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List of Open Educational Resources

Below is a list of sites that collect Open Educational Resources. These sites can be searched for OER resources that can be adopted or adapted for your classes. This list is based on one provided by LumenLearning.com

Look Here First: General OER Repositories

  •  – Simultaneously search multiple OER repositories
  •  – Online content; aging, anthropology, archaeology, cultural geography, languages, linguistics, game-based learning, communication across cultures, economics, US History, Asian studies, and more.
  •  – Locate your discipline; business, arts, education, humanities, math, statistics, science, technology, social sciences OR locate by type of material; animations, assessment, assignments, case studies, drill and practice, open textbook, quiz/test, tutorials and more.
  • – Low cost and free texts; Nursing, Critical Issues in Health, Addiction, Accounting, Common Sense Management, College Writing, Physical geography.
  •  – Open access journals in science (biology, genetics) and medicine.

Textbooks

  •  – Free textbooks: math, physics, chemistry, biology, economics, Astronomy, US History, American Government, Sociology, Psychology.
  •  – Open textbook library; Accounting & Finance, Business, Management & Marketing, Computer Science & Information Systems, Economics, Education, Engineering, Humanities & Languages, Journalism, Media Studies & Communications, Law, Mathematics & Statistics, Medicine, Natural & Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, Student Success.
  •  – Open Textbooks; art, business, recreation & tourism, social sciences, trades.
  •  – Open textbooks; Art, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Education, Health, Nursing, History, Physics, Sociology, Probability and Statistics.
  •  – Writing Spaces is an open textbook project for 天美传媒-level writing studies courses.
  •  – Open-access textbooks and other resources developed in collaboration by a number of institutions, led by UC Davis.
  •  – Find, create, and collaborate on books created by the Rebus Community

Open Source Articles and Books

  •  The UMass Boston open access institutional repository for scholarship and research
  •  – Canada’s first open access scholarly press

Course Materials

  •  – Low-cost open courseware
  •  – A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs
  •  – Online math homework, online text, quizzes, videos, instructor resources, various math courses, hybrid/online
  •  Open courseware from MIT, Berkeley, Stanford University and more
  •  – Biology 101, non-major, $37.00 cost to student
  •  – Course materials and lessons in many discipline areas
  •  Adaptive courseware for BIO 101, non-major, $25.00 cost to student
  •  – Open, free courses; visual design, anatomy and physiology, languages, media programming, biochemistry, argument
  •  – UMass Boston open courseware

Science and Engineering

  •  – Sustainability resources and lesson plans for teachers
  •  – K-8 active learning for science
  •  – Science, math and engineering resources
  •  – Resource of activities, lessons, units and living labs for applied sciences and math, K-12
  •  – Science, engineering, math, videos, labs and digital resources
  •  – STEM K-12, simulations, adaptive content, concept-based learning

Virtual Simulation Tools and Software

  •  – suite of (free) software tools by Boston University.
  •  – from University of Colorado
  •  for physical sciences
  •  – created by USDA and NMSU

Movies, Videos, Multimedia Resources

  •  – Movies, audio books and ebooks
  •  – Video lessons on various topics
  •  – Free educational videos and resources
  •  – Discipline specific resources in many formats; clipart, photos, music, media, weblinks, images.
  •  - Videos from Coasts and Communities open online course offered by UMass Boston 

Games

  •  – Educational games for sciences. Students pay to access, some free
  •  – Games and interactive activities focused on ocean and air themes

Photos

  •  on Flickr
  • Google Images. Use  to sort by license.

Faculty Development

  •  – Continuing education, workshops, professional development
  •  – Low cost and free instructor resources

Open Access Repositories

  •  – A list of Open Access-related resources curated by Simmons College.

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