Getting Started
While there are plenty of OER materials to be found online, it can be overwhelming to wade through them all to find just what you're looking for. Here are some search tips and recommended sources to get you started.
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Featured OER Initiative
An initiative of the University System of Georgia, Affordable Learning Georgia supports the use of free and customizable open educational resources and textbooks. Visit their site for a wealth of information about finding, creating, and implementing OERs.
Affordable Learning Georgia's Finding OER Tutorial
- Finding Free and Open ResourcesAffordable Learning Georgia offers this two-part tutorial on finding OERs. Begin here and work your way through the first seven modules. A link to the second half of the tutorial is at the bottom of the page.
Recommended OER Sources
- Galileo Open Learning MaterialsOpen textbooks available through Galileo.
- MERLOTMerlot (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is a large online repository of OER material, known for a thorough peer review process, though all resources on the site are reviewed.
- OASISSearch engine for exclusively OER materials. It searches the resources of 512 different institutions the world over.
- OER CommonsOnline library of OER that includes tools for creation and sharing materials.
- Open CultureStyled like a blog, this site allows users to browse OER by media type. Choose from movies, podcasts, eBooks, MOOCs (massive open online courses) and more.
- Open StaxFree and low-cost textbooks and ancillary materials, with some courseware available as well. Usage is as simple as selecting material for your class and then letting the organization know you will be using it.
- Open Textbook LibraryA searchable collection of almost 750 textbooks, all available for free download.
- Project GutenbergThis site is the original home of eBooks on the internet. It offers thousands of titles that can be downloaded or read online for free.
- Edsitement!Learning plans and supplemental resources from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- AMSER - Applied Math & Science Education RepositoryAMSER 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. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the National Science Digital Library.
Searching for OER
"OER Search Techniques" uploaded by Andrew Moore