As with any course content you use in your class, it is your responsibility to ensure it is accurate and suitable. In many cases, open educational resources have met or surpassed traditional outlets for course materials.

About Open Educational Resources

• TED Talk – Richard Baraniuk: The birth of the open-source learning revolution
• Five-Minute Film Festival: Why Open Education Matters
• Educause: 7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT…Open Educational Resources (PDF)
• OER Mythbusting! Basic Guide to OER
• Campus Technology: The Complete Guide to Open Educational Resources
• An Open Education Reader
• Better than Christmas – OER Research hub report
• A 7-Step Guide to Creating Your Own Open Educational Resources
• How to Find Creative Commons Licensed Material on Media Sharing Sites
• How to Conduct a Successful OER Search with Google
• Team Open – David Lippman: How one professor saved students a million dollars
• Wiley & Green Share the Latest in OER and Creative Commons

Open Educational Resource Collections

• Educause Library: Open Educational Resources
• Open Educational Resources (OER): Resource Roundup
• The OER Landscape – How to find OER?
• Open Educational Resources
• Open Educational Resources – Part 2
• Engage Your Students With These Open Educational Resources
• University at Buffalo – Open Educational Resources
• OpenWashington – Open Education Resources Network
• Buffalo State – Open Educational Resources
• Monroe Community College – Open Educational Resources
• LibreTexts
• OASIS –  SUNY Geneseo’s Milne Library

Open Source Software for Education

• Open Source Options For Education – An inventory of open source software solutions that can be used for education.

Open Educational Courses

• Lumen Learning
• Open Course Library
• SUNY Course – Locating, Creating, Licensing and Utilizing OERs
• 1100 Free Online Courses from Top Universities

Open Educational Textbooks

• Article – Moving Beyond the Textbook
• Article – Inside Higher Ed: Open, but Undiscovered
• Article – UNG recognized for efforts to reduce textbook costs
• Open SUNY Textbooks
• MIT OpenCourseWare – Online Textbooks
• OpenTextBookStore – Math books
• OpenStax College
• College Open Textbooks
• Monroe Community College – Spiral Physics
• Teach Astronomy
• 550 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free
• Open Textbooks at Oregon State University: A Case Study of New Opportunities for Academic Libraries and University Presses
• LibreTexts

Open Educational Support Resources

• AMSER – Applied Math and Science Education Repository
• National Science Digital Library
• COERLL – Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning
• Merlot.org
• OER Commons
• OpenStax CNX Library
• The Orange Grove
• British Pathé – largest archive of history on YouTube.
• Blended Learning Toolkit
• Saylor
• WeBWork

Open Educational Resource Organizations

• Open Education Consortium
• Carnegie Mellon University – Open Learning Initiative
• SUNY Open Educational Resources