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?
OER Resources
- BCcampus OpenEd BCcampus offers a wide variety of business textbooks that are reviewed by faculty, with some including supplementary material. They also offer a collection of textbooks that are accessible.
- Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) All books listed in DOAB are freely accessible and therefore free to read, but this does not mean readers are free to do anything they like with these books. The usage rights of the books in DOAB are determined by the license.
- MERLOT MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.
- OER Commons OER Commons is a single search source that pulls OER resources from a variety of existing collections.
- Open Textbook Library This site offers a collection of open textbooks. Most are available for download as PDF or EPUB.