Open Educational Resources: History 103

Review materials

• History 103 History since 1500 has one required textbook, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart by Pollard, Rosenberg, and Tignor.
• Use the OER Commons website as a starting point to find comparable material.
• Search by subject (history) and keyword (world history).

• By adding more filters, you can narrow down the search.

• Identify some options:
  • Western Civilization: A Concise History - Volume 2 
  • Western Civilization: A Concise History - Volume 3

Modify​

• Western Civilization: A Concise History - Volumes 2 & 3 both have a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license.
  • These can be adapted and shared.
  • For more information of licenses and permissions, please see the Creative Commons Licenses page.

Attribute

• Western Civilization: A Concise History - Volume 2 © 2020 Portland Community College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC-BY-NC 4.0). Retrieved from https://www.oercommons.org/courses/western-civilization-a-concise-history-volume-2

• Western Civilization: A Concise History - Volume 3 © 2020 Portland Community College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC-BY-NC 4.0). Retrieved from https://www.oercommons.org/courses/western-civilization-a-concise-history-volume-3

  • ​This information can be found on the first pages of the desired text or material.

  • Please see Creative Commons' instructions on How to Give Attribution and CC Best Practices for Attribution wiki for more information.

Delivery/Redistribute

• Use these texts in your course instead of the current required text.
• The textbooks can be viewed online or downloaded to a PDF format.
• This saves each student approximately $87.50.