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Open Educational Resources

A Staff Guide

Where do I search?

Where you look for OER depends on the type of material you need in your course or unit content.

OER general search

Start a broad search on platforms that offer a range of OER types.

OER search by type

Collections, platforms and directories that offer academic textbooks freely available to adopt or adapt.

CAUL OER Collective Catalogue

Australian university textbooks hosted on the Council of Australian University Librarians open textbook publishing platform.


Directory of Open Access Books

A discovery service for scholarly, peer-reviewed books.


Open Textbook Library

An Open Education Network service that points to free quality textbooks for use in higher education settings.


OpenStax

High quality, peer-reviewed textbooks that include ancillary learning and teaching materials.


Pressbooks Directory

A popular publishing platform that hosts a growing catalogue of accessible, peer-reviewed academic textbooks.

Ancillary teaching materials such as lecture notes, H5P interactive activities, test banks, lesson plans, presentations, courses, assessments, learning objects, and assignments.

BC Open Collection

A BCcampus library of teaching materials used in British Columbia higher education courses.


eCampusOntario H5P Studio

An Ontario Online Learning Consortium collection of H5P content embedded in units for Ontario university courses.


eCampusOntario Open Library

An Ontario Online Learning Consortium aggregator of teaching materials used in Ontario university courses.


MIT OpenCourseWare

Teaching materials used in Massachusetts Institute of Technology science and technology courses.


TUDelft OpenCourseWare

Teaching materials used in Delft University of Technology science, engineering and technology courses.