Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Where to find OER

Finding OER

Besides open textbooks, there are many resources available that provide access to other educational resources, including syllabi, assignments, tests & quizzes, tutorials, webinars, podcasts, software, and other materials.

Below are a few examples, but this is not a complete list.

OER at UNT

CLEAR - Teaching Resources
Center for Learning Experimentation, Application, and Research (CLEAR) offers many resources to assist faculty in designing or redesigning UNT courses for accessibility (including open access), copyright compliance, and instructional design issues. There are also useful resources for classroom instruction and pedagogy.
Canvas
The Canvas course management system allows you to link to open access resources online, in the library, or through their Canvas Commons site within the CMS. If you search the terms "CCC OEI OER" you can find course shells utilizing free OpenStax textbooks in a variety of subjects.

Open Educational Resources

LibreTexts
LibreTexts offers easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER), including existing OpenStax textbooks. It also includes a library of open textbooks organized by subject.
Mason OER Metafinder
Real-time federated search for OER content
MERLOT II
MERLOT seeks to build shared knowledge bases of learning materials. All learning materials are passed through a peer review process. These resources could be assignments, assessments or tests, simulations, presentations, online courses, tutorials, or one of many other types of resources. Subjects include Humanities, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Arts, Business, Education, and Science and Technology.
National Science Digital Library
The National Science Digital Library provides descriptive information about web-based educational resources from many sources, which center around STEM disciplines. Some resources may not be fully open, but that information is included in the description on the website. Resources include syllabi, lesson plans, data, lectures, assessments, primary sources, simulations and many more.
OASIS
The Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) gathers more than 155,000 records from 52 sources that can be searched by license, type, subject, source, and available reviews. There is also a search widget that can be embedded in any website for convenient searching.
OER Commons
OER Commons offers a comprehensive infrastructure for curriculum experts and instructors at all levels to identify high-quality OER and collaborate around their adaptation, evaluation, and use to address the needs of teachers and learners.
OER Knowledge Cloud
The Cloud data includes searchable records of journal articles (eg. papers in periodicals), reports (eg. from government or industry), books or other items in any medium. These items are available either directly from the Cloud repository or by links to their sources. Through the Cloud, Athabasca University Library aims to be a repository for all data related to open educational resources and the source of electronic copies of many references.
OERTX Repository
OERTX is designed to facilitate the curation of OER e-textbooks and other OER materials used frequently by Texas institutions of higher education and to support the creation and customization of resources to meet the needs of Texas students and faculty. Includes curated OER materials, creation tools, and a collaboration community.
smARThistory
smARThistory is a resource for the study of art and cultural heritage. It provides information, videos, and other resources about art history and the visual arts.