Open Educational Resources (OER)
"How to Find and Evaluate OER" by Abbey Elder is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 International license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Evaluate OER Checklist (Google Doc)
After you find an OER, evaluate it! This checklist is hosted on Google Docs and is available for you to copy and use. From The OER Starter Kit Copyright © 2019 by Abbey K. Elder is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Find OER
Below are resources you may find helpful while searching for textbooks or supplementary materials on your own.
Start with one of these OER Search Engines:
OER Commons provides access to a growing collection of over 50,000 high quality resources.
"The new MERLOT Smart Search extends access to learning materials well beyond MERLOT's current curated and peer reviewed collection."
SkillsCommons is a free and open online library that provides access to learning materials for job specific skills in fields like manufacturing, IT, healthcare, and more.
Teaching Commons Advanced Search
The Teaching Commons is a collection of top-quality open educational resources from prestigious universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, and hosted by bepress, it features open-access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures, K-12 resources, and much more.
Or, search by specific subject:
View the subpage we created on this website which has resources for finding subject specific Open Educational Resources.
The BCcampus Open Education OER by Discipline Directory
"The BCcampus Open Education OER by Discipline Directory lists a wide range of open educational resources organized by discipline. This directory is updated as new resources are identified"
Find OER Textbooks:
Open Textbook Adoption Finder from BCcampus OpenED
"Choose an open textbook to provide your students with an affordable, accessible, and engaging learning experience. The Adoption Finder can help."
Milne Open Textbooks (formerly Open SUNY)
"OpenStax is the world’s largest publisher of open education resources (OER) and a provider of interactive learning technologies and education research for high school and college."
OER Courses:
"A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download."
"Cover[s] subjects from kindergarten through early college, including math, science, reading, computing, history, art history, economics, financial literacy, SAT, MCAT, and more..."
Open Learning Initiative from Carnegie Melon University
Textbook replacement courseware from Carnegie Melon University. These online courses are available for "anyone who wants to learn or teach".
Even MORE resources:
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