WNC OER Project

OER News 

• Library Journal: Opening the Books on Open Educational Resources

Embedding OERs in Canvas

• How do I add course content as a module item? - Canvas Instructor Guide 
   
• Embedding a pdf in the rich content editor - Higher Ed Canvas User Blog

Where to Learn More About OERs

• Texas Learn OER
  Course created by the Digital Higher Education Consortium of Texas. Certificate of completion available.
• (LOERA) Learning OER Anytime
  Created by Lawson State Community College.
• 2021 OER Course Redesign Sprint
  Designed for instructors to use in redesigning courses to include OER materials.

Higher Ed Institutional OER Guides

• Austin Community College OER Guide
   
• Texas Digital Library OER Support Guide
   
• University of North Dakota OER Guide
   
• Tus Midland AIT Library OER Guide
   
• Binghamton University Libraries OER Guide
   
• Open Washington's OER Network Guide
   
• Los Angeles Valley College Library OER Guide
   
• Washtenaw Community College OER Guide

OER Repositories, Lists, and Resources

• OERTX Repository Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
   
• University of Pittsburgh Library System's Big List of [OER] Resources
   
• arXiv Open Access Archive (Cornell University)
   
• Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (ROAD)
   
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
   
• Open Access eBooks on JSTOR
   
• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
   
• Open Access Theses and Dissertation (OATD)
   
• Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
   
• Confederation of Open Access Repositories' Resources
  
  
• OpenStax (Rice University)
   
• OER Commons
   
• Skills Commons (MERLOT)
   
• LibreTexts
   
• PanOpen
   
• Virginia Tech Libraries Open Textbooks

This tutorial from Niche Academy demonstrates how to navigate OER Commons and find relevant resources. 

MOOCs

Many major universities produce Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) which generally include free lectures, exams, videos, notes, and more.

• Open Yale Courses

  Yale offers professional quality lecture videos recorded live in the classroom with a videographer following the action. Courses include a variety of disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

• MIT OpenCourseWare

  MIT courses are organized by subject with free lecture notes, exams, and videos. Not all courses have videos.

• Stanford University

  This site provides an archive of videos from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Medicine, Stanford Law School, Stanford School of Engineering, and the Stanford School of Humanities

• UCLA Courses

  This site provides an archive of videos from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Medicine, Stanford Law School, Stanford School of Engineering, Stanford, School of Humanities, and the Alumni
  Association, highlighting seminars, faculty lectures, events, news, and more.

• Academic Earth

  Academic Earth includes many free lectures from scholars at institutions such as MIT, Notre Dame, Drexel, and UCLA, but it is also an advertisement to students who wish to earn online degrees in distance programs. The site is organized around universities, instructors, subjects, and playlists. In the Humanities section, for example, one finds lectures related to history, languages, literature, religious studies, and even communications and education from Yale, Stanford, and UCLA

• Education Portal

  This site offers around 50 online courses for free; please note that to receive credit, there are fees involved. Over 5300 lessons which are taught by subject matter experts are accompanied by short, bite-sized videos (5-10 minutes long). Subjects include: Science, Humanities, Spanish, Math, English, Social Science, History, and Business.