Open Educational Resources (OER) and Affordable Course Materials

Transform higher education and student learning. Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.

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

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 115 different sources and contains 455,492 records. OASIS developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.

Pressbooks Directory is a free, searchable catalog that includes 6,902 open access books published by 184 organizations and networks using Pressbooks. It's easy to copy, revise, remix, and redistribute any openly licensed content found here using Pressbooks' publishing platform.

Free online textbooks for math and computer science.

OpenStax, part of Rice University, publishes peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are free online and low cost in print.

Rebus Community is the open education and professional development arm of The Rebus Foundation, a global non-profit and Canadian registered charity working to make knowledge freely available in the pursuit of equity, understanding, and the common good.

OpenWA collected these resources by category with the intent of making the search process more efficient and effective.

This page lists course materials that Oregon community college and university instructors are using to reduce textbook costs in their courses.

The B.C. Open Collection is a curated selection of open educational resources (OER) that can be accessed by educators in B.C. and beyond to use in the classroom, in an institutional learning management system, or on other teaching and learning platforms.

This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER. Although some chapters contain more advanced content, the starter kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education.

This guide is for faculty authors, librarians, project managers and others who are involved in the production of open textbooks in higher education and K-12. Content includes a checklist for getting started, publishing program case studies, textbook organization and elements, writing resources and an overview of useful tools.

This is a five-step guide for faculty, and those who support faculty, who want to modify an open textbook. Step-by-step instructions for importing and editing common open textbook file and platform types are included.

This book represents a starting point towards curating and centering marginal voices and non-dominant epistemic stances in open education. It includes the work of 43 diverse authors whose perspectives challenge the dominant hegemony.

Faculty have created this Pressbook for two purposes: 1) to capture the work of the OER & Open Pedagogy CoP and 2) to explore and learn how to use the Pressbook publishing platform for OER-enabled open pedagogy assignments in their courses.

An open educational resources network for Washington State Community and Technical College (WA CTC) faculty.

Includes resources, events, success stories, and more to support Oregon public colleges and universities in the use of OER.

With raised awareness and accessibility laws emerging around the world, understanding what inclusive access to the Web means is becoming necessary knowledge for anyone who produces digital content. Much of the current information on Web accessibility requires some technical understanding, and may be difficult to consume for the average person. The instruction here will “interpret” the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1), to make it easier to understand for a general audience.

This page introduces some of the web accessibility requirements for websites, web applications, browsers, and other tools.