Introduction

Welcome to the ASCCC OERI Resource Page for Psychology. This space is intended to provide faculty in the discipline with a collection of resources that have been subject to a peer-review process and/or that have been selected for use by faculty in the California community colleges. In addition to providing you with access to resources, this is also a place to interact with your colleagues.

Current Status of the Discipline

Psychology was one of the ASCCC's Cohort 1 disciplines. Cohort 1 disciplines were surveyed late in the Fall 2018 term. The survey closed on January 14, 2019. Of the 65 unique faculty who responded, 3 were from the UC and 1 was from CSU. None of these university faculty were using OER in lieu of a traditional text. Twenty-six (~43%) of the community college faculty were using OER in lieu of a text. Five of the CCC faculty indicated that they were not aware of OER and and 7 indicated "I have heard of OER, but don’t know it." As the number of respondents was relatively small, more data collection may be needed to ensure that the status of the discipline as reflected here is complete. In order to assess the use of texts for courses other then introduction to psychology (C-ID PSY 110), additional data collection will be needed.

Courses

For ease of reference, resources have been organized by C-ID designation (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (if available)..

PSY 110 Introductory Psychology

PSY 115 Psychology of Personal and Social Adjustment

PSY 120 Introduction to Abnormal Psychology

PSY 130 Introduction to Human Sexuality

PSY 150 Introduction to Biological Psychology

PSY 170 Introduction to Social Psychology

PSY 180 Introduction to Lifespan Psychology

PSY 200/205B Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology (without and with lab)

Psychology-Specific OER Collections

Concordia University - The purpose of these discipline specific pages is to showcase content that might be of interest to faculty who are considering adopting open educational resources for use in their classes. This list of content is by no means exhaustive.

Noba - Noba offers "Comprehensive content from ADHD to Z." The Noba catalog covers the traditional scope of introductory psychology and then some. With 103 modules (and counting) we're confident you'll find what you're looking for. Noba is a free online platform that provides high-quality, flexibly structured textbooks and educational materials. These textbooks and materials are licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License. Users may reuse, redistribute, and remix the content to suit their needs.