Open Oregon has awarded its 2016-2017 OER grants and nine Portland Community College teams responding to a call for proposals to augment, or adopt OER for instruction in PCC Courses. The classes, teams, and their projects are listed below. OER @ PCC Congratulates all of the grant winners!
| PCC Class | Grant Team | Project Description |
|---|---|---|
| WR 121 |
Patty Wilde Ashley Benson William Merck Kelly LeFave Dana Harker Amy Forester |
The team will adopt and use Robin Jeffery’s open educational resource About Writing, with sections of PCC Writing 121 classes. The team will then conduct an assessment and share results with their colleagues. |
| Math 105M: Math in Society | Morgan Chase | Authoring a chapter on logic concepts to supplement the David Lipman text Math in Society . |
| CAS 170 Beginning Excel | Diane Shingledecker
Noreen Brown Barb Lave Julie Romey Mary Schatz |
Combining content from How to Use Microsoft Excel: The Career in Practice Series with material developed by the team to embed more critical thinking in the CAS 170 experience. |
| G 148 Volcanoes and Earthquakes | Eriks Puris
Andrew Hilt Marjan Rotting Megan Scott |
Developing volcano content to supplement the open textbook. |
| EC 201 | Erik Dean
Justin Elardo Scott McConnell Mitch Green |
Developing economic pluralist material to be included in or supplementary to the OER textbook OpenStax College’s Principles of Microeconomics to support core course outcomes. |
| MTH 243/244 | Ralf Youtz
Emiliano Vega Jonathan Wherry Adam Atkinson Rita Luetkenhaus Michael Marciniak |
A four-academic quarter pilot of the OER text Introductory Statistics to fulfill the course content of the PCC Statistics sequence and the development of additional support material for OER statistical software. |
| WR 227 – Tech Writing | Megan Savage
Billy Merck Allison Gross Jodi Naas |
Authoring four additional chapters to supplement the OER text Teaching Technical Writing. The chapters will cover document design, job application materials, transcultural communication, and writing about writing. |
| PHL 191 | Martha Bailey
Hannah Love Joe Corrado Martin Wittenberg |
Developing a complete OER or set of OER for teaching PHL 191 and its equivalent Oregon courses. The project will include the development of summative assessment resources. |
| MSD 101 | Mary Schutten
Rebecca Robinson |
Building a repository of OER materials for Management/Supervisory Development courses. The project includes multiple pilot teaching and augmentations of the material. |