Open Educational Resources and the Child and Adolescent Development TMC

Indicated resources are samples. Find a complete curated collection at Open Educational Resources and CDEV/ECE (Child Development and Early Childhood Education) and available OER for all disciplines at OER by Discipline. Please note that the structure presented here aligns with the Child and Adolescent Development TMC; local Associate Degrees for Transfer will be different as the TMC introduces flexibility in the core and beyond.

Required Core (3 courses):

Child Growth and Development (C-ID CDEV 100)

Textbooks

• Understanding Human Development: Prenatal Through Adolescence – Open Oregon Pressbooks (CC BY)
• PSY 235 Child Psychology – Pressbooks/Northern Virginia Community College (CC BY)
• Understanding the Whole Child: Growth and Development Conception through Adolescence (Saddleback College) – Pressbooks (CC BY)
• Child Growth and Development – LibreTexts (CC BY, except where otherwise noted)
• Child Growth and Development (Zaar) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• The Whole Child: Development in the Early Years – (Budzyna and Buckley) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Infant and Child Development: From Conception Through Late Childhood – Simple Book Publishing (Parnes and Pagano) (CC BY-NC-SA)

Additional OER/ZTC Resources

• Children’s Development: Infancy through Middle Childhood (Leon) (CC BY 4.0)
• Cognitive Development: Preschool | VLS (virtuallabschool.org) (free to use for educational purposes, see terms of use for complete use information)
• Child Growth and Development course by CTE Online California (CC-BY-NC-SA)
• Child Growth and Development course reader (Laura Paciorek)
• Child Growth and Development Thread
• From Preschool to Prosperity: The Economic Payoff to Early Childhood Education
• Early childhood development – HEART (heart-resources.org) (HEART produced content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License)
• Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective (Lally, Valentine-French) (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
• Lifespan Development (Lumen Learning) (Varied Licenses – terms of each page must be reviewed
• Physical Developmental Milestones | VLS (virtuallabschool.org) (free to use for educational purposes, see terms of use for complete use information https://www.virtuallabschool.org/legal)development.
• Social-Emotional Development: Preschool Children | VLS (virtuallabschool.org) (free to use for educational purposes, see terms of use for complete use information)

Resources in Canvas

• ASCCC CDEV 100 Child Growth and Development Canvas Shell
• CDEV 100 Child Growth and Development (ECE / CHDEV) Canvas Shell
• Child Growth and Development OER Book and Course (CC BY) – Jennifer Paris/College of the Canyons built around Child Growth and Development/Understanding the Whole Child: Prenatal Development through Adolescence (Paris, Ricardo, and Rymond) OER book
• Child Growth and Development OER Resources Canvas Shell (shell is licensed CC BY, contents may have restrictions on their use)

Introductory Psychology (C-ID PSY 110)

• Introduction to Psychology: Moving toward Diversity and Inclusion (McFarlane, Shi, Ramoo, and Yousef, 2024) (CC-BY-NC-SA)
• Introductory Psychology (OpenStax) – LibreTexts (CC BY 4.0)
• Introduction to Psychology (2019) by Jorden A. Cummings & Lee Sanders (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0)
• Psychology: The Science of Human Potential by Jeffrey Levy (CC-BY 4.0)

Introduction to Statistics (C-ID MATH 110) OR Introduction to Statistics in Sociology (C-ID SOCI 125) OR another CSU transferable statistics course that has been approved for CSU GE Area B4 and is articulated as major preparation for the Child Development major.

• Statistics for Social Justice Studies (Blustein, et al., ASCCC OERI) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• OpenIntro Statistics (Diez, Barr, and Cetinkaya-Rundel) (CC BY-SA)
• Statistics Using Technology (Kozak) (CC BY-SA) – Coconino Community College website
• Introductory Statistics (OpenStax) – LibreTexts (CC BY 4.0)
• Foundations in Statistical Reasoning (Kaslik) – LibreTexts (CC BY-SA-NC)
• Statistics for the Social Sciences (Pelz, Lumen Learning) (License varies)
• PSPP (CC BY-NC-SA)

List A – Select 3 courses below

Section 1: Select one from the following

Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (C-ID ANTH 120)

• Introduction to Anthropology: A Four Field Approach (Edited by Pawlowicz; Brooks; Phaup; and Rector) (CC-BY-NC)
• Introduction to Anthropology (Hasty, Lewis, and Snipes, 2022) – OpenStax (CC BY)
• Introduction to Anthropology: Holistic and Applied Research on Being Human (Palmiotto, Homsey-Messer, Ford, Poole, Adams, Allard, and Chadwick, 2022) (CC BY-SA)
• Cultural Anthropology (Saneda and Field, 2020) – LibreTexts (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)
• Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology, 2nd Edition (Brown, Tubelle de Gonzalez, and McIlwraith – American Anthropological Association, 2020) (CC-BY-NC 4.0)
• The Art of Being Human: A Textbook for Cultural Anthropology (Wesch – New Prairie Press, 2018) (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0)

Introduction to Sociology (C-ID SOCI 110)

• Introduction to Sociology 3e (OpenStax) (CC BY)
• Sociology (Barkan) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
• Sociology (Boundless) – LibreTexts (CC BY-SA)
• Introduction to Sociology (Hammond and Cheney) – LibreTexts (CC BY)
• Introduction to Sociology (College of the Canyons) – PDF (CC BY 4.0)
• Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World (Saylor Academy, 2016) (CC BY-NC-SA)

Introduction to Race and Ethnicity (C-ID SOCI 150)

• Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (Ounjian, 2023) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Immigrant and Refugee Families (Ballard et al.) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC)
• Minority Studies (Dunn) – LibreTexts (CC BY)
• Race and Ethnic Relations in the U.S.: An Intersectional Approach (2021) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Beyond Race: Cultural Influences on Human Social Life (Kennedy, 2018) (CC BY-NC-SA)

Child, Family, and Community (C-ID CDEV 110)

• Child, Family and Community (Laff and Ruiz) – LibreTexts (CC BY, except where otherwise noted)
• Child Family Community: The Socialization of Diverse Children (ASCCC OERI, 2022) – LibreTexts (CC BY)
• Children, Families, Schools, and Communities [Revised Edition] – (Giovannini) (CC BY-NC-SA)

Additional OER/ZTC Resources

• Antiracist Activism for Teachers and Students/Points to Consider for Teaching Anti-racism/Anti-Racism in Early Childhood – Wikibooks, open books for an open world (CC-BY)
• Building Partnerships Series For Early Childhood Professionals (hhs.gov) 
• Child, Family, and Community (Flores) (CC BY)
• Child, Family, and Community thread
• Contemporary Families: An Equity Lens – Simple Book Publishing (pressbooks.pub) This openly licensed text approaches contemporary families from an equity lens.Licenses and Attributions at the bottom of each section.
• Family Engagement | VLS (virtuallabschool.org) (free to use for educational purposes, see terms of use for complete use information)
• Family Partnerships and Culture (California Department of Education, 2016)
• Opening eyes onto inclusion and diversity in early childhood education – Opening Eyes onto Inclusion and Diversity (pressbooks.pub) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Parenting and Family Diversity Issues (Iowa State University, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA)
• Resources for Parents (ca.gov) (Public Domain)
• Revisiting and Updating the Multicultural Principles for Head Start Programs Serving Children Ages Birth to Five (hhs.gov) Public Domain

Resources in Canvas

• ASCCC CDEV 110 Child, Family, and Community  Canvas Shell
• Child, Family, and Community OER Course and Textbook (CC BY)  – Jennifer Paris/College of the Canyons built around Child, Family, and Community OER book (Laff and Ruiz).
• Child, Family, and Community OER Resources Canvas shell (shell is licensed CC BY, contents may have restrictions on their use).

Introduction to Marriage and Family (C-ID SOCI 130) 

• Contemporary Families – An Equity Lens (Pearce) – LibreTexts (CC BY 4.0)
• Sociology of the Family (Hammond) (CC BY)
• Intimate Relationships and Families (College of the Canyons) – PDF (CC BY)
• Parenting and Family Diversity Issues- Diana L. Lang (Iowa State University Digital Press, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA)

Introduction to Biology OR other Biology courses approved for CalGETC Area 5B

• Concepts of Biology (Fowler et al., 2013) – OpenStax (CC BY) 
• OpenStax Biology 2e (Clark et al., 2018) (CC BY 4.0)
• Biofundamentals (Klymkowsky and Cooper, 2021) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
• Boundless Biology (Boundless, n.d.) – LumenLearning (Licenses vary.)

• Lifespan Human Development in Sociocultural Contexts: A Globally-Inclusive Approach (Pantoja Garvey, 2025) (CC-BY-NC-SA)
• Lifespan Development (Riser, Spielman, and Biek) (2024) – Openstax (CC-BY 4.0)
• Lifespan Development (Jennifer Ounjian, 2024) ( CC BY-NC-SA)
• Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective Fifth Edition (Lally and Valentine-French, 2024) (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
• Human Growth and Development (Newton, 2022) – Pressbooks (CC BY)
• Psychology through the Lifespan (Alisa Beyer and Julie Lazzara, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
• Lifespan Development (Lumen Learning) (Varied Licenses – terms of each page must be reviewed)
• Human Growth and Development Question Library (Cotter, Fisk and Grissett, 2018) – Galileo (CC BY-SA)
• Human Development (Callahan, Dose, Wright, Pace, Earl, and Nummerdor, 2020) – Georgia Highlands College (Varied Licenses)

A maximum of two courses not listed above that are articulated for lower division major preparation in the Child Development Major at a CSU campus

• None identified.

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