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Translate this PageThere are a variety of electronic resources and texts you can use to develop and enhance the content for your courses. PCC subscribes to several eBook and database services through the Shatford Library. In addition, there is also a wealth of Open Educational Resource content available to provide affordable content for students.
This page provides a comprehensive list of the some of resources that are useful for content development.
PCC LIBRARY RESOURCES
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
AFFORDABLE TEXTBOOKS
- TEXTBOOK COMPARISON SEARCH
- TEXTBOOK RENTALS
Updated links coming soon!
OER Reference Materials (Research, Blogs, Guides)
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources is a web resource in blog format that offers a discipline-specific free textbook search engine, webinars on OER use and adoption, a blog with up-to-date information on OER, tutorials and blogroll with extensive links to online resources.
ContentCopia
ContentCopia, developed by the California Community Colleges, is dedicated to providing affordable content for students. In addition to a textbook comparison tool it has helpful tips for adopting affordable content; a list of online publishers, materials and free web resources; information on affordable textbook advocacy; and additional resources for students to find low or no cost textbooks.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) provides a searchable database of peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journal articles in a variety of disciplines. All articles are available free of charge.
OER at Lane
OER at Lane is a blog developed by Lane Community College faculty that has an extensive blogroll of faculty who are using OER as well as links to webinars and helpful resources for integrating OER into the community college instructional context.
Open Educational Resources Center for California
Open Educational Resources Center for California has links about OER content, creating OER materials, and information about accessibility and licensing. In addition, there is a forum for members (membership is free) as well as a Twitter feed with up-to-date information about OER conferences, webinars and resources.
Open Learning Network (OLnet)
Open Learning Network (OLnet) includes links to academic publications and research about supporting the use of OER as well as tools and resources to aid OER adoption.
CourseWare
MIT Open CourseWare
MIT Open CourseWare has video lectures from MIT professors, notes, slides and exams. All material is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 3.0 license, mearning instructors can share, adapt and remix the content for their own use.
MyOpenMath
MyOpenMath has 4 pre-built math courses (Prealgebra, Algebra, Precalculus & Trigonomy) which align with several open math textbooks. Content for each course varies, but can include online practice sets, quizzes, videos, handouts and other resources. Students can also sign up for self-study.
Open CourseWare Consortium (OCW)
Open CourseWare Consortium (OCW) offers links to free, openly-licensed university-level courses. In addition, OCW has a list of case studies of institutions using open CourseWare as well as a toolkit for getting open CourseWare projects up and running. OCW also organizes Open Education Week, a series of events and online webinars, to raise awareness about OER. PCC is a member of this organization.
Free Textbooks & eBooks
The Global Text Project
The Global Text Project has a collection of free textbooks in a variety of online formats covered under the Creative Commons 3.0 license. Instructors are able to access and modify chapters in the textbooks, but not the entire textbook itself.
OpenStax Textbooks
OpenStax Textbooks offers a select number of peer-reviewed, high quality college textbooks that, if adopted, are customizable to individual course needs. Electronic formats are free for students and print copies are available at a low-cost. There are also supporting materials – solutions manuals and teaching guides that accompany each textbook.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg hosts a collection of over 40,000 public domain eBooks available in a variety of electronic formats (HTML, ePub, Kindle, etc.). All books are available for free.
Content Collections (Resources, Lesson Plans/Modules, Multimedia) & Databases
California Digital Library (CDL)
California Digital Library (CDL) developed by the University of California system, includes online and print collections of materials from libraries and archives across California. The CDL includes publications from the UC Press eBooks Collection, 1982-2004 with 750 titles available to the public as well as the Digital Special Collections Program with a percentage of its online resources also available to the public.
ChemVantage
ChemVantage provides a variety of free materials to support college-level Chemistry courses. Materials include quizzes, links to OER textbooks, exercises, assessments and video tutorials.
College Open Textbooks
College Open Textbooks provides information about adopting OER in the classroom, reviews of OER textbooks/resources and a search engine for OER resources.
Connexions
Connexions is a collaborative resource site that has content modules and collections (groups of modules consisting of materials such as textbooks, journal articles, multimedia, etc.). In Connexions you can author your own materials and add to existing materials. Everything in Connexions is downloadable for free and print copies are available for a small fee.
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is not only a means of licensing work, but it also offers a filter to search for creative works that can be used, adapted or modified under the various creative commons licenses. Click on the Explore link to find photos, clip art, videos, songs or other multimedia content to use in your courses.
FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)
FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence) offers an easy way to search for links to teaching and learning resources — animations, documents, photos and videos – that have been created through funding from the federal government.
Internet Archive
Internet Archive Internet Archive is a searchable collection that either links to or provides a way to download historical document collections/public domain texts, audio, video, animation, and software.
Merlot
Merlot is an online peer-reviewed collection of resources for higher education. In addition to academic papers, the Merlot repository also includes materials for course development (animations, images, case studies) and assessment as well as additional resources for creating course content. Within Merlot, you can also author online content.
OER Commons
OER Commons is a database of links to openly licensed teaching materials such as full courses, lectures, and mini-lessons. All materials listed in the OER database have been vetted according to strict quality standards.
OpenDOAR
OpenDOAR is a way to search for international institutional and subject-based repositories of full-text open access materials.
The Orange Grove
The Orange Grove is a repository of open textbooks which have been reviewed by the University Press of Florida. Textbooks are available for free online and low-cost for print copies. In addition to OGT texts, there are also links to other sources of OER courseware and content collections.
Multimedia Collections (Images, Video & Audiobooks)
Flickr
Flickr is an online photo/video/animation sharing and management system. On Flickr you can not only organize your photo & image content, but you can also look for images to use in your classroom using the Creative Commons advanced search feature. Flickr integrates directly into CANVAS.
HippoCampus
HippoCampus provides educational video content for students and instructors on a variety of general education topics. Videos are streamed on the website and are not available for download. Users can create playlists of content, which is often correlated to commercial publisher materials. Captioning is not available, but each video contains a text-based equivalent.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy provides free educational videos. Even though it is aimed mostly at the K-12 audience, there are many videos related to STEM topics as well as history, finance and economics, providing a rich content resource for general education courses. Videos include interactive transcripts or translated subtitles. Those that are available on Khan Academy’s YouTube channel include closed captioning.
Librivox
Librivox is a free collection of volunteer-read audiobooks of public domain works that can be dowloaded in MP3 format. Works are sometimes available in different languages.
Vimeo
Vimeo is an online collection of video clips. With Vimeo you can search for videos, upload your own video content as well as create a channel for students to view course materials. Vimeo does not support a separate closed-captioned text-file/translation option. Any videos uploaded to Vimeo would need to be captioned prior to being put on Vimeo. To determine if you can use an existing non-captioned Vimeo video in your course, check out the following captioning guidelines.
YouTube
YouTube is the largest online collection of video clips. With YouTube you can search for videos, upload and do basic editing of your own video content as well as create your own channel for students to view course materials. YouTube has CC capability and you can also easily upload and edit your own transcript for captioning.