Library: Open Educational Resources: Additional Resources

White Papers & Reports

Opening the Textbook: Open Education Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2017
Results of a Babson Survey Research Group study of 2,700 faculty nationwide.
Opening the Curriculum: Open Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education, 2014
By I.Elaine Allen and Jeff Seaman, Babson Survey Research Group. Published October 2014.
Fixing the Broken Textbook Market: How Students Respond to High Textbook Costs and Demand Alternatives
By the U.S. PIRG Education Fund & the Student PIRGs. Published January 2014.

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Directory of Open Access Journals

Additional Classroom Resources

Creative Commons Search
Search for free content in the public domain and under Creative Commons licenses.
American Institute of Mathematics Open Textbook Initiative
AIM seeks to encourage the adoption of open source and open access mathematics textbooks. The AIM Editorial Board has developed evaluation criteria to identify books suitable for use in traditional university courses. Reviews texts organized by subject.
Annenberg Learner | Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg works to advance excellent teaching through the development and distribution of multimedia resources for teaching and learning.
College Open Textbooks
Promotes the creation and adoption of open-licensed textbooks as a means of increasing the accessibility and affordability of higher education for all students.
Flat World Knowledge
A resource for peer-reviewed open digital textbooks across a wide variety of disciplines.
iLumina | Educational Resources for Science & Mathematics
A digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. Created by the NSDL, iLumina is designed to connect users with the educational resources they need. Resources range from highly granular objects (e.g., individual images and video clips) to entire courses.
Intech Open
The first native scientific publisher of Open Access books
Lmr Adaptive Learning Platform
Lrnr is a cloud-based educational content delivery, personalization and analytics platform that integrates OpenStax content with intuitive personal learning tools and adaptive assessments. Lrnr’s platform provides individualized learning paths and precise analytics creating personalized learning experiences that make studying and learning more efficient, effective and engaging.
Merlot Community Portal
Provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
Met Publications | Metropolitan Museum of Art
Five decades of publications from the Met.Search, read, and download for free.
National Science Digital Library
High quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.
Odigia | Learning Liberated
Odigia has partnered with OpenStax to transform their high-quality OER content into classroom ready courses that include a variety of features to facilitate interaction among students and instructors, making the classroom experience more engaging and affordable.
OER Commons: Explore, Create, Collaborate
OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum. Search or browse by subject, level, or standard.
OER Metafinder
The Mason OER Metafinder performs a simultaneous real-time search across multiple sources of open educational materials.
Open Education Consortium | Global Network for Open Education
A global network of educational institutions, individuals and organizations that support an approach to education based on openness, including collaboration, innovation and collective development and use of open educational materials.
OpenStax | Access. The Future of Education.
OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University, whose mission is to improve student access to education. Their first openly licensed college textbook was published in 2012, and the library continues to grow.
SkillsCommons
The SkillsCommons library offers free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development.
Smarhistory
Smarthistory's mission is to open museums and cultural sites up to the world, one video at a time. Conversational videos and essays cover art and cultural objects that range from the paleolithic to the present.
SPARC | Setting the Default to Open
SPARC works to enable the open sharing of research outputs and educational materials in order to democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and increase the return on our investment in research and education.
WIlliam + Flora Hewlett Foundation | Open Education
Since 2002, the Hewlett Foundation has been supporting people and institutions promoting OER, research on OER effectiveness, and the technical basis for OER, including policy and advocacy, research, open licenses, interoperability, and accessibility standards.

TED Talks: Make Democracy Stronger

More Ted Talks on open education and related topics are being made all the time. Learn more: https://www.ted.com

TED: Ideas worth spreading

Richard Baraniuk
In 2006, open-learning visionary Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions (now called OpenStax), an open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world.

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Open Content Blog