Please contact Librarian YiPing Wang (yipingwang@peralta.edu) for any questions.
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| Open Educational Resources (OER) are free or low-cost teaching and learning materials that are licensed, often under an OER license term, to allow users to retain a copy of the content and reuse, revise, remix and redistribute it. | Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) means that students do not incur any costs for purchasing course materials. Zero-cost to the students does not guarantee zero-cost to the institution, i.e. subscription databases, library equipment loans. |
OER are ready-to-use content for your classes, may include:
| To create a ZTC course, instructors might use OER, Open Access, Creative Commons, and public domain materials, along with teacher-created materials and electronic resources owned or licensed by Laney College Library. |
