Open Education: English

A "getting started" guide overviewing open, editable, and lower-cost textbooks and open teaching & learning resources for faculty, students, and librarians.

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OER by Discipline Guide (BCCampus)

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Biological Sciences
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Computer Science
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Early Childhood Education Education (also)
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English
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History
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Performing Arts
Philosophy
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Psychology
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Sociology
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Veterinary Medicine
Visual Arts

English

On this page you will find several openly licensed English textbooks along with supplemental material, interactive simulations, and other resources.

Discipline-specific pages are not intended to be exhaustive, but to showcase content that may be of interest to faculty considering adopting open educational resources for use in their classes.

For more information about Creative Commons including license descriptions, please see the Creative Commons tab.

Featured Resource

Writing Commons
A free, comprehensive, peer-reviewed, award-winning Open Text (website) for students and faculty in college-level courses that require writing and research. (CC BY-NC-ND)

Open Textbooks

Literature, The Humanities, and Humanity (CC BY-NC-SA) SUNYOpenTextbooks

The Process of Research Writing (CC BY-NC-SA)

Additional Sources of Open Textbooks

Humanities (from BCCampus)

Humanities Textbooks (from the Open Textbook Library)

Course materials: Lecture Videos, Interactive Simulations etc.

MIT Open Courseware on literature (CC BY NC SA)

English Composition I CC BY (Saylor Foundation)

Writing Spaces (licenses vary)