California Alliance for Open Education

Thank you @GavinNewsom "Going after the racket..that is college textbooks, continuing to do more in that space to break things up."We agree! We applaud your steadfast commitment to make college more accessible & affordable - $115M for Zero Cost Textbook Degrees! @CalCommColleges

“#OER benefits beyond #student cost savings… greater #faculty #collaboration, more up-to-date course content, pedagogical improvements, positive impacts on student completion, & more.” #StudentEquity #TextbookBroke #HigherEd #OpenEd #OpenCI #CAopenEd campustechnology.com/articles/2022/…

In addition to saving #students $$$, #OER addresses “the urgent issue of #basicneeds… grants equal #access… helps #retention & course #completion… [and] affords [faculty] the freedom to create culturally relevant & community-based #learningmaterials...” insidehighered.com/views/2021/10/…

“Perhaps the question of #OER adoption should not be solely focused on individual #faculty usage, but on the institutional supports put in place for faculty… in pursuit of innovative #teaching methodologies.” #GoOpen #OpenEd #HigherEd #StudentEquity insidehighered.com/views/2021/03/…

It's the last day of #OEweek and there's big #OER policy news from the US... Congress has approved another $11M for #OpenTextbookPilot grants AND reintroduced the Affordable College Textbook Act! sparcopen.org/news/2022/cong…

We're celebrating #OpenEducationWeek with the launch of the Professional Learning Hub - designed to build foundational skills for Open Educational Practice #OEP & enhance #OER creation & evaluation for accessibility & culturally responsive teaching #OEWeek oercommons.org/hubs/professio…

T-Minus 3 hours... Join us! Learn more! Get involved! Webinar Link: csuci.zoom.us/j/81610851853 #OER #Open #GoOpen #OpenCI #OpenED #CAopenEd #HigherEd #EdChat #OpenEducation #HigherEducation #RealCollege #StudentEquity #EducationalEquity #BasicNeeds #TextbookBroke #SleepforDinner

Join us tomorrow from 12:00-1:00pm (PST) for @CAopenEd's #LaunchParty! Webinar Link: csuci.zoom.us/j/81610851853 *Due to potential security concerns & capacity issues, please note that this event has recently been changed to a #Webinar using the new Zoom ID above. See y'all there!

Join us... @CAopenED Launch Party! Wed, March 9th, 12-1pm (PST) csuci.zoom.us/j/8054373772 Faculty Fellow Spotlight: Kate Holvoet (@SDSU). Keynote Remarks: @HalPlotkin. @OEWeek, @AffordableCSU, @CSUCI, @CalState, @CalCommColleges, @UofCalifornia, @CreativeCommons, @BroomeLibrary

“It’s all about reducing non-tuition costs & other #student #equity issues that are barriers to #graduation…That’s how you change your #familytree, change that cycle [of #poverty], change the trajectory of your #future.” @CSUCI, @CalState, @AffordableCSU montecitojournal.net/2022/03/03/cal…

Yet another #OERSuccessStory: Since @MSULibrary & @MSU_Bookstore began their #textbook initiative 2 years ago, @ChristinaT2Day says 33 @MontanaState faculty have switched to #OER, saving 9K #realcollege students over $1M. #HigherEd #GoOpen #StudentEquity montana.edu/news/21880/msu…

Proud to see @CSUCI's #OpenCI efforts featured this morning on LA’s @SpecNews1SoCal. And special thx to @CalState's entire @AffordableCSU team for making the story possible. Too many names to tweet, but you know who you are. And. you. are. appreciated. spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/edu…

While much of our attention has been directed toward Gov. Newsom’s historic investment of $115 million in the Zero-Textbook-Cost degree program, there have been equally impactful projects across our other initiatives over the past year. hubs.li/Q013Lsd_0

Governor @GavinNewsom hopes to make #California a national model for #textbookaffordabilty with a $115M investment to “deal with the racket… that is the #textbook industry.” #OER #GoOpen #OpenEd #HigherEd #CAopenEd #StudentEquity #RealCollege #BasicNeeds insidehighered.com/news/2022/02/0…

In one semester @CSUCI saved students $1.8 million on textbook costs with #OER. We are thrilled to see #SparkGrant-supported projects like @CAopenEd help spread successes like this across the state! hubs.li/Q0138S9l0

Honored to learn "Textbook Broke: Textbook Affordability as a Social Justice Issue" was awarded @OpenEdGlobal's Open Research Award for 2021. #Congrats to coauthors Luis Sanchez, @MeganAKoch, @JaimeHannans, @NitzanNavick & Jade Young for making it happen. awards.oeglobal.org/awards/2021/op…