CCCOER: The Zero Textbook Degree
Date: NaT

Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for this free, open webinar:

Date: Wednesday, March 11
Time: 10 am PST; 1:00 pm EST
With increasing costs of textbooks and instructional materials, colleges have been promoting adoption of open educational resources to make sure all students have equal access to their required textbooks.  However, at many colleges, only a few departments have adopted OER so most students still have expensive textbooks to buy for other courses.  With the Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree program, students can be assured that all courses in their degree program will use OER-based materials that do not have additional costs associated with them. Recent data suggests that reducing textbook costs through an OER-degree approach improves student completion rates, decreases withdrawal rates, and positively impacts student persistence and success.

A Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree initiative will be featured in this webinar along with programs at two colleges which are already implementing whole degree programs that feature courses using exclusively OER-based materials.

Featured speakers:
TJ Bliss, Education Program Officer at the Hewlett Foundation
Linda Williams, Business Faculty, Tidewater Community College, VA
Kimberly Burkle, faculty at Northern Virginia Community College.