Guest Blogs

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

Guest Blogs

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

Guest Blogs

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

Announcements

Spring 2019 Webinar Series

Our Spring Webinar Series is now over. We will announce our fall webinars in late summer. Links to the archives for our Spring Series can be found below. This year we are changing the time of the webinars to Wednesdays at noon PT/ 3 pm ET to include our Aloha State members in the live […]

CCCOER on January 18, 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

Guest Blogs

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

Open Ed Updates & News

#OpenEd18 Reflections & Slides from CCCOER

With over 350 presentations, posters, roundtables, lightning talks, panels, and symposia, this year’s OpenEd Conference in Niagara Falls, New York was the largest one yet! The conference took place on October 10-12, and like always CCCOER members were well represented. On Thursday afternoon, CCCOER held a get-together and handed out Community Recognition Awards in order […]

CCCOER on November 7, 2018

News

OpenEd18: Community Recognition Awards

Last week, many of us were fortunate enough to attend #OpenEd18, a wonderful celebration of the work of the open education movement with representatives from all K-20 levels this year.   I had an opportunity to see and hear many inspiring presentations and keynotes and learned a great deal that I hope to put into practice this […]

Una Daly on October 22, 2018

Guest Blogs

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

Guest Blogs

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

Announcements, Webinars

Fall 2018 Webinar Series

The CCCOER Fall 2018 Webinar Series is now available. All webinars will take place on Wednesdays at (11 am PT/ 2 pm ET). More information about the speakers will be posted a couple of weeks prior to the webinar at https://www.cccoer.org/webinar/, as well as sent to the CCCOER Community email list, and tweeted out via […]

CCCOER on August 21, 2018

Guest Blogs

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

Guest Blogs

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

Guest Blogs

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

Guest Blogs

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

Announcements, Guest Blogs, Open Ed Updates & News

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