News 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
Guest Blogs, News, Open Ed Updates & News 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
News 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
News 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
News 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
News 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
News 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
News 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
Guest Blogs, News Colorado OER Summit by Brittany Dudek, Library Coordinator, Colorado Community Colleges Online, Colorado Community College System On May 31, 2019, the Colorado Department of Higher Education and the Colorado OER Council hosted the inaugural Statewide Colorado OER Conference to explore best practices in adoption and adaptation. A pre-conference training by Open Textbook Network preceded this event, attended by OER campus champions from […] Nikki Stubbs on August 8, 2019
News 2019 FLVC OER Summit The 2019 Florida Virtual Campus’ (FLVC) OER Summit took place this year on February 27th & 28th just outside of Orlando in Maitland, Florida. The conference as a whole featured two full days packed with amazing keynote speakers and breakout sessions which fulfilled every type of OER question one may have had. Breakout sessions focused […] Nikki Stubbs on May 3, 2019