We are living through a shared worldwide experience calling for almost previously unimaginable changes in living and learning. OE Global has collected these stories from its member organizations as a demonstration of how a global response from open educators is making a difference.
On March 28, 2020 Houston Community College Director of Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Ravi Brahmbhatt, created a Facebook group, called Eagle 2 Eagle. The group was modeled after…
ACC Library Services partners with the ACC’s Student Affairs Student Support Center to provide access to a physical textbook collection of just over 2100 items, which are purchased…
Austin Community College Library Services is committed to providing critical support to both students and faculty alike during this ongoing public health crisis. Although the Library has delivered…
Austin Community College (ACC) continues to support future faculty Textbook Heroes who are transitioning to OER. In early April, the ACC OER Task Force announced another round of…
23 Colleges + 10K Faculty + 30K Courses + 240K Students = 12 hour days for Virginia’s Community Colleges’ (VCCS) Instructional Designers. Each one received a token of…
A beta version of a year-long audio OER project is now available. SUNY Geneseo communications professor Lee Pierce gave her students an assignment to record audio of themselves…
At Scottsdale Community College (SCC), we had just hired our two Student OER Specialists before spring break in early March. Due to the virus outbreak, the decision was…
Bakerfield College conducted a survey last month to determine the technology needs of their students. Finding that 10% of students do not have adequate off-campus internet access and…
When Houston Community College transitioned to online instruction for the remainder of the Spring 2020 school year, faculty member and Chancellor’s Excellence Award winner, Richard Gosselin (Economics), stepped…
Emergency OER Grants As we navigate this widespread transition to online learning, many of us are authoring and adapting new materials to support our students. To help incentivize…
Portia Tinnermon
"Richard and the rest of our faculty are doing an incredible job ..."