Open Educational Resources & Open Access

A curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community. Materials include open textbooks, open journal articles, assignments, online courses, case studies, presentations, quizzes, training materials for teachers, assessment tools and much more.

OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network of educators. The OER Commons digital library includes a range of materials, including data sets, case studies, textbooks, assignments, lecture notes and other formats, for several topic areas.

SOL*R is a repository service provided by BCcampus that allows educators to access FREE online learning resources. It facilitates sharing, discovery, reuse, and remixing of a growing collection of content created by BC post-secondary educators.

This project is 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. The Open Education Consortium is a non-profit, social benefit organization registered in the United States and operating worldwide.

This is a comprehensive listing of Open Educational Resources (OER) sources and tools available in the United States and around the world. This guide includes references to: search engines, directories, initiatives, books, E-books, E-textbooks, free online seminars and webinars, subject guides, open and distance learning, open access papers and research, as well as related costs and metrics to identify and choose reliable, subject matter expert sources for free and open continuing education and research on the internet.