OASIS - Search for open content from 60+ sources
"Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits repurposing by others." -Open-NYS
- OER Textbooks Already Available in PrintA list of titles already formatted to be ordered in hard copy through the hard work of SUNY OER Services as of Spring 2020.
- Mason OER Metafinder"Unlike other OER repositories (e.g, OER Commons, MERLOT, OpenStax, etc.) with our Metafinder you aren’t searching a database that we built. Many other sites already perform this important curation service and to be honest, we don’t have the time or staff to build or even maintain currency in that sort of database. Instead, our contribution to the progress of Open Education is to concentrate on OER discovery—helping you find current content wherever it resides–even if it’s a new OER title that just dropped earlier today."
Learn More About OER
- OER Community Course - Identifying, Finding and Adopting OERDefine and describe the characteristics of OER; articulate the difference between free-to-access, public domain, and open licensing; recognizing and distinguishing between different types and formats of OER; access and use OER search utilities and services; locate OER related to specific subjects or disciplines; evaluate the source and quality of OER; select OER for course adoption.
- Open Pedagogy Approaches: Faculty, Library and Student CollaborationsOER presenting a series of case studies on how faculty, students and librarians collaborate using open pedagogy
OER Sites
The library supports faculty adoption of OER. Contact us for assistance in locating, editing and sharing OER.
Below are some major providers of open textbooks. These are free resources, many of which can be customized. In some cases, it is possible to download a pdf of an entire textbook free of charge. Most are designed in modules to make it easy to pick and choose which resources you would like for your course. The license denotes the allowed use of the resource.
- Understanding OER from SUNY OER ServicesReview the materials in this open course to become more familiar with the possibilities available using OER.
- OASISOpenly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool developed at SUNY Geneseo that simultaneously searches 44 different open content sources.
- Openstax.orgOpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University with more than 20 open textbooks for college and AP courses.
- Open Textbook LibraryOpen textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
The Open Textbook Library is supported by the Center for Open Education and the Open Textbook Network. - MERLOT IIMERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
- Teaching CommonsThe Teaching Commons showcases high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities and makes them available to educators and students around the world. Curated by librarians and their institutions and hosted by bepress, the Teaching Commons includes open-access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, lectures, k-12 materials, and more.
Multimedia Open Content Resources
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- UnsplashFree images submitted by photographers. No attribution required.
- morgueFileFree high quality stock photos
- PixabayStock photos and vector images.
- US Government Photos and ImagesSearch for government photos and images
- Internet ArchiveMusic, audio, images and video available to download
- FreeSoundAudio clips
- SoundBible.comDownloadable audio clips
- The Noun ProjectFree icons