On these pages you will find textbook and non-textbook open educational resources (OER).
Discipline-specific pages are not intended to be exhaustive, but to showcase content that may be of interest for a particular academic disicipline.
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TWO Strategies for identifying open course materials.
1) Look for it yourself
2) Ask for help. If you are spending more than 15 minutes looking for something please email: library@virginiawestern.edu to request assistance. We can save you time and effort.
The top two METASEARCH tools for Open Educational Resources (OERs) are:
From George Mason University. About the MetaFinder https://publishing.gmu.edu/whos-using-the-mason-oer-metafinder
2. OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search)
Indexes 50+ different sources. From SUNY Geneseo. About: https://oasis.geneseo.edu/about.php
Additional resources include:
An excellent repository of 950+ downloadable, openly licensed textbooks.
Pressbooks Directory
This Pressbooks Directory provides an index of nearly 3,000 books published across 100+ Pressbooks networks.
Mapping 2-year transfer course content (Virginia)
The goal of the VIVA Course Mapping Project is to support the discovery of Open Educational Resources (OER) aligned to Virginia courses. Recognizing that competing demands and time constraints present barriers to OER adoption for many instructors, the Course Mapping Project works to consolidate and align OER for high enrollment courses at Virginia higher education institutions. https://vivalib.org/va/open/course-mapping-project
2017 Open Textbook List (by discipline)
Claybaugh, Z. & Stone, C. (2017). Open Educational Resource 2017 Textbook List. Fairfield, CT: Sacred Heart University.
Some text in this guide comes from Open Education: Find OER (by discipline) from Virginia Tech University Libraries and licensed CC-BY 4.0, and Open Educational Resources by The University of Adelaide, CC-BY-NC-SA.
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