Community College Consortium for OER
From OER Grapevine
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- Founded: July 2007
- Location: USA
[edit] Goal
The primary goal of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) is to identify, create and/or repurpose existing OER as Open Textbooks and make them available for use by community college students and faculty. We are seeking the support of faculty to identify, review, evaluate, and make available high quality, accessible and culturally relevant model Open Textbooks.
The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement has encouraged us to create free, high-quality content for community college courses to replace commonly used textbooks. By promoting OER, community colleges can create sustainable academic resources for students and provide professional development opportunities for faculty. A wealth of public domain and fair use learning materials are currently available via the internet that faculty can repurpose for use in their classes to replace some of the books required for purchase by students.
[edit] History
CCCOER was established in July 2007 by the Foothill-De Anza Community College District (FHDA). FHDA provides quality learning opportunities to 44,000+ students per year to achieve its mission of university transfer, workforce preparation, developmental education for college level achievement, and lifelong learning. Representatives from over 20 colleges attended the first CCCOER information meeting on July 17, 2007.
[edit] Current
Consortium membership now numbers over 64 community colleges. The CCCOER recently received funding from the Hewlett Foundation to support the Community College Open Textbook Project. The Community College Open Textbook Project is featured in an article titled "Online Texts for Community Colleges" in the April 29th issue of Inside Higher Ed. [1]
