How an OER Rookie Dove Deep Into a Zero-Cost Textbook Degree Program - Sydney Johnson, EdSurge

The campus is home to several longtime advocates of open and free learning materials. Those professors’ individual efforts got a boost in 2016, when Gov. Jerry Brown passed a budget proposal that would distribute $5 million to selected community colleges in the state to create Z-degree programs, and require all developed materials to hold a Creative Commons license, which allow people anywhere to use and adapt the texts. College of the Canyons was one of the first campuses to receive funds through the effort, and today it is one of 25 community colleges that the state is funding to implement Z-degrees. https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-03-28-how-an-oer-rookie-dove-deep-into-a-zero-cost-textbook-degree-program