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Open Educational Resources

Open Education Resources (OERs) are teaching and learning materials placed on the Internet for public use. OERs can be:

Learning Objects
Textbooks
Videos
College Courses

Learning Objects

Learning Objects are discrete units for online learning. They can be in any format--animations, text documents, videos, and graphics.

Amazon Inspire allows educators to discover, download, curate and share Open Educational Resources (OER).

Hippocampus is a free, core academic web site that delivers multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects.

MERLOT II is the oldest repository for online learning objects.

Florida's ORANGE GROVE contains openly available instructional resources for Florida's educators.

OER Commons contains learning objects organized by subject, education level, and common standard.

NROC is a community-guided non-profit organization focused on college and career readiness. Offers Math and English courses.

Free & Open Access Electronic Textbook Initiatives

BCcampus OpenED
The project was asked to create a collection of open textbooks aligned with the top 40 highest-enrolled subject areas in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Additional textbooks targeting trades, technology, and skills training are being developed.
Bookboon
Contains free textbooks, mainly business topics.
FlatWorld
A large offering of affordable textbooks.
MERLOT
Provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
MIT OpenCourseWare
Offers open textbooks for science and engineering disciplines.
Noba
Psychology textbooks.
OER Commons
OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
OpenStax
Provides free college textbooks. Hosted by Rice University.
Open Textbook Library
Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
The Orange Grove
Florida's Open Educational Resource Repository
SUNY Open Textbooks
On this site you’ll find openly licensed textbooks and courses written and curated by SUNY Faculty.