Research Guides: Open Education: Find OER (by discipline)

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Biological Sciences
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Construction
Economics
Early Childhood Education Education (also)
Engineering
English
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Information / Digital Literacy & Research Skills
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Public and International Affairs
Religion and Culture
Sociology
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Visual Arts

Open Content

On these pages you will find textbook and non-textbook open educational 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.

Search Strategies

TWO Strategies for identifying open course material

1) Look for it yourself

2) Ask for help. If you are spending more than 15 minutes looking for something (and are a member of the Virginia Tech community) please email: openeducation@vt.edu to request assistance. We can save you precious time and effort.

SELF-DIRECTED Searching:

The top two METASEARCH tools for open educational resources are:

1) OER Metafinder
From George Mason University. About the MetaFinder https://publishing.gmu.edu/whos-using-the-mason-oer-metafinder
2) OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search)
Indexes 50+ different sources. From SUNY Geneseo. About: https://oasis.geneseo.edu/about.php

Additional resources include:

Pressbooks Directory
This Pressbooks Directory provides an index of nearly 3,000 books published across 100+ Pressbooks networks.
Open Textbook Library
950+ downloadable, openly licensed textbooks
Mapping 2-year transfer course content (Virginia)
The goal of the VIVA Course Mapping Project is to support the discovery of Open Educational Resources (OER) aligned to Virginia courses. Recognizing that competing demands and time constraints present barriers to OER adoption for many instructors, the Course Mapping Project works to consolidate and align OER for high enrollment courses at Virginia higher education institutions. https://vivalib.org/va/open/course-mapping-project
Subject Index of CCCOER Listserv
A subject index of open educational resources of various formats. Created by Dr Larry Green, Lake Tahoe Community College. For an introduction to this tool, see the blogpost: https://www.cccoer.org/2017/07/28/index-of-oer-shared-via-cccoer-community-email-group/
TeachOER
A subject and source browsable collection of OER content across the web. Development of the site was funded by a grant provided by Baruch College.
Who is using what? (CCC-OER)
Open Textbooks Collections
A collection of hundreds if not thousands of openly licensed textbooks in various formats.
Librarian Tool Box
For those who "love the hunt" for information.
Free (not necessarily openly licensed) Online Courseware
Lectures, syllabi, assessment tools for nearly any discipline under the sun! Link is courtesy of Affordable Learning Systems, California.
Workforce Training Materials (via SkillsCommons)
Skillscommons is a free and open digital library of Workforce Training Materials.
OER by Discipline (Canadian)
Cool4Ed (California Open Online Library for Education) Showcase
DPLA - Digital Public Library of America
Contains links to a wide range of multimedia objects form libraries, archives and museums around the United States. See copyright/license information in the "rights" field for each item.
MERLOT
The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
2017 Open Textbook List (by discipline)
Claybaugh, Z. & Stone, C. (2017). Open Educational Resource 2017 Textbook List. Fairfield, CT: Sacred Heart University.
Open Course Library
From Washington State
Teaching Commons
Teaching Commons includes open-access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures, k-12 materials, and more.

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