Name: Open All the Way Down: A Freely Reusable Toolkit for Scaling OER, Access, and Equity
Start: 2026-10-07T15:00:00-0400
End: 2026-10-07T15:30:00-0400

All sessions are available online except round tables, special activities, and workshops.

Open All the Way Down: A Freely Reusable Toolkit for Scaling OER, Access, and Equity

Wednesday October 7, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

5 DR3

ID: 33595

Open educational resources promise to democratize access to knowledge, but the organizational capacity to implement OER sustainably is rarely open itself. Colleges and institutions that want to launch or scale OER and Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) initiatives must typically build their infrastructure, workflows, faculty support systems, and assessment frameworks from scratch. This is its own barrier to the public good that open education aspires to serve.This session argues that opening up institutional knowledge, not just course content, is the next frontier for the open education movement. It introduces the CRC OER/ZTC Toolkit, developed at Cosumnes River College (CRC) in Sacramento, California, as a case study in what it looks like to treat implementation infrastructure as a public good.CRC serves a diverse student population in which many learners come from low-income households and communities historically underserved by higher education. Textbook costs were a documented barrier: students were delaying purchases, attempting courses without required materials, and in some cases dropping classes they could not afford. Beginning in 2021, a faculty librarian and OER coordinator began building the systems needed to address this - supporting faculty in adopting, remixing, and creating OER; developing workflows for identifying and advertising ZTC courses; and using student success data to make the case for continued institutional investment. By fall 2025, 78% of CRC course sections were designated Zero Textbook Cost, with documented gains in enrollment, course success rates, and degree completion.The CRC OER/ZTC Toolkit packages the lessons from this work into an openly licensed, freely reusable website. It includes implementation guides, faculty adoption workflows, open pedagogy resources, student focus group templates, and a data dashboard framework for tracking equity outcomes. Every element carries an open license, meaning any institution, anywhere, can copy, adapt, and redistribute the toolkit without asking permission and without starting from zero.This is the session's central contribution to the OEGlobal community: a concrete example of open licensing applied to the institutional infrastructure of OER work, not just the content.When colleges share their implementation knowledge openly, they extend the democratizing potential of open education beyond individual courses to the systems that make open education sustainable and scalable. This approach is especially significant for under-resourced institutions that lack the grant funding or staffing to build these systems independently.Attendees will have the opportunity to explore the toolkit directly and will leave with a clear understanding of its components, the equity impact data behind it, and practical strategies for adapting it to their own institutional or regional context. The session welcomes practitioners at any stage of OER work. Though it was designed for community colleges, the lessons learned could be applicable to any institution.

Speakers

Andi Adkins Pogue

Librarian, OER/ZTC Coordinator, Cosumnes River College

Andi Adkins Pogue is a faculty librarian and the OER/ZTC Coordinator at Cosumnes River College who has spent 16 years supporting equitable access to learning. She has been instrumental in building one of California's most active ZTC programs. She has authored OER, earned a Creative... Read More →

Wednesday October 7, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
5 DR3 MIT Samberg Conference Center, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 02139 USA

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Track Hacking the Open Ecosystem and Praxis for the Public Good

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