OER BASICS I (Archived Version)
An excellent starting point for learning more about OER from the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI). ASCCC has been hosting subject-specific OER Webinars since Fall 2018 and has launched its statewide OERI in Spring 2019. See upcoming & archived webinars.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are free, or low-cost, online teaching and learning resources that save your students money and support their success. Materials in the public domain, as well as those no longer restricted by copyright, can be considered OER. OER include digital materials such as:
OPEN TEXTBOOKS
FULL COURSES or MODULES
SYLLABI
LECTURES
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
QUIZZES
GAMES & SIMULATIONS
VIDEOS
IMAGES and more
Image: OER Global Logo. 2012. Jonathas Mello. CC BY 2.0
The 5Rs of OER: OER materials are released under Creative Commons (CC) licensing terms by which users have free and perpetual permission to
ALL ABOUT OER-OER Toolkit 2020
Students' Voices from Holyoke Community College
Listen to community college students tell how the cost of textbooks negatively impacts their college success.
From the 2016 Florida Virtual Campus Student Textbook & Course Materials Survey
What are the impacts of adopting OER?
Customize the OER ADOPTION IMPACT CALCULATOR to calculate the impact of adopting OER at CCC. The calculator is hosted by LumenLearning, developer of affordable OER solutions for colleges.
This guide is adapted from the Lansing Community College (LCC) Library Research Guide on Open Educational Resources (OER)
by Regina Gong and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.