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This guide serves as a brief primer about zero textbook cost materials and suggestions for where to find them:
- textbook requirements for Title 5 & articulation
- relevant ASCCC resolutions
- important definitions & examples of various resources that count as zero-cost or low-cost for students
- Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC)
- Low Textbook Cost (LTC)
- Library-licensed electronic materials (database content)
- Open Access (OA)
- Open Educational Resources (OER)
- Public domain (not subject to copyright; copyright expired)
- information about Creative Commons licenses, including:
- purpose
- types
- attribution
- variety of tools to find ZTC resources, including:
- suggestions for OER by discipline
- OER aggregators, respositories, & textbook collections
- library databases
- Open access directories
- strategies for evaluating OER & staying organized during your research process
Not a Definitive List
- Resources change all the time, and the world of OER grows as new editions are created and others remix content into their own creations.
- There is no one place that will provide you with all you will need to successfully convert your course into a ZTC course.
- This is where you will use your research and creative skills and discipline expertise.
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