Orange Coast College is one of 12 schools selected to participate in the 2021-2022 OpenStax Institutional Partnership program at Rice University. As a participant in the network's first-year program, OCC will work to actively build and execute a strategy that will encourage greater use of free, flexible textbooks among its faculty and students. "OCC was chosen to participate in this strategic partnership with OpenStax by demonstrating an eagerness to drive adoption of open educational resources (OER)," says OCC OER Coordinator and Professor of History Melissa Archibald. "Free to access and fully modifiable, OER provides students and educators with fair and flexible teaching and learning materials."
