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These search engines are a great place to start your OER search, especially if you're not tied to textbooks. They search across a variety of OER collections, databases, and repositories to make your search a bit easier.
Provides a simultaneous search across 20 different sources of open educational materials. Created by George Mason University.
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The Open Textbook Library includes 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. |
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Openstax offers students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers. |
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MILNE Open Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries. |
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BCcampus Open Education offers a collection of hundreds of open textbooks created by faculty at academic institutions in British Columbia. |
Collection of open books and textbooks from a variety of sources.
Open textbooks for the 40 highest enrolled first- and second-year subject areas in the British Columbia's public, post-secondary system.
A collection of expertly developed educational materials – including textbooks, syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments – in 81 high-enrollment college courses
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OER Commons, or Open Educational Resources Commons contains full courses, modules, syllabi, lectures, homework assignments, quizzes, lab activities, pedagogical materials, games, simulations, and more. |
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Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) is a free online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education. Most, but not all, Merlot resources are Creative Commons licensed. |
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Teaching Commons brings together OER that have been curated by librarians at colleges and universities throughout the US. |
LibreTexts contains course shells, textbooks, interactive models, laboratory experiments, and ancillary materials. |
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