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Posted by Una Daly on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013

Dean Florez, Barbara Illowsky, and Michelle Pilati panelists

Dean Florez, Barbara Illowsky, Michelle Pilati

Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources and the California CCConfer team for a free webinar April 30, 10:00 am Pacific featuring a panel discussion on efforts to reboot the California’s higher education system with Open Education, MOOCs, and an online Student Access Platform.

The California legislature, responding to shrinking education budgets and huge wait lists for college gateway courses, has proposed:

  1. Open textbooks
  2. Credit for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
  3. California Online Student Access Platform

Three leaders in the field share their thoughts on this revolution in higher education. What are the next steps for ensuring the success of our students? How do we continue the prominence of California’s institutions of higher education?

Dean Florez, CEO of the Twenty Million Minds Foundation, and former majority leader of the California senate, has been a driving force behind the new legislation and instrumental in bringing stakeholders and MOOC thought leaders together to reboot higher education in California.

Dr. Barbara Illowsky, Mathematics professor and open textbook faculty co-author at De Anza Community College was an early supporter of open educational resources to make college affordable, Dr. Illowsky has continued to push for digital interactivity to improve student learning outcomes.  In the next academic year, she plans to teach an introductory, descriptive, not-for-credit statistics MOOC.

Dr. Michelle Pilati, Psychology professor at Rio Hondo College and current president of the California Community College Academic Senate has been closely involved with the implementation strategy for the new legislation to set up an Open Educational Resources (OER) Council containing faculty representatives from the three public higher education systems.

Sign up here to attend the webinar on April 30, 10:00 am U.S. Pacific time.

Posted by Una Daly, Community College Outreach Director at OpenCourseware Consortium
unatdaly@ocwconsortium.org