Open Educational Resources (OER)

Materials from accounting to technology created by community college faculty.

Open textbook repository and faculty resources.

Collection of OER/Zero Cost texts developed by College of the Canyons.

Provides access to OER throughout the University System of Georgia, including open textbooks and ancillary materials.

Provides access to OER resources and a platform for faculty to curate and compile resources. LibreTexts is based at UC Davis. Science focused.

Open course content for a variety of subjects and disciplines.

Open textbook repository.

$2.5 million dollar grant from the Department of Education to create 5 OER Nursing Textbooks with 25 associated Virtual Reality scenarios.

University of Minnesota supporting a variety of disciplines and subject areas.

Art, Literature, Music, Economics, Business and more. Faculty can request printed preview copy.

Faculty from the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges have worked together to provide easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks that everyone and anyone can use for teaching and learning.

Can be accessed when a faculty member is logged into their Canvas account. “Commons” allows for the sharing of resources that can be directly imported into a Canvas course.

Provides a real-time federated search for OER content. The OER Metafinder performs a search across 18 different sources of open educational materials.

MERLOT (program of the CSU system) is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed to and used by an international education community.

Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) searches open content from 98 different sources. One of the easiest to use and most comprehensive OER sites!

OER currently used at San Diego Mesa College by discipline.

Career oriented (CTE) open educational resources.

OER from leading colleges and universities.

Crash Course is an educational YouTube channel started by John Green and Hank Green.

These are no-cost and copyrighted through Mesa Library. They are NOT OER.

Many of the JoVE titles are freely available because of their funding, including NIH Grants.
Click on the video AFTER the abstract.
Do NOT use the link provided at the top of the page.

Limited selection of feature films and documentaries which no-cost and copyrighted through Mesa Library. They are NOT OER.

These are no-cost and copyrighted through Mesa Library. They are NOT OER. Streaming video collection of feature films from major Hollywood studios.

Technology Entertainment Design (TED) Talks - engaging, videos covering a variety of disciplines.