BCC librarians, Heather Dodge, Jenny Yap, and Jordan Yee give a panel presentation at the 2018 CARL - California Academic Research Libraries 2018 annual conference. Click here to view the Powerpoint for their presentation which was titled, The ‘E’ is for equity: Building an O.E.R. and affordable textbooks movement on a community college campus.
This LibGuide created by Jordan Yee, BCC Adjunct Librarian.
Nov. 5, 2021 -
ASCCC OERI has introduced two new tools to help OER - interested faculty find OER textbooks for adoption:
Open Educational Resource by Discipline and
Open Educational Resources by TMC (Transfer Model Curriculum)
For Librarian assistance with your OER textbook search, contact BCC OER librarians:
Heather Dodge, Head Librarian, OER Project co-lead for BCC at hdodge@peralta.edu, Office phone: (510) 981-2964 or Jenny Yap, Librarian, BCC Open Educational Resources Liaison , OER Project co-lead for BCC at jyap@peralta.edu, Office phone: (510) 981-2828
The BCC OER (College Textbook Affordability Act AB 798) project grant for 2017-2018 includes specific funding to task campus librarians to provide BCC campus faculty with detailed and extended assistance in identifying suitable OER candidate textbooks for possible adoption at BCC.
BCC librarians have developed a standardized comparison tool (a comparison matrix) that systematizes the comparison of an OER candidate textbook against a currently used commercial textbook that is assigned for use for a course at BCC. The matrix can also compare several candidate OER textbooks against one another.
Here's an example of the matrix. One of the currently used commercial textbooks ( a Cengage publication) is compared against an OER offering. This comparison table was developed for the Berkeley City College course
BUS 5 "Human Relations in Business."
As a first step for faculty, BCC OER librarians may produce a table that lists and briefly compares several OER candidates s for an initial look. Here is an example matrix,
CHEM 012A-B Organic Chemistry OER Comparison Matrix Mar-26-2017
A more detailed comparison matrix such that the shown for BUS 5 can be created as a next step.
Click here for a comparison matrix for "Psychology 1A."
Contact BCC OER librarians for assistance with your OER textbook search.
This matrix created for the Spring 2018 BCC OER Institute lists attending faculty, course name, the current textbook, possible OER titles, and the OER repositories examined for each instructor.
Numerous repositories of OER materials exist. The short list below is focused on repositories that best match community college students. These are also repositories that faculty and librarians at BCC have looked at the most closely. If you want a much wider look at the world of OER offerings, view the "Extended Listings" box below this one. The box on the right explains how BCC librarians can help you filter through these repositories to find potential candidate OER textbooks.
OER Repositories With Textbooks That Are Well Suited to Community College (Lower Division) Students
Notable Discipline Specific OER repositories
Below are High Quality OER Repositories With Textbooks Aimed at Students in 4 year Institutions and Beyond
The range and depth of OER materials is very broad. The links below will take you to LibGuides featuring extended lists of OER materials covering a wide range of disciplines and academic levels.
Licensed Content from the Library's Subscription Accounts
Another approach is for faculty to use readings, media, and streaming media that is available through the BCC library's subscription databases. For example, the BCC library has streaming media accounts, that provide (free-of -charge to students and faculty) 24/7 access to streaming media on campus or when away from campus. These subscription accounts allow faculty to create custom playlists, and to designate custom video segments for playback.
Click here to download a comparison matrix that lists specific videos and their links from Kanopy and Films on Demand, that could support teaching of a variety of Psychology courses. Campus librarians can assist you in discovering desired teaching resources from the Library's numerous database subscriptions.