Library General Reference: Open Educational Resources (OER): Home

Open Educational Resources (OER) are "teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or that have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others" (Hewlett Foundation).  OER may refer to open textbooks, articles, learning activities, and even entire courses. While OER are available on a wide range of topics, faculty in Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences, & Business will likely have the greatest number of sources to choose from. 

OER - A Compilation of Definitions from Creative Commons

Affordable Learning Ohio is OhioLINK's series of initiatives to lower the cost of college for Ohio higher education students by assisting our member libraries and campuses in identifying strategies for Open and Affordable Learning textbook and course material adoption, and helping locate statewide shareable library materials as well as open educational resources that are no cost or lower cost to students.  If you have any questions about Affordable Learning Ohio, please contact Anna Bendo at abendo@ohiolink.edu.

• Ohio Open Ed Collaborative Course Content Library

• OhioLINK Open Course Content Library.  Explore our library of open education resources curated and created by Ohio faculty and join our network of educators dedicated to curriculum improvement and collaboration.

• A-Z Affordable Learning Database  Search a growing list of resources for affordable learning materials to use in the classroom. These materials are both Open Access, Open Educational, and OhioLINK licensed resources that are no cost to Ohio higher education students.

• OASIS

• Open Textbook Library

• Ohio Open Ed Collaborative

• OpenStax

• Open Course Library

• World Digital Library

• Lumen Learning

• MERLOT

• MIT Open CourseWare - video-courses

• Click here for more.