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Open Educational Resources
This page is primarily geared towards instructors who are interested in exploring freely accessible educational materials to incorporate into their courses. Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning resources that are (1) in the public domain or (2) released under a license permitting reuse and repurposing by others. Among other benefits, incorporating OER into courses can reduce the financial burden for students enrolled in a class.
For a quick and convenient way to search, SUNY Geneseo has created a search tool that will search multiple OER repositories at once called OASIS (linked below).
- OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search)A search tool that aims to facilitate easy access to and discovery of OER across many different repositories.
Open Textbooks
The following is a non-exhaustive list of open textbook repositories to help you get started looking for potential OER to incorporate into your courses.
- Open Textbook LibraryThe textbooks available through this repository are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted.
- OpenStaxAssociated with Rice University, OpenStax publishes peer-reviewed openly licensed college textbooks that are freely available online.
- OER CommonsA public digital library of open educational materials.
- MERLOTMultimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) comprises tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials.