The OER Catalogue
Open Educational Resources for HigherEd
OER Repositories & Tools
OER Policy Development Tool
Amanda Coolidge, BCcampus
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Daniel MeMarte,
Tidewater Community College
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Purpose: to provide guidance for institutional officials to develop formal policies for adaptation and utilization of OER at their campuses. Tool is under a CC-BY 4.0 license.
Faculty OER Workshop
Matthew Bloom, Maricopa Community College
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An open and free course on the nuts and bolts of OER. Contains informational articles on OER, how to find them, copyright/licensing issues, and benefits to students. Each section contains a short quiz at the end to measure knowledge of materials. Course is offered under a CC-BY-SA license
MERLOT II
Repository
California State University System's OER repository
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Contains more than 45,000 resources, rated and peer-reviewed. Reviewers must undergo training & provide evidence of their content background. Materials are sorted with highest rated reviewed materials appearing first
University of Hawai'i Repository
UH's repository & website dedicated to OER. Unless otherwise noted, all materials are under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Manitoba Open TextBook Initiative
A partnership between Campus Manitoba & BCcampus. Contains materials generated by BC campus faculty, in addition to materials from around the web. Materials contain various CC licenses.
OpenStax
Repository
Rice University's collection of OER textbooks that can be printed into a hardbound book for minimal cost.
SkillsCommons Repository
Collection of OER created by the US Department of Labor's Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College & Career Training (TAACCCT) program. All materials are under a CC-BY 4.0 license.
Saylor Academy Resource Guide
A set of guides to aid in course design. Each guide available as a Google Doc & can be downloaded in a variety of formats. Except where noted, all materials are under a CC-BY 3.0 unported license.
Literacy Information & Communication Center
A professional learning platform for adult ed developed by the U.S. Dept. of Education. Offers multimedia instructional resources all of which have been peer reviewed. Except where noted, materials produced by Federal agencies are in the public domain & may be reproduced without permission. Not all materials in this collection are in public domain.
ISKME's Open Textbooks
Collection of OER curated by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education digital librarians.
SUNY Open Textbooks
Collection of OER curated by the State University of New York Libraries.
Hathi Trust Digital Library
Collection of digital books curated through a partnership of academic & research institutions. Many materials are in public domain, but varies by item. See details here
LibreTexts
UC Davis
A multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access texts to improve STEM education. Offers resources in multiple subjects. LibreTexts currently directed by UC Davis Professor Delmar Larsen. Site license: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.
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