PASCAL Affordable Learning Resources Guide

Affordable Learning Resources are quality, low- or no-cost educational resources that encourage student success while lowering student costs.  These resources include library-licensed resources, Open Educational Resources, and items freely available or in the public domain on the web.

While library-licensed resources are not OER and may come with copyright and licensing restrictions, using materials available through your library can save your students money. The library offers e-books, databases, and journals that can be easily linked to and freely accessed through D2L or your syllabus. If you'd like help locating library-licensed content to use in a class, please contact Jessica Cerny, 843-574-6938, jessica.cerny@tridenttech.edu.

Visit our A-Z list of online journals or our A-Z list of online databases .

The PASCAL Faculty Textbook Portal is designed to assist faculty in finding and selecting open and affordable course materials. Using EBSCO’s Faculty Select interface, the Portal allows faculty to easily search and access quality Open Educational Resources (OER), over 400 PASCAL provided DRM-free e-books, EBSCO’s Open Access eBook Collection, and DRM-free e-books that faculty can request their library purchase.

Open Educational Resources are educational materials offered freely and openly for anyone to use.  Most licenses allow resources to be shared, remixed or customized for your class.  Open educational resources include textbooks, full courses, course materials, modules, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other resources used to support access to knowledge.  If you would like help finding OERs for your class, please contact Jessica Cerny, 843-574-6938, jessica.cerny@tridenttech.edu.

The General OER Collections and OERs by Subject pages have links to resources where you can find OER materials for your classes.

Free Online Resources are resources that are available online but are not always open, so you may not be allowed to change or revise them to suit your needs.  For those resources that do not fall under the public domain, it is best to use them by linking to the resource through D2L and sending your students to the specific site and not re-posting the information.