Textbook Alternatives & Open Educational Resources (OER): Open Educational Resources

A growing group of OER for higher education courses, identified by OhioLINK member librarians.

"AMSER is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use."

"Find content you can share, use and remix."

"Critical Commons is a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts."

"Open Educational Resources from Commonwealth universities and educational institutions."

"Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license."

"The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge."

"Find and use thousands of free open educational resources from a wide variety of subject areas."

"Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials. Share advice and expertise about education with expert colleagues. Be recognized for your contributions to quality education." There is also a federated search tool that searches several collections of learning objects and OERs alongside the MERLOT collection.

"OCW makes the materials used in the teaching of MIT's subjects available on the Web."

"NROC course content is an Open Educational Resource (OER) and is available at no cost for individual use here at our website."

"The Open Course Library is a collection of expertly developed educational materials – including textbooks, syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments – in 81 high-enrollment college courses."

"OCW Search is a search engine dedicated to helping you find the best free university courses online."

"Curating best in class learning materials from around the world since 2007."

". . . focused on exploring the promise of the Internet to drive the cost of education to zero and expand access to quality open educational resources (OER). Toward this end, we have built over 270 free, self-paced, online courses, with many more on the way."

"SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations."

"The Orange Grove repository, is Florida's digital repository for instructional resources. The repository provides an environment for educators to search for, use, remix, share, and contribute educational resources."

"Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language."

A comparison of authoring tools compiled by Michele DeSilva, COCC & Amy Hofer, Open Oregon

FLOE provides the resources to personalize how we each learn and to address barriers to learning. . . . FLOE supports learners, educators and curriculum producers in achieving one-size-fits-one learning design for the full diversity of learners, leveraging the variants made possible by Open Education Resources (OER).

Our mission is to enable the community of accessible technology experts, advocates, and users to build an online community and collection of open education resources that can improve universal learning by facilitating the contribution and sharing of accessible technology information, expertise, and accessible online teaching and learning materials.