Research Guides: OER and Textbook Alternatives: Finding OER & AER

AER

AER (Affordable Educational Resources) are no or low cost tools, or tools purchased for institutional use, which are accessible to all students and employees without additional per-use costs involved. Most are housed in the library's collection of materials. These include but are not limited to articles in research databases, digital magazines, supplemental electronic study tools with interactive components, streaming videos, unlimited use digital textbooks, and the creation of course packets using copyrighted materials covered through the Copyright Clearinghouse licensing MATC has acquired. It is advised to consult a librarian for guidance on creating course packets and obtaining AER materials through the library for use in a course.

MATC Libraries AER tools for OER

Check out some of MATC Libraries AER (Affordable Educational Resources) tools to use in your OER courses. Click on box below

Oasis

OER by Discipline

OER by Discipline Directory The BCcampus Open Education Self-Publishing Guide is an excellent resource to help you plan, prepare, write, and publish an open textbook. You can also choose an open textbook to provide your students with an affordable, accessible, and engaging learning experience.

Maryland Open Source Textbook Intiative

M.O.S.T. Commons The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) Commons is an online space designed to support faculty and staff in discovering materials, collaborating with colleagues, and contributing OER to improve curricula.

Textbooks

These resources provide access to open textbooks; they also provide access to many other learning materials.

LibreTexts
MERLOT
OER Commons
OpenStax
Pressbooks Publish your own textbook or guide using Pressbooks.
Textbook Equity
Smart History

Mason OER Metafinder

Masons' OER Metafinder The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources. The OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 21 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button.What are we searching? American Memory Project (Library of Congress) AMSER – Applied Math and Science Education Repository BC Campus:Open Ed College Open Textbooks Digital Public Library of America Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) HathiTrust – Full View Available JSTOR Open Access Books Library of Congress (limit to available online) Merlot.Org MIT OpenCourseware New York Public Library Digital Collections OAOpen.org OASIS OER Commons OERs at Internet Archive Open Michigan Open Research Library Open Textbook Library OpenStax CNX Project Gutenberg World Digital Library

Open Courses

OER Repository of WTCS courses The WTCS OER Repository is a growing database of open educational resources aligned with WTCS courses. If you have adopted OER in your course, yet do not see your course information in this repository, please see the 'Read Me' tab to see who to contact at your college to add this information.
Colorado's Top 40: OER Curation Guides These materials have been curated from a variety of sources by librarians and vetting for content and alignment by subject matter experts. We hope you find them useful as you develop your own OER/ZTC course. Material included in this document may include open courses, open textbooks, and/or sections of open content that is mapped to specific outcomes/competencies. After verifying, here are some ideas for using the curated resources: - Adapt as course content - Revise to meet your needs (e.g., remove a section or chapter) - Remix with other OER or self-created content to create something new - Insert links into your course
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We encourage you to evaluate the included resources. As each curation guide contains a variety of resources, please be sure to verify the usage rights (which may be a Creative Commons license), subject matter, and accessibility for each item you choose to use. Please note that the content in this document is from a snapshot in time, and links, licenses, and accessibility may have changed since their inclusion. Links to content are provided rather than actual learning objects to provide the most current version of the content available.
Boundless Hosted by Lumen Learning, these were courses created under Boundless, that are free and adaptable.
Khan Academy Supplement your course with quick and easy lessons in a variety of fields.
MIT Open Courseware Find lectures and other materials created by MIT professors.
Open Course Library Find open courses and learning materials from all around the world here.
Open Learning Initiative Created by Carnegie Mellon University, "OLI is a collection of evidence-based tools and approaches to learning that are proven to boost student success, and enable instructors to be more effective."

Courseware

Lumen Learning Lumen Learning has different courseware options that serve different purposes and vary in cost to the institution: • Candela - Extremely affordable e-books with curated text, video, interactives, and other learning materials. • Waymaker - Combines enriched OER with personalized learning tools that improve faculty-student connections. • OHM - From arithmetic to calculus, OHM provides online homework and other learning resources at a low cost. • OLI - Designed by learning scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, OLI uses data and research insights to develop, test and improve OER course materials.
XanEdu FlexEd XanEdu FlexEd provides a bridge between students and effective learning through an intuitive technology platform that serves as a complete, affordable, and engaging courseware solution designed for any setting--whether hybrid, in-person, or fully remote. Utilizing top quality OER, including OpenStax, FlexEd provides students with enhanced courseware that is designed to support various learning modalities through a carefully curated multi-modal approach.

OER and Textbook Alternatives: Finding OER & AER

Open Educational Resources

AER