Districtwide Opportunities

Mini-grants

Maricopa Open Digital (MOD) Press Gold Seal

Our goal is to create a robust set of Gold Seal MOD Press textbooks and resources. To qualify for the Gold Seal, a MOD Press publication must have ALL of the characteristics found on the website.

Workshops/Webinars/Conferences

OER Regional Conference

A virtual experience inviting participants to showcase projects or ideas, learn from the community, build effective resources, and connect to an ongoing community of practice through the OERizona Network.

MODPress Workshop Series

Maricopa Open Digital (MOD) Press uses the PressbooksEDU ebook publishing platform to support students, faculty, and staff across the Maricopa County Community Colleges in the discovery, sharing, and creation of digital publications, including individually-authored and -remixed open educational resources.

MCC Opportunities

Mini-grants

Apply for a Z Course

A self-paced process in which faculty experts follow specific guidelines in order to gain the Z Course tag for their existing zero-textbook-cost course.

Z Degree Expert Model

A funded and collaborative professional development program that partners faculty experts with Center for Teaching & Learning and eLearning personnel to support the build of a zero-textbook-cost course in Canvas. Currently, we are only funding the development of invited online courses; however, if the content that is curated/developed is used in another modality, the course can be can be labeled a Z Course.

Z Academy

The Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) Summer Academy is a hybrid program to assist MCC residential and adjunct faculty who are already using or have selected no-cost or open education instructional materials in designing and developing a quality online course eligible to use the MCC Zero-Textbook-Cost Course tag.

Training

1-on-1 Sessions by appointment

Department Training by request

There is a wide world of freely licensed content available online to use for your teaching & learning needs. In this session, you will review OER resources (images, video, full courses, assessments, activities, etc…) collected by our CTL experts who will assist you with how to integrate this content into your Canvas course.