Open Educational Resources (OER)

Chabot College understands that the rising cost of textbooks is a significant barrier to student success. To address this, we are committed to advancing Zero-Textbook-Cost (ZTC) and Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives. Our goal is to reduce the financial burden on students by offering free or low-cost textbook materials that are accessible from the first day of class and can be tailored to meet diverse learning needs.

What is OER?

Why OER?

Support for Faculty at Chabot College

Chabot College offers support for faculty looking to adopt ZTC/OER materials. Faculty can access a wealth of resources to help find, customize, and implement affordable materials for their courses through OER and/or other ZTC resources. We offer stipends for projects and professional development opportunites through mentorship and various training workshops.

Join the Spring 2025 OER/ZTC Faculty Corhort

Call for proposals to join the Spring 2025 OER/ZTC Faculty Cohort. Projects can receive a stipend of $500-$2,000.

Priority will be given to project proposals submitted by Friday, March 7, 2025 at 5:00 pm.

New to OER? This is the perfect way to get started!

Option A: Complete the OER and Equity Basics Self-Paced Canvas Course

New to OER? This is the perfect way to get started! Open to all instructors (full and part-time) that would like to learn about equity in OER, open licensing, open pedagogy, accessibility, curation of resources, and research about how OER affects student success.

Complete the OER and Equity Basics self-paced online course
Pass the course module quizzes and final assessment
Estimated number of hours: 8 hours of online, asynchronous work in Canvas
$500 one-time stipend

Did you complete option A and have a project in mind? Then, it's time for option B!

Option B: OER Re-mix, Curation, and Creation

Choose between a Small OER Project or Medium/Large OER Project (described below).

B1: Small OER Project - Revise/Re-mix

Revise or Re-mix existing OER materials for use in making your class ZTC
Estimated number of hours: 16 hours
$1,000 one-time stipend

B2: Medium-Large OER Project - Author

Author new OER content or supplemental materials. Augment existing OER content such as homework, test banks, PowerPoint presentations slides, videos, lab manuals, images, etc.
Share your OER content
Estimated number of hours: 32 hours
$2,000 one-time stipend

Go over the proposal for more information about deliverables.

Go over the FAQ document.

Proposal Form

Additional Support

Spring 2025 OER/ZTC Office hours
Spring 2025 LibreTexts and ADAPT training
Division Mentors:
- Applied Tech and Business
  - Miguel Colon
  - Adam Hathaway
  - Melissa Patterson
- Arts, Media and Communication
  - Vacant
- Health, Kinesiology and Athletics
  - Kristina Perkins
- Language Arts
  - Caren Parrish
  - Lisa Ulibarri
- Counseling
  - Heather Oshiro
- Science and Math
  - Megan Jensen
  - Ming Ho
- Social Sciences
  - Sarah Earl-Novell
  - Christina Mendoza

See Chabot's Hall of OER/ZTC Heroes who made their courses zero or low textbook-cost.

Student Resources

See how ZTC and LTC help students save

See all the ways students can save on textbook

Faculty Resources

CONTACT US

Cristina Moon, Ph.D.
OER/ZTC Coordinator

John Chan
OER/ZTC Library Coordinator