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About

Goal

The primary goal of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources 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 encourages the creation of 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.

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. 

Join Us

Community colleges can get involved by:

  • Becoming members of the Community College Consortium for OER;
  • Participating in the next OER survey;
  • Sharing what they are already doing in terms of promoting open textbooks and OER on their campuses;
  • Providing the Community College Open Textbook Project with faculty volunteers to review open textbooks;
  • Identifying OER advocates on their own campuses to serve as the faculty liaison between the Community College Open Textbook Project and faculty on their own campuses; and
  • Encouraging their faculty to visit the CCCOER website to complete the tutorials and training available at no cost.

Questions?

Send your questions to Dr. Judy Baker, Project Director at bakerjudy@foothill.edu.