Subject Guides: Open Educational Resources: Finding OER

Top Places to Find OER

BC Campus Open Ed
A collection of open textbooks hosted by the provincial British Columbia initiative, BC Campus.
Open Library Ontario
A collection of OER hosted by the provincial Ontario initiative, ECampus Ontario.
OER Commons
A multidisciplinary OER collection with a wide variety of resource formats.
Open Stax
High quality OER textbooks and teaching resources.

Open Education Alberta
Adaptable open textbooks created at Alberta institutions
Open SUNY Textbooks
Open SUNY Textbooks publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed textbooks for use in higher education.
Open Textbook Store
A free collection of mathematics-related open textbooks.
Textbook Equity
Free college level textbooks with Creative Commons Licenses.
Wikibooks
Open textbooks in a many different languages

BC Campus OER by Discpline
Lists a wide range of open educational resources organized by discipline.
Cool4Ed
California's Open Online Library for Education.
Creative Commons
Searches a corpus of Creative Commons licensed materials including text, videos and images.
Internet Archive
A non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies, music and archived web pages.
Lumen Learning
OER course materials outlined into fully developed courses.
MERLOT
A repository of multimedia teaching and learning materials maintained by the California State University System.
Open Course Library
Collection of shareable course materials like activities, readings, and assessment tools.
Open Michigan
Collection of OER from University of Michigan.
The World Lecture Project
Find academic videos from around the world

Academic Earth
Free online courses from a number of institutions.
Khan Academy
Exercises, videos and learning materials for a variety of disciplines.
MIT Open Courseware
Open course content from MIT courses
Open Yale Courses
Introductory-level courses in a variety of subject areas. Including access to recorded lectures and course materials.
The Open Education Consortium
Courses, webinars and course materials from around the world
Saylor Academy
Self-paced courses in variety of subjects
The Orange Grove
Florida's Open Educational Resource Repository.

Contact your subject librarian or library.publishing@ualberta.ca for help searching for OER.