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OER: Open Educational Resources: XB12

This guide on OER (Open Educational Resources) is designed to give FC faculty some basic information that will encourage the adoption and implementation of OER in their courses.

Instructional Material Costs

XB12 Instructional Material Cost

  • Indicates the cost of course materials for the section
  • Only the cost of course textbooks (including lab manuals) and supplementary materials (including software and homework systems) are to be reported
  • Open education resources (OER) are those educational resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license, such as a Creative Commons license, that permits their free use and repurposing by others

Things to Consider for XB12 Reporting

Course materials refers to any textbook, lab book, software and/or homework system necessary to participate in the course
• XB12 is looking at the primary textbook/course materials used for the course
• Faculty likely use other free resources when teaching a course, but the course materials that would normally bear cost are key
• Supplies are not included in XB12 reporting
• If more than one required course material is necessary to teach a course, any cost-bearing course material should be reported for XB12

XB12 Decision Map

Scenarios

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(Attribution: XB12 Codes Infographic by Caroline Hallam, Glendale Community College (CC BY 4.0) )

Zero Textbook Cost

  • A: No Course Material
  • C: Cost is not passed on to students
  • E: Open Educational Materials
  • G: Mix of no cost and OER materials
  • F: Free digital materials that are not OER

Low Textbook Cost

  • D: Low Cost

 

XB12 Reporting Decision Grid

XB12 Definitions

 

MIS Code 

Coding Example 

Student Perspective Example 

A- No Textbook 

Course does not require instructional materials 

 Student doesn’t pay because there are no required instructional materials 

C- Text cost not passed on to students 

Library materials, classroom sets, etc., that are department or college provided 

Student doesn’t pay to access the required instructional materials but the institution or other some other entity does. 

D- Section has low instructional material** costs 

Sections with textbook related materials totaling pre-tax $40 

Student pays under $40 pre-tax to access the required materials 

E-  Section uses only no-cost, OER instructional material** 

OER resource with an CC license 

Student doesn’t pay because required instructional materials are free to access 

F- Section uses only no-cost digital instructional material** that does not meet OER guidelines* 

Websites and/or web resources (not openly licensed thru CC) 

Student doesn’t pay because there are no required instructional materials 

G- Section uses a mix of OER and other no-cost digital instructional materials** that do not meet OER guidelines*; any costs are not passed to the student 

OER and library eBooks used together. OER & copyrighted materials (not openly licensed thru CC) that are free to students, such as Library resources. 

Student doesn’t pay because the instructional materials are a mix of no cost items that the institution or other some other entity provides 

Y- Textbook is not free or low cost 

Has textbook costs 

Student pays over $40 to access the required instructional materials