Guest Post by author: Ken Busbee of Houston Community College
On Wednesday, February 3rd, following the Connexions 2010 conference, Jacky Hood, the Director of the Community College Open Textbook Collaboration (CCOTC) and Director of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER), gave a workshop titled: How to Adopt an Open Textbook for a Community College Class. The workshop was hosted by Houston Community College and Connexions with Rice University providing meeting space. Attended by 14 individual of which 6 have expressed an interest in returning to their institutions and presenting mini workshops to other faculty members.
The Connexions Project is working in cooperation with the CCOTC to increase the number of quality OpenCourseWare (OCW) textbooks for the core curriculum taught within the first two years of college. The CCOTC is preparing faculty at many institutions across the nation to give mini workshops on adopting Open Educational Resources (OER) with emphasis on faculty adopting OCW textbooks for their courses. Funding is being provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
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