Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER): Getting Started

“Open educational resources” means high-quality teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released pursuant to an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others, and may include other resources that are legally available and free of cost to students.  Open educational resources include, but are not limited to, full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, faculty-created content, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. --California Education Code, Section 78052 (b) (4)

San Diego City College is one of nine schools in a nation-wide cohort chosen to participate in the 2018-2019 OpenStax Institutional Partnership Program to encourage use of free, peer-reviewed textbooks on campus. SDCC was chosen to participate after a rigorous application process that included demonstrating willingness to drive adoption of open educational resources (OER).

Institutional partners will receive individualized consulting from OpenStax and join a cohort of schools advocating widespread use of OER at their schools.

The 2016-2017 cohort of partner schools saw a 150% increase in student use of OER in the 2017-2018 academic year, saving an additional 50,000 students $4.9 million.

For further information on this initiative, please contact co-coordinators Sandra Pesce (spesce@sdccd.edu) or Arnie Schoenberg (aschoenb@sdccd.edu)