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…
OER email group launches!
Join the Open Oregon Google Group to share news, questions, and lessons learned about OER implementation. Read more…
Open Education Week: March 9-13, 2015
Open Education Week is March 9-13! Oregon community colleges are celebrating with events across the state. You can also participate in national and international online events all week. Read more…
Accessibility Resources for OER
This post highlights two opportunities to experience accessible online design while learning more about accessibility at the same time – a nice combination. Read more…
Cool 4 Ed: California Open Online Library for Education
Cool 4 Ed features OER reviews by faculty from all three segments of California’s higher education system – the Community Colleges, the Cal States, and the UCs. You can download the rubric that they use to evaluate materials. Read more…
Call for Proposals: Open Educational Resources Special Projects
The Oregon Community College Distance Learning Association seeks grant proposals that implement high-impact, collaborative projects in support of open education and reduced textbook costs for students. Applications for any amount of funding up to $35,000 are due by Monday, May 4, 2015.
Open Washington: Open Educational Resources Network
Open Washington’s useful features include a self-paced OER course, search recommendations broken out by format, an open attribution builder, and video testimonials from faculty. Reviews will be a regular feature of this blog, so stay tuned for more recommendations (you can subscribe to the blog in the sidebar).