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."

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

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

"The world’s largest collection of open access research papers"

"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."

"A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download."

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

"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."

"[T]he PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations."

"The QUBES platform hosts hundreds of teaching materials, reference materials, and cloud-based software free to use and adapts using open Creative Commons licenses." "Teaching Materials: Resources in this category can range from K-12 to higher education, lectures to lab. Many of these resources have been tested in Faculty Mentoring Networks or by our network of partners."

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

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

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