Open Educational Resources

Open educational resources are free resources developed or adopted by instructors with the focus on providing students with no cost or low cost textbooks to enhance equitable access to learning.

Further, there are free shareable resources for instructors to develop and change to fit the needs of their courses.

Helpful links for open educational resources

Minnesota State

Minnesota State Opendora (minnstate.edu)

UNM Resources:

Open Textbook Library - Open Textbook Library (umn.edu)

Open Oregon Educational Resources

Open Oregon Educational Resources (pressbooks.pub)

Creative Commons OER Resources

CC Search Portal (creativecommons.org)

Saylor

Saylor Academy | Saylor Academy

MIT OpenCourseWare

Search | MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Educational Resources (OER) | EDUCAUSE

Lumen Learning

Lumen Learning | Online Materials & Resources for Higher Ed

Open Education Consortium

OEGlobal – Open Education Global

Merlot

Guide to Grammar and Writing (merlot.org)

Open Stax

OpenStax | Free Textbooks Online with No Catch

OER Commons

OER Commons

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that works on a global scale to help overcome legal challenges regarding copyright and the sharing of information. They do this by providing various Creative Commons licenses which are free of charge and public domain tools that give people a way to freely share their creative and academic works while ensuring proper attribution and allowing others to copy, distribute, and make use of those works. Creative Commons does not work in lieu of copyright laws, but works within those laws. The Creative Commons licenses are simple to use, simple to obtain, and a great way to make sure that the creative and academic works you produce are fit for use by students and colleagues alike.