The following resource is designed to give trades instructors different ideas on how to integrate these textbooks and other open education resources into their course materials:
If you use one or more of these textbooks in your course(s), please take a few minutes to report your "textbook adoption" to BC Campus:
BC Campus has supported the development of a number of open textbooks for trades and technology training. Common Core texts for Line A, B, C, D, and E are listed in the box to the right.
An open textbook is a textbook licensed under an open copyright license and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers, and members of the public. They are available for free as online versions, and as low-cost printed versions, should students or faculty opt for these. Open textbooks are a way to significantly reduce student textbook costs while giving instructors the flexibility to reformat and customize their course material. They are an affordable, flexible alternative to traditionally-published textbooks.
More trades and technology training open (free) textbooks, as well as numerous other open textbooks can be found at the BC Campus website: