Open Educational Resources (OER): Format-Specific Resources

Open Textbooks

Virtual Lab Resources
Started by POD and LeighAnn Tomaswick, community contributed resources for open/free virtual simulations.

Modular Course Components

Complete Courses

Math

My Open Math
Provides free problem sets for practice. Almost ten textbooks already designed for courses.
OER Commons Mathematics Search
A search for all levels.
American Institute of Mathematics: Approved Open Textbooks List
Over 15 open textbooks covering different levels of calculus, algebra, and statistics.
Scottsdale (AZ) Community College Math Blog
Free links and pre-developed courses used at Scottsdale.

Humanities

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
A basic search for OA books, including OA textbooks.
Open Education Resources for the Digital Humanities
Compiled through UCL, these resources focus specifically on the digital/ technical application of humanities concepts or texts.
Open Humanities Press
Open books and journals, mostly on theoretical topics/ frameworks.
Art Images for College Teaching
University of Michigan compilation of images for teaching or assignment purposes.
Open Arts Archive
An open access platform which provides over 50 free films to support the teaching of Art History.
OER Commons Music and Art Appreciation
A basic search for teaching with music/ art.
Music crowdsourced remote teaching resources
The Public Domain Song Anthology

Language Learning

Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL) OER
Foreign language resources and activities
COERLL OER Handout
Links to resources and information.
KU Open Languages Resource Center
Under the "Projects" tab you'll find individual language learning modules and programs in Chinese
French
German
Kiswahili
Russian
Spanish
Turkish
Ukrainian
Language OER at KU, individual resources for Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian; French; German; Haitian Creole; Persian; Portugues; Quichua; Slovene; Somali; Spanish; and Uyghur
and Second Language Resources P
U Texas Intro to OER for Language Teachers

A large collection of sign language OER on the OER listserv conversations page can be found here:
http://www.ltcconline.net/greenl/oer/oerlistfromlistserve.htm#Sign_Language
The work of Dr. Joanne Weber, Canada Research Chair in Deaf Education. She wrote a blog post: https://pressbooks.com/accessibility/could-pressbooks-support-ebook-creation-for-deaf-education. She has a public domain work, "Deaf Education" https://openeducationalberta.ca/deafeducation/
A book created at Western Oregon University: “Integrated and Open Interpreter Education,” https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/interpretingstudies

Sciences

National Science Digital Library
Provides a robust search to limit by activity type, media format, and age level.
PLOS One
More advanced, specific science resources that are open and could be used in a classroom setting.
AMSER: Applied Math and Science Educational Repository
Funded by the NSF and organized by large LC headings.
The Chem Collective
Created by a group of faculty and staff at Carnegie Mellon to help those teaching/ learning Chemistry.
Virtual Chem Course Resources
This is a set of resources for moving chemistry coursework online. Links/short descriptions of re-worked class plans, resources for students, how-tos for remote lecture/streaming/capture. It’s a work in progress, feel free to add links to materials. If something isn’t open access, even if it is very inexpensive, please note with ($).
Scitable by Nature Education
A free science library and personal learning tool. Currently concentrates on genetics and cell biology.

Education

EDUCAUSE
Organization dedicated to helping IT leaders and strategic leaders in education, specifically higher education.

Social Sciences

Open Acess Publishing in European Networks
Contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Nursing and Allied Health

HEAL (Health Education Assets Library)
Images, videoclips, animations, presentations, and audio files that support healthcare education
Open Education Resources for Nursing
The Open RN project is funded by a $2.5 million dollar grant from the Department of Education to create 5 OER Nursing Textbooks with 25 associated Virtual Reality scenarios. The OER Nursing textbooks are written based on the State Nursing curriculum established by the Wisconsin Technical College System, and include: Pharmacology, Skills, Nursing Fundamentals, Mental Health & Community Concepts, and Management & Professional Concepts.
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Grant output timeline 2020-2022.
Orthopaedia
Orthopaedia is published by The Codman Group (a 503C IRS-approved public charity) in collaboration with the United States Bone and Joint Initiative. Orthopaedia aims to serve as a free, up-to-date, peer-reviewed open educational resource for students and practitioners, thereby improving the welfare of patients.

Business

Open Textbook Library
Accounting, finance, human resources, management, marketing
MIT Open Courseware
Accounting, business ethics, entrepreneurship, finance, globalization, healthcare management, leadership, human resources, IT, management, marketing, operations research, real estate, supply chain management
Waymaker/Lumen Learning: Business Courses
Accounting for Managers, Financial Accounting, Intro to Business, Principles of Marketing, Concepts in Statistics, human resources, management, organizational behavior, retail management
Open Course Library
Accounting, business, business law, business calculus
Bookboon
Accounting, management, teams, project management, marketing, human resources, finance, communication
OpenStax textbooks
Business ethics, business law, management, IP, accounting, business statistics
Connexions
Business ethics, business law, organizational behavior, accounting, management
Sources for Case Studies
- Mega-sites:
  - Free & Open Business Case Studies (Ryerson University)
  - Business Cases: Open Access Case Studies (Boston University Libraries)
  - Open Case Studies (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
- Other sources:
  - Sustainable business case book
  - Social Science Research Network (SSRN) search for “case studies”
    - Management Educator: Courses, Cases & Teaching e-journal
  - Journal of Business Case Studies
  - Journal of Business Cases & Applications
  - Journal of Case Studies
  - Case Studies in Business & Management