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good morning
and thank you for participating in open education week
my name is Una Daly
and i'm the community college outreach manager at the opencourseware
consortium
We wants to invite you to join the community college consortium for
open educations resources
and bring your passion
to this growing movement.
But before you sign on the dotted line I thought you might want to know a little
bit about our history
uh... and
why
we're doing this and what our goals are for the future
we were founded back in two thousand seven by Dr Martha Kanter
who is now the undersecretary of education
but at that time was the chancellor of the foothill de anza community college
district
in northern california
Dr Kanter
recognize that need for community colleges to have a unified voice in the open
education movement
but perhaps more importantly she recognized that
the open education movement
was really aligned with
the community college mission
As you know the community college mission
is
it is to serve all learners by providing a high quality an affordable
education to help those learners achieve
their personal and professional goals
but the rising cost of textbooks and instructional materials has really
been a hardship for our students over the last decade
uh...
It is forcing our students to make decisions around
taking fewer classes
or simply taking a class and not purchasing the textbook
and those are decisions that
we'd rather not
have our students have to make
so through the use of high-quality open educational resources
faculty can
make education more affordable for students
and lower barriers
to achieving
a higher education
But faculty and staff at community colleges are very busy and uh...
truly need some professional development
to be able to find the time to go out and
and search for these materials and adapt them for their classroom
and the consortium uh...
working with the college open text books collaborative trained over a thousand
faculty and staff at community colleges
in the last four years
and um...
our membership at that time grew to be two hundred thirty colleges in fifteen
states and canada
Last summer
the consortium
joined the opencourseware consortium
which really signaled the maturity
of the community college open education movement
uh...
also
was a great opportunity for uh... community colleges to start to
participate on a more global level
in this movement
uh...
this provides opportunities for us to find partners overseas and also to
showcase the great work
that's happening in our community colleges
In spite of those changes our goals have
remained essentially the same. creating awareness around open educational
resources
uh... we help colleges to identify
create or repurposed existing OER to improve teaching and learning
uh... on their campuses and to lower barriers uh...
to a higher education
uh... we promote the use of OER through
educational outreach uh...
to faculty mostly online uh...
we have meetups at community college conferences to discuss these
issues and get together
we have an advisory board that meets monthly online
uh... to support open educational
tip to support and plan for open it occasional policies uh... regionally
nationally an global level
so i invite you to join us and help
to plan our outreach events including educational webinars with leading
faculty at community colleges engaged in OER
and to help us plan the open policy support
we need your ideas and together we can uh...
create a sustainable movement to support open education on our campuses and
throughout the world
i look forward to hearing from you
and you can contact me through the open courseware consortium web site and once again
i'm Una Daly
and thanks for listening.