Welcome - Open Educational Resources (OER) - Resource Guide

About This Guide

This resource guide was designed to provide instructors with assistance in locating good sources of information about open educational resources for your classes. Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that are free for people to use and repurpose.

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Explore
Provides basic information on the concept of Open Educatiional Resources.
Adopt
Provides information on adopting an open educational resource.
Adapt
Provides information on adapting an open educational resource.
Create
Provides information on how to create open educational resources.
Creative Commons Attribution
Provides information on creative commons attribution.
OER Repositories
Links to open educational repositories.
OER by Discipline
Subpages with open educational resources by disciplines.

Selected Open Educational Depostitories

Open Textbook Library
Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost. Now offering 1542 open textbooks, the Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network
Open Textbooks in OER Commons
OER Commons is a service from the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME). ISKME's digital librarians have curated collections of Open Textbooks and full courses to help instructors leverage OER in their classroom.

What is OER?

According to UNESCO, "Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain or released with an intellectual property license that allows for free use, adaptation, and distribution." OER can include: