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What is OER/ZTC

and How to find them

John Chan and Cristina Moon

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What is OER?

”Open Educational Resources” means high-quality teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released pursuant to an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others, and may include other resources that are legally available and free of cost to students.  

Open educational resources include, but are not limited to, full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, faculty-created content, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. --California Education Code, Section 78052 (b) (4)

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What does “open” mean?

Defining the "Open" in Open Content and Open Educational Resources

The terms "open content" and "open educational resources" describe any copyrightable work (traditionally excluding software, which is described by other terms like "open source") that is licensed in a manner that provides users with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities:

  • Retain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage)
  • Reuse - the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video)
  • Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language)
  • Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup)
  • Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend)

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This material was created by David Wiley and published freely under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license at http://opencontent.org/definition/.

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Senate Bill 1359 and OER

Senate Bill 1359, (Block, 2016) requires California Community Colleges to include a symbol/logo in a conspicuous location in the online version of the campus course schedule by January 1, 2018, for courses that exclusively use digital course materials that are free of charge to students and therefore not required to be purchased. The Chancellor’s Office has established a zero textbook cost symbol/logo the community college system has the option to use.

CA Education Code 66406.9.

  1. (A) Clearly highlight, by means that may include a symbol or logo in a conspicuous place on the online campus course schedule, the courses that exclusively use digital course materials that are free of charge to students (“no-cost”) and may have a low-cost option for print versions.

(B) The course materials described in subparagraph (A) may include OER, institutionally licensed library materials that all students enrolled in the course have access to use, and other properly licensed and adopted materials.

  • Clearly communicate to students that the course materials used for the courses identified pursuant to paragraph (1) are free of charge and therefore not required to be purchased.

(C) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2018.

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Why consider OER at Chabot?

According to the Chabot Fall 2019 Student Satisfaction Survey, results indicate:

  • ​74% of students experience financial hardships that they believe slow their progress to reaching their educational goal.
  • When asked about specific financial hardships, 42% of survey respondents report having difficulty paying for books.

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Comparing similar questions in Fall surveys from Fall 1995 to Fall 2019

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Chabot College Fall 2019 Student Satisfaction Survey: Overall Results

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ZTC/LTC

Spring 2021 Schedule

Zero cost / FREE textbook materials for this course

Low cost textbook materials for this course.

Make sure to let your division know that your course/section are ZTC or LTC.

What have we done at Chabot so far?

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Is my course ZTC?

The State (Senate Bill 1359 ) has established parameters for what constitutes “zero-textbook-cost”:

  • ​If all assigned textbooks are optional for the section
  • If all assigned textbooks are identified as OER (Open Educational Resource) textbooks
  • If there is no assigned textbook
  • If the assigned textbooks (including course readers) are available online for free (i.e. through library databases) AND students are not required to buy a physical copy

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Note:

  1. For course readers and online materials, faculty are responsible for adhering to copyright and accessibility requirements. Copyright Law Basics for Faculty (American University), Federal Disability Acts & California Code
  2. Your course maybe ZTC but it might not show the ZTC symbol. Please check the class schedule.

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Other considerations:

  • Material fees are separate and do not exclude faculty from having a ZTC course
  • If students need to pay fees to access a software platform to do coursework or homework, this counts as a cost. The course section would NOT qualify.

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Is my course LTC?

Chabot College has established parameters for what constitutes LTC “low-textbook-cost”:

If the total textbooks cost for a section is $50 or less.

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Note:

Remember that even if you tell the students to obtain a cheaper earlier edition of a textbook, the bookstore as well as other vendors have a limited number of the book. As a result, students may not be able to buy the book(s) for the class for under $50.

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Work in Progress

These discipline specific lists were created by faculty in the discipline in fall 2020 as part of the Chabot OER pilot. The lists will be updated regularly. If you do have new OER material that would like to add to the list please contact Cristina Moon.

OER/ZTC Efforts at Chabot

Page created by Christina Mendoza

Fall 2020:

  • 14 faculty from 12 disciplines participated in the fall OER pilot representing all 6 divisions. Discipline specific lists were created and are in the Chabot: Tools for Teaching Online Canvas site.
  • Flex-day OER: 2 sessions on OER and 12 sessions on discipline specific OER.
  • ZTC/LTC logos in CLASSWEB. An informational flyer regarding ZTC/LTC was included on the printed schedule plus we have a new website (work in progress).
  • ZTC degrees and certificates: Initial mapping of Comm Studies and Sociology.

Need access to Chabot: Tools for Teaching Online Canvas site?

Contact Online Teaching Support.

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Intermediation : OER Guides

Webster’s Dictionary defines intermediation as, “ the act of coming between.” The idea is that instead of simply looking by yourself for every OER under the sun, you can find something that is curated.

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For example, when we were helping faculty to look for OER, many of the materials we suggested often showed up on certain lists such as the ones below:

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California and “Homegrown” OER Repositories and Resources

😀Academic Senate for California Community Colleges - Open Educational Resources Initiative -Collections and repositories gathered by the ASCCC. The website also provides important OER webinars, developers, and liaisons. [State sponsored curated resources.]

😀Academic Senate for California Community Colleges - Open Educational Resources Initiative: Funded OER Projects

  • RFP I-(2019) In Spring of 2019, the ASCCC OERI selected its first round of funded OER projects. This short-term opportunity provided California Community College faculty with an opportunity to obtain funding for an OER project that would serve faculty (and students) across the state
  • RFP II - (2020) This is the most recent group of projects funded. 22 projects from Biological Anthropology to Intro to Race and Ethnicity/Intro to Social Justice.

Collection of OER Texts Developed at College of the Canyons (URL updated 12-6-19)

Resources Shared Via the CCCOER listserv – This list of resources is organized by discipline and maintained by Larry Green of Lake Tahoe Community college.

California Open Online Library for Education (COOL4ED) – Faculty from the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges have worked together to provide easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks that everyone and anyone can use for teaching and learning.

😀LibreTexts provides access to OER resources and a platform for faculty to curate and compile resources. LibreTexts is based at UC Davis.

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners, and researchers. MERLOT is a “referratory”, providing links to resources houses elsewhere.

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Other OER Repositories

  • BC Campus Open Ed was originally tasked to create a collection of open textbooks aligned with the top 40 highest-enrolled subject areas in the province (British Columbia). A second phase in the spring of 2014 focused on additional 20 textbooks targeting trades, technology, and skills training would be developed.
  • Canvas Commons can be accessed when a faculty member is logged into their Canvas account. “Commons” allows for the sharing of resources that can be directly imported into a Canvas course.
  • GALILEO Open Learning Materials provides access to OER throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.
  • Lyrx provides a limited collection of open texts for accounting, business math, economics, and math *
  • Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) provides a real-time federated search for OER content. The OER Metafinder performs a search across 18 different sources of open educational materials.”
  • MIT OpenCourseWare consists of open-licensed electronic versions of print books, self-published online books, and course notes which are so thorough that they may serve as an alternative to a conventional textbook. [Over 20 years of online teaching and learning. Millions of users.]
  • OER Commons is a public digital library of OER. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
  • Open Oregon Educational Resources – Promotes textbook affordability for community college and university students, and facilitates widespread adoption of open, low-cost, high-quality materials.
  • Open SUNY Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants.
  • Open Textbook Library – The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks. Housed at University of Minnesota, resources can typically be downloaded in various formats. [The Yelp of OER textbooks]
  • 😀OpenStax – Based at Rice University, OpenStax offers a limited collection of high quality textbooks. [More than 2 million students using these OER textbooks.]
  • The Orange Grove repository is Florida’s digital repository for instructional resources. The repository provides an environment for educators to search for, use, remix, share, and contribute educational resources.
  • Saylor Academy – Saylor Academy does not own the copyright to any books on this page. Each book’s open license is an agreement between you as the end user and the copyright holder. We do not have supplements (e.g. lecture slides and question banks) available for these textbooks, but our open online courses are useful teaching tools. If you create your own supplementary materials for a book, please consider sharing them under an open license for the benefit of other educators.
  • Skills Commons – The US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program has created a free and open online library called SkillsCommons containing free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development.

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Open Courseware

"An OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality college and university‐level educational materials. These materials are organized as courses, and often include course planning materials and evaluation tools as well as thematic content.OpenCourseWare are free and openly licensed, accessible to anyone, anytime via the internet." from the Open Educational Consortium

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Open Videos

  • HippoCampus
  • Internet Archive
  • This library contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
  • Museum of the Moving Image�The Moving Image Source Research Guide is a gateway to the best online resources related to film, television, and digital media.
  • Open Video Project�The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.
  • TED Talks
  • Vimeo
  • Wikimedia Commons
  • YouTube

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Open Journals

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Libretext

  • A repository of OER
  • Can combine various OER textbooks together
  • Use Remixer to combine/edit books and units/chapters.

Libretexts Construction Guide

Importing into Canvas

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Other ways to make your course ZTC/LTC

Library’s Role

Books

Library Catalog

Permanent Link & Search Within

Download chapters/print. It depends.

Overdrive

More like checking out a book.

Videos

Share->Permalink or Embed

Kanopy

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PBS Collection

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Other ways to make your course ZTC/LTC

Library’s Role Continued

Buying Books

EBSCO ECM

Unlimited, 3 seats, 1 seat

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Overdrive : Purchase

Overdrive : Search

Check out : 21 days. Download viewer. 80% : Lease 24 check outs. 20% : Ownership

Videos

Kanopy Search

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Library Advice on Materials w/ Copyright Protection

Videos

  • Downloading automatically violates copyright law.
  • Streaming is morally suspect but not illegal.
  • Paid viewing party possible via Amazon and Netflix.

Books

  • Cannot download, scan more than a chapter or two.
  • Cannot post on the open web or leave up for a long time (more than a semester).

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ASCCC OERI: Upcoming Webinars

More OERI Webinars and Events

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OER NEWS

Open Ed Week: March 1-5, 2021

An annual celebration, Open Education Week is a great opportunity for sharing and learning about the latest OER efforts in Open Education worldwide.

Presenters from all over the world will be showcasing new OER, new technology, and having an open discussion on OER use.

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Are you interested in OER/ZTC?

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