Zero Cost Course Materials

 
 
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Frequently Asked Questions About Zero Cost Course Materials

Frequently asked questions about history, legislation, definitions, and best practices regarding Zero Cost Course Materials (ZCCM).

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Faculty Showcase

Brief video describing my motivation for adopting Zero Cost Course Materials as well as my approach to creating, curating, and converting Zero Cost Course Materials.

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presentation: Opening My Mind to Open Educational Resources
 
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Lesson Planning Resources

A guide for determining essential questions, identifying learning objectives, gathering course materials, and designing formative and summative assessments.

sample lesson plan makeover
Essential Questions
Writing Measurable Learning Outcomes
The Last Class: Critical Thinking, Reflection, Course Effectiveness, and Student Engagement
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Finding Open Educational Resources and Zero Cost Course Materials

Comprehensive databases and metafinders to search free, open-source, and/or zero cost course materials.

Open Textbooks
Articles & Readings
Images, Videos, Media
MOM: The Mason OER Metafinder
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
cool4ed: California open online library for education
Teaching Commons: Open Educational Resources from Leading Colleges and Universities
Sources for Organizational Behavior Teaching Cases
 
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Sample Syllabi

Compendia of syllabi as well as databases to search for syllabi, course outlines, open courseware, etc.

Open course library
the open university
mit open courseware
stanford online
 
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Stock Photos

Open source stock photography.

the jopwell collection
Black Illustrations
Unsplash
Pexels
nappy