NOLO course = course with required materials (excluding equipment or fees) priced between $0 and $50
OER = Open Educational Resources = free and openly-licensed. Some NOLO courses use OERs.
Find these courses! No-cost and low-cost materials courses are filters in SIS and the online course schedule!
This group meets monthly to promote the use of no- and low-cost resources in NCC courses, to support faculty in learning about OER/NOLO, to track the adoption of these resources and to network. For more information, contact Library Director Fran Keenan.
Members as of November 2024:
The NCC library's online resources are licensed to NCC for a fee and therefore are not OERs, however they are free to students. They can be used in your Canvas courses.
A few ways you can use licensed library content:
Providing a syllabus statement is one tip. Make it clear to students where they can access the materials and if there are print options for digital materials.
Do you know how to attribute the Creative Commons openly-licensed OER resources you use? The license usually requires attribution for use or remixing.
Contact Library Director Fran Keenan for help in finding and linking to library and other NOLO content or for help finding OER (free and openly-licensed) materials.
The next page of this guide shows OERs (free and openly-licensed materials) that have been adopted by NCC instructors as of March 2025. This information is subject to change.