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A SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant (IITG) funded the development of a student success program at Tompkins Cortland Community College. The project, named Kaleidoscope, resulted in a significant increase in student success and retention rates and has improved student passing rates. In this program, faculty members worked through a course development process based on using open educational resources, or OER. This program is different from most OER programs in that instead of creating OER, the focus is on adopting existing OER to use in courses. The use of existing OER also saves students thousands of dollars in textbook costs.

Tompkins Cortland Community College will host a colloquium on Friday, March 28, funded by SUNY IITG, which will train faculty in the key areas of math and psychology. There will also be a general track for faculty who might be interested in other disciplines.

Watch a program overview video.
Watch a video that addresses faculty questions about the course development process.

For more information, please visit the Cvent website.