This guide is an effort to increase awareness and adoption of OER materials in alignment with CA AB 798 (2015).   For further information about this effort, please contact: Elizabeth Cook, your Academic Senate appointed, OER Liaison. 

About this Guide

This guide will familiarize faculty members with OER and the growing movement within higher education. Faculty can also use this guide to identify high-quality OER for their courses.

Related State Guidance

• AB 607 Public postsecondary education: course materials (2023)
• AB 798 California College Textbook Affordability Act (2015)
• SB 1053 Public postsecondary education: California Digital Open Source Library (2013)
• SB 1359 Public postsecondary education: course materials (2018)

Related College Guidance

• BP 4030 Academic Freedom
• AP 4080 Course Materials and Selection Approval Process (Cost Reduction Efforts)
• BP 4080 Instructional Materials and Textbook Adoption and Procurement
• 2019 Program and Course Approval Handbook (Chancellor's Office) (pg.50)
• Resolution in Support of Open Educational Resources (Academic Senate)
• Resolution Promoting Best Practices to Reduce the Cost of Textbooks/Course Materials (Academic Senate)

FLEX Day 2020 OER Presentation Slides 
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This work is licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Thanks to Pasadena City College for granting permission to adapt their OER guide.