LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: OER Repositories & Collections

OER Repositories

The following is a selected list of open textbook collections. This list is by no means exhaustive and is frequently updated.

Florida Open Academic Library
A searchable, Florida state database of digital archives and resources held by state universities and colleges.
BC Campus OpenEd
This site includes texts written specifically for the BC OpenTextbook initiative, as well as books from other sources.
Cool4ed
The California Open Online Library for Education. Provides free and open online resources.
IOER
Illinois Open Educational Resources (IOER). Provides educational- and career-based OER. Also has tools for creating, sharing, and curating.
MERLOT
MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development resources and services contributed and used by an international education community. The platform offers a very powerful search tool for discovering appropriate resources.
OER Commons
Focuses on curriculum improvement. Browse by grade level, subject area, and material type. The Open Author tool lets instructors combine text, pictures, sound, files, and video.
Open Education Consortium
A global network of OER institutions. See the "Resources" tab, then "Find OER."
Open Books
A repository of openly-licensed textbooks from UMass - Amherst. Click the Catalog button for a complete listing.
Open Oregon Educational Resources
A collection of open and free higher educational resources from the state of Oregon.
OpenStax
OpenStax offers 27 college-level textbooks in the areas of math/statistics, science, sociology, psychology, economics, and history. Texts are peer-reviewed texts and written by professional content developers. Books feature supplemental resources for instructors, such as PowerPoint slides and solutions to end-of-chapter problems.
Open Textbook Library
A source of openly licensed textbooks curated by the University of Minnesota's Center for Open Education and supported by the Open Textbook Network. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
SOL*R
A repository that facilitates the discovery, sharing, remixing, and re-use of its large and growing collection OER sources.

OpenCourseWare Resources

The OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement began in the United States with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002. This movement is university driven, and is focused on making the educational course materials that have been created by faculty available outside of the institution. The materials available vary by course, professor and even semester posed. Materials can include syllabi, written lectures, assignments, readings, videotaped lectures, and audio lectures.

Johns Hopkins - School of Public Health
MIT
Middle East Technical University (content in English and Turkish)
Open Michigan
The Open University (United Kingdom)
Oxford University Podcasts
Penn State
Tufts
Y ale

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