Start your search with the ASCCC OER Resources.
OER Collections for the California Community Colleges, organized by discipline, CSU general education requirements, Transfer Model Curricula, and C-ID are available, as well as a summary of OER gaps. The OERI’s curated collections are developed by the OERI Discipline Leads. Access ASCCC OERI Supported Resources for an overview of the OER that has been supported by the OERI, as well as an overview of the OER that is presently being developed.
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Professional Development - Learn about, and register for, professional development courses offered by ZTC TAP.
Help Desk: Searching for OER - Request assistance from the ZTC TAP Team to find OER materials for your course.
Help Desk: Open Licensing - Get help with Creative Commons licensing.
OER Textbooks - Links to online textbook repositories.
The above website links connect to the Technical Assistance Provider (TAP) for the California Community College Chancellor's Office Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Grant Program. They offer California Community Colleges free resources and services to support their successful development and implementation of ZTC pathways, leveraging the largest-ever public investment in Open Educational Resources (OER).
There are several places you can get help with OER on campus:
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS, developed by SUNY, currently searches open content from 115+ different OER repositories and includes textbooks, courses, audiobooks, videos, books, and more.
The Mason OER Metafinder searches 20+ major OER repositories and public domain sites in real-time, instantly returning the top several hundred or so most relevant hits from each site. It is maintained by George Mason University.
Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)Collaboration between the UC, CSU and California Community College System. The three State of California Higher Education Systems are working together to provide you easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks that everyone and anyone can use for teaching and learning
From the University of Minnesota, a curated website of OER textbooks in a variety of subjects.
This new OER repository has a lot of materials not found in other repositories. It's also very easy to use!
"OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network. Explore open education resources and join our network of educators dedicated to curriculum improvement."
A collection of open textbooks aligned with the top 40 highest enrolled subjects in British Columbia.
From CSU, "The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder web pages, together with associated comments, and bookmark collections, all intended to enhance the teaching experience of using a learning material. All of these items have been contributed by the MERLOT member community, who have either authored the materials themselves, or who have discovered the materials, found them useful, and wished to share their enthusiasm for the materials with others in the teaching and learning community. "
OpenStax has high quality open textbooks for the subjects of math, science, economics, psychology, sociology, and history.
This site hosts OER texts, primarily in the STEM field and recently got a grant from the Dept. of Ed. to expand their content.
- ADAPT provides a unique blend of pre-built, high-quality assessments alongside personalized learning models - ie Question Bank for Instructor accounts.
Open textbooks used by MIT's open courseware project.
A list of 200 free textbooks broken by subject.
Provides full courses as OER in a multitude of subjects and methods.
OER textbooks used to support Saylor Academy's open courses. These books cover a wide variety of subjects.
Resources, developer tools, and community
The California Open Online Library for Education (COOLforED) is provided through a partnership between the three State of California systems of higher education, including California Community Colleges and the California State University, and University of California systems.
Supporting a variety of disciplines and subject areas
New and improved website!
The CCC Community Hub is an Open Educational Resources (OER) network for collaboration among the California community college system. This hub came to be out of a demand for a localized repository with rich collaborating, sharing, and evaluation tools. All California Community Colleges have their own group inside the hub. There are also discipline hubs for the California community to work together on developing and supporting OER.
Provided by the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI)
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 84 different sources and contains 329,797 records. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.
Links to OER collections of full courses, textbooks, or any instructional materials including images, videos, or documents associated with teaching and learning.
Open textbook repository
Explore this catalog of courses curated from open educational resources (OER) and supported for Santa Ana College by Lumen Learning. Contact Lumen Learning to integrate these courses into face-to-face and online teaching at Santa Ana College.
Open textbooks offered in a variety of digital formats, across the disciplines, including CTE subjects.
Multimedia educational resources for learning and online teaching. You can limit to Creative Commons licensed materials within the "Licenses" menu options.
Open course content for a variety of subjects and disciplines
LibreCommons hosts curated Open Educational Resources from all 14 LibreTexts libraries in one convenient location.
Resources and media published under Creative Commons licenses
OER from leading colleges and universities
Career oriented (CTE) open educational resources
Links to a variety of resources
Enter the ISBN of a book below to find related FREE open textbooks.
The Wisc-Online digital library contains over 2,500 learning objects that are freely accessible to teachers and students at no cost and with copyright clearance for use in any classroom or online application. Also provides online game builder templates.
Media file repository for public domain and freely-licensed educational media content
Open Repositories, collections, tools. books/textbooks, courses, learning modules, blogs, and articles
Resources, support, professorial development opportunities, and community
Links to several OER Repositories and collections
An open access resource for faculty and librarians
A free Library of source texts [including works of literature] which are in the public domain or legally available for free redistribution. Wikisource is an official project of the Wikimedia Foundation and a sister project of Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
"A syndicated radio show and podcast that broadcasts weekly across North America. We are a long-format interview show that explores the connections between science, popular culture, history, and public policy, to help listeners understand the evidence and arguments behind what's in the news and on the shelves." -http://www.scienceforthepeople.ca/about
Free and open digital library of Workforce Training Materials
The CalArts Library provides this list of freely accessible video streaming sites.
OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.
Open access books spanning the disciplines
Open access scientific and scholarly journals
Most OER are licensed under Creative Commons. Creative Commons is a licensing system that allows you to grant certain rights to others, while retaining the copyright to your work. CC has several licenses, which are used for different purposes:
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.
This information is directly from Creative Commons.