With the support of Affordable Learning Georgia, and with institutional support from faculty and administration, the College has now adopted open or low cost educational resources in 12 courses in the core curriculum institution. To further encourage and support the evaluation of new OER alternatives, the Office of Academic Affairs has launched an OER Reviewer initiative, where faculty members receive a small stipend to engage in additional review of OERs.
Measure, metric, or data element
Student savings per year generated by the adoption of open or low cost educational resources.
Baseline measures
After receiving the first at-scale Affordable Learning Georgia grant, CCGA students started saving $312,000 per year.
Interim Measures of Progress
Since this first ALG grant, which transformed College Algebra, Trigonometry, Precalculus, and Probability and Statistics, the institution has transformed or is in the process of transforming Principles of Macroeconomics, Principles of Microeconomics, Introduction to Psychology, Introduction to Sociology, Principles of Chemistry I and II, and Organic Chemistry I and II.
Measures of Success
More than $649,000 in student savings per year by 2017.
The institution has received funding from the Affordable Learning Georgia initiative for transformation projects in Mathematics, Chemistry and Psychology. The institution continues to raise awareness regarding the elevated cost of textbooks, and the final goal is to have at least one course in each of the core areas (A through E), allowing students to complete most of their core courses with low or no cost of textbooks.
