Open Educational Resources

Family and Consumer Science

• Dr. Norman Lorenz
  norman.lorenz@scc.losrios.edu

Geography

• Craig Davis
  davisca@scc.losrios.edu

History

• Mieke Lisuk
  LisukM@scc.losrios.edu
• Julia Kehew
  KehewJ@scc.losrios.edu

Nutrition

• Jessica Coppola
  Coppolj@scc.losrios.edu

Psychology

• Gayle Pitman
  pitmang@scc.losrios.edu
• Kathleen (Katie) Carbary
  carbark@scc.losrios.edu
• Jeannette Kiel
  kielj@scc.losrios.edu

Sociology

• Angela Block
  BlockA@scc.losrios.edu
• Shane Logan
  logans@scc.losrios.edu

Women and Gender Studies

• Jeannette Kiel
  kielj@scc.losrios.edu

Accounting

• Suzy De Mey
  DemeyS@scc.losrios.edu

Business

• Dyan Pease
  PeaseD@scc.losrios.edu

Economics

• Kevin Camp
  CampK@scc.losrios.edu

Art History

• Catherine Anderson
  AndersC@scc.losrios.edu

Humanities

• Catherine Anderson
  AndersC@scc.losrios.edu

Math

• Tricia Sanford
  SanforT@scc.losrios.edu
• Andre Bazos
  BazosA@scc.losrios.edu

Chemistry

• Bruce Zenner
  ZennerB@scc.losrios.edu

Mythbusting Open Educational Resources

Article from the February issue of Rostrum, a publication of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC).

The California Senate Bill, SB 1359 "Public Postsecondary Education: Course Materials" (Block 2016), requires Community Colleges to indicate course sections that use course materials, such as OER, at no cost to the student. This existing law requires California Community Colleges to take specific actions with their academic senates, campus bookstores, and faculty to publicize the use of affordable textbooks. This law became operative on January 1, 2018.

• LRCCD ZTC FAQ and Form

A Z-degree is a program that allows students to complete a degree without spending money on textbooks. Passed on June 27, 2016, AB 1602 is the Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree Grant Program.  The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges passed this resolution favoring local academic senate approval for Z-Degrees. As of this posting, the request for proposals has not yet been released.

Many are! The California OER Council has a peer-review process, including guidelines, a process for requesting peer review, and opportunities to be a reviewer. Take a look at the responses to questions six through ten on the CA OER Council FAQ.

MERLOT also has a peer-review process. Take a look at the MERLOT evaluation criteria.

Many are! Each discipline is in a different stage of growth. STEM OER are some of the most advanced in this respect. See LibreTexts from UC Davis as an example.

Learn how SCC Chemistry Department's own Dianne Bennett is using LibreTexts.

As increasing numbers of faculty across the country and the globe have participated in the creation, review, and use of OER, many competitive OER textbooks and OER textbook alternatives have become available to a growing number of courses.

Students should have the option of printing OER material. Nevertheless, this can present constraints on a student's access to course material because some students may not have online access from home and may have other obligations that prevent them from using campus computer labs during scheduled lab hours.

Complete access to OER depends on broader socioeconomic issues. This suggests that expanding efforts to provide broadband access to students beyond campus hours is necessary to realize the full potential of OER.

California's College Affordable Textbook Act of 2015 (2015 Assembly Bill 798) set up an incentive award program that offers money for professional development, curation expenses, and technology support related to OER.

During the Spring 2016 semester, the SCC Academic Senate passed a resolution in support of OER and approved a plan for the campus to participate in the AB 798 incentive award program. In Fall 2016, SCC accepted an AB 798 award of $19,000 based on faculty from 19 class sections committing to adopt OER during the 2016-2017 academic year.

Many of the materials in Canvas Commons are OER. Watch this video to learn more (Canvas section starts at 9:45).