Open educational resources (OERs) are free digitized materials offered to educators, students, and self-learners under a Creative Commons (or other "open") license that allows users to copy, use, adapt, and redistribute for educational and research purposes.
These OERs can be found in a variety of places. Some journals offer specific issues or articles that are open access. Other times, the author of a text has made it open access and available for other to use free of charge. *Please not that OERs are different then the library purchasing an unlimited access license to a resource.*
If you have questions about OERs or want to discuss how to include more Open Educational Resources into your classroom, please contact a librarian.
Below are a few places where you can look to locate OERs. This list is not all inclusive. If you know of other places where Open Educational Resources are available, please e-mail library@asbury.edu the information to have it added to this list.
If you locate OERs that you would like to use in your class, those resources can be added to the Kinlaw Library Catalog and linked to your Discovery class page for easier findability by your students.
- OER Commons - a public digital library of open educational resources
- OpenStax - a non-profit digital ecosystem serving millions of users per month in the delivery of free educational content to improve learning outcomes
- MERLOT - The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
- MIT OpenCourseWare - a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
- Open Course Library - from Washington State University, a collection of expertly developed educational materials – including textbooks, syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments
- OASIS - a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 115 different sources and contains 440,380 records.
- MILNE Open Textbooks - a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.
- California Open Online Library for Education –
- The Orange Grove - Florida's digital repository for instructional resources.
- Hathi Trust - a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
