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Open Educational Resources (OERs)

This guide provides information about Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Textbooks

OASIS

OASIS is the Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 97 different sources and contains 385,629 records. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.

 

OER Textbooks

  • The following resources can be used to locate high quality, peer-reviewed open textbooks in a variety of subject areas. Most of these resources also provide evaluative information about the textbooks they contain, such as faculty reviews, accessibility reviews, and usage statistics.
     
  • Open Textbook Library: Easy-to-use interface for locating and evaluating OER. Along with peer-reviewed textbooks, the OTL provides reviews from faculty who have adopted their texts for courses.
     
  • eCampus Ontario Open Library: A collection of curated OER. Open textbook records contain: download options, information about the book, links to ancillary materials, links to other editions/versions of the resource, and faculty reviews.
     
  • OpenStax: OpenStax is one of the most popular OER repositories in use today, and provides textbooks for college as well as high school AP courses.
     
  • BCCampus OpenEd: The British Columbia Campus Consortium's OER repository, BCCampus OpenEd collects textbooks from a variety of resources, including the books housed in OpenStax and others.
     
  • Milne Open Textbooks (previously SUNY Open Textbooks): Containing openly-licensed, peer-reviewed textbooks from the State University of New York, SUNY Open Textbooks provides open textbooks as well as consultation services for faculty interested in adopting or creating OER.

OER Commons

Other open educational resources (syllabi, course handouts, lesson plans, etc) can be found in the following OER repositories. Some, like OER Commons, contain open textbooks as well as other course materials. Others, like Open Learn, host live course content and provide users with "badges" to indicate if they have completed a course.