Open educational resources, or OER, are freely available, openly licensed (usually Creative Commons) learning materials that can be legally downloaded, edited, and shared, to better serve all students.
OER are:
- Free to access
- Available from day one of your class
- Customizable to fit student's learning needs
At LCC, we are using OER to lower the cost of education for all students. To contact OER staff, please email oer@star.lcc.edu.
LCC Courses that use OER for Summer 2020
| CRN | Course Number | Course Name | OER Textbook | OER Textbook Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALL | ACAD 101 | First Year Experience | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| 90016 | ANTH 270 | Physical Anthropology & Archaeology | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information explorations.americananthro.org |
| ALL | ANTH 275 | Physical Anthropology & Archaeology | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information explorations.americananthro.org |
| ALL | BIOL 121 | Biol Foundation for Physiology | Concepts of Biology | https://openstax.org/details/books/concepts-biology |
| ALL | BIOL 127 | Cell Biology | Biology | https://openstax.org/details/books/biology |
| ALL | BIOL 128 | Organismal Biology | Biology | https://openstax.org/details/books/biology |
| ALL | BIOL 201 | Human Anatomy | Human Anatomy & Physiology | https://openstax.org/details/books/anatomy-and-physiology |
| ALL | BIOL 270 | Human Genetics | Biology | https://openstax.org/details/books/anatomy-and-physiology |
| ALL | BUSN 118 | Introduction to Business | Lumen Learning Introduction to Business | Introduction to Business (Lumen Learning) |
| ALL | CHEM 151 | General Chem Lecture I | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| ALL | CHEM 152 | General Chem Lecture II | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| ALL | CHEM 161 | General ChemistryLab I | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| ALL | CHEM 162 | General ChemistryLab II | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| ALL | CHEM 252 | Organic Chemistry Lecture II | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| ALL | ECON 201 | Principles of Economics-Microeconomics | Principles of Economics | https://openstax.org/details/books/principles-economics |
| ALL | ECON 202 | Principles of Economics-Macroeconomics | Principles of Economics | https://openstax.org/details/books/principles-economics |
| ALL | ENG 098 | Integrated Reading Writing I | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information pb.openlcc.net/writingforcollege/ |
| ALL | ENGL 099 | Integrated Reading Writing II | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| 90404 | ENGL 121 | Composition I | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| 90419 | ENGL 121 | Composition I | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| 90421 | ENGL 121 | Composition I | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| 90408 | ENGL 121 | Composition I | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| 90432 | ENGL 122 | Composition II | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| ALL | FREN 121 | Elementary French I | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| ALL | GRMN 121 | Elementary German I | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| 90019 | HIST 211 | U.S. History to 1877 | American Yawp | http://www.americanyawp.com/ |
| 90020 | HIST 211 | U.S. History to 1877 | American Yawp | http://www.americanyawp.com/ |
| 90023 | HIST 212 | U.S. History from 1877 | American Yawp | http://www.americanyawp.com/ |
| ALL | HUMS 211 | Art History to the Renaissance | Smarthistory.org | https://smarthistory.org/ |
| ALL | HUMS 212 | Art History from Renaissance | Smarthistory.org | https://smarthistory.org/ |
| ALL | MATH 141 | Calculus with Applications | LCC Faculty assembled | See instructor for textbook information |
| ALL | MGMT 228 | Organization Behavior | Organizational Behavior | https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/organizational-behavior |
| ALL | PHIL 101 | Introduction to Philosophy | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| ALL | PHIL 151 | Intro to Logic & Critical Thinking | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| ALL | PHIL 211 | Philosophy: Ancient and Medieval | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| ALL | PSYC 200 | Introduction to Psychology | Psychology | https://openstax.org/details/books/psychology |
| ALL | PSYC 202 | Psychology of Personality | Personality Theory a Multicultural Perspective | https://www.oercommons.org/courses/personality-theory-a-multicultural-perspective |
| ALL | PSYC 203 | Social Psychology | Principles of Social Psychology | https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=76 |
| ALL | PSYC 205 | Human Growth and Development | OER Materials from NOBA and Lumen Learning | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UXzw2GCgwyl-vQoSq5HdsRDGDhn9pQlN/view?usp=sharing |
| ALL | PSYC 250 | Abnormal Psychology | Abnormal Psychology | PSYC 250: Abnormal Psychology LibGuide |
| ALL | PHYS 251 | Physics I: Mechanics | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| ALL | RELG 150 | Intro to World Religions | LCC Faculty Created | LCC Faculty Created |
| ALL | SOCL 120 | Introduction to Sociology | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |
| ALL | STAT 215 | Intro to Probability & Stats | LCC Faculty Created | See instructor for textbook information |