2. Academic Senate Special Meeting
Open Educational Resources
March 29th 3pm-4:30pm
Library Viewing Room
valleycollege.edu/oer

3. Sharing

4. high-quality teaching, learning, and research resources

5. that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license, such as a Creative Commons license which permits their free use and repurposing by others,

6. and may include other resources that are legally available and free of cost to students

7. Source: SPARC

8. Works which exist in the public domain are open educational resources

9. Works created by the federal government are considered public domain and can be used openly without any restrictions or limits.

10. 65% of students reported not purchasing or renting textbook due to cost
Source: Open Textbook Alliance

11. Access

12. Institutionally licensed campus materials such as library databases that all students enrolled in the course have access to use are open educational resources.

13. Source: SPARC

14. Creative Commons openly licensed content can be used as open educational resources

15. Equity

16. Source: CCCOER

17. 76% of SBVC students receive some sort of financial aid
Source: SBVC Research Office

21. Savings

23. Success

24. Source: SPARC

25. Future