Fall 2022; Resolution Number 9.01
Whereas, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges encourages local academic senates to establish mechanisms to encourage faculty to consider open educational resources (OER) when developing or revising courses and to document the use of OER on the course outline of record (Resolution S19 09.05[1]);
Whereas, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges encourages local academic senates to collaborate with other constituencies to integrate open educational resources into their colleges’ guiding resources, including institutional goals, educational master plans, equity plans, accreditation institutional self-evaluation reports, board policies, and administrative procedures or regulations (Resolution S21 13.01[2]);
Whereas, The technologies employed to manage curriculum and specify course resources may discourage or prevent specification of an open educational resource on the course outline of record or complicate resource identification by requiring the provision of an international standard book number (ISBN) or a copyright date; and
Whereas, The 2022 “Standards, Policies and Procedures for Intersegmental General Education Curriculum” version 2.3 states that textbooks “must be identified in the course outline of record (COR) and published within seven years of the course submission date or clearly identified as a classic in the COR,”[3] a requirement that is also found in the Course Identification Numbering System (Submitting Course Outlines for C-ID Designation A Guide for Articulation Officers [4]);
Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges support removing the requirement of an international standard book number (ISBN) and a copyright date from all curriculum and articulation processes when open educational resources are specified;
Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges request that the Intersegmental Committee of Academic Senates review and revise as necessary the “Standards, Policies and Procedures for Intersegmental General Education Curriculum” to remove any requirements that act as barriers to the use of open educational resources; and
Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges work with all appropriate statewide entities that establish textbook-related policies and requirements that impact the California community colleges to remove any requirements that act as barriers to the use of open educational resources.
[1] Resolution S19 09.05 Support the Development of Open Educational Resources (OER): https://asccc.org/resolutions/support-development-open-educational-resources-oer.
[2] Resolution S21 13.01 Institutionalizing Open Educational Resources: https://www.asccc.org/resolutions/institutionalizing-open-educational-resources.
[3] Standards, Policies and Procedures for Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum Version 2.3 is located on the Intersegmental Committee of Academic Senates website found at https://icas-ca.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IGETC_STANDARDS-2.3_02June2022-Final.pdf.
[4] Submitting Course Outlines for C-ID Designation A Guide for Articulation Officers is located on the C-ID website on the Articulations Officers tab under the section titled Submitting Course Outlines for C-ID Designation found at https://c-id.net/articulation-officers#courseoutlines_CID.