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Open Educational Resources

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

OER Resources

Here you will find:

OER Repositories: links to repositories of OER resources such as MERLOT, OER Commons and the Open Professionals Education Network (OPEN), where you can search for OER.

Open and Lower Cost Textbooks: links to Open Textbook Library, Open Stax and other Open textbook repositories.

Open Media: links to sources for open videos, music and sounds.

Open Peer Reviewed Journals: links to the Directory of Open Access Journals and other, discipline specific, open, peer-reviewed research journals.

Open Courseware: links to universities that offer full courses on an open basis. These courses can be used, whole or in parts, by any faculty.

OER Authoring Tools: links to tools you could use to create or host your own OER.