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Motivation With rising tuition and fees and the high cost of living in the Bay Area, many Skyline College students are unable to afford textbooks and other class materials that support their learning goals. The Associate of Science (AS) degree in Respiratory Care is a priority for ZTC program pathway implementation for a number of […]
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Prior Experience Lake Tahoe Community College (LTCC) had an AB798 grant. Because of this, the faculty were educated on how to use OER materials for their courses. Also, several of the general education courses had already made the transition to OER materials before the ZTC Degree grant began. This allowed us to put most of […]
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Motivation Implementing an OER/ZTC degree pathway was very appealing for various reasons, but at the forefront, it was seen as a means to offset the cost of education for our student population. When we evaluated our data at the time, we saw that more than 22,000 Pasadena City College (PCC) students (77%) received some form […]
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Motivation Our Early Childhood Education certificate and even degree completers are going into a low-wage field, where they will struggle to make ends meet, let alone repay student loans or pay off credit cards that they may use to purchase textbooks. We believe that we are ethically obligated to reduce their educational costs in whatever […]
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Motivation: Data collected in a 2016 Butte College student survey show that 31% of students stated that they take fewer courses due to the cost of textbooks. The OER/ZTC Degree initiative aims to help these students complete their degrees faster by allowing them to take more classes per semester. In the same survey, 17% of […]
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Motivation Would it be possible to start and finish Saddleback without purchasing a textbook? This was a thought we had in 2016 when we started the OER/ZTC Workgroup. We wanted to approach this question strategically and focus our efforts creating a ZTC pathway that would impact the most students. A third of all degrees awarded […]
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Motivation Taft College is a smaller community college located in Kern County, California. It serves the community of Taft but also enjoys serving students from surrounding areas including Bakersfield, Shafter, Lamont, Arvin, Maricopa, McFarland, and Wasco. Taft College serves a population with some economic hardships. Many students are from lower socio-economic backgrounds and are first-time […]
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Motivation Housatonic’s math department has had a well-established OER presence on campus since Fall 2014. Having joined the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER), they were working diligently to spread OER throughout their department. Upon receiving the (OER-DI) grant, HCC set out to introduce and push for OER in other departments, which is […]
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Motivation OER is the “sweet spot” of a number of LWTech’s college initiatives: completion, equity, and faculty engagement. Initially, the motivation was to reduce the cost of attending college and ensure all students have access to the course materials on day one. LWTech students may pay up to $1,050.00 for textbooks for a single quarter […]
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Motivation The libraries of CUNY have long been concerned with the cost of education for students, especially textbooks. Almost 60% of City University of New York (CUNY) students have household incomes less than $30,000 and over 60% are Pell grant recipients. Librarians are acutely aware of this problem since they purchase many texts for reserve […]