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 …
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Fall 2022; Resolution 17.02 Whereas, Automatic billing or inclusive access strategies have been introduced by publishers and bookstore vendors as a mechanism to grant students access to course resources by billing them for those resources at the time of registration and requiring that a student opt out of the program for all courses if the …
Fall 2022; Resolution 17.03 Whereas, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges has urged local academic senates to identify an open educational resources (OER) liaison (Resolution F18 17.02)[1] and subsequently encouraged local colleges to identify and support a faculty OER coordinator because various opportunities for obtaining funding for local OER efforts require that a coordinator …
Fall 2022; Resolution Number 17.05 Whereas, Resolution 03.04 F21, “Develop Statewide Recommendation for Definition of Low-Cost Course Materials” tasked the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges to work with the Student Senate for California Community Colleges and the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office to identify a recommended definition of low-cost to be considered for adoption …
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Access: Chemistry video mini-lessons at 3C Media Solutions Author: Mark Blaser License: CC BY-NC-SA Descriptors: C-ID CHEM 110/120 (General Chemistry for Science Majors)
Access: Explorations Powerpoints (Google Folder); Request access to the Explorations test bank Authors: Lara Braff, Beth Shook, Katie Nelson, Kelsie Aguilera License: CC BY-NC Descriptor: C-ID ANTH 110 (Introduction to Biological Anthropology) Test banks and lecture slide shows for the recently completed OER text “Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology.”
Selected PhET interactive simulations (University of Colorado – Boulder) (CC BY) PhET simulations can be used to supplement a lecture text by giving the students an interactive learning experience. Several chemistry specific simulations are available. For many of these, authors have shared lesson plans that can be accessed on the website.
Beginning Chemistry v 1.0 (Ball, 2011); Access Beginning Chemistry v 1.0 (Ball, 2011) on LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) This text includes content for preparatory chemistry courses. Version 2 of the text is available commercially.
Chemistry and Global Awareness (Gordon, 2019) (CC BY-NC-SA) This text covers underlying chemistry for topical subjects in society.
Spring 2022; Resolution Number 3.03 Whereas, California Education Code §78052 (a) states that “It is the intent of the Legislature that community college districts develop and implement zero-textbook-cost degrees and develop open educational resources for courses to reduce the overall cost of education for students and decrease the time it takes students to complete degree …
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