Celebrate Open Education Resources Week March 3-6, 2025
An Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Monday, March 3 | 1p.m. - 2p.m.
Location: Library Classroom (Room N-317)
In this session, faculty members will explore the world of Open Educational Resources. They will learn what they are, how to find them, how to adapt them for their class, and who to seek out to request a class to be recognized as an OER (No-cost) or an OERL (Low-Cost under $50.00) course.
OER and Diverse Voices
Tuesday, March 4 | 10a.m. - 11a.m.
Location: Library Classroom (Room N-317)
This is a session for faculty looking for diverse voices and multiple perspectives in their course material. The librarian will guide them towards resources that will help their students identify with content in a way that can be relevant to them and their daily lives.
Finding Local OER Resources
Wednesday, March 5 | 1p.m. - 2p.m.
Location: Library Classroom (Room N-317)
This session will help faculty to source local OER resources that might be overlooked or unknown, from public archives and libraries to other sources. This is a great way to add a bit of local history to your courses.
OER Open Lab
Thursday, March 6 | 10a.m. - 11a.m.
Location: Library Classroom (Room N-317)
Get help finding OER materials! This is a drop-in session to talk about OER and see if it’s right for the courses you’re teaching. Check out OER Textbooks and look at examples of physical copies of OER Textbooks for you to review
What are Open Educational Resources?
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are available in the public domain or published under open licenses such as "Creative Commons." These open licenses indicate how materials can be used, reused, adapted, shared, and modified according to specific needs.
Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) offers several courses that use Open Education Resources (OER). Since first establishing “Open Education” offerings in 2017, BHCC has expanded its offerings to be more inclusive by grounding its OER work in a framework of equity and cultural wealth.
Our Vision
To offer students current, quality, and culturally relevant materials at the lowest possible cost.
Learn More About OER
Testimonial from Faculty
"(S)elfishly for me as a professor, there's also the creativity piece and that it gives me a lot of freedom and flexibility to find materials that reflect our students that are not just about but created by people with different racial and ethnic backgrounds, different linguistic backgrounds, and also that I can make the materials up to date."
Jennifer Valdez is a Professor and the Chairperson of the BHCC’s for-credit Academic English Language Learning Department. From the BHCC OER Podcast #2