Open Educational Resources: OER

An OER commons site for the sharing of OER resources, trainings, and discussion topics. Developed by the Maryland Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation.

"OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum."

Open Stax is an online library of free and accessible course content. It is an initiative of Rice University

"Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality." Initiative of the Open Textbook Network.

"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." Short for Multimedia educational resource for learning and online teaching.

"In conjunction with Deep Web Technologies, University Libraries has developed a search engine that simultaneously queries a number of open educational resource sites."

"Open textbooks can be found in the B.C. Open Textbooks Collection, as well as, several other repositories and collections. Some open textbooks contain supplemental or ancillary materials (e.g., test banks, quizzes, PowerPoint slides, videos)."