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OER Revision Funding Request Form

Looking to revise or customize an existing OER? Let COC's OER team know how we can support you by completing this OER Revision Funding Request Form. Thank you!

This resource course contains resources and guides on finding and using Open Educational Resources to support student learning and engagement! Explore this course, to learn how to use, find, and embed OER: What is OER?  How does using OER lead to student success? How does OER support anti-racist and equity-based pedagogy?  How do I find OER? What is legal to use?

• Top OER Repositories

  There are many excellent OER resources, we have compiled a list of what we believe to be the top five. This ranking is based on: ease of use, breadth of content, and how often the repositories are updated.

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• Understanding Creative Commons

  What does it mean if an academic resource is openly licensed? These resources explain open licensing under  and how this kind of licensing allows educators to freely use and share educational resources.

  To create a creative commons license click .

• ZTC Style Guide Packet & Templates

   

  The contains everything you need to begin branding and creating OER on your campus, including:

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  We recommend that you:

  1. Begin with the Style Guide Handbook Introduction - It will explain why this style guide was created and the values that stand behind it.
  2. Feel free to use these materials as they are or remix them, they are all under a  

  Feel free to contact the College of the canyons OER/ZTC team if you have any questions

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• How to Create ZTC with Open Educational Resources (OER)

  These resources will help explain the steps it takes to create an openly licensed teaching material.

  • ​ offers a free in depth tutorial on understanding and creating OERs.​ 

  • The Open Education Consortium has been a pioneer in the world of OER for the last decade, their Faculty: Creating OER's webpage includes direct simple information on the creation of openly licensed materials. 

  • offers a brief, big picture overview of the OER creation process.

  • ​BC Campus has created a  a reference for individual educators or institutions wanting to write and self-publish an open textbook. This guide provides details on the preparation, planning, writing, publication, and maintenance of an open textbook.​

  •  is an OER publishing tool. Pressbooks software helps educators and authors create aesthetic, properly formatted, texts for a one time publishing fee. 

  • The  was created by OER student leaders in the CCC and CSU systems. The toolkit's purpose is to motivate students to get involved in OER advocacy and the Open Education movement.

• OER/ZTC Textbook Repositories
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  •  (2012) 
• Openly Licensed Image Repositories
  • World Images Kiosk
• OER Online Courses
  • Lumen - Open Courses
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  • Sofia Open Content Initiative
• Videos Repositories
• OER DEI Resources

OER/ZTC Presentations

You've heard the acronym OER and seen the ZTC filter in the schedule, but what do these actually mean? This session will introduce you to OER - Open Educational Resources - and ZTC - Zero Textbook Cost classes. You'll learn why faculty engage in OER and ZTC, what forms they take, and how they help to reduce the equity gap.

• Download PDF: OER/ZTC: A Complete Introduction

 

If you're familiar with Open Educational Resources (OER), but wonder what's next at COC and other colleges, this workshop is for you. You'll hear about the impact of 'going OER' at COC, including the ways that OER reduce equity gaps, and find out what's next both at COC and across the US.

• Download PDF: OER/ZTC: Where We Are and What's Next