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This is a write-up of an interview with Donna Gaudet, Head of Mathematics Department, SCC. The interview was conducted by Derek Moore, Instructional Designer at eLSI, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Professor Donna Gaudet, maths head at Scottsdale Community College (SCC)  in Arizona, leads a team of 19 mathematics faculty who, since 2012, have been creating a range of open education resources (OER) in mathematics, right across the department.  Since their decision to go open a year and a half ago, the math faculty members of SCC have been prolific and authored numerous resources including a number of workbooks – three of them over 300 pages and one over 500 pages long. The titles include Basic Arithmetic (2nd edition), Introductory Algebra (3rd edition) and Intermediate Algebra (3rd edition) and these books were released in time for the 2013 semester.

As anyone who has authored a textbook can attest to, publishing educational materials is a time consuming activity not to be taken lightly. I recently had the opportunity to interview Donna, via Skype, about their efforts and to ask her more about the backstory to their decision to convince a maths department to put all their efforts into creating open educational resources for all of the pre-college classes.

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