{"id":1658,"date":"2015-04-14T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T01:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/?page_id=1658"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:15:30","slug":"oer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/oer\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Educational Resources @ PCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>What is OER?<\/h4>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/studentpirgs.org\/2021\/02\/24\/fixing-the-broken-textbook-market-third-edition\/\">report released by the Student PIRGS<\/a>, 65% of students reported not purchasing a required textbook at least once due to cost, and 90% of those students said they were concerned their grade would suffer because of this choice. Many instructors are adopting<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_educational_resources\"> Open Educational Resources<\/a>, which are shared freely on the web, instead of traditional textbooks to save students money and more effectively serve teaching and learning.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about OER at <a href=\"http:\/\/faq.openoregon.org\/\">Open Oregon Educational Resources\u2019 FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Why Open Education Matters<\/h4>\n<p>This 2:46 video examines the high cost of college textbooks and how it affects the student experience at PCC.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-embed-wrapper video-embed-16x9\" data-video-provider=\"youtube\" data-video-id=\"gcHV8dipuj8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-embed-iframe\"  title=\"Textbook Affordability at Portland Community College\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gcHV8dipuj8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tInformation about Open Educational Resources (OER) at PCC and beyond. \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14053,"parent":0,"menu_order":48,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-sidebar.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1658","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42762,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1658\/revisions\/42762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}