Research Guides: Open Educational Resources at LCC: Finding OER: Adopt, Adapt, or Create

How Do I Adopt Open Textbooks?

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 page or the OER Collections box or OER Repositories box on this page. The CTE OER Faculty Fellow can also help you with this step.
If you find something appropriate, decide if you want to use the textbook as is, edit, add to, or modify the contents in other ways.
Talk to your program lead or department chair about applying for an OER Award.

OER Discovery and Remix
In this pre-recorded session as part of the Open Education Global 2021 conference (#OEGlobal21), Monica Brown and Amy Song provide you with a brief overview of methods for finding and evaluating OER. Video is less than 14 minutes long.

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.