OER vs ZTC
ZTC stands for Zero Textbook Cost. While an OER course is the goal, some faculty might find the transition from proprietary textbooks to completely open materials overwhelming. To qualify for the CUNY OER Initiative award, we only ask that all your course materials are free to the students. That is, you can make use of databases and eBooks licensed by the library as well as information on the open web. All the resources in the chart below, for examples, count as ZTC.
Resources
- What is OER? from the Creative Commons Wiki
- The Review Project led by John Hilton III, with contributions from Stacie Mason and Virginia Clinton-Lisell
- The Impact of Open Educational Resources on Various Student Success Metrics by Nicholas B. Colvard, C. Edward Watson, and Hyojin Park
- Fixing the Broken Textbook Market, 2nd ed. by Cailyn Nagle and Kaitlyn Vitez, from the U.S. PIRG Education Fund
Attribution
This module was created by Ching-Jung Chen. Portions of the content were adapted from:
- Open Education Primer from SPARC Open Education Leadership Program, licensed under CC BY 4.0
- SPARC Open Education Leadership Program course content, licensed under CC BY 4.0
