About Us

Launched in fall 2019, the Regional Leadership for Open Education (RLOE) initiative was motivated by CCCOER leaders’ growing need to collaborate across institutional and state boundaries to find solutions for issues impacting OER adoption at diverse, large multi-institution systems. Many open education leaders face similar issues of advocacy and implementation beyond their home institution and wish for the opportunity to craft common solutions and eliminate duplication of efforts. Leaders from colleges, universities, library consortia, and government agencies were invited to participate in four workgroups to discuss and build solutions. Each workgroup brainstormed at a pre-conference day at Glendale Community College, the day before OpenEd Conference 2019. The time was spent in separate workgroups discussing needs and projects that might be approached collaboratively to solve common issues, and finally a sharing out to the entire group. Over the next few months, virtual meetings were held to narrow down the focus of the projects to be pursued in 2020. This blog is a sharing of these early efforts and an invitation for community feedback.