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Open Educational Resources (OER): Open Educational Resources

*NEW* OA/OER Searches

George Mason University has launched the Mason OER Metafinderdesigned by GMU Librarian Wally Grotophorst, Associate University Librarian for Digital Programs and Systems. It searches a broad range of Open Educational Resource Collections, such as as the Digital Public Library, the Library of Congress American Memory Collection, MERLOT, and College Open Textbooks. Read more about the Metafinder at Deep Web Tech Blog, or try it out below.

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 Auburn University Writing Resources  

Contains worksheets and handouts on numerous writing-focused topics, such as editing and proofreading, literature reviews and ePortfolios.

BCcampus OpenEd

A collection of over 200 openly-licensed textbooks organized by subject.

Galaxy

Galaxy is Quinnipiac's information repository that allows faculty to add and store content.

GoOpen CT

State of Connecticut public digital library of open educational resources by and for teachers, professors, students, and education leaders.

Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.

Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education

LibreTexts

LibreTexts is the adaptable, user-friendly open education resource platform that educators trust for creating, customizing, and sharing accessible, interactive textbooks, adaptive homework, and ancillary materials. 

Lyryx Learning

Lyryx Learning is an educational software company offering open educational resources paired with online homework for undergraduate introductory courses in Mathematics & Statistics and Business & Economics.

Mason OER Metafinder(MOM)

The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) is a federated search tool  built by Mason Publishing Group at George Mason University. The Mason OER Metafinder(MOM) helps you find Open Educational Resources. Instead, the OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button .

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching and Learning

MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. You can find a wide range of online materials of different types - animations, assessment tools, learning assignments, mobile apps, collections, simulations, tutorials, as well as free and open textbooks and free and open courseware

MIT OpenCourseWare Online Textbooks (Engineering, Sciences, & Math)

“The idea is simple: to publish all of our course materials online and make them widely available to everyone.” Dick K.P. Yue, Professor, MIT School of Engineering. Undergrad to grad levels. Most items in engineering. May also have link to online print copy purchase.

OER Commons

Find Free-to-Use Teaching and Learning Content from around the World. Organize K-12 Lessons, College Courses, and more.

OER Handbook for Educators 

This handbook is designed to help educators find use, develop and share OER to enhance their effectiveness online and in the classroom.

Open Culture: 200 Free Textbooks

Free textbooks (aka open textbooks) written by knowledgeable scholars are a relatively new phenomenon. Find a meta list of 200 Free Textbooks, and check back often for new additions.

Open Education Consortium

Open Education Consortium is a free and open digital publication of high quality university‐level educational materials.

OpenStax College (Rice University)

An initiative of Rice University that offers open-source textbooks that have been peer-reviewed. Includes textbooks for biology, chemistry, economics, history, math, psychology, and sociology.

Open Textbook Library (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

A collection of openly-licensed and free-to-download textbooks created by institutional members of the Open Textbook Network (including Open Stax). The Library is hosted by the University of Minnesota. Business, Economics, Social Sciences, Natural and Physical Sciences, Humanities, and more.

Saylor Academy

This website will serve as a zero-cost alternative to those that lack the resources to attend traditional brick-and-mortar institutions and, if they are willing, a complement to mainstream education providers.

Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource

VIPEr Serves as a digital repository of teaching materials for inorganic chemistry.

To access all of the information, the user must be a faculty member and “apply” for access (fill out form when you check in; they will double check your status and give you permission).

There are some General Chemistry materials on the site, but it is mostly for Junior/Senior (or higher) level courses.

W3Schools

Free tutorials, quizzes, exercises, and reference material for web developers

Journals/Case Studies

Freely Available Case Studies

Ideas Worth Teaching

Case studies and other classroom resources for business school educators. From the Aspen Institute.

Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education

The Journal of Open Educational Resources in Higher Education (JOERHE) is a Diamond Open Access, open peer-reviewed journal. Alongside quantitative and qualitative research articles, JOERHE features a columns section where authors can present case studies, experiential essays, notes from the field, and similar shorter form entries.

Learning Edge Case Studies

Business case studies covering entrepreneurship, leadership, ethics, operations management, strategy, sustainability, and system dynamics. From MIT Sloan School of Management.