OERs
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are openly licensed materials (textbooks, streaming video, and more), which are freely available for everyone to use. OERs are affordable and accessible alternatives for students.
- University of Guelph Library: Open Educational ResourcesAn overview of the what and why of OERs.
- SPARC: Open EducationSPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) works to enable the open sharing of research outputs and educational materials in order to democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and increase the return on our investment in research and education.
Where to find OERs: Selective resources
- eCampus Ontario: Open LibrarySearch for open textbooks and other resources; customize existing resources to adapt to a specific course; create an open source resource.
- BCcampus: OpenEdFind open textbooks and course material packsages.
- Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)Scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books
- OpenStax TextbooksPeer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks in business, science, and social sciences.
- MIT: Learning EdgeA free learning resource for management educators and students.
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