August 2 Keynote
Education as a Right Not a Privilege – How Two Colleges Are Seeing Access, Success, and Teaching and Learning Excellence Through OER and Zero Textbook Cost Initiatives
West Hills College Lemoore started its #OERevolution in 2017 and has seen incredible success in encouraging faculty to adopt and create open educational resources to provide zero textbook cost (ZTC) options. To date, the initiative has saved students more than $6.5M. Cosumnes River College has been working to become a ZTC college since 2021 and has seen exponential growth in faculty adopting OER and ZTC options going from 162 ZTC sections to more than 700 in less than two years. Join us as two colleges share key steps, lessons learned, and dispel myths about taking on ambitious OER/ZTC goals to support students.
Andi Adkins Pogue
Librarian and Affordable Educational Resources Committee Chair
Cosumnes River College
Sacramento, California
Andi Adkins Pogue is a Public Services Librarian and Open Educational Resources (OER) Specialist at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento. For the past two years, she has been heading up CRC’s efforts to become a zero textbook cost (ZTC) college. Under her leadership, CRC has gone from 162 ZTC sections in fall 2021 to more than 700 ZTC sections (nearly 60%) in spring 2023. Andi is CRC’s liaison for the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges OER Initiative. She also serves as chair of CRC’s Affordable Educational Resources Committee. Andi has authored the OER, Critical Thinking and Information Literacy, and has helped many CRC faculty remix their own OER on the LibreTexts platform.
Andi holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of New Mexico and a Masters of Library and Information Science from San Jose State University.
James Preston
President
West Hills College Lemoore
Lemoore, California
Mr. James Preston has been the President at West Hills College Lemoore since January 2022. He has 29 years of educational experience including 17 years of teaching and 12 years in various administrative roles. He is committed to the college vision of the "relentless pursuit of student success” and has led a number of initiatives at the college including innovative faculty professional development, program and curriculum support through a Guided Pathways model, and leadership in the development of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Zero-Textbook Cost Degrees and Certificates. James has most recently served as the CEO representative on the Chancellor’s Office Taskforce for Burden Free Instructional Materials and just completed his first year on the statewide Affordability Taskforce as a regional CEO representative.