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OER | Open Educational Resources
Info hub with resources & support for teaching + learning with affordable course content and openly licensed, modifiable materials.
Finding OER
Evaluating OER
Creating OER
Books and Textbooks
B.C. Open Textbook Collection
database funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education, managed by BCcampus
HathiTrust Digital Library
partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world
Internet Archive's OER Library
contains hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and China
LibreTexts
non-commercial open textbook organization initiated at UC Davis; "the world's most popular online textbook platform"
MERLOT Collection
provides access to curated free and open online teaching and learning support materials and content creation tools
MESA OER Metafinder (MOM)
real-time federated search for OER content
Milne Open Textbooks
catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff
OER Commons
worldwide learning network of shared teaching and learning materials
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS)
tool that searches open content from ~400,000 records
OpenStax
high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks
Open Textbook Library
one of the largest repositories of open textbooks, supported by the Open Education Network
Saylor Academy Open Textbooks
titles published through Saylor Academy’s Open Textbook Challenge and a collection of titles re-published by Saylor Academy
Wikibooks
Wikimedia's community for creating and sharing educational textbooks
Literature in Context
a project from the University of Virginia
Resources
InclusiveAccess.org
Information from SPARC about automatic textbook billing
OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit
Aims to help book authors to better understand open access book publishing and to increase trust in open access books
Open Syllabus Project
Collects and analyzes millions of syllabi
Open Courses
Coursera
education platform that partners with universities and organizations; some programs are free
edX
interactive online classes and MOOCs from universities, including MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, and UTx; some courses are free
Khan Academy
interactive exercises, videos, and assessments in math and sciences
Open Yale
free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by teachers at Yale
MIT OpenCourseWare
web-based publication of MIT course content
Open Course Library
high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching; all content is stored in Google Docs
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