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www.hoodrivernews.com Hood River News, Wednesday, February 11, 2015 A11 G REATER G ORGE 5 4 1 - 3 8 6 - 9 2 7 5 • 1206 Belmont St., Hood River T R A C I O w D O M I N G U E Z ne r / / Na i l Te c h / / S t y l i s t / / E s t h e t i c i a n Photo by Mark Gibson JOHN SCHOPPERT holds Open Source textbooks used at Columbia Gorge Community College, which cost students about $25 each and replace commercial textbooks priced at $185 each. The Gorge Open program, started in 2013, is helping teachers at the college adopt open source resources and has saved students over $35,000 in textbook costs in the past two years. CGCC finds ways to make textbooks more affordable By MARK GIBSON The Dalles Chronicle John Schoppert, director of library services at Colum- bia Gorge Community Col- lege, is on a mission to save students money. For the past two years, Schoppert has worked with instructors at the college to help them shift from com- mercial textbooks to Open Education Resources. Open Education Resources are textbooks and other ma- terials published online under a license that allows free and open use. They can be freely down- loaded, modified or printed. The OER program at CGCC, called Gorge Open, was start- ed in 2013. According to Schoppert, textbooks have increased in cost by 812 percent since 1978, almost 500 percent more than medical services increased in the same time frame. Students struggled to pur- chase textbooks at an aver- age cost of $1,200 a term. The OER funding of $6,500 has saved students $35,246 in textbook costs, Schoppert re- ported. “It’s a whole new way of teaching, when you are not relying on someone else’s textbook,” Schoppert ex- plained to the board at a re- cent meeting. “It’s a lot of work,” he added. “Some instructors wrote their own textbooks.” Others modified textbooks created at other colleges. Schoppert explained that a natural history textbook cre- ated for use in Florida, for example, may in large part meet the needs of a course in the Columbia River Gorge once habitat examples are modified to reflect the local area. “You add in all your own bells and whistles,” he ex- plained. The savings for students can be significant: A printed open textbook currently in use at the college costs about $25, and replaces a commer- cial textbook priced at $185. Other curriculum is based online, using resources and databases purchased by the college that are free to the student. Classes at CGCC that used OER resources in the winter term included fundamentals of music, U.S. government 1, human development, critical reading, college algebra, al- ternative energy resources, English composition and cascading style sheets. The online curriculum is not a complete success, Schoppert noted. “The prob- lem is, students like books, they like hardcover books.” Yet many online resources can be printed, if that is pre- ferred, and surveys on the open source resources used in various classes has been positive. The textbook affordability program recently received full support from the college board of directors, who voted unanimous in support of the program. Moving forward, Schop- pert hopes to continue to ex- pand the program into core courses, develop a faculty team to maintain sustain- ability, align the CGCC pro- gram with the Oregon high- er education coordinating commission textbook af- fordability program and partner with the state-wide OER librarian to build cur- riculum. HOODRIVERHOMES.COM Your Oregon & Washington Broker River City Tom Jenkins CRS, GRI Duncan Krummel, a music composition major in the School of Music at Ithaca Col- lege, was named to Dean’s List for the fall 2014 semester. 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