This site will serve as a directory for MiraCosta departments/subject areas which are collaborating on OER work and sharing their results, as well as a starting point for finding high-quality OER resources for the most common courses.
MiraCosta Departmental OER Resources
- Oceanography / Earth Science / Geology
- Sociology - SOC has a Canvas OER repository - if you are a SOC instructor and don't know how to access it, please contact the department chair.
Recommended OER Texts and Resources for Consideration by Discipline
- Note 1: If your discipline or course is not listed below, you may wish to review more general starting points in your search for open content. OASIS is an especially useful tool for discovering OERs by subject area.
- Note 2: CCC OEI Canvas course shells from Canvas Commons may be directly imported into a MiraCosta Canvas class when accessed after logging into MiraCosta Canvas.
Administration of Justice
Anthropology
- Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology is an open access text from SACC.
- Open Anthropology textbooks and databases is a curated resource from Houston CC.
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in Anthropology
Art / Art History
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in Art/Art History
Astronomy
Biology
- OpenStax Anatomy & Physiology
- OpenStax Concepts of Biology
- OpenStax Biology
- OpenStax Microbiology
- CCC OEI Canvas Microbiology course shell for this text
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER resources for various courses in Biology
Biotechnology
Business
- OpenStax Business Statistics
- CCC OEI Canvas Business Statistics course shell for this text
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in Business
Chemistry
- OpenStax Chemistry
- OpenStax Chemistry (Atoms First)
- CCC OEI Canvas Atoms First course shell for this text
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu.
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in Chemistry
Child Development
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in Child Development
Communication
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in Communication
Computer Science
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in Computer Science
Computer Studies and Information Technology
Counseling
Economics
- OpenStax Economics 2e
- OpenStax Macroeconomics 2e
- OpenStax Microeconomics 2e
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in Economics
Earth Sciences
- See locally created resources for Earth Science, Geology, and Oceanography
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
English & Literature
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in English & Literature
English as a Second Language
Film
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
Geography
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in Geography
Geology
History
- OpenStax US History
- CCC OEI Canvas US History Pt 1 course shell for Part 1 of the text
- CCC OEI Canvas US History Pt 2 course shell for Part 2 of this text
- Free RedShelf e-reader US History text
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in History
International Languages
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in Spanish
Library
Math
- OpenStax Prealgebra
- CCC OEI Canvas Prealgebra course shell for this text
- OpenStax Elementary Algebra
- CCC OEI Canvas Elementary Algebra course shell for this text
- OpenStax Intermediate Algebra
- CCC OEI Canvas Intermedia Algebra course shell for this text
- OpenStax Precalculus
- OpenStax Algebra & Trigonometry
- OpenStax College Algebra
- OpenStax Calculus 1
- OpenStax Calculus 2
- OpenStax Calculus 3
- OpenStax Statistics
- See the American Institute of Mathematics site of peer-reviewed open math textbooks by math subject
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in Math
Music
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
Philosophy
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in Philosophy
Physics
- OpenStax College Physics
- OpenStax University Physics 1
- CCC OEI Canvas University Physics 1 course shell for this text
- OpenStax University Physics 2
- CCC OEI Canvas University Physics 2 course shell for this text
- OpenStax University Physics 3
- CCC OEI Canvas University Physics 3 course shell for this text
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in Physics
Political Science
- OpenStax American Government
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in Political Science
Psychology
- OpenStax Psychology
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in Psychology
Sociology
- OpenStax Sociology 2e
- Go to the California Open Online Library and select the appropriate discipline from the first drop-down menu, and then the course of interest from the second drop-down menu
- See the ASCCC OERI compilation of OER texts for various courses in Sociology
Please let Jim Julius know of additional MiraCosta departmental OER resources.
