Panels, Workshops, Book Fairs, Scavenger Hunts, and a Textbook Graveyard
The Open Education Week site had over 3600 visitors from 136 countries on six continents from March 26-31 and it will be available throughout 2017. Many community colleges celebrated Open Education Week on their campuses with faculty and student discussion panels, workshops, and fun scavenger hunts for all. For example:
- Alamo Colleges had both faculty and student panels to discuss issues surrounding the high cost of textbooks and the impact of open-access textbooks and students at their San Antonio College held a Textbook Graveyard event featuring tombstones dedicated to expensive textbooks.
- Bay College in Michigan held its first ever Goose Chase to help staff, and faculty learn more about open education, creative commons, and online sharing through participation in an interactive scavenger hunt. One of their students made a sign thanking the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation for helping to fund his open textbook.
- CCCOER shared case studies from Achieving the Dream’s OER Degree grantee colleges
- Glendale Community College, CA held a bookfair for open textbooks at their Faculty Innovation Center.
- The libraries in Indiana’s Ivy Tech Community College made some great OER displays to create awareness around open educational resources for students, faculty, and librarians — many of whom are new to open education.
ITCC Bloomington Library 
ITCC Sellersburg Library 
ITCC Fort Wayne Library 
ITCC Bloomington Library - The Instructional Technology Council shared two webinars featuring members who use OER from small campuses and Giving Faculty and Students What They Want.
- Lansing Community College, MI shared the proceeding from their recent OER Summit Day featuring videos, slides, and resources.
- Maricopa Community College District used the week to raise awareness of OER thru twitter and blogging.
- Scottsdale Community College used the “OER you kidding me poster?” to generate discussion among students and have table tents and posters with this tagline on information for how students can find out how to register for no cost/low cost courses.
Student thankyous to Dr. Phil Clark 
OER How-to Guide - Mitchell College in North Carolina held a student scavenger hunt and a faculty OER workshop to create awareness.
- Pima College, AZ held a day of workshops keynoted by Dr. Cable Green, Director of Global Learning, Creative Commons.
- San Jose City, CA held three lunchtime talks with faculty on OER and Z-degrees
- Santa Ana College, CA celebrated Open Education Week with t-shirts, fliers, and discussions with students about OER.
- San Bernardino College, CA held an Academic Senate Special OER meeting.
- West Hills, LeMoore College shared learning assessment and perceptions of Sociology and Psychology students who used OER in their courses.
- University of Hawaii had spring break during Open Education Week so they held all their activities the week before.
Community Colleges share information via videos, webinars
Butte Community College, CA presented a webinar on open pedagogy entitled: Open Course Design Learning Through Creation
Northern Virginia Community College had an entire week of amazing OER power webinars with leaders in curriculum development, open platforms, open licensing, OER research, and planning open projects. You can view these and all their recordings at the NOVA youtube Channel .
Santa Fe College, Florida is one of CCCOER’s newest members. They made an inspirational video featuring several of their faculty and staff engaged in OER adoption. In particular, the video stresses how faculty enjoy more freedom in selecting course materials, and can customize these materials to fit the specific needs of their students and goals of their classes. Since OER permit adaptation, educators are free to edit, reorder, delete from, or remix OER materials. OER provide clearly defined rights to users, so educators are not faced with interpreting Fair Use and TEACH Act guidelines in re-using all rights reserved materials.
Lansing Community College, West Hills College, LeMoore, and Open Oregon shared strategies for growing open education at their colleges and states:
Austin Community College, TX and Montgomery College, MD gave presentations on the process of planning and developing OER Degrees:
Images from Alamo College by permission from Phillip Anaya, Digital & OER Coordinator, Alamo Colleges
Images from Bay College by permission from Edie Erickson, Instructional Designer.
Images from Ivy Tech Community College from Janet Woodall, Director of Libraries