Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Educational Resources to consider for a quick start to finding reusable content

Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational resources available for free use in educational contexts. Several OER repositories can serve as a resource to start your online course quickly.

An important resource on campus is the TAMU Libraries, which have dedicated specialists who can help you find and use OER. A great first start would be to contact your subject librarian for help before browsing through these resources.

Search Merlot for over 5,600 free and open-access textbooks and over 80,000 open course materials.

The Journal of Visual Experiments is a reasonably comprehensive collection of videos that demonstrate experiments.

Find over 52 courses with recommended free and open textbooks and CA higher ed faculty reviews from the UC, CSU, and CCC at the California Open Online Library for Education (COOL4Ed).

The LibreTexts libraries are a multi-institutional collaborative venture that has developed the next generation of open-access texts for STEM, Social Sciences, and the Humanities.

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

Search BCcampus’s collection of open textbooks for a peer-reviewed book in your discipline. Hundreds of B.C. faculty are learning how to customize open textbooks that also save their students money.

The Open Textbook Library is a variety of textbooks that have been created and rated by many colleges and universities to assess their quality. You can download and print them for free or at a low cost.

The PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder was founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman. The project creates free interactive math and science simulations, which are based on extensive education research. PhET sims engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.