Research Guides: Online Teaching Resources: Open Educational Resources

OER Textbooks

Collections of OER (Open Educational Resources) textbooks:

OER Commons
OASIS (SUNY Geneseo): Tool searches open content (textbooks, course materials, learning objects, etc.) from 97 different sources
The Open Textbook Library (University of Minnesota)
DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books): free access to 27,000+ academic, peer-reviewed books
HEB (ACLS Humanities E-Book): over 5,400 seminal books in the humanities and related social sciences

Resources for Instructors:

Open Pedagogy Notebook: a resources for educators interested in learning more about Open Pedagogy
Educause's OER resource site

Freely available content to incorporate into your courses.

MERLOT: Curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners, and researchers.

Arts Textbooks
From the Minnesota Open Textbook Library
Music Theory Materials
The Music Theory Materials website was created to provide materials – musical examples, videos, and handouts – that could be useful in music theory classes. The specific goal is to provide examples of full pieces of music that can be used in the study of musical form and analysis. The musical examples are presented as downloadable PDFs and audio files or as links to other sites that contain this information.
Humanities Commons
Discover the latest open-access scholarship and teaching materials, make interdisciplinary connections, and increase the impact of your work by sharing it in the repository. Brought to you by the MLA.