Librarians will serve as support for all faculty wishing to incorporate OER into a course section. Among the support provided by designated librarians are maintaining the CCAC OER (Lib)Guide, assisting faculty in the location and curation of OER content, and facilitating OER training. The Virtual Campus will also serve in a primary support role for faculty. OER adoption will be promoted for Virtual Campus course sections. Course Designations By their nature, the use of OER encourages a reduction in course material costs. Most OER are available free of charge. However, some disciplines also use other resources that do have a cost associated with them. Likewise, some students choose to pay a fee in order to receive a printed version of their OER. Finally, national trends in course designation and an understanding of academic freedom point to using cost, not content, to designate course sections. Therefore, these regulations encourage the use of OER while designating course sections according to cost as opposed to content. As equity is at the root of the OER and reduction of course material costs movements, the designations of ZCT (Zero Cost Textbook) and RCT (Reduced Cost Textbook) described above give instructors the flexibility to provide their students with the materials needed for success in their disciplines, while still maintaining an equitable course material cost limit. Course section designations in the course catalogue/schedule will follow the current style of fee designation: D ELEGATION OF A UTHORITY Faculty representatives, in collaboration with the Office of the Provost, shall be responsible for developing, maintaining and updating procedures that are consistent with these regulations and that comply with applicable regulations, policies, and procedures of CCAC, and laws and regulations of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. R EFERENCES Board Policy I.02 – Board of Trustees/Powers & Duties Board Policy I.03 – Mission, Vision and Goals Board Policy III.01 – Academic Programs and Policies CCAC-AFT Collective Bargaining Agreement Administrative Regulation, Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines
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