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Open Educational Resources (OERs)

Resources for Finding Creative Commons Licensed OER

OpenStax | Free Textbooks Online with No Catch

  • Many materials and navigation pages available in Spanish
  • Focused on General Education Courses
  • Integration with LMS systems
  • Instructor resources and student resources included.
  • Peer reviewed
  • Can download a D2L cartridge.
  • All licensed with least restrictive license (CC-BY)

Open Textbook Library - Open Textbook Library (umn.edu)

  • Broader coverage of subjects
  • Peer reviewed sources

MERLOT (also searches across other repositories)

  • Curated textbooks, course materials and lessons. Many resources are peer reviewed by a peer review board.
  • We do not have to be a member institution for our faculty to participate and become free members.

OASIS (geneseo.edu)

  • Another large OER repository
  • Not limited to textbooks, also contains simulations, modules, etc.

 

Other Repositories

OER COMMONS

BC OPEN

GALILEO Open Learning Repository