OER Faculty Guide

Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI) Resources

OER Collections for the California Community Colleges, organized discipline, CSU general education requirements, Transfer Model Curriculum, and C-ID.

• OER by Discipline 
• OER by California State University General Education
• OER by Transfer Model Curriculum
• OER by C-ID – “C-ID” refers to the Course Identification Numbering System that establishes articulation among the California Community Colleges.

Provided here is a collection of openly licensed resources directly – and indirectly – related to OER advocacy, adoption, and development. 

Accessibility Overview Webpage
Accessibility Resources Webpage
Articulation, Curriculum, and OER Webpage
Finding OER to Use in Your Courses Webpage
Inclusive Access/Automatic Billing and OER Webpage
OER and Equity 2021 – Webpage
OERI Webinar and Events

• Galileo Open Learning Materials - Browse materials created under the Affordable Learning Georgia grants, by discipline.

• LibreTexts - Contains over 300 textbooks in the areas of Biology, Business, Chemistry, Engineering, Spanish, Geosciences, Humanities, Mathematics and more. You are able to use this tool to customize an open textbook and integrate into Canvas. 

• OpenStax - High-quality, peer-reviewed open textbooks and ancillary learning materials. Books are available in a low-cost printed format as well. A project of Rice University.

• MERLOT Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)  - Provides curated online learning, support materials and content creation tools.
• Open Oregon Educational Resources - Browsable / searchable list of OER used by Oregon college and university instructors. If you see a name and email address, you can contact that person about their class.
• Open SUNY Textbooks - OST offers peer-reviewed open texts that can be immediately adopted and easily customized via the SUNY OER Services editing platform.

• Colorado Curation Guides - Made possible by a grant from the Colorado Department of Higher Education, Colorado’s Top 40: OER Curation Guides are discipline expert-reviewed, librarian-curated OER guides for the most popular courses in Colorado.

• Mason OER Metafinder - Helps you find Open Educational Resources. by searching across 22 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button.