Collins Memorial Library: FEPPS Support: Finding OER Content

Open Content Repositories

Repositories of a variety of educational materials including textbooks, readings, activities, and labs.

Merlot
A web-based repository of educational material that is free, open, and peer reviewed.
OER Commons
OER Commons was developed to serve educators in discovering, creating, and collaborating around the use, evaluation, and improvement of open educational resources.

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Not only can OER Commons help during the hunt for OERs, but it can also serve as a place to create resources. The OER Commons open author tool allows users to combine text, images, audio, and video files into their own customized resource as well as create brand new resources from scratch.
OpenStax CNX
View and share free educational material in small modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports or other academic assignments.
Saylor
Amodular repository of open educational resources. Faculty at Saylor compile open educational material from across the web into courses that are modeled after those taught in universities.

Open Textbooks

Open Textbook Library
The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.
BC Campus Open Textbook Project
Textbooks created by a British Columbia OER initiative
DOER - Directory of Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources from Commonwealth universities and educational institutions
Lumen Learning
Overseen by influential OER activist David Wiley, Lumen's Candela Learning catalog offers links to its own content as well as the content developed by institutions it has worked with on OER initiatives, such as Tidewater Community College and Washington State Community and Technical Colleges. The content isn't technically downloaded as a file; it's made available in HTML format, which can be accessed through a school's learning management system.
OpenStax
OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University, and its mission is to improve student access to education.

Open Case Studies

Learning Edge
LearningEdge is a collection of teaching case studies and simulations developed by MIT Sloan faculty and students.

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The teaching business case studies available on LearningEdge, which fall under the headings of entrepreneurship, leadership/ethics, operations management, strategy, sustainability, and system dynamics, are narratives that facilitate class discussion about a particular business or management issue. Teaching cases are meant to spur debate among students rather than promote a particular point of view or steer students in a specific direction.
Arthur Andersen Case Studies in Business Ethics
This collection includes 85 mini-cases and 5 major cases. See additional information on the website for usage information.
Open Case Studies at UBC
These open case studies were created by faculty and students at the University of British Columbia. While many of these case studies focus on sustainability, they feature a broad range of topics across disciplines.
Oikos Free Case Collection
Oikos provides peer-reviewed, Creative Commons licensed case studies on sustainability, management, entrepreneurship, and finance.

Evaluating OER

University of Illinois Guide to evaluating OER
Library guide to help evaluate resources before adopting them

Regional OER Projects

OpenWA
An open educational resources network for Washington State Community and Technical College (WA CTC) faculty.

OpenOR
Network of OER in Oregon

OER Reviews

Quality is paramount when considering which educational resources to use. Reviews of OER materials can help when evaluating which ones to potentially use for your syllabus.