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We have designed the Critical Thinking and Communication course curriculum to be roughly standardized from section to section, meaning all faculty must use the same Course Student Learning Outcomes and choose from a robust set of readings, videos, and assignments. Within that set, there are lots of choices between subsets of readings, videos, and assignments that we have left up to individual faculty. This way, every student in Critical Thinking and Communication, no matter which section they are in, can expect the same course learning outcomes and foundation of information, while each faculty member still preserves enough academic freedom to choose to teach which specific content to use and in which order they prefer. Of course, faculty can also supplement the material with anything of their choosing. After consideration and several semesters of practice, we have decided to keep the set of texts as separate modules so that faculty can teach in this guided yet still open method. We realized that if we created our own OER text, it wouldn’t allow enough flexibility to support the kind of academic freedom we want to guarantee for faculty, so in the end we decided it wasn’t in the best interests of our program to produce our own OER text compiled from the various other OER sources. Instead, we have created a rich set of ancillary materials to complement the OERs.

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