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Reassigned Time as Faculty Incentive to Adopt OER

by: Rachel Dilley, Open Educational Resources Librarian – Reference & Instruction, Columbus State Community College At Columbus State Community College in central Ohio, a handful of our forward-thinking faculty members were already using OER by the time I began working as an OER librarian 18 months ago. However, there was no cohesive college-wide effort to […]

Kiri Dali on September 28, 2018

Lord Fairfax Community College hosts “We’re Open 2018”

by: Kiri Dali, Digital Librarian, Lord Fairfax Community College Lord Fairfax Community College hosted an OER event Saturday, April 21, 2018, at its Middletown, Virginia campus. The event, titled “We’re Open 2018,” brought local administrators, faculty, staff, and librarians together from area universities, community colleges, and K-12 schools to discuss open education. The keynote speaker […]

Kiri Dali on May 16, 2018

Open Education College Roundup 2018

The Open Education Week website had over 2,665 visitors from 98 countries on 6 continents this year. Colleges from around the globe participated, including many of CCCOER’s member colleges. Many colleges focused on students, asking them how much they spent on textbooks, how they felt about their textbooks, and what they would have spent that […]

CCCOER on May 10, 2018

LOERN: A Network to Showcase OER for Language Learning

by: Sarah Sweeney, Project Coordinator, Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL), The University of Texas at Austin The Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL) just launched the Language OER Network (LOERN), a page on our website to list language educators who are creating, using, or promoting open educational resources […]

Kiri Dali on March 19, 2018

College Promise and Open Education Join Forces for Student Access and Success

by Dr. Barbara Illowsky In fall 2017, California officially joined the College Promise campaign when Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill waiving first year tuition for all new, CA resident students who enroll full-time at one of the 114 California Community Colleges (CCC). Even though the CCC full-time tuition is already one of the lowest […]

CCCOER on March 6, 2018

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OER Best Practices to Scale Up

A recent discussion transpired on the CCCOER community email group surrounding best practices for scaling up OER projects. Because this question comes up frequently for CCCOER members, we wanted to summarize that discussion to share via the blog. The original question came from Jan Jarrell, a faculty member at San Diego City College: Our administration […]

Kiri Dali on February 20, 2018

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#OpenEd17 Reflections & Slides from CCCOER

The Open Education Conference 2017 took place in mid-October in Anaheim, California, with hundreds of attendees from around the globe. Presentations covered a variety of open education topics and included many presentations from CCCOER members. This year CCCOER was able to host a breakfast gathering for members on the first day of the conference. […]

Kiri Dali on November 22, 2017

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Michigan OER Summit a Resounding Success

by: Regina Gong, OER Project Manager, Lansing Community College Nearly 180 people from around the state participated in the Michigan OER Summit on September 22 at Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek. The attendees were faculty, administrators, librarians, instructional designers, staff, and students representing 24 community colleges, 14 universities, the Michigan Department of Education, the […]

Kiri Dali on October 2, 2017

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Saylor Higher Education Summit 2017 Reflections

by: Eric Simons, PHP Programmer for Knowledge to Work and HigherEd.org, Lord Fairfax Community College, VA The Saylor Higher Education Summit 2017 took place on June 21 and 22 in Washington, DC. It was a smaller, more intimate gathering. It was nice to have so many opportunities to meet and talk with others throughout the […]

Kiri Dali on June 29, 2017

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BCcampus Open Textbook Summit Highlights

by: Walter Butler, Acquisitions Librarian, Pasadena City College, CA This was BCcampus’ 5th Annual Open Textbook Summit, and it was my first time attending. The two-day event was filled with collaborative experiences, insightful sessions, and plenty of opportunities for side-bar conversations to dig deeper into issues and topics. There were so many sessions to choose […]

Kiri Dali on June 7, 2017