SUNY OER efforts

[D. Joe]

The last couple of years have seen New York state fund open education resources:

https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018/05/23/new-york-...

One manifestation of this is this set of courses:

http://commons.suny.edu/sunyoercommunitycourse/

the existence of which was recently brought to my attention. We haven't talked much about these efforts or made contacts with those at nearby SUNY campuses involved in these efforts, but my understanding from the OER event held at the UR last spring was that SUNY Geneseo is doing significant work with this.

see also

https://textbooks.opensuny.org/

http://www.nysed.gov/edtech/open-educational-resources

http://www.open-nys.org/

As it happens, though, there is a message at the root of the page on which those courses sit

http://commons.suny.edu/

that notes:

Commons Closing September 1; Groups Continue to Migrate to Workplace Environment

For the past year, SUNY Learning Commons Groups have been migrating from the commons.suny.edu WordPress platform to the new Commons via Facebook Workplace platform. Most groups have proactively migrated to the new space, enjoying the additional functionality of the system.  We thank you for making this transition!    As a courtesy, we do want to notify everyone that the WordPress Commons groups will be shutting down on September 1, 2018.

So, I don't know if only some of the Wordpress functionality is moving to the Facebook-hosted site and so that those courses will remain, or if those links will shortly be removed.