Open Educational Resources/Sources
See the BC Campus: OER by Discipline Guide. Additional sources of open educational resources are listed below.
| Repository | Content | Level | Audience | Quality | License | Contributors | Approval | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 Book Archive | Textbooks | College | Anyone | High | CC-BY-NC-SA | Authors | Review | 100 texts |
| American Institute of Math | Math Texts | Secondary, College | Anyone | High | Varies | Curators | Review | 62 |
| Bay College | Textbooks | College | Anyone | High | Varies | Varies | N/A | 35 |
| BC Open Textbooks | Textbooks | College | Teachers | High | Varies | Teachers | Review | 396 |
| BookBoon | Textbooks | Secondary, College | Anyone | Varies | Varies | Varies | Review | 0? |
| Boundless Learning (on Lumen) | Textbooks | College | Anyone | Varies | Authored on site | Editors | 22 | |
| CK12 | Textbooks | College | Anyone | High | CC-SA pre-2012 | Authored on site | Editors | 200+ |
| Textbooks | College | Anyone | Varies | Varies | Authors | Review | 0: now spam | |
| Community College Consortium | Varies | College | Anyone | Varies | Varies | Varies | Varies | -- |
| Textbooks | College | Anyone | High | Varies | Varies | Review | 0: --> Merlot | |
| CourseSource | Lessons | College | Anyone | High | CC-BY-NC-SA | Varies | Review | |
| Creative Commons | Multimedia | All | Anyone | Varies | Varies | Anyone | None | |
| Curriki | Lessons, Other | Primary, Secondary | Teachers | Ratings | CC-BY | Teachers | Review | ? |
| edX + open edX | Courses | Secondary | Anyone | High | Varies[1] | Teachers | ? | |
| Galileo | Texts, Lessons | College | Anyone | High | Varies | Varies | Review | 100 |
| Global Text Project | Textbooks | College | Anyone | Varies | CC-BY | Varies | None | |
| HippoCampus | Multimedia, Texts | Secondary, College | Anyone | High | Varies | Teachers | Review | |
| LibreTexts | Textbooks, Maps | Secondary | Anyone | Varies | Varies | Teachers | None | 390 |
| Lumen Learning | Courses | College | Anyone | High | Varies | Teachers | Review | 22 |
| MERLOT II | Courses, Other | All | Teachers | Ratings | CC-BY | Anyone | None | |
| Milne Open Texts + OpenSUNY | Textbooks | College | Anyone | Varies | Teachers | Editors | 45 | |
| MIT Open Courseware | Courses | College | Anyone | High | CC-BY-NC-SA | MIT Professors | N/A | 3000+ |
| NCBI (science and health) | Textbooks | College | Anyone | High | Public Domain | Varies | Review | 1250+ |
| OER Commons | Courses, Other | All | Anyone | Ratings | CC-BY-SA | Anyone | Review | 1150+ |
| Open Course Library | Courses | College | Anyone | High | CC-BY | Teachers | Review | |
| Open Culture | Textbooks | All | Anyone | Varies | CC | Varies | ? | 200 |
| OpenOregon | Textbooks | College | Anyone | High | CC-BY | Varies | Review | 88 |
| OpenStax | Textbooks | College | Anyone | High | CC-BY | Teachers | Review | 72 |
| OpenTextBookStore | Math Texts | Secondary, College | Anyone | High | Varies | Authors | Review | 35 |
| Open Washington | Varies | College | Anyone | High | Varies | Varies | Review | |
| Saylor.org | Courses | College | Anyone | High | CC-BY | By Contract | N/A | 110+ |
| Serendipity | Varies | All | Anyone | Varies | Varies | Varies | Review | |
| Siyavula | Texts, Apps | Primary, Secondary | Anyone | Varies | CC-BY, CC-ND | Varies | Editors | 14 |
| SkillsCommons | Varies | Secondary, College | Anyone | Varies | CC-BY | Varies | Review | |
| Tidewater CC Lib Guide | Varies | College | Teachers | Varies | Varies | Varies | Review | |
| UMN Open Textbooks | Textbooks | College | Anyone | High | Varies | Varies | Review | 1024 |
| Wikibooks | Textbooks | All | Anyone | Varies | CC-BY-SA | Anyone | None | |
| WikiEducator | Lessons | Primary, Secondary | Teachers | Varies | CC-BY-SA | Anyone | None | |
| Wikiversity | Courses, Other | Secondary, College | Anyone | Varies | CC-BY-SA | Anyone | None |
See Also
[edit | edit source]- ↑ License can be set per course, but it seems no longer possible to search by license