[Factc] FEEDBACK NEEDED: Proposal, Opentextbook for Proftech

[Jennifer Whetham]

Please see a message below from Dr. Boyoung Chae in our Educational Technology & Open Education department at SBCTC:

SBCTC will be applying for a Department of Education (DOE) grant to develop a set of open textbooks in professional technical programs such as welding, automotive, health care, early childhood education, etc.

  *   Dr. Chae has been working with the Workforce Education Council (WEC) to identify faculty members to determine the small set of courses to join the first pilot.
  *   Dr. Chae still needs to identify more professional-technical courses for the first pilot.

ACTION ITEM: Please contact Dr. Chae at bchae at sbctc.edu if you have recommendations for potential courses.

THANK YOU!

Jennifer


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Jennifer Whetham (pronouns: she/her/hers)

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Hope you all stay safe and well!



So many of you forwarded me the new OpenEd grant announcement from DOE (thank you!!) yesterday and wondered about SBCTC’s plan. I think it will be beneficial if I share what has been done and discussed. :-)



As reported during the ELC/LLC meeting, SBCTC has been preparing a proposal to submit for this grant for a while. We expected this grant to be released around this time as DOE opened the public comment period a couple months ago.



Among the many topics considered, it has been decided that the proposal will be about developing a set of open textbooks in professional technical programs such as welding, automotive, health care, early childhood education, etc.



We have had webinars and meetings with workforce deans/VPs and faculty members in the Prof Tech area to determine the small set of courses to join the first pilot, and as shared during the ELC/LLC meeting, even ran a survey to get some recommendations (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/wa-proftech).



Thanks to many ELC/LLC/Workforce deans who connected us to their faculty members (plus survey results), we were able to identify a few courses that could be good contenders, but we still need to identify more.



Please feel free to directly send me your questions or thoughts. I would most welcome any recommendations on potential courses or any opportunities to chat with your Prof Tech faculty members.



Thanks,

Boyoung





[sbctc logo]Boyoung Chae, Ph.D.

Policy Associate, Educational Technology & Open Education

Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

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Texts Welcome!


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