15 Open Education Resources (OER)
OER and Open English at SLCC. While faculty are permitted to assign textbooks to meet a course’s learning outcomes, the ELWS department is committed to Open Educational Resources (OER) in as many of our courses as possible.
These freely available resources reduce the financial burden on students, and provide instructors with access to materials that can be re-imagined and remixed in different ways to respond to the current demands of the writing situation.
One of the OER resources we offer is Open English, a department written and edited collection of texts designed for all levels of our composition courses. Support is available for faculty who wish to write additional texts to contribute to this collection.
Open English offers insight into the department’s THRESHOLD CONCEPTS for composition courses and even has texts designed to specifically address these ideas.
Faculty are also able to use texts from outside of Open English as long as they meet the aims of the course.