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OER Hackathon

By: Joanna M. Miller, Ed.D. Dean of Distance Education at Contra Costa Community College District Scott Hubbard, Math Professor and TLC Chair at Los Medanos College A group of 30 faculty in myriad disciplines from across the Contra Costa Community College District (4CD) came together June 4 to create, curate and implement open educational resources […]

CCCOER on July 23, 2019

Montgomery College Positions OER in Strategic Plan

Montgomery College is embarking on a new strategic plan to guide the College over the next five years. Titled MC 2025, the plan will serve as the overarching plan for other master plans at the College, including the Academic Master Plan and the Achieving the Dream (ATD) student success work. Specific strategies are identified to […]

CCCOER on June 21, 2019

When is Open too Open? – Piracy in Education and Rethinking test banks

By Liz Yata One of the more popular aspects of CCCOER is our community of practice email list. With over 1,400 members it is a great resource for all things OER. Recently there was a discussion about test banks. The initial poster asked whether test banks associated with OER are “too open,” but the discussion […]

CCCOER on May 17, 2019

2019 Cascadia Open Education Summit Summary

The 2019 Cascadia Open Education Summit was a landmark event in regional capacity building around open education initiatives. Open advocates, practitioners, and learners from the Greater Pacific Northwest and beyond gathered at the Simon Fraser University (SFU) Harbour Centre Campus in Vancouver, B.C. to assess the terrain, plot a course, and forge ahead into the […]

CCCOER on May 10, 2019

Bookstore Involvement in OER Projects

by: Cindy Domaika, Manager of Open & Instructional Resources, Nicolet College How does a college bookstore become an integral part of an OER program on a college campus? Can they provide more than a print on demand service or print copies of OpenStax textbooks and textbook prices for data points? This is the story of […]

Kiri Dali on February 8, 2019

Central Carolina Community College’s OER Bootcamp 2019

by: Rodney Powell, Executive Director Center for Academic Excellence and Tara Lucas, Director of Library Services On January 3, 2019, the Center for Academic Excellence at Central Carolina Community College (CCCC) hosted the first-ever OER Bootcamp and it was attended by over 50 CCCC faculty. Use of OER (Open Educational Resources) is a growing international […]

Una Daly on January 31, 2019

First Annual Illinois Community Colleges Summit on OER

by: Dr. Denise Coté, Professor & Reference Librarian, College of DuPage On November 30, 2018, the College of DuPage and the College of Lake County hosted the first Summit on OER for Illinois Community Colleges. The event was attended by over 200 community college faculty, administrators, librarians, and staff from 30 colleges from across the state. The […]

Kiri Dali on January 29, 2019

Guest Blogs, News

Change Leadership: Open Education and Institutional Change

This blog posting is based on an article by Quill West, CCCOER Executive Council President and presentations from Cindy Domaika, Nicolet College and Michael Mills, CCCOER Executive Council Member at our Fall 2018 New Members’ Mixer. We thank them for sharing their expertise on Open Education Leadership at their institutions. Image: pixabay.com For many institutions, […]

Una Daly on January 2, 2019

Central Virginia Community College Hosts Operation FREE Textbooks Conference

by: Juville Dario-Becker, Professor, Central Virginia Community College Central Virginia Community College (CVCC) hosted 80 secondary and higher education professionals from 18 institutions on October 19, 2018 for the Operation FREE Textbooks drive-in conference. Our goal is to let the educators, particularly in our region, know the power of Open Educational Resources (OER) in shaping the […]

Kiri Dali on November 14, 2018

Equity & Openness: Perspectives from North American colleges and universities

This blog post is a call to action. We want to surface our conversations about equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and hear from CCCOER members about how you’re addressing EDI in your work. At CCCOER we’ve been discussing issues of EDI for the past couple of years – partially because of our work with Achieving […]

Una Daly on October 9, 2018