Research Guides: Open Educational Resources at LCC: Using OER at LCC

OER Evaluation Criteria

OER Evaluation Criteria
Faculty can use this set of criteria to evaluate OER that they can use for their courses.

Open Textbooks Review Criteria
This rubric was developed by Center for Open Education. The Open Education Network is based in the Center for Open Education in the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development.

Provide your students an alternative to expensive textbooks by following these steps:

Check with your department or program to see if there are others who already use OER or to see if others are interested in working with you to find or create an OER..
Research available OER by subject by going to the OER by Discipline or the Finding OER tab in this OER LibGuide
Search for some appropriate textbooks for your course and begin reviewing and evaluating each one.based on the content and whether it suits your learning objectives, teaching style, and your students. See the box that outlines evaluation criteria for some tools to help you evaluate OER.
Decide if you want to use the textbook as is, edit, or modify the contents.
Check to see if LCC has a current or upcoming Award Program that you could apply for.
In the end, you will let your Lead Support person know that you will use OER and where that OER is available. You will distribute the OER to your students by uploading into D2L. You can select the best format to distribute to your class such as online, or downloadable PDF.

Open Educational Resources
See which courses and instructors at LCC are using Open Educational Resources in their classes.

OER Published in Pressbooks
LCC faculty have been adopting, remixing, developing, and publishing OER textbooks across many disciplines since 2015. Check here to see if there is a book in your discipline published in Pressbooks.

Math 126 Precalculus
By Homa Ghaussi-Mujtaba, Ph.D., Candy Giovanni, M.S., Afla Radford Ph.D.
Personality Theory: A Multicultural Perspective
Written by Lansing Community College Psychology professor Dr. Mark Kelland

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This book covers general personality theory, with an emphasis on cultural aspects affecting personality development. There is also a section focusing on making positive choices in the development of one's personality from a number of different cultural/philosophical perspectives.
Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking
By Lansing Community College Professor Matthew Van Cleave, PhD.

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This is an introductory textbook in logic and critical thinking. The goal of thetextbook is to provide the reader with a set of tools and skills that will enablethem to identify and evaluate arguments. The book is intended for an introductory course that covers both formal and informal logic. As such, it is nota formal logic textbook, but is closer to what one would find marketed as a “critical thinking textbook.”