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This article shares tips and resources for conducting an efficient and effective search for OER. |
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Overview
Searching for OER to integrate into your course is a process consisting of four main steps:
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B.C. Open Textbook Collection is home to a growing selection of open textbooks for a variety of subjects and specialties many of which have been reviewed by faculty, meet accessibility requirements, and/or include supplemental materials (quizzes, test banks, slides, videos, etc.).
Open Textbook Library, from the Center for Open Education at the University of Minnesota and the Open Textbook Education Network, is a curated referatory containing hundreds of open textbooks.
OpenStax publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed textbooks written by subject experts. OpenStax also hosts CNX, a content management system that has tools for educators to build and customize content within its repository.
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) is a joint effort between individual community colleges, regional and statewide consortia, the Open Education Consortium, the American Association of Community Colleges, the League for Innovation in the Community College, and many other educational partners to develop and use open educational resources, open textbooks, and open courseware to expand access to higher education and improve teaching and learning.
In addition, there are a few more more general-purpose OER repositories that you might find useful when searching for open textbooks. These repositories may contain open textbooks in addition to many other types of open educational resources.
MERLOT is one of the first and largest OER repositories. MERLOT is a program of the California State University System.
OER Commons was created by ISKME in 2007. The site provides access to a growing collection of 50,000 OER.
NIAL (Network of Idaho Academic Librarians) Collections Repository is a collection of OER resources related to specific departments and courses, organized according to the Idaho GEM Course Program. This newly established repository is a growing collection of resources.
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“Finding Open Content” in the “OER Starter Kit” by Abbey K. Elder, CC BY.
“Finding Open Textbooks” in the “Adoption Guide - 2nd Edition” by BCcampus, CC BY
“OER Search Tools” Canvas course page in the “Open Ed Development Series Part IV” Canvas course by Sarah Saia, CC BY-NC-SA