Open Education and Textbook Affordability at Shoreline CC

This hub is a dedicated repository for OER shared by our system or created through Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC)-sponsored projects. Includes the WA 100 project.

Repository of open textbooks, images, course materials, and video and audio.

Provides reviews of OER. Browse subjects to see extensive reviews that include: comprehensiveness, accuracy, relevance/longevity, clarity, consistency, modularity, organization/structure/flow, interface, grammatical errors, cultural relevance, and comments.

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.

The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder webpages, together with associated comments, and bookmark collections, all intended to enhance the teaching experience of using a learning material.

Our open textbooks are openly licensed using a Creative Commons license, and are offered in various e-book formats free of charge, or print on demand books available at cost.

Overseen by influential OER activist David Wiley, Lumen's Candela Learning catalog offers links to its own content as well as the content developed by institutions it has worked with on OER initiatives, such as Tidewater Community College and Washington State Community and Technical Colleges. The content isn't technically downloaded as a file; it's made available in HTML format, which can be accessed through a school's learning management system.

All Libretexts libraries are accessible to everyone via the internet, completely free. We believe everyone should have access to knowledge. Not only is LibreTexts always accessible online, LibreTexts is promoting assistive technologies across the entire platform.

OASIS from SUNY Geneseo - Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 61 different sources and contains 160,717 records.

Rice University initiative. Free open textbooks developed and peer-reviewed by educators.

Affordable, open and customizable textbooks. Hosted by Lumen Learning.

The three State of California Higher Education Systems are working together to provide you easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks that everyone and anyone can use for teaching and learning.

Explore free and open educational resources in Workforce Development
Developed in partnership with local industries. Reviewed by subject matter experts Focused on skills businesses need today. Use the interactive Industry Wheel to locate materials that are free and open for you to use! You can also contribute to Workforce Training materials.

Textbook project for college level writing courses.

WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

Started by an associate dean at Stanford's continuing studies program, this site brings together a curated "meta collection" of free textbooks taken from many of the other sites included in this article as well as other pockets of the web where a faculty member has put digital textbooks together for his or her courses and made them openly available. Open Culture also provides collections of free online courses, movies, audio books and other forms of education content.

MyOpenMath is designed for mathematics, providing delivery of homework, quizzes, and tests with rich mathematical content. Students can receive immediate feedback on algorithmically generated questions with numerical or algebraic expression answers. And it can do so much more, providing a full course management system, including file posting, discussion forums, and a full gradebook, all designed with mathematics in mind.

Textbooks are free to read online, with low-cost downloadable and print-on-demand options.

The 5 Rs of open resources and pedagogy are: Retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute.

OER is about how we give permission to use materials more than the cost or creation of materials. This page gives an overview.

Resources on wriiting OERs compiled by the Community College Consortium for OER.

This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources.

Open WA is a place to find information and current events in open education relevent to Washington higher education.

The Open Education Group is an interdisciplinary research group that (1) conducts original, rigorous, empirical research on the impact of OER adoption on a range of educational outcomes and (2) designs and shares methodological and conceptual frameworks for studying the impact of OER adoption.

Find examples and articles on open pedagogy practices in higher education.

A handbook for faculty interested in practicing open pedagogy by involving students in the making of open textbooks, ancillary materials, or other Open Educational Resources.

This group is to collect resources from project participants in the CCCOER's Community of Practice