The practice of adopting inaccessible, expensive curricular materials is bad for our students, and especially bad for our students with disabilities. We need to ensure access to our programs a whole rather than relying on the individual accommodation process and we can do this in partnership with the open education movement. Read more…
The psychology department at Chemeketa knew that textbook prices had increased to the point where it was unsustainable for students to purchase them. This post explores how we stand to save students over half a million dollars per year by switching to NOBA’s open textbook. Read more…
When we talk about the cost of textbooks at Oregon’s community colleges, how much money are we really talking about? Open Oregon is using a standard methodology to conduct research for all 17 of Oregon’s community colleges in order to establish a baseline that we can measure future progress against. Read more…
Open Oregon joins leaders representing over 75 institutions from across the country at the first meeting of the Open Textbook Network (OTN), hosted by the University of Minnesota. Read more…
Open Oregon joined a broad coalition calling on the White House to take administrative action ensuring that federally funded educational materials are made available as Open Educational Resources (OER) that are free to use, share, and improve. Read more…
Chemeketa Community College is taking a multi-pronged approach to textbook affordability that reflects years of planning, creating infrastructure, and collaboration. Chemeketa Press will help faculty publish affordable textbooks for their courses. The Library’s Digital Assets Program developed a repository for instructional content. Read more…
The 2015 Open Educational Resources Special Project Grants have been awarded. Taken together, the projects represent collaborations with 13 different institutions that have the potential to save thousands of Oregon students an estimated $227,175.26 to $386,921.50 per year. Read more…
Oregon State University created infographics from the data collected in a 2012 survey of Florida students. These graphics have a CC BY-NC license so feel free to reuse and adapt with your own school’s logo. Read more…
On March 13, 2015, Lane Community College hosted Paul Golisch as keynote speaker at a regional OER conference. If you weren’t able to attend you can watch his keynote here!
OER is gaining momentum at Columbia Gorge, with faculty adopting in Biology, History, Psychology, Philosophy, RD/WR 115 courses, Pre-college/Dev. Ed., and the CAS (Computer Applications and Office Systems) program. In this post Dan Hall, Sociology Instructor, discusses adopting an open textbook in his course and reports on the Open Textbook Summit that took place last month. Read more…