variety of methods including creative commons
licensing,
offer redistribution of content for non-commercial purposes for free.
Since then, the question has occurred
to me over and over:
could a portfolio of open educational resources be developed as a
legitimate
replacement for a traditional textbook in one of the Computer Studies
Department’s courses? Recent
articles on
this topic in the September 2009 California Community College Academic
Senate
Rostrum have further peaked my interest.
The purpose of this proposed
sabbatical leave would be to
embark on a journey to answer that question and to develop, as its
outcome, a
finished portfolio of open educational resources and materials for a
single
Computer Studies course along with an assessment of the experience and
a list
of best practices and lessons learned.
Sabbatical Report
A copy of the finished sabbatical report can be found at this link:
Steve Isachsen Sabbatical Report
Objective 6
As explained in the
Sabbatical Report, materials created in fulfillment of Objective 6 are
located on this website. Objective 6 is as follows: Set up a
means, such as a website or other electronic file sharing method, for
faculty colleagues teaching this course to use, at their option, the
finished portfolio of open educational resources for the selected
course.
The above referenced materials can be found at this link: CSIT 100
Computer Basics I, Open Educational Resources
Copyright
All work related to this sabbatical is licensed by Steve Isachsen under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Acknowledgments
I wish to express a heartfelt thank you to the MiraCosta College Board of Trustees for granting the priviledge of this
sabbatical leave.
For questions about this sabbatical, please contact:
Steve Isachsen
MiraCosta College
Computer Studies Department
www.miracosta.edu/computerapplications
sisachsen@miracosta.edu
760-757-2121 x6392