Check out potential open textbooks for your courses in OER by Discipline Resource Guide: Concordia University.
Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that permit no-cost access, use, adaptation, and/or redistribution by others. These open and reusable resources may include textbooks, curricula, syllabi, lecture notes, question banks, audio-video material, assignments, rubrics, etc.
Adapted from "Open Education: Content" (EDUCAUSE)
OER overview
Getting to know the basics
What are open educational resources? Why are they used? What are some faculty and student perspectives?
Major OER collections
Find OER
Where can you find OER? How do you access or download an open textbook? What about quality?
Open Textbook Grants
Apply and view
How to apply for Concordia University's OER Open Textbook Grants? How might I view projects that have received an open textbook grant?
OER Tools & Support
Adopt, Customize, Create
Need help orienting yourself with the publishing platform, open licenses, and accessibility tools for the work of adopting, customizing, or creating OER?
Decolonize with OER
Forthcoming
How can OER engage with decolonizing pedagogy, re-acculturation, social justice, and more?
Photos: By Nicole Honeywill, John Schnobrich, Kari Shea, Scott Trento, and Patrick Perkins, public domain
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A revised OER guide will be replacing this version.
