Open Educational Resources Guide

Created by the University of British Columbia, this is a visually-oriented collection of videos, interactive modules, illustrations, and interactive radiology resources.

These open courses span a variety of high-demand subjects and disciplines. Designed using high quality open educational resources (OER) rather than commercial textbooks, these courses are freely available as a service to the education community. You can use them as-is or modify them to fit your instructional style and students’ needs.

The Maricopa Millions Project was an OER initiative by Maricopa County Community College District to develop open courses. The project has been discontinued, but their open courses remain available via Instructure. Courses include English composition, reading, and chemistry lab.

Curriculum from 2,500 courses representing more than 33 academic disciplines taught at MIT. The first OpenCourseWare project.

This project brings together University of British Columbia (UBC) faculty and students from across departments to co-create an interdisciplinary, open educational resource with case studies that can be used by anyone. Many of these case studies focus on topics in sustainability, but we also include cases on other topics that benefit from an interdisciplinary approach.

The Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts. Created by Washington community and technical colleges’.

Open Yale Courses provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by Yale University faculty.

Designed and managed by the California State University and its MERLOT program for the Department of Labor’s TAACCCT program, SkillsCommons contains free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development. Note: This resource also includes materials supporting areas in information and computer science.

Courses include anthropology, economics, education, English, human development, instructional technology, Chinese language, and theater.

Based at Carnegie Mellon University, the Open Learning Initiative develops high-quality, open online courses for educators. OLI courses provide self-assessments and targeted feedback to students.