Mt Hood Campus Report
Mt Hood Community College is making exciting progress in reducing textbook costs. Read more…
Open Oregon Presentation in CCCOER Webinar
On February 10, Open Oregon presented at a CCCOER webinar along with Regina Gong, Manager of Library Technical Services and Systems, Lansing Community College. This presentation covers what’s been happening at Oregon’s community colleges over the past year of having an OER coordinator, along with a look ahead to 2016. Read more…
David Wiley Keynote
On November 13, 2015, Mount Hood Community College hosted David Wiley as keynote speaker at a regional OER conference. If you weren’t able to attend you can watch his keynote here. Read more…
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…