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Open Educational Resources: Find Open Textbooks and Other Materials

This is RCCC's guide to Open Educational Resources and NCLive's Initiative to Provide more OER sources for students.

NCLive's OER Textbook Resources, OER Commons

OASIS

Similar to a library online catalog, the OASIS searches 52 targets in real-time, from more than 155,000+ records that have been carefully selected in collaboration with SUNY OER Services.

Logo for open textbooks SUNY OER

Project Gutenberg

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Image Websites

An Example for Communications Textbooks

OER for Nursing Textbooks

openNCCC

Other Places to Find Open Education Resources

Open Textbook Library

The NROC Project LOGO

Merlot LOGO

Logo for Openstax college

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Logo for Lumen

Edwards' list of OER

List of Resources Shared During Session

1.           OER Commons (https://www.oercommons.org/)

               •             A comprehensive repository of openly licensed educational content for teachers, students, and self-learners. It includes lesson plans, full courses, and multimedia resources.

               2.           MERLOT (https://www.merlot.org/)

               •             A curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services. It covers various subjects and includes peer reviews.

               3.           OpenStax (https://openstax.org/)

               •             A nonprofit initiative that provides free, peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks that are widely used in U.S. colleges.

               4.           Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org/)

               •             Though not strictly OER, Khan Academy offers free educational videos and exercises on a wide range of subjects, making it a great supplement.

               5.           MIT OpenCourseWare (https://ocw.mit.edu/)

               •             Offers a wide range of MIT course content for free, including lecture notes, exams, and videos, covering nearly all MIT subjects.

               6.           LibreTexts (https://libretexts.org/)

               •             Provides free, openly licensed textbooks for STEM subjects, social sciences, and humanities. Includes interactive simulations and other digital learning tools.

               7.           OpenLearn (https://www.open.edu/openlearn/)

               •             The Open University’s platform for free courses, articles, videos, and interactive content on a variety of subjects.

               8.           Google’s Advanced Search (https://www.google.com/advanced_search)

               •             You can use Google’s advanced search feature to filter by “usage rights” to find openly licensed content by using filters for Creative Commons licenses.

               9.           Internet Archive (https://archive.org/)

               •             A digital library offering access to millions of books, audio, videos, and other educational materials, including many that are openly licensed.

10.        NC Live (https://www.nclive.org/oenc)

¬  North Carolina’s statewide library cooperative, supporting 200+ public and academic libraries across North Carolina; content includes online collection of 1.8 billion full-text articles, eBooks, streaming videos, digitized newspapers, language learning tools, and more. 

11.   OER Resources at NC State (https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/do/open-education)

¬  Provides a plethora of resources: ebooks, videos, teaching tools, etc.