The chapter ends with evaluations of the project thus far and recommendations for those wishing to begin a similar initiative. This chapter focuses on several OOEC mathematics courses, including the processes of team member selection, project workflow, content selection/creation, review, and making course content available. Daniel, Anna, Amanda, Shanna, Marcos, & Kaity Introduction: Course Content and Affordabilityįunded by a $1.3 million grant from the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE), the Ohio Open Ed Collaborative (OOEC) is a multi-institutional initiative that seeks to make high-impact courses at two- and four-year institutions across the state more affordable through the curation and creation of high-quality, peer-reviewed learning materials that are aligned to Ohio’s Transfer Assurance Guides (TAGs).
With users beyond Ohio able to adapt most of the content as well, this initiative adds valuable content that enables course instructors around the world to adapt affordable online content for their classes. This chapter focuses on effort to develop materials for mathematics courses, but the Ohio Open Ed Collaborative included courses from multiple disciplines for the Ohio higher education community. The materials developed are fully available online and are provided at no additional cost to students. The initiative described in this chapter is an example of how Ohio tackled this issue, providing access to course content for use across the state. With the cost of higher education increasingly on the minds of students and a rising amount of course time being spent in a virtual environment, initiatives to provide online course content at low or no cost to students are an important way to make higher education more affordable.
Tools Used: OER Commons, Ximera, LaTeX, Statewide Library Consortium System Type: public, community college, undergraduate, postgraduate Institutional System: Ohio Open Ed Collaborative
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