[Bcoel] Fwd: Oct 19: OER Degrees Community Meeting

Hi there everyone, I thought some of you may be interested in forwarding this to your faculty. I know that Lin Brander is having conversations at BCIT for a no cost degree. Yay! The faculty may be interested in this event. Cheers and have a great weekend everyone. Rosario Passos Advisor, Open Education BC campus | connect.collaborate.innovate. 236-888-8599 | rosario.passos(a)bccampus.ca 200-555 Seymour Street | Vancouver BC V6B 3H6 bccampus.ca | @BCcampus | #BCcampus Twitter: @PW_Passos | Skype: Portuguese_woman From: "Una Daly" <unatdaly(a)gmail.com> To: cccoer-advisory(a)googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 3:01:30 PM Subject: Oct 19: OER Degrees Community Meeting Dear OER Community — In June, the national community college reform network Achieving the Dream (ATD) announced the largest initiative of its kind to develop degree programs using high quality open educational resources (OER). Involving 38 community colleges in 13 states, it is designed to help remove financial roadblocks that can derail students’ progress and to spur other changes in teaching and learning and course design that will increase the likelihood of degree and certificate completion. Join us and invite your colleagues for an interactive webinar to hear early lessons learned including start-up considerations by participants of the ATD OER Degree program. Find out more about how your college’s OER efforts can benefit from the findings and resources being developed by this program. When: Wednesday, October 19, 10amPST/1pmEST Featured Speakers: * Richard Sebastian, Director of OER Degrees, Achieving the Dream * More to be announced soon … Participant Login Information: No pre-registration is necessary. Please use the link below on the day of the webinar to login and listen. Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android: http://www.cccconfer.org/GoToMeeting?SeriesID=508b55fb-bdc9-44cf-aa98-a8649… Dial-in access if needed: 1-913-312-3202 (passcode: 704981) READ THIS PRIOR TO YOUR FIRST CCC CONFER MEETING TO ENSURE YOUR COMPUTER IS READY! TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE: CCC Confer Client Services – Mon to Fri; 8:00am – 4:00pm * Telephone: 760-744-1150 ext 1537, 1554 or 1542 * Email: clientservices(a)cccconfer.org Best Regards, Una ------------------------------------------------ Una Daly Director, Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) Open Education Consortium http://oerconsortium.org (408)348-4346 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CCCOER Advisory" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cccoer-advisory+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout .