Zero, Low, and Reduced Cost Course Designation Procedure Faculty members who want a Zero, Low and Reduced Cost designation placed on their course sections must make a request to their Department Head. The request will be evaluated based on quality of the materials, compatibility with program/discipline level OER efforts, adherence to the College OER Regulations, and cost of the materials. Course sections shall be labeled within each semester’s course schedule in the following ways: • ZCT – Zero Cost Textbook indicates that there will be a no cost option for assigned course materials. • RCT – Reduced Cost Textbook indicates that the cost for assigned course materials shall not exceed 1/3 of the average cost of new, non-OER course materials that would normally be associated with a course. • LCT – Low Cost Textbook indicates that the cost for all assigned course materials shall not exceed $40 (new, used, and electronic versions must not exceed $40). Course sections shall be labeled with one of the above designations before the publication of a semester’s course schedule. Once the semester course schedule has been made available to students, courses that are designated ZCT, RCT or LCT shall maintain the expectation of Zero Cost Textbook, Reduced Cost Textbook or Low Cost Textbook no matter who is teaching the course section. To preserve academic freedom, if a full-time faculty member is assigned or chooses to teach a course section that has already been published as ZCT, RCT or LCT the full-time faculty member may choose any combination of course materials to maintain that section’s cost designation. Sharing Information with Students The use of ZCT, RCT and LCT shall be shared with students. A description of ZCT, RCT and LCT shall be maintained within the Student Handbook, Course Catalogue and the Course Schedule. Advisors and Counselors shall disseminate informational materials concerning ZCT, RCT and LCT Faculty are encouraged to employ the following OER Community standards in the adoption of OER: Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute. Faculty who incorporate OER materials into their course sections shall assume all responsibility for maintaining the integrity of the course content as related to copyright and scholarly merit. Faculty may only use materials that are published under a Creative Commons License or exist in the Public Domain. Faculty who create original content incorporated into an OER-related designated section shall place a Creative Commons CC-BY, CC- BY-NC, CC-BY-SA, or CC-BY-NC-SA license on such content at the time it is introduced into the course section. during the advisement and counseling process. OER P ROCEDURES AND R ESPONSIBILITIES
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