This list of sites for Open Educational Resources (OER) projects isn't exhaustive. In reviewing lists of projects, these are sites that are recommended frequently and the names that are bolded seem to be highly regarded in the OER community . If you become aware of other sites that may be desirable to list here, please let the Library know.
Affordable Learning Georgia promotes student success and fosters educational equity through supporting the adoption, adaptation, and creation of affordable and open educational resources by USG faculty and professional staff.
GALILEO Open Learning Materials brings together open educational resources throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials. Most works hosted in GALILEO Open Learning Materials have a Creative Commons license, allowing the reuse, redistribution, remix, and revision of these materials.
The California State University System's collection of slightly more than 45,000 resources is rated, peer-reviewed and tallied by how many "personal collections" each resides in. It lists more than 3,000 open textbooks, some of which have accessibility information for students with disabilities.
MIT's library of nearly all their online course content. OCW is one of the few sources for OER on aeronautics, civil engineering and material science, among many other disciplines.
This digital hub created by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education offers 73,000 kinds of OER, along with tools for creating OER, training on how to use OER and the ability to create OER "Commons" — groups that share resources for a given purpose.
a collection of expertly developed educational materials – including textbooks, syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments – for 81 high-enrollment college courses. 42 courses have been completed so far.
The Open Education Consortium is a community of 240-plus schools as well as organizations and people who want to advance the idea of "open education." It features an OER resource toolkit, webinars, in-person events and links to open textbooks.
This is Rice University's "open space," where educators have stashed thousands of learning objects that can be or are already organized into books. It is also the parent of OpenStax College.
Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost. Now offering 1114 open textbooks, the Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network.
