Grant Project Update: WeBWorK-MathBook XML Bridge Project Complete
Enabling Successful, Accessible OER in Mathematics with a WeBWorK-MathBook XML Bridge, an Open Oregon grant project, is complete!
Archived webinar: Enabling Successful, Accessible OER in Mathematics with a WeBWorK-MathBook XML Bridge
Join Alex Jordan and Rob Beezer as they discuss their work on developing interactive online math textbooks and the underlying code that supports this very accessible and flexible functionality. Read more…
Call for Proposals: Open Educational Resources Grants
Open Oregon seeks grant proposals that implement high-impact, collaborative projects in support of open education and reduced textbook costs for students. Proposals are invited in four categories and completed application forms are due Friday, January 29, 2016. Read more…
Archived webinar: Adopting NOBA for Psychology
Chemeketa is using NOBA’s open psychology textbook to save thousands of student dollars in the pilot year alone – find out how. Read more…
Archived webinar: Adapting and Authoring OER
Are you ready to revise and remix, but uncertain about tools and techniques? COCC librarian Michele DeSilva covers platforms, accessibility, and attribution. Read more…
OER Grant Project Updates
The 2015 OER Grant Cohort has been hard at work and making excellent progress on their projects. Read more…
The Intersection of Accessibility and Open Educational Resources
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…
Adopting an Open Psychology Textbook at Chemeketa
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…
What is the cost of course materials at each community college in Oregon?
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 Participates in Open Textbook Institute
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…