What are OER - Open Educational Resources?
Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that are free of cost and access barriers, and which can be fully used, shared and adapted in the digital environment.
What are OER? Why use OER? Where is OER? How is OER created? Who can help?
Examples of open textbooks
Arabic
- Arabic I (require a free account to access materials)
Chinese
French
- Français interactif (3rd ed.) (Kelton, Guilloteau, and Blyth)
- Au Boulot! First-Year French (Dinneen, Christiansen, Kernen, and Pensec)
- Chapeau! First-Year French (Dinneen and Kernen)
- CITOYEN.Ne.S (Annabelle Dolidon)
- Liberte: French 1001 (2nd ed.) (Hastings and Stone)
- Liberte: French 1002 (2nd ed.) (Hastings and Stone)
- Tout un Monde : An Interdisciplinary Approach to Intermediate French (Soueid)
- Sons & Lettres : A Pronunciation Method for Intermediate-Level French (Walton)
Italian
- Spunti : Italiano elementare 1 (Leisawitz and Viale)
- Spunti : Italiano elementare II (Leisawitz and Viale)
- Spunti : Italiano intermedio (Viale)
Japanese
- Preadvanced Japanese
- Beginning Japanese for Professionals I (Konomi)
- Beginning Japanese for Professionals II (Konomi)
- Beginning Japanese for Professionals III (Konomi)
Spanish
- Introductory Spanish I (Lumen)
- Introductory Spanish II (Lumen)
- Spanish I : Beginning Spanish Language and Culture (Dean)
- Libro Libre : Beginning Spanish
- Antología Abierta de Literatura Hispana (Ward) A critical anthology of literary texts from the Spanish-speaking world. A focus on canonical authors and an attempt to include voices that have been marginalized.