Open Educational Resources (OERs)
What are OERs?
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are educational materials in the public domain. They are published under open licenses (i.e., Creative Commons) that specify how they can be used, reused, adapted, shared, or modified. They can include textbooks, lecture notes, syllabuses, assignments, and tests.
Creating Your Own OERs
Open Teaching Materials
See these sites for free, open-access teaching materials.
- Library Connect
Shares library and information science best practices, issues, technology, and trends.
- MERLOT 2Ⅱ (Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
MERLOT 2Ⅱ is a free and open peer-reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed services. You can search by learning material type or collection.
- OCO Catalog
The catalog of the Online Consortium of Oklahoma, maintained by member institutions. Includes instructions for creating in Pressbooks.
- OER Commons
A network for teaching materials and open textbooks, providing a single point of access through which educators and learners can search across collections to access more than 24,000 items.
- Open Course Library
The Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of shareable course materials, including syllabuses, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts.
- Open Learning Initiative
The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is a grant-funded group at Carnegie Mellon University, offering innovative online courses to anyone who wants to learn or teach. Our aim is to create high-quality courses and contribute original research to improve learning and transform higher education.
- OpenStax
View and share free educational material in small modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports or other academic assignments.
- Pressbooks Directory
A catalog of over 4,000 OER textbooks. This is the platform NWOSU uses to publish OER materials.
- Teaching Commons
Hosted by Digital Commons, this site includes all OER material published on the Digital Commons platform.
- COLE OER Infographic
Note. From “Understanding Open Educational Resources,” by Council for Online Learning Excellence, , Online Consortium of Oklahoma (https://www
.ocolearnok .org /wp-content /uploads /2021 /04 /COLE-OER-Infographic .pdf). Copyright by the Council for Online Learning Excellence. Used with permission.