Getting Textbooks to Zero Student Cost: ZTC and OER

This is a 3 book series designed to help students succeed. The central volume is featured here but the other two books can be accessed from the above url.

Developed with the support of hundreds of faculty and coordinators, the book addresses the evolving challenges and opportunities of today’s diverse students. Engagement, self-analysis, personal responsibility, and student support are reflected throughout the material. College Success also includes an array of student surveys and opinion polls, and OpenStax will regularly provide the results to adopting faculty.

We designed this Open Educational Resources (OER) First Year Seminar textbook to help you navigate the transition to college and to prepare you for your future academic career. Our editorial team brings together LaGuardia faculty, staff, and students from various disciplines. We are committed to a process of open pedagogy and value student participation in knowledge production, so students were actively involved in all stages of the creation of this book. We are grateful to our student team for gathering and creating resources and providing valuable feedback on all chapters to make this an accessible and exciting resource for their peers! Some of the content you will find in this book is original and unique to LaGuardia, while other content has been adopted from other Open Educational Resources (OER).

A free, Open Educational Resource, Modern Blueprint for College and Career Success is a post pandemic, students' guide for classroom and career success. Covering student success strategies, self-management, career development, health and wellness, self and cultural awareness, social development, and financial literacy, Modern Blueprint includes relevant content for students attending college with an equity perspective.