SECTIONS 78910-78910.5 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 78910-78910.5

78910. (a) The Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges is authorized to establish a pilot program to provide
faculty and staff from community college districts around the state
with the information, methods, and instructional materials to
establish open education resources centers. Community colleges
participating in the pilot program shall support program costs
through existing state funds appropriated for purposes consistent
with this program, or through federal and private funding. The
Chancellor of the California Community Colleges may designate a lead
community college district to coordinate the planning and development
of the pilot program.
(b) For purposes of this article, "open education resources" are
learning materials or resources, including, but not necessarily
limited to, books, course materials, video materials, tests, or
software, the copyrights of which have expired, or have been released
with an intellectual property license that permits their free use or
repurposing by others without the permission of the original authors
or creators of the learning materials or resources.
(c) The lead community college district specified in subdivision
(a) shall be selected from community college district applicants
based upon a demonstration of its ability to accomplish all of the
following:
(1) Develop and implement a model for the creation of open
education resources (OER) course content that is pedagogically sound
and fully accessible, in compliance with the federal Americans With
Disabilities Act (Public Law 101-336), by students with varying
learning styles and disabilities.
(2) Develop community college model OER courses and instructional
materials that meet the requirements of the Intersegmental General
Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) or of basic skills education
courses in English, English as a second language, or mathematics, or
that meet the requirements of both the IGETC and the basic skills
education courses.
(3) Develop a community college professional development course
that introduces faculty, staff, and college course developers to the
concept, creation, content, and production methodologies that enable
OER to be offered to students in community college classes,
including, but not necessarily limited to, all of the following:
(A) Substitutes for textbooks.
(B) Addressing issues relating to copyright, the obtaining of
permission for use of material, and other intellectual property
concepts.
(C) Accessibility for students with disabilities.
(D) Delivery options that incorporate multiple learning styles and
strategies.
(4) Create an OER information repository to serve as the single
point of contact for information about community college OER, the
public domain, OER courses and course materials, research and
production processes, and professional resources for creating and
repurposing OER.
(5) Identifying sources of adequate funding to accomplish
paragraphs (1) to (4), inclusive.
(d) Participating districts shall report to the Chancellor's
office of the California Community Colleges, upon request, on all of
the following:
(1) The number of faculty and students who use OER in their
courses.
(2) The quality of faculty and student experiences with OER
compared to traditional courses.
(3) The grades earned in OER courses.
(4) The cost of OER course materials compared to non-OER
materials.
(e) The Chancellor's office of the California Community Colleges
shall report findings made pursuant to subdivision (d) to the
Governor and the Legislature on or before January 1, 2012.
(f) No additional state appropriation shall be requested or
provided for purposes of the section.

78910.5. This article shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2012 , and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2012, deletes or extends
that date.