Open Educational Resources (OER)

Merlot

Provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

Oasis

Oasis is a large collection of open access resources sponsored by SUNY-Geneseo, primarily sourced from American Colleges and Universities.

OER Commons

Thousands of OER Resources and tools for creating OER material are available here. The Minnesota OER Commons is a subset of resources created here. https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/minnesota

Opendora

An Open Educational Resource sponsored by Minnesota State. Resources are easily imported into D2L.

OpenStax

OpenStax is a nonprofit initiative of Rice University whose mission is to minimize the most common barriers to education.  Funded by philanthropic organizations, OpenStax publishes peer reviewed textbooks with high production value at no cost to end users. 

Open Textbook Library

The Open Textbook Library is a collection curated by the Open Textbook Network.  Its criteria for inclusion distinguish it from other OER collections.  OER experts; librarians, faculty, and others with vested interests in higher education may nominate resources to be included in the collection if they meet the following criteria:

• Has an open license that permits derivative works
• Is a complete work published as a portable file
• Is currently in use at multiple higher education institutions ( a mechanism of peer review )
• Is an original work