Macdonald-Kelce Library: Faculty and Staff Resources: Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources

Textbook Affordability is an issue that concerns everyone. Many OERs include supplementary material such as LMS course content, tests, and powerpoints. OER materials are designed to be free to print, download, share, and edit. Check the license terms to verify what is labeled as "open textbook" is truly free and open.

View courses, lectures, and open textbooks on the Macdonald-Kelce Library OER Guide.

OpenStax
These books were developed following traditional textbook publishing methods, including peer review, editorial support, and creation of ancillary content. Books are available in multiple formats (PDF, print on demand, on the Web) and are licensed to be revised and remixed by faculty who want create a custom solution for a course.
OER Commons
A network for teaching and learning materials, complete with resources for curriculum alignment, quality evaluation, social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing.
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.
Mason OER Metafinder
George Mason's OER Metafinder provides a one-stop search of many of the major open educational resources including DPLA, HathiTrust, Internet Archive, Merlot, OTL, OpenStax, and more

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Open Educational Resources