Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that reside in the public domain and/or have been released under an open license. As a result, these resources (both physical and digital) are available at no cost and have minimal restrictions for use and redistribution.

Questions? email libreserves@wlu.ca

Wilfrid Laurier University has digital textbook access through the Hawk Shop. See Digital Textbook Access for details.

Introduction to OER

7 Things You Should Know about OER (Educause)
Basic Guide to Open Education Resources (UNESCO)
Brief Introduction to Open Education Resources (video)
Open Access (MIT Press book by Peter Suber)
Open Education Handbook

Repositories

eCampus Ontario Open Library
eCampus Ontario h5pStudio
Curriki
Khan Academy
Learn Genetics (U of Utah, genetics plus other science disciplines)
Live Lingua
Merlot (peer-reviewed, California State)
MIT Open Courseware
NanoHub
National Science Digital Library
Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project
OER Commons
Open Educational Resources Internet Archive
OpenLearn (Open University)
Open Learning Initiative (Carnegie Mellon)
Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank)
Open Yale Courses
OpenStax CNX library (Rice University)
Saylor Academy
School of Open
Teaching Commons
Wiki Educator
Wikiversity

Textbooks

Video

Games

50 Great Sites for Serious Educational Games

Free images

Copyright & legitimate use

Developing OER

Tools

eCampus Ontario h5pStudio (interactive learning objects)
eCampus Ontario Pressbooks (textbooks)
Free Tech for Teachers
ITunes U (create & distribute a course)
Public Knowledge Project (open source software for publishing)

Tips & Guidelines