Day 13 Post

Why Open Makes Sense to Me?

Originally open meant a book I could use and distribute without having to pay great expense for.  Now open means materials that there are materials that we could adopt as a college and have helps that we can use and modify; perhaps using an online course homework system at a reasonable cost.  Currently my school has been renting books to students to keep cost down and has not used online homework systems or e-books because of the cost to students.  There is talk about going to e-books and more use of technology.  This may start in the math field that I teach in.  OERs such as OpenStax may help us achieve both quality technology and reasonable cost.

For goals, I plan to talk to the Vice President of Academic Affairs about presenting some information about OERs at the Fall 2018 Faculty In-service.  I also want to share with her about the Open Education Campus Action Plan and see if we can get a College Action Team for this.