Stephens Library
Open Educational Resources: Information for Faculty
Open Educational Resources are resources and tools that are free of legal, financial and technical barriers. The terms "open content" and "open educational resources" describe any copyrightable work that is either in the public domain or licensed in a manner that provides everyone with free and perpetual permission.
There are a lot of tools available for editing and remixing, as detailed in links from the University of Illinois.
OER Resources
OER Commons: A public digital library of open educational resources.
MERLOT: Provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
iLumina: A digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. It is designed to quickly and accurately connect users with the educational resources they need. These resources range in type from highly granular objects such as individual images and video clips to entire courses.
Open Textbook Library: Maintained at the University of Minnesota, the Open Textbook Library curates a collection of OER from numerous academic and professional publishers, across many disciplines and course levels.
OpenStax: Hosted at Rice University, OpenStax is one of the best-known publishers of OER textbooks. Primarily covering large 100- or 200-level courses, such as the calculus sequence, US history, Psych 1, etc.
MIT Open Courseware: Many courses at MIT have made some or all of their content available for free as open courseware. Most do not include a textbook, but do have notes, recorded lectures, assignments, etc.
Tools for Creating/Editing Content:
OER Commons, one of the largest databases of OERs, has three tools to help you create materials, including Open Author to put together different media, and the Module Builder.
Modifying an Open Textbook: What You Need to Know:
This open books provides help on editing and adapting existing open textbooks for your own use.
More and more open textbooks are being created using the Pressbooks software. This guides you through the process of cloning a Pressbook so you can adapt it as needed.