Honored to learn "Textbook Broke: Textbook Affordability as a Social Justice Issue" was awarded Open Education Global's Open Research Award for 2021. #Congrats to coauthors Luis Sanchez, Megan K. Schraedley (she/her), swae.eth 👑, Nitzan Navick & Jade Young for making it happen. awards.oeglobal.org/awards/2021/op…

In one semester CSU Channel Islands saved students $1.8 million on textbook costs with #OER. We are thrilled to see #SparkGrant-supported projects like California Alliance for Open Education help spread successes like this across the state! hubs.li/Q0138S9l0

Governor Gavin Newsom 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…

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

Proud to see CSU Channel Islands's #OpenCI efforts featured this morning on LA’s Spectrum News 1 SoCal. And special thx to The CSU's entire Affordable Learning $olutions 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…

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

“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.” CSU Channel Islands, The CSU, Affordable Learning $olutions montecitojournal.net/2022/03/03/cal…

Join us... California Alliance for Open Education Launch Party! Wed, March 9th, 12-1pm (PST) csuci.zoom.us/j/8054373772 Faculty Fellow Spotlight: Kate Holvoet (San Diego State University). Keynote Remarks: Hal Plotkin. Open Education Week (OEWeek), Affordable Learning $olutions, CSU Channel Islands, The CSU, California Community Colleges, University of California, Creative Commons, CSUCI Broome Library

Join us tomorrow from 12:00-1:00pm (PST) for California Alliance for Open Education'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!

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

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…

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…

“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/…

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/…

“#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/…

Thank you Gavin Newsom "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! California Community Colleges