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From a 2014 American Association of Community Colleges presentation with Dr. Jack Lewis, President of New River Community College, Dr. Van Wilson, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Services for the VCCS, and Dr. Dan DeMarte, Vice President of Academic Affairs of Tidewater Community College. Faculty have a wealth of new digital resources available to them that, when integrated effectively,can offer students an enhanced educational experience. Colliding with the promise of these transformative technologies is the decades-old problem of textbook affordability. Four innovative projects highlight Virginia’s community colleges’ efforts to address textbook affordability: a multi-college committee investigating strategies for reducing textbook costs; the first OER degree in the nation; a college-developed site for sharing OER; and an incentive grant to encourage faculty of high enrollment courses to adopt and integrate OER.
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The Digital Revolution Will Be Live-streamed
How Virginia’s Community Colleges Are Using Digital Technologies to Reduce Textbook Costs and Increase Student Success
Virginia Community College System Textbook Costs & Digital Learning Resources Workgroup
Tidewater Community CollegeZ-Degree Project
New River Community CollegeOpen Text Initiative System
Virginia Community College System Chancellor’s OER Adoption Fund
ReengineeringTextbook Costs & Digital
Learning Resources Work Group
on TASK FORCECOLLEGE TEXTBOOKS
2004
TEXTBOOK COSTS & DIGITAL LEARNING RESOURCESWORKGROUP
Explore how networked digital technology can best be leveraged to lower the overall cost of textbooks, including using open educational resources
Examine VCCS administrative practices and policies that unnecessarily add to the cost of academic textbooks
Investigate ways which currently licensed electronic resources can be used in electronic "course packs," as a substitute for text books, or for the supplementary material often required for a course of study
Identify opportunities for interested VCCS faculty to explore using openly licensed resources in their courses
Recommend strategies and policies for creating an institutional culture that embraces and practices openness, transparency, collaboration, and sharing.
Examine the current relevance of printed textbooks in an age of interactive, web-based content, digital publishing, and collaborative social networks.
SUBCOMMITTEESFINANCIAL AID
BOOKSTORE CONTRACTS
PUBLISHERS
ACCESSIBILITY
SURVEY
MOOC
FINANCIAL AIDFor VCCS students receiving
financial aid, textbook purchase options are limited to
the college bookstore
STORECONTRACTS
The terms of a college’s
bookstore contract can have
a long-term impact on future
textbook affordability efforts
TEXTBOOKPUBLISHERS
ACCESSIBILITY
TEACHING& LEARNING
LIBRARYS
Libraries and library staff are essential for any serious textbook affordability effort to have long-term sustainability
INSTITUTIONAL
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”
–Peter Drucker
& FACULTY CULTURE
resourceseducational
Z
Tidewater Community College Z-Degree Project
degree°
CHANCELLOR’SOER ADOPTION
GRANT
$
1. BIO1012. BIO 1023. BUS 1004. CHM 1115. CST 1006. ENG 111
7. ENG1128. HIS 1019. ITE 11510.MTH 16311.PSY 20112.SDV 100
FALL 2013
$
520 Students20 sections
12 colleges$52,000
FALL 2013
http://www.slideshare.net/richardsebastian
OpenEd 2014Nov. 19-21, 2014
Arlington, VAhttp://openedconference.org/2014/
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