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Sustainable OER: A Panel Discussion

Leverage your strengths. Does anyone else have OER champions on their campus? I became an OER champion on my campus in part because I threw my textbook into the circular file and refused to use anything but OER. Sure, if the funds are there, as a faculty member I am going to take advantage of them and develop much more deeply than I might otherwise choose, but if the funds aren’t there, it won’t be enough to stop me. I have a photo on my wall of a student who spent $700 on a single semester's worth of textbooks and I was fully a part of that problem. Champions, mentors, pioneers, if you can leverage your human resources and invite the faculty to move at a pace that they are comfortable with, it becomes just another part of preparing for the next semester. When you can make it so commonplace to move single chapters, sections, parts to OER, when you can make it the norm, when a champion's passion becomes contagious, as long as you have the support structure in place, that stone is rolling downhill.

CCCOER on May 16, 2022

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Wisconsin Technical Colleges: Making Wisconsin Open

Colleges in the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) have made tremendous strides toward student affordability over the past few years, attributed to enthusiastic open education leaders and faculty. From zero-cost textbook degrees to professional development to system-wide grants and collaboration – they have been busy! While WTCS is considered a statewide system, each college is […]

CCCOER on April 18, 2022

Open Education Week Roundup 2022

This year, Open Education Week took place from March 7 – 11. Did you participate? The Global Open Education community did, sharing: 232 events In 16 languages From 30 countries Sharing 88 open resources Plus 4,270 tweets tagged #OEWeek! Did you miss anything? There’s always too much to do during OE Week! These resources can […]

CCCOER on March 29, 2022

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Texas is Wide Open!
Expanding the Texas Statewide CCCOER Consortium

Texas higher education institutions, agencies, and organizations across Texas have steadily been building an Open Education ecosystem. This includes creating a CCCOER statewide consortium for Texas which is now is now TWENTY strong!

CCCOER on February 25, 2022

Open Ed Week 2022

Open Ed Week is quickly approaching, and we are all looking forward to learning new things about what different institutions are doing. While not all these conferences and webinars are happening March 7th-11th, here are links to some of the events that are coming up soon. 2022 Arizona Regional Open Education Conference, March 3rd-4th: https://mcli.maricopa.edu/events/oer-conference […]

Gracie mcdonough on February 22, 2022

CCCOER Members featured in Education for All

Over the past few years, CCCOER members have won many Open Education Awards (OE Awards) from OEGlobal for their work in Open Education. Recently, OEGlobal published a book called Education for All: Ten Years of Open Education Luminaries from Around the World which lists all the winners from the past decade. CCCOER wants to highlight […]

Gracie mcdonough on January 3, 2022

Regional Leaders of Open Educational Leadership Program

The Regional Leaders of Open Education (RLOE) just finished three weeks of synchronous programming for the first cohort of their Leadership Program. RLOE brings together a network of open educators with the goal of improving and scaling open education as a system reform to increase student success at postsecondary institutions. With an emphasis on reaching […]

Gracie mcdonough on December 22, 2021

Columbus State’s Composition OER Earns National Teaching and Learning Impact Award

Congratulations to Columbus State Community College for earning a 2021-22 Campus Technology Impact Award in the Teaching and Learning Category for their digital OER, the Composition Reading Bank (CRB). They were the only two-year college to receive the award this year. The CRB is an openly-licensed (CC BY-NC-SA) online anthology that replaces the publisher-created anthology […]

CCCOER on December 9, 2021

ZTC Degrees Improving Equity at California Community Colleges

The California Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Degree Initiative was launched through a $5 million dollar Governor’s budget allocation in spring 2016 with the goal of reducing costs for community college students by implementing associate transfer degrees and career technical education certificates where all textbook costs have been eliminated through the adoption of alternative instructional materials […]

CCCOER on June 18, 2020

California’s Zero Textbook Cost Degrees Takeoff

Faculty, staff, and students from forty-three California community colleges gathered at College of the Canyons in early September to celebrate student leaders and grantee teams from the Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Degree program, an initiative of the Community College Chancellor’s office. The initiative represents work over the last two years of twenty-three public community colleges […]

Una Daly on October 1, 2019