OER
Open Education Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.
The 5R’s of Open
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)
Zero Textbook Cost Degree or Z-Degree
A community college associate degree or career technical education certificate earned entirely by completing courses with zero cost textbooks. The program uses open instructional materials, open pedagogy and methodologies to support this goal.
A ZTC program must be:
- Clearly identified in the college catalog and class schedule
- In compliance with Federal Americans with Disabilities Act (Public Law 104-197 and the Federal Copyright Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-553)
- Sustainable and refer to the all or some of the instructional material as "Open Educational Resources" or "OER"
Creative Commons License
All first developed materials shall bear the Creative Commons CC BY License. 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.
Library Textbook Program (LTP)
The librarians at COM have partnered with faculty, staff, administrators, and your ASCOM representatives to support students in obtaining a lending copy of the proper textbook at no cost to students who enroll in selected sections. These sections are not designated OER courses as they are not sustainable and use copyrighted material; however, they CAN be designated as a Zero Textbook Cost section if no direct costs are passed to the student. http://library.marin.edu/blog/library-textbook-program