Open Educational Resources and Open Textbooks
Understand Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Textbooks
- from the Colleges Libraries Ontario (CLO), provides information for instructors to help "understand, engage with, and sustain OER in their work and practice."
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Find Open Textbooks and OER with these Discovery Tools
- Examine the OER materials from the
- (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search) includes the ability to limit search results by license, type, subject, source, and reviews available.
- searches sixteen collections of open resources in real-time, returning the top several hundred or so relevant hits from each site.
- offers California State University's curated lists by discipline of open textbooks from Merlot and other sources
- links to discovery tools for open textbooks, photos, video, audio, and more.
- is a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.
- a searchable database of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and , together with associated comments, and bookmark collections.
- includes open textbooks for high enrollment college courses using the Connexions platform.
- – open teaching and learning materials including full university courses, interactive mini-lessons, simulations, and electronic textbooks.
- – Textbooks, syllabi, assessments for 81 high-enrollment college courses created by a Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges (SBCTC) grant.
- – Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes high-quality open educational resources such as textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more. Discover content by type of work or subject.
- – a scholar operation committed to making high-quality research available to readers around the world, including a growing collection of monographs and textbooks in all areas.
Make Your Own Content Open
- Considering joining a community of instructors creating their own content:
- Consider letting us host your open textbook or other open content at the OHIO Open Library
- : Kirkwood’s Community College’s excellent guide to helpful tools.
- Jhangiani R. and Biswas-Diener, R., eds. (2017). . London: Ubiquity Press.
- Falldin, M. and Lauritsen, K. (2017). . Minneapolis, MN: Open Textbook Network – Includes a checklist of considerations and sections on copyright, Creative Commons licenses, textbook organization, authoring frameworks, and publishing tools.
- Moxley, J. (Sept – Oct, 2013). . Academe. – the story of one instructor’s decision to create an open textbook.