LibGuides: Open Education Practices (OEP): Open Educational Resources (OERs)

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Revising, remixing, and redistributing OER with your students is one way to apply Open Education Practices.

Adopting OER also reduces costs for your students.

What is OER?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed in your courses and online.
Benefits & Challenges
From Washington State University Libraries.

Mason OER Metafinder
Made available through George Mason University; the "Google" of OER on the web.
MERLOT
A collection of online learning materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
OpenStax
A nonprofit educational initiative based at Rice University offering low-cost print and no-cost digital course resources. Browse by discipline or view OpenStax FAQs to learn more.
Open Textbook Library
Over 1,400 open textbooks hosted by the University of Minnesota.
Teaching Commons
A librarian-curated collection of open-access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures, and more.
More OER Content
Open lectures, tutorials, and courseware can also be found. Start with this resource list from UMASS Libraries.

OER Commons
Funded by ISKME, a non-profit whose mission is "to improve the practice of continuous learning, collaboration, and change in the education sector."
How to Find OER Videos on YouTube
Learn how to limit your YouTube search to only Creative Commons videos (available to download, adapt, remix, and redistribute).

GoOpenCT
A state-funded platform for creating and reusing OER. Register for a free account using your mitchell.edu email address.