LibGuides: Open Educational Resources for Faculty: OER Repositories

Create OER

InTechOpen Publish books, chapters, collaborate on publishing projects. Resources are focused on the physical, life, health, and social sciences.
OER TX State repository for OER, includes author platform to build modules and resources
Pressbooks OER textbook publishing platform. Creates ebooks, pdfs, and html versions.
Rebus Community global community working together to create and share OER. Here you’ll find people, processes, and tools to support your publishing efforts.

Support for OER

A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students - A handbook for faculty interested in practicing open pedagogy by involving students in the making of open textbooks, ancillary materials, or other Open Educational Resources.
Open Education Conference An annual, community-organized conference aimed at supporting and celebrating open education.
Open Pedagogy Network A resource and support network for instructors interested in open education and open pedagogy.

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OER Resources

General and Multidisciplinary Resources

BC Open Campus Create, use, browse for OERs. Includes several guides and toolkits on getting started with OER.
LibreTexts A cooperative effort to develop an online platform for the construction, customization and dissemination of OER.
Mason OER Metafinder Real-time federated search for open resources across 21 repositories.
Merlot Curated online learning materials, content creation tools, and ancillary materials.
OERCommons A public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
OERTEX A curated list of OER e-textbooks and materials used frequently by Texas institutions of higher education and to support the creation and customization of resources. It is a partnership between the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), made possible by an appropriation from the Texas Legislature.
Open Textbook Library Open Textbook Library is part of the Open Education network. They offer hundreds of open textbooks created by universities scholars, and professional organizations.
OpenStax OpenStax offers peer- reviewed textbooks for many core curriculum classes. OpenStax also provides ancillary materials such as instructor notes, slide decks, and Canvas course modules.

Arts and Fine Languages Resources

Art Images for College Teaching Art Images for College Teaching, via the University of Michigan, provides access to historical and visual artistic works.
Coerell Center for Open Educational and Language Learning COERLL is one of 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Creative Commons Collection This collection includes museum photographs, illustrations and digitized works under a license that allows for the free sharing and redistribution of their images.
HathiTrust A partnership of academic institutions that offers millions of digitized titles.
Project Gutenberg Books from the public domain are available to read in HTML, PDF, or Kindle e-book.
Writing Spaces A collection of essays for English composition classes.

Nursing and Health Resources

Nursing Simulation Scenario Library The Nursing Simulation Scenario Library is a resource for nursing educators in all settings and made possible by the generosity of the Healthcare Initiative Foundation.
OpenRN The OER Nursing textbooks are written based on the State Nursing curriculum established by the Wisconsin Technical College System, and include: Pharmacology, Skills, Nursing Fundamentals, Mental Health & Community Concepts, and Management & Professional Concepts.

STEM Resources

American Institute of Mathematics Approved Textbooks American Institute of Mathematics Approved Textbooks is judged to meet the evaluation criteria set forth by the AIM.
Geeks for Geeks Contains computer science, data, algorithm, and job resources.
GETSI Teaching Materials Contains teaching materials and workshops focusing on environmental issues that could impact society.
InTechOpen Publish books, chapters, and collaborate on publishing projects. Resources are focused on the physical, life, health, and social sciences.
PhET Interactive Simulations Online simulations for physics, chemistry, math, biology, and earth sciences.
Professor Messer's CompTIA A+ training Videos for CompTIA A+ training.

Canvas Commons

Find ancillary materials and course modules with Canvas Commons

Canvas Commons has course modules that have been shared by other universities and instructors. Once you're logged into Canvas, on the left hand side, select Canvas Commons. At the top, remove the filter "Tarleton State University" that looks only at Canvas modules from Tarleton. Begin search for your course or subject.