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OER Faculty Guide: Finding & Using OER

Accounting

Financial Accounting
Managerial Accounting
Finance
Principles of Accounting
Taxation
  • Intro to Business (course) (Lumen Learning, various OER licenses)
  • GCF Global Quickbooks Tutorials and Resources (2022, GCF, CC BY-NC-ND)
  • Accounting Basics - Cribbingo (Pedagogy in Action) A combination of the five-card Cribbage game and the board game Bingo that makes use of game theory as an alternate way to cover content that would typically be part of a lecture.
  • Processing Integrity Challenge (Pedagogy in Action) Using game theory to help students learn how to determine relevant application controls for accounting systems to ensure processing integrity is achieved. It specifically addresses source data, data entry, processing, and output controls. The playing format is similar to Jeopardy.
  • Transaction Analysis Tic-Tac-Toe (Pedagogy in Action) Transaction analysis is the process of identifying the specific effects of economic events on the accounting equation. Each transaction at a minimum has a dual effect on the accounting equation and it must always remain in balance. Students enrolled in principles of financial accounting courses need practice applying these concepts and playing tic-tac-toe helps to accomplish this task in a novel way. The game utilizes PowerPoint hyperlinked slides to emulate the game of tic-tac-toe. Instructors can also modify the tic-tac-toe questions to serve their individual needs.
  • Debit/Credit Flashcards - Drill and Practice for Principles of Financial Accounting (Pedagogy in Action) Twenty-five interactive PowerPoint flashcards on the rules of debits and credits. The flash card feedback refers to the acronym EARLS to help students learn the debit and credit rules applied to increasing and decreasing specific accounts.

Automotive Technology

Business: OER Textbooks

U.S. Hospitality & Tourism
Canadian Hospitality & Tourism
Food Product Development

Business: OERs Used by SMCCD Faculty

Business OERs
Course Instructor OER/ZTC Course Material
BUS. 100 MCCARTHY (SKY) INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS (SKY)
BUS. 101 MCCARTHY (SKY) INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RELATIONS (SKY)
BUS. 150 MCCARTHY (SKY) ENTREPRENEURSHIP: SMALL BUS. MGMT. COM (SKY)
BUS. 401 MCCARTHY (SKY) BUS. 401 OER READER (SKY)

 

Business: Business Computer Systems & Management

Computer Skills
Business Computing
Word Processing
Excel®

Business: International Business

International Business
International Economics
International Trade

Business: Personal Finance

Early Childhood Education & Development: Textbooks

Early Childhood Education & Development: Course Materials

A video instructional series in early childhood development for college and high school classrooms, caregivers, and parents; 13 half-hour video programs and coordinated books

A video instructional series in developmental psychology for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 5 one-hour video programs, 26 half-hour audio programs, and coordinated books .

This course is designed to provide early childhood education professionals with the knowledge and skills to assess their own level in terms of the eight core competencies, across the infant-toddler, preschool and out-of-school age range.

The 10 modules include video segments featuring teachers using effective strategies and techniques in the classroom on subjects such as phonemic awareness, phonics, speech sounds, and text comprehension.

EdX offers online education courses covering a broad range of topics from educational policy and history to curriculum design and teaching techniques. Explore case studies in teaching and learn about how technology is increasing access to quality education on an unprecedented scale.

This is an online college course developed for students preparing to be teachers, as well as inservice K-12 classroom teachers and other educators.

 

Early Childhood Education & Development: Other Open Content

  • Child Development Journal A multidisciplinary, not-for-profit, professional association with an international membership of approximately 5,500 researchers, practitioners, and human development professionals. This site provides free access to some of the articles published in this journal.
  • Child Development Research “Child Development Research is a peer-reviewed open-access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of child development research.”
  • Early Childhood Research & Practice (ECRP) Journal Open-access, peer-reviewed, bilingual Internet journal in early care and education.
  • CALiO E-Publications From The Child Abuse Library Online (CALiO) of the National Children's Advocacy Center (NCAC), “full-text of publications that do not require fee or password. Many of the publications included in this collection were published by state and federal government agencies, and are in the public domain. Others were funded by foundations or other organizations for open access.”
  • PBS Learning Media California A public media system-wide repository of digital media learning objects, including videos, images, podcasts, and documents.
  • ​Child Development Institute Parent resources related to child development, psychology, health, parenting, learning, media, entertainment, family activities, professional experts organizations, and other useful websites.
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development One of the National Institutes of Health, NICHD "conducts and supports laboratory research, clinical trials, and epidemiological studies that explore health processes; examines the impact of disability and disease; and sponsors training programs for scientists, health care providers, and researchers​."

Early Childhood Education & Development: Repositories

Early Childhood Education & Development: Adopted by SMCCD Faculty

Hospitality & Tourism Management: Textbooks

Hospitality & Tourism Management: Course Materials

Casino and Gaming
 
Event Planning and Management
Food Service
  • Intro to Commercial Baking Canvas course (2021, West Hills CC, CC BY-NC-SA)
  • Culinary Production & Operation Canvas course (2021, West Hills CC, CC BY-NC-SA)
  • Culinary Customer Service and Resiliency Training (City University of New York/Skills Commons)  This training prepares students to identify, address, and respond to demands of working in the culinary arts field including customer service and emergency situations.
  • Culinary Arts (Butte County Office of Education/CTE Online Model) The lessons in this course are applicable to a capstone course in food service within a 3 sequence career pathway for Hospitality, Recreation and Tourism industry sector. The student receives training in kitchen safety and sanitation, equipment and facility use, knife skills, food preparation to include: cold pantry, salads, soups and sauces, introductory baking, meats and poultry, short order cook, hot-line, institutional cook, catering, cashiering, hostessing, waiter/waitress, and bussing. Students will participate in the planning, costing, preparation, serving, storage and critique of meals in project based learning. Nutrition and applied academic skills are incorporated in each unit. Career seeking and transferrable skills are incorporated into this curriculum culminating in a portfolio. Students that perform well could be placed in work-based learning environments.
Hospitality & Tourism
Safety & Sanitation

Hospitality & Tourism Management: Repositories

Repositories

Hospitality & Tourism Management: OERs Adopted by SMCCD Faculty

Wellness, Integrated Health & Well-being: Textbooks

​Fitness and Wellness
Kinesiology
Nutrition
Rehabilitation
Wellness / Well-Being
Yoga
Meditation
Wellness Coach

Wellness, Integrated Health & Well-being: Repositories

Wellness, Integrated Health & Well-being: Course Materials

Fitness and Wellness
  • Lifetime Fitness and Wellness (Lumen Learning)  In addition to the textbook this course includes discussion questions, videos, reading links and assignments. 
  • Personal Health and Wellness (Lumen Learning) In addition to the textbook this course includes discussion questions, videos, reading links and assignments. 
Meditation
  • Basic Meditation Practices for the Social Services Community (OER Commons, CC BY-NC-SA) This training video is part of a series dedicated to helping child welfare workers learn practical skills to cope with the emotional tolls of their very important work. In this video, a meditation specialist goes over basic meditation practices that can be completed in or around the workplace with minimal interruption time.
  • Psychology, States of Consciousness, Other States of Consciousness (OER Commons) By the end of this module, you will be able to:Define hypnosis and meditation and understand the similarities and differences of hypnosis and meditation.
  • Beyond Happiness: Flourishing (OER Commons, CC BY-NC-SA) This open short course is offered through Oregon State University (OSU) Open Oregon State. The learning modules in this short course are open, self-study learning modules with no live instructor, facilitator, or enrollment requirements, as these self-paced modules are made publicly visible (student data will remain private) in Canvas.
Nutrition
  • Nutritional Health, Food Production and the Environment (Johns Hopkins University/OER Commons) This course gives an understanding of the complex and challenging public health issue of food security by exploring the connections among diet, the current food and food animal production systems, the environment and public health, and considering factors such as economics, population and equity. Includes case studies and guest lecturers from a variety of disciplines and experiences.

Wellness, Integrated Health & Well-being: OERs Adopted by SMCCD Faculty