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Open Educational Resources (OER) & Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) at GCC

Find Open Educational Resources

1) Find curated OER in your discipline with ASCCC OERI

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In order to facilitate faculty consideration of OER and the development of OER/ZTC degree pathways, the ASCCC OERI has worked with its Discipline Leads to provide curated lists of resources for California Community College faculty. The resources are organized by discipline and C-ID. See the current lists here: Open Educational Resources by Discipline.


 

2) Discover more resources in OASIS

Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 114 different sources and contains over 440,000 records.


 

3) Find reviews in Open Textbook Library

Open Textbook Library

 

Open Textbook Library is a smaller library of open textbooks that meet certain criteria, including being in use at multiple higher education institutions, or affiliated with a higher education institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. Many of the included open textbooks have in-depth, public reviews by peers.


 

4) Do a deep search with Mason OER Metafinder

MOM iconMason OER Metafinder (MOM)
 
Advanced Search

The Mason OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button. It includes results from repositories of older works in the public domain alongside OER.


OER on Canvas

Search the Canvas Commons for Courses, Workshops, and course materials.

OpenStax provides course shells for their materials, below is just a snapshot of their course/text selection. 

Image of Open Stax course sells in the canvas commons

 

Examples of OER training modules.

OER Canvas module from Suzanne WakimOER Canvas module from PCC

 


   All content on this guide is licensed CC BY 4.0 International, except where otherwise noted.

Preferred attribution: Open Educational Resources (OER) & Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) at GCC by Glendale Community College (CC BY 4.0)


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