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Find OER/ZTC Materials using the below repositories:
Collections of ZTC Options
| Name | URL | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CALM Listed by Subject | http://palomar.libguides.com/calm/subjects | List of OER materials compiled by Palomar librarians, organized by subject. |
| Cool4Ed: California Open Online Library for Education | http://www.cool4ed.org/findetextbooks.html | CC, CSU, and UC collaboration. Browse by subject. Many reviews. Includes materials in MERLOT, the existing repository of open learning objects hosted by the CSU. |
| Community College Consortium for OER | https://www.cccoer.org/learn/find-oer/ | Select from their collection of links to search for open textbooks, open journals, subject-specific OER projects, and general OER repositories. The site also serves as a community of practice for cc professors adopting OER. |
| College Open Textbooks | http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/ | Browse for textbooks by subject. 550 are listed and more than 100 have been reviewed by college faculty. |
| OER Commons | https://www.oercommons.org/ | Search for lessons, case studies, data sets, and more. |
| OpenStax | https://openstax.org/subjects | Browse by subject. 20 textbooks for common cc gateway courses. |
| Open SUNY Textbooks | http://textbooks.opensuny.org/browse/ | Browse or search. Includes more specialized subjects than OpenStax. Includes a list of forthcoming titles. |
| Open Textbook Library | http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ | Browse or search this collection based at the University of Minnesota. The Open Textbook Network consists of 350 member institutions. |
| British Columbia Open Textbook Project | https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/ | Browse by subject. Includes more specialized subjects than OpenStax. 173 books listed and 79 reviewed by college faculty. |
| Skills Commons | https://www.skillscommons.org/ | Free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development. |
| Wikiuniversity: OER Adoptions by colleges | https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Open_Educational_Resources/Adoptions | This wiki shows adoptions organized by disciplines and colleges. |
| OASIS | https://oasis.geneseo.edu/ | Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 63 different sources and contains 160,433 records. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library in consultation with Alexis Clifton, SUNY OER Services Executive Director. |
| Skills Commons | https://www.skillscommons.org/ | Free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development. The $1.9 billion investment by the US Department of Labor produced a comprehensive collection of workforce-related Open Educational Resources (OER) created by over 700 community colleges across the nation. |
| Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources list serve | http://www.ltcconline.net/greenl/oer/oerlistfromlistserve.htm | This is a curated list from topics posted to the CCCOER Advisory Google Group. |
Another source for free works in the public domain is: http://www.gutenberg.org/. The books you can access here are eBooks, and they have a large number of classics.
I didn’t see much I could use. No links to Mastercam or Solidworks. Some info on engineering, but nothing to do with actual manufacturing.
Very interesting and helpful. I’d like to explore more.
Nothing available for my course subject matter. Class texts are already under $25. Can I use the LCT?
Marcia- if your students can purchase their book from the bookstore under $40 then it is LTC! Submit your information using the new form.
Hi Dennis-
Found a book on OER Commons focused on automotive technology, not sure if this would help, but here is the link:
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/advanced-automotive-technology-model/view
There are also some on OASIS: https://oasis.geneseo.edu/basic_search.php?search_query=automotive
Also check out Skills Commons, it is focused on workforce training, there are a few for Solidworks: https://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=solidworks