LibGuides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Finding OER

Getting Started with Online Education Resources

What freely available and editable materials are already out there? Ask FRCC Librarians for support searching for materials!

Click on the link below and fill out the requested information to kick-start the process. Librarians will search repositories (many of the ones listed on this page) on your behalf and report back on what we find!

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Would you like help locating Open Educational Resources? Library staff can search various repositories online and compile ones related to your topic.

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OER Repositories

BC Campus OpenEd
From Canada, includes French language items. Find quality open textbooks in a variety of digital formats. Search by subject, including vocational trade. Reviews included for textbooks.
eCampus Ontario: H5P Studio
Repository of interactive learning objects based on HTML5 content and applications; great for finding quizzes, image hot spots, and student activities
LibreTexts
LibreTexts currently encompass twelve widely used college-level disciplines from chemistry to humanities with over 68,500 pages. Used across the nation as primary course textbooks and as supplemental learning resources, LibreTexts have already recorded more than 250 million page views of confirmed student reading.
MERLOT
The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers. Browse materials by discipline, add your own open online learning materials to the collection, or use MERLOT tools to create and host your own materials.
MERLOT is a program of the California State University System partnering with education institutions, professional societies, and industry.
OASIS
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 98 different sources and contains 368,237 records.
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OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.
OER Commons
Includes full university courses, open textbooks, and interactive mini-lessons.
CCCS Learning Object Repository
What are other instructors and faculty using across the Colorado Community College System? Find assignments, readings, lectures, and reviews of traditional textbooks compared to OER materials.
PressBooks
Textbooks, including many in non-English languages. Includes a lot of college success texts, writing, and sciences. CCCS has an account to adapt and create Pressbooks

Highlight: OpenStax

Openstax
A great starting point for looking for OER textbooks. The content is written by experts in their fields and peer-reviewed. Get started searching by clicking on the "Subjects" tab at the top.

Highlight: Open TextBook Library

Use the pull down menu and see additional subjects covered. Computer Science, Media studies, Engineering are a few of the subjects being covered that OpenStax isn’t covering. Open Textbook Library is an aggregator of open textbooks.

OpenTextBookStore
sister site of MyOpenMath.com; created by educators frustrated with the time involved in finding adoptable open textbooks, with the hope to make open textbook adoption easier for other faculty.