Cable Green Keynote

On March 4, 2015, Chemeketa Community College hosted Cable Green as a keynote speaker. He repeated his keynote talk on March 13, 2015, at the Blue Mountain Community College Regional OER Conference. If you weren’t able to attend these events, you can watch his talk here. Read more…

BCcampus: OpenEd

In just over two years, BCcampus has nearly reached their goal of finding, adapting, or creating open textbooks that align with the 40 highest-enrolled courses in British Columbia and students have saved over $500,000. The next phase of the project will add 20 textbooks in CTE areas. Read more…

Getting started with OER: Faculty stories

Christie Fierro describes her conversion to OER as the result of an “educational emergency.” That got me thinking that the impact of my being mentored by someone who thought about student costs has saved nearly $16,000 for my students over 8 years. I asked around for more stories from other Oregon community college faculty. Read more…

Linn-Benton Campus Report

Richenda Hawkins, Library Department Chair, summarizes textbook affordability efforts underway at Linn-Benton. The library spent $582 and a relatively modest amount of staff time to save students an estimated $16,435 to $22,977 per year. Based on these numbers, every library dollar spent represents a student savings of up to $40! Read more…