ELAC Students: While OER has a longer definition, you should know that classes that use OER are those that do not require students to purchase a textbook or access code. These classes are also known as Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC).
You can search for OER/ZTC classes in the ELAC and LACCD Schedule of Classes under "Class Search Type" as "Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC)." Additionally, there is a search option for "Low Cost Textbook Classes"--the textbooks and other materials in these classes are under $50. See: "Students: How to find OER classes!" for more details.
ELAC faculty have been involved in the creation of OER that are valuable sources for those of us here at ELAC and in the greater higher education community!
Textbooks:
Canvas Modules:
Are you an ELAC professor who has created any OER? Email concofme@elac.edu to be added to this list!. We want to celebrate your good work!
“Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.”
"5Rs Graphic" Lumen Learning, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
Open educational resources (OER) include any and all educational resources that are completely free to use:
OERs also use Creative Commons (CC) licenses, which give everyone from individual creators to large institutions a standardized way to grant the public permission to use their creative work under copyright law. From the reuser’s perspective, the presence of a Creative Commons license on a copyrighted work answers the question, What can I do with this work?
Definition adapted from "About CC Licenses" Creative Commons, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
In ZTC marked courses, students do not incur any costs for obtaining course materials. There are multiple ways to get a course to ZTC. Using OER is one (extremely important) way to get it there. However, faculty can also use:
**Class sets of novels and other volumes provided by the institution may also be used if there are no equivalent OERs or other free resources.**
ZTC Wheel by Ame Maloney for Skyline ZTC is licensed CC BY.