Open Educational Resources (OER)
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials available in any format that exist in the public domain or are released under an open license, allowing free no-cost access, use, adaptation, and redistribution. OER provide substantial cost savings and grant learners immediate access to a diverse array of high-quality, free educational materials. Open content also enables faculty to tailor curriculum to better meet student needs and interests and to engage in new forms of collaboration with peers globally.
OER Repositories & Collections
Explore these resources to discover OER.
- Albany State University's Online Learning MERLOT Hub
- With essential support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the California State University Long Beach, MERLOT (www.merlot.org) and SkillsCommons (www.skillscommons.org), the collaboration and community of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are designing and deploying strategies to make college more affordable by reducing the cost of course materials. The Albany State University Online Learning Portal provides free access to the tools, technologies, and some services to initiate ASU's own AL$ program and learn from their HBCU colleagues. If you would like to become a MERLOT partner and collaboratively develop your customize HBCU AL$ portal, please contact: webmaster@merlot.org.
- Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG)
- Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) is a University System of Georgia (USG) initiative to support student success by promoting affordable textbook alternatives; a one-stop service to help USG faculty and staff identify lower-cost, electronic, free, and Open Educational Resources, building on the cost-effective subscription resources provided by GALILEO and the USG libraries; and a California State University-MERLOT partner benefit service.
- COnnecting REpositories (CORE)
- Not-for-profit service that runs an aggregator of open access research papers collected from repositories and journals. Other services offered include an API for accessing research paper metadata and browser extensions to support the discovery and recommendation of articles.
- Digital Commons Network
- Collection of free, full-text scholarly articles from global universities and colleges that is curated by university librarians. Users can browse subjects through a multicolored discipline wheel or follow specific authors or publications to receive monthly updates on activity in their field.
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
- Gathering of image, text, video and sound collections sourced from libraries and archives across the U.S. Also home to the Palace Bookshelf, a collection of thousands of open access eBooks.
- HBCU Affordable Learning Community
- The HBCU Affordable Learning Community provides a collection of free and open educational resources to support faculty and students teaching and learning in Africana, African American, and Black Studies programs as well as bringing the Africana, African American, and Black Studies content and context into all disciplines
- Mason OER Metafinder
- George Mason University's cross-repository OER search tool.
- MERLOT
- MERLOT (Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is an online repository and international consortium of institutions of higher education, industry partners, professional organizations and individuals. MERLOT identifies, peer reviews, organizes, and makes available existing online learning resources in a range of academic disciplines for use by higher education faculty and students.
- OASIS
- Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a discovery tool that searches open content from over 110 different sources.
- MIT Open Courseware
- Contains over 2,400 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) open courses including syllabi, videos, lectures, assignments, and exams. OpenCourseWare also includes resources to support educators exploring open education.
- OER Commons
- Contains teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost. Unlike fixed, copyrighted resources, OER have been authored or created by an individual or organization that chooses to retain few, if any, ownership rights. In some cases, that means you can download a resource and share it with colleagues and students.
- OpenStax
- Nonprofit organization affiliated with Rice University that produces openly licensed textbooks for college and Advanced Placement (AP) courses. OpenStax textbooks are among the most commonly used open textbooks across the country and may offer free ancillary materials for instructors.
- Open Textbook Library
- A growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks supported by the Center for Open Education and the Open Education Network at the University of Minnesota. All textbooks are original, freely licensed, available as a portable file, and used by or affiliated with an academic institution.
OER Virtual Labs & Simulations
Explore these resources to discover online simulations of science experiments.
- LearnChemE
- Collection of educational resources for chemical engineering prepared by the University of Colorado Boulder. Featured resources include screencasts, simulations, self-study modules, and virtual labs. Some simulations require downloading the free Wolfram Player.
- Open Educational Resources: Simulations and Virtual Labs
- A wide variety of virtual STEM resources curated by the Arthur Lakes Library at the Colorado School of Mines to support courses that employ OER.
- PhET Interactive Simulations
- University of Colorado Boulder project that creates free simulations for physics, earth science, chemistry, biology, and math classes. All featured simulations are individually tested and open source. Simulations are coded in HTML5 and can be embedded in other media, downloaded, or run online.
- National Science Digital Library
- Open resources from the National Science Foundation on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, from preschool to adult education.
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