Southwestern Oregon Campus Report
SOCC faculty and librarians are participating in meetings, workshops, and statewide efforts to support OER. Converting just one math course has saved students over $45,000 since 2012. Read more…
Spring Workshop Archives Available
OpenOregon.org hosted three OER workshops for librarians this spring and the archives are now available. Read more…
Klamath Campus Report
A pilot to begin replacing print textbooks with no- or low-cost OERs for English, business, writing, and art classes at Klamath Community College is projected to realize cost savings to students of between $10,000-$12,000, with the potential for over $70,000 in savings if all sections make the switch. Read more…
Open Education Manifesto
Lane Community College has released an Open Education Manifesto poster designed by Graphic Design student Char Houweling. The poster has a CC-BY-NC license so feel free to reuse and adapt with your own school’s logo.
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…
Quill West and Christie Fierro Keynotes
On February 26 and 27, 2015, we hosted Quill West and Christie Fierro as keynote speakers at our first two regional OER conferences. If you weren’t able to attend you can watch their keynotes here!
Central Oregon Campus Report
Central Oregon Community College will host an OER Day on June 5 at the COCC campus. Faculty, librarians, and students are actively pursuing OER at COCC. 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…