News Colorado Open Education 2022 Updates Colorado’s collective impact approach and stakeholder-driven model have created an opportunity for impacting students, educators, and institutions across the state. This blog covers the status of the Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative as of May 2022, including new leadership, OER grantees, and an in-person conference. CCCOER on June 13, 2022
Guest Blogs, News 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
Guest Blogs, News 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
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
Announcements, Open Ed Updates & News CCCOER Member winners of the OEAWARDS for Excellence Winners of the Open Assets Awards 2021 By Gracie McDonough, Librarian at the College of Southern Nevada, and VP of the CCCOER website Judith Sebesta has been a very busy woman this year; not only is she the President of CCCOER and working hard on the strategic planning pillars of our organization, but she and […] Gracie mcdonough on November 15, 2021