- In Spring of 2019, the ASCCC OERI selected its first round of funded OER projects. This short-term opportunity provided California Community College faculty with an opportunity to obtain funding for an OER project that would serve faculty (and students) across the state.
- Collections and repositories gathered by the ASCCC. The website also provides important OER webinars, developers, and liasons.
- Funded OER Projects
- A repository of open textbooks which are the byproduct of the BC Open Textbook Project. The project’s goal is to make higher education more accessible through openly licensed textbooks.
- Provides online educational resources for students and instructors with off-the-shelf and customizable content and resources.
Provides aligned/badged Online Courses available for adoption
Canvas
- Go into Canvas Commons. Search “CCC OEI OER”. You will find shells for OpenStax texts. In order to to see inside the shells, you need to make a sandbox shell first and then import the one from Canvas.
- A collaborative of educational organizations pushing the use of open textbooks to community and two-year colleges. Not only do they provide a repository of OER, but also provide training, mentoring and peer-review opportunities.
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
- Index of OER by subject harvested from the CCCOER listserv.
Cosumnes River College – Zero Textbook Costs
CRC is working to become a Zero Textbook Cost Campus and already has several ZTC degrees and certificates. Use this website to learn more about Open Educational Resources and other ZTC options.
- Search the web for content with Creative Commons licenses.
- Free textbooks and course materials. Check licenses on textbooks as all are free but not all are open!
- Offers complete courses composed of mostly open materials that can be copied and adapted for free. Lumen also offers partnering with institutions to manage and adapt resources for courses at a cost to students.
- Searches 15 OER repositories simultaneously.
- A curated collection of Open Educational Resources, includes an ISBN search for material.
- An online platform that includes homework assignments and exams.
- An online search tool developed by Milne Library at SUNY Geneseo
- ASCCC OERI has worked with the ASCCC OERI Discipline Leads to provide these curated lists of resources
- OER Commons was created as a network for teaching and learning materials, the web site offers engagement with resources in the form of social bookmarking, tagging, rating, and reviewing.
Open Access Journals Search Engine
- Search for articles in open access journals. Browsing by subject available.
- OER resources created by faculty at Oklahoma State University.
- A nonprofit developed at Rice University, allows instructors to review open textbooks freely online, and provides them with access to additional course materials like assignments and tests.
- Established by the State University of New York libraries, Open SUNY Textbooks is “an open access publishing initiative,” which relies on academics as authors and peer-reviewers to produce high-quality open texts available for adoption.
- Available resources in a variety of disciplines that have been reviewed by faculty.
- Provides free access to books which are no longer under copyright in the US. eBooks are available in a broad array of subjects.
- Not only provides open textbooks which are vetted and curated by Saylor, but also full course offerings. While licenses vary slightly from text to text, but try to make all resources as open as possible while creating and updating materials.
- Open and free digital learning resources for workforce training
- An open educational resource platform.
- Wikibooks is a site of instructional texts which are accessible by keyword search or subject. With a similar set up as Wikipedia, Wikibooks can be written by anyone, and are frequently update to include more current and accurate information. You will find completed, partial and in-development books.
- WikiEducator is a community project working collaboratively with the Free Culture Movement towards a free version of the education curriculum by 2015. Driven by the learning for development agenda WikiEducator is developing free content for use in schools, polytechnics, universities, vocational education institutions and informal education settings.
The World Digital Library (WDL)
- WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.