Abby Elder, the renowned open education scholar and advocate from Iowa State University, succinctly describes best practices for finding and evaluating OER.
Search strategy:
Try searching for broad topics and general course themes. It will be easier to get a list of results with broader terms, then you can review chapter descriptions to see if they meet the more specific needs.
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Supported by the University of Minnesota's Center for Open Education and the Open Textbook Network.
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Our 16 domain-specific libraries help organize the collection of 4000+ OER textbooks authored or curated by the LibreTexts community.
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Funded by the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills, and Training.
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Based in Rice University and funded through partnerships with philanthropic organizations and education resource organizations.
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A joint service of OAPEN, OpenEdition, CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université.
Search strategy:
Try searching for select topics and concepts that may be lacking from the textbook options. You can get more specific with your search in these tools than with the textbook-based resources.
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MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
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MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. All content is licensed via Creative Commons.
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OER Commons helps educators, students, and lifelong learners find Open Educational Resources through a single point of access from which they can search, browse, and evaluate resources.
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DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
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Open Research Central is a not-for-profit organisation created to enable the international research community to establish standards for academic publishing.
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A database creation platform with an easy-to-use interface that allows researchers to create online databases to share data for collaboration, publication, or as a citable repository.