What are Open Education Resources (OERs)?

“Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.”

–UNESCO Definition 

The FXUA Library can assist you to:

• Locate OER materials for your instruction and Canvas shells;
• Interpret Creative Commons symbols and other licensing statements for proper usage;
• Reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute OER appropriately;
• Pursue reviewing or authoring opportunities with Open Text Books.

Open Education Resources

• Canvas Commons  Use the canvas Commons search tool located on the left side of your Canvas shell.  Paste this search string into the search box to find Open textbooks and shells:   OEI CCC OER OpenStax
• Creative Commons search Use this search tool to locate OERs through common image, video, and search engines.
• Creative Commons Licensing types Understand the symbols and licensing types
• IntechOpen  IntechOpen’s Academic Editors and Authors are members of our growing scientific community focused on quality, peer-reviewed research and expeditious spreading of knowledge. Our community comprises senior members of the international academic and scientific community across all fields of science, whose merits include Nobel Laureates and world’s top 1% most cited authors.
• Khan Academy  “offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.”
• Merlot 2  is an open source consortium of resources.  With registration, instructors or staff can create course packs with content builder, contribute material, and link to academic communities.  (Free registration required).
• MIT Opencourseware  MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
• OER Commons  OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
• Open Textbook Library  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. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
• Openstax  OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University. OpenStax textbook projects are developed and peer-reviewed by educators to ensure they are readable and accurate, meet the scope and sequence requirements of each course, are supported by instructor ancillaries, and are available with the latest technology-based learning tools. (Free registration required).

Additional Computer Science Resources

• AMSER  AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) 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 (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library, and is being created by a team of project partners led by Internet Scout. Instructors, please read advisory below:AMSER Copyright InformationIt is important to note that AMSER metadata records (the fields and information that describe each resource in AMSER) come from a variety of sources. You can see what source these records come from by looking at the field marked Source in the full resource record. If the source is Scout Archives or Scout Staff then please use the copyright information below. If the source field lists another entity then please click on the source name to be transfered to their site and use the copyright information provided there.Copyright notice to be used when reproducing any portion of an AMSER publication or an entire AMSER metadata record which has Scout Staff or Scout Archives in the Source field:Copyright 2013 Internet Scout – http://scout.wisc.edu