OER (Open Education Resources): Open Education Resources

This site lists all the OER used in the American Studies program at the University of Virginia. It is valuable for both history and literature

This source brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.

Owl Eyes is an improved reading and learning experience for students, teachers, and everyday readers. Incorporate expert annotations, quizzes, and insights into your classroom or personal reading experience.

Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks.

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks.

The Standard Ebooks project is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks. The text and cover art in our ebooks is already believed to be in the public domain, and Standard Ebooks dedicates its own work to the public domain, thus releasing the entirety of each ebook file into the public domain. All the ebooks we produce are distributed free of cost and free of U.S. copyright restrictions.

Unglue.it is a place for individuals and institutions to join together in support of free ebooks. We work together to support authors, publishers, or other rights holders who want their ebooks to be free. We work together to provide durable and effective distribution for ebooks that are free. We support Creative Commons licensing as an enabling tool to "unglue" the ebooks. We are part of the Free Ebook Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization.

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum. Search here if you are just browsing.

Search through collections curated by OER Commons digital librarians. These are specific collections of materials - kind of like browsing the library shelves in your subject area.

This isn't just a template! It's a list of literacy templates, resources for your Canvas class with access to more than 500 courses and textbooks.

Search for quality open textbooks offered in a variety of digital formats; the first step in adopting open educational resources. Search by subject and download them to your computer.

These books were created for College of the Canyons students. They are pdf's. If you want the editable documents of these books, please contact me and I will get them for you.

The three State of California Higher Education Systems have worked together to provide easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks that everyone and anyone can use for teaching and learning.

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music as well as 424 billion archives web pages.

LibreTexts provides access to OER resources and a platform for faculty to curate and compile resources. LibreTexts is based at UC Davis.

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

ISKME's digital librarians have curated collections of Open Textbooks and full courses to help leverage OER in your classroom. Whether you are looking for more affordable options for your students, or dynamic content to inspire your own teaching and learning practice, this hub, organized by discipline and provider will help you discover the resources you need at your fingertips.

These lists and links are harvested from the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources list serve (http://cccoer.org ) conversations and a few other sources. This is a work in progress and will grow as more suggestions come in.

Browse or search the table provides to find out what Oregon community college and university instructions are using to reduce textbook costs in their courses. If you see a name and email address, feel free to contact that person about their class.

e publish high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print. Seriously. We've also developed a low-cost, research-based courseware that gives students the tools they need to complete their course the first time around, and a new online math homework system with step-level feedback.

Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.

If you haven’t discovered already, there are myriad open resources that exist. Often the trouble lies in locating those that fit precisely what you need. We’ve collected these resources by category with the intent of making the search process more efficient and effective. Hover over a resource tile for additional information about the resource.

Oregon State University’s Open Educational Resources Unit developed this site for the Oregon State community to create, find and share open educational resources. This site serves as a repository for OER created by OSU faculty. It is the mission of the Open Educational Resources Unit to help faculty adopt, adapt and author high-quality, free and open educational materials in order to reduce the cost of higher education.

These organized by discipline and maintained by Larry Green of Lake Tahoe Community College.

Search 945,523 open content items from more than 152 source from OER adopted in their courses, OER training and OER materials to adopt.

Open. Adaptable. Free. The QUBES platform hosts hundreds of teaching materials, reference materials, and cloud-based software free to use and adapts using open Creative Commons licenses.