Open Educational Resources Guide

The OER Research Toolkit is comprised of the OER Research Guidebook and several additional resources from the Open Education Group.

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.

The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources. Unlike other OER discovery sites (e.g, OER Commons, OASIS, MERLOT, OpenStax, etc.), OER Metafinder is not a single database. Instead it is a federated search across 21 different sources of open educational materials.

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.

Open textbooks on CIS topics such as database management and information systems.

Bookboon.com contains free eBooks and textbooks that can be downloaded as a pdf, although registration may be required. These books cannot be altered, but can be freely printed, shared, or embedded in non-commercial ways.

MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.

Milne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff.

Textbooks and full courses in computer science offered at a number of levels. Most have Creative Commons licenses, but check the rights descriptions to be sure.

Textbooks in information systems and programming languages. Most are available for download as PDF or EPUB.

Thousands of Open Access ebooks are available from top scholarly publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press.

The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine, providing authoritative, independently-researched information. Almost all of the books are available as PDFs that can be downloaded for free by the chapter or by the entire book.

Springer offers authors the option to publish open access books in a wide range of areas in science, technology, medicine and in the humanities and social sciences. Their books are available to download free of charge from SpringerLink (HTML, PDF, ePub) or Amazon (MOBI).

Taylor & Francis publish books and chapters across all subjects covered by Routledge, CRC Press and other imprints in the humanities, social sciences and behavioral sciences. Currently, over 1000 books are published open access.

This list was originally a clone of StackOverflow - List of Freely Available Programming Books with contributions from Karan Bhangui and George Stocker. The list was moved to GitHub by Victor Felder for collaborative updating and maintenance. The Free Ebook Foundation now administers the repo, a not-for-profit organization devoted to promoting the creation, distribution, archiving, and sustainability of free ebooks.

A sprawling archive of scanned books digitized in partnership with research libraries.

Paul Andrew curates a list of free ebooks into the following categories: CSS & HTML, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress, Git, UX, Miscellaneous Web Design and finally, a selection of Older, Yet Always Relevant Books.

A large selection of computer science courses on a variety of topics.

The Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) is a Pathways portal of the National Science Digital Library and funded by the National Science Foundation. CSERD aims to help students learn about computational science and to help faculty and teachers incorporate it into the classroom.

In 40 episodes, Carrie Anne Philbin teaches you computer science! This course is based on introductory college-level material as well as the AP Computer Science Principles guidelines.

Real college courses from Harvard, MIT, and more of the world’s leading universities. Enroll in the latest computer science courses covering important topics in artificial intelligence, cyber security, software engineering, and big data.

Learn to code or develop your programming skills with online coding courses - from beginner to advanced level. Explore technology trends - like big data, cyber security, data science or digital marketing - with flexible courses from top universities.

CS50 is Harvard University's introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming for majors and non-majors alike, with or without prior programming experience.

Courses range from web programming, computers and the internet, AP/College Computer Science, computer science, and animation.

MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department offers a variety of online courses. Course format generally includes, lecture videos, interactive concept quizzes (solution key), problem sets, terms and definitions, suggested topics and links, and exams (with solution key).

An introduction to programming and web development. Includes courses on HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Git, Node, and Ruby on Rails.