The links below will help you find Open Educational Resources. This is the complete library OER guide.
Here are some useful websites for OER searching:
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) The CCCOER promotes the awareness and adoption of open educational policies, practices, and resources. The CCCOER has compiled a list of resources for finding OER. Content on www.cccoer.org is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
COERLL: Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning The Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL) is one of 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers (LRC's) funded by the U.S. Department of Education.COERLL's mission is to produce and disseminate Open Educational Resources (OER) for the Internet public (e.g., online language courses, reference grammars, assessment tools, corpora, etc.).
LibreText The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.
OER by Discipline Guide : A Reference of OER listed by Subject Area and Discipline edited by Josie Gray for BCcampus Open Education in British Columbia. Textbooks listed on the "Find Open Textbooks" pages above are not included in this guide.
OER Repositories and Collections from the Open Educational Resources Initiative of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges.
George Mason University OER Metafinder The OER Metafinder performs a simultaneous search across 18 different sources of open educational materials. Because it is a real-time, federated search, it can take a bit longer than searches of pre-indexed, curated content; however, as compensation the results returned are absolutely up-to-the-minute for each search target.
CORA: Community of Online Research Assignments : An Open Access Resource for Faculty and Librarians It is intended to be a collaborative space for adapting and experimenting with OER research assignments and sharing the success or lessons learned so that others may benefit. The site contains multiple, reliable and reproducible research assignments that do not live as isolated entities, but are enhanced by user feedback in order to build a rich corpus of best practices. There is also a Teaching Toolkit featuring a wide range of resource types including pedagogy/theory, assessment, classroom activities, technology tips, subject guides, citation tools, and information literacy tutorials.
COOL4ED California Open Library for Education The three State of California Higher Education Systems are working together to provide you easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks that everyone and anyone can use for teaching and learning.
Find Open Textbooks A web site by BCcampus Open Education, a project started by the British Columbia Minister of Advanced Education, to make higher education more accessible by reducing student costs.
OER Commons was created by ISKME, an independent, education nonprofit whose mission is to improve the practice of continuous learning, collaboration, and change in the education sector. Established in 2002, ISKME conducts social science research, develops research-based innovations, and facilitates innovation that improves knowledge sharing in education. This group also has a curated OER Commons Collection.
Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks. The resources are compiled by the Center for Open Education (open@umn.edu) at the College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota.
OpenStax is a nonprofit educational initiative based at Rice University. OpenStax publishes peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks that are free online.
MERLOT helps Higher Education Partners to:
MERLOT started at CSU then expanded to included other educational partners.
Mt. Sac OER by Subject guide
Leeward Community College OER Guide
San Bernardino Valley College OER by Discipline guide
General OER Resource Sites
OER World Map Thinking about a sabbatical? This guide helps you locate OER projects, people, events, organizations, etc. around the world. (If you get an error message, change to a different internet browser.)
Lumen Learning course materials by discipline. Lumen Learning's mission is to create well-designed, lower cost OER course materials that replace expensive textbooks.
This list contains OER resources as well as a few free, digital resources that may not be Open Educational Resources, because they may copyright protections that do not allow for editing or re-mixing.
