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OER: Open Educational Resources

A guide to understanding, finding, modifying, creating, and using open educational resources for TBCC students, staff, and faculty.

OER in use in Oregon

General OER

Best Bets

These five resources will get you the most results and are used by many librarians and instructors. However, currently there is not a preferred OER directory and sometimes things slip through the cracks, so the library would be happy to help you search. 


Textbooks

Open Textbook LibraryOver 1000 textbooks on a variety of subjects. Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost. The Open Textbook Library is supported by the Open Education Network. It includes books from OpenStax.

Pressbooks Directory

BCcampus OpenEd Resources


Large Meta-Repositories

The kitchen sink of OER, these repositories house both textbooks and other learning materials, such as courses, learning objects like media, assignments, syllabi, and more. 

OER Commons

MERLOT

Subject Specific OER

Health Sciences

After looking over guides from other libraries, the following three contain every resource you could want. There will be some overlap. I will only add additional links if they aren't on one of these three or deserve extra attention. 

Open RN - Open Resources for Nursing | Chippewa Valley Technical College: One of the big resources for Nursing OER developed with a huge grant. More are being added. 

Open at Scale Nursing OER Spreadsheet: Lists many resources individually. Download to sort.

Projected 2024: Open Educational Resources Nursing Essentials (O.N.E.) Project - | OERTX

Computer Science and Engineering

The Global Text Project

Journals