The ASCCC OERI website contains a wealth of resources for California Community College OER developers and users.
Resources Page (includes information about the following ASCCC OERI supported resources):
OER Developers (includes the following tools and information for OER developers):
Webinars & Events (includes information about upcoming ASCCC OER webinars and events, and an extensive archive of recorded webinars)
OER are basically anything you can utilize in a course that are open-licensed and free to adopt/adapt - from full courses to textbooks, from individual modules to media components. Unfortunately, there isn't a single tool that harvests everything for us, so below are recommended metafinder resources that you can use to help identify OER materials.
OER Commons - ISKME Educational Non-Profit
LibreTexts - 1,000+ open, online books across curriculums and valuable OER authoring tools.
OpenStax - Rice Univ. Educational Technology Non-Profit
OASIS - SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library - Searches 98 discovery sources including those marked with #
BCcampus - British Columbia, Canada
Open Textbooks Library - Univ. of MN Center for Open Education - Open textbooks, licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute at no cost.
Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) - George Mason Univ. - Simultaneously searches across 21 discovery sources* as well as public domain sources including Hathi Trust, Internet Archives, Digital Public Libraries of America (DPLA), etc.
Open Oregon - OERs adopted by Oregon community college and university
Merlot - CSU OER Program
Cool4Ed Course Showcase - CSU Office of the Chancellor
ZTC Textbooks - College of the Canyons - links to all their OER texts
Lumen Learning - Course Search
EdX - Free online courses offered by over 160 universities
Open Course Library - Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) - DOAB Foundation (Dutch)
Open Yale Courses - Yale University
MIT Open Courseware (OCW) - Mass. Institute of Technology
Saylor Academy - Primary initiative of the non-profit Constitution Foundation
SkillsCommons - Workforce Development - U.S. Dept of Labor
CoreEcon - Open access platform for economics
