Research Guides: Open Educational Resources: Discipline-specific OER

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Mason OER Metafinder

The Mason OER Metafinder allows you to simultaneously search across the multiple OER repositories (e.g., MERLOT II, OAOpen.org, OER Commons, OpenStax CNX, etc.) as well as OER material at sites like HathiTrust, DPLA, the Internet Archive, and Project Gutenberg.

OER by Discipline

See the menu on the left side of the screen for resources by discipline.

The most popular repositories of open educational resources are linked below. These resources are continuously updated. Do you know about an OER that is not listed in these pages? We would love to hear about it! Submit suggestions to libref@cmich.edu

MERLOT
A free and open peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed services contributed and used by an international education community. Now mobile-friendly so you can search on-the-go.
OER Commons
Curating best in class learning materials from around the world since 2007. The OER Commons is a single search source that pulls from multiple OER collections, including MERLOT and Connexions.
OER Consortium
Clearinghouse of OER repositories that curate and organize open resources into various categories including discipline, format, and open license.
OpenStax CNX
Includes lectures, assignments, and written educational materials. Content can be created in the Connexions interface and housed within the Connections servers. Users can create collections of existing content and create their own content pages to share.
OpenWashington
Designed to help faculty understand the OER movement and find OER. Includes links for finding textbooks, content, images and video, as well as stories from faculty who have adopted OER in their classrooms.
Saylor.org
A non-profit organization sponsored by the Saylor Foundation, focused on bringing "freely available education to all."

Creative Commons Licensing

All of the content featured within these pages is free to use, but usage rights vary. Most content found within these pages is released under a Creative Commons license. More information about Creative Commons licensing can be found at the Creative Commons web site.

Image: CC-BY Cabel Green. Retrieved December 4, 2017