Open Textbooks, OER, & Alternative Resources for APSU Faculty Members: Find Open Textbooks and Other Open Educational Resources

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This catalog contains educational content originally curated by Boundless.

Guide for finding OER

Look up materials by course number for selected courses used across the CSU, UC and CCC systems.

A faculty-curated list of open textbooks from the University of Georgia.

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

The HumBox website was created by the HumBox project. This project was part of a wider Open Educational Resources initiative funded by the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the HEA, to showcase UK Higher Education by encouraging teachers within HE institutions to publish excellent teaching and learning resources openly on the web.

Scientific publisher of Open Access books. Read, share and download more than
3350 peer-reviewed Open Access books

The LibreTexts libraries are a multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access texts for STEM, Social Sciences, and the Humanities.

MERLOT is a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community.

Many free read-online or free PDF download options.

Topics include: Education, Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Applied Sciences & Technology, Mathematics & Statistics

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Free content from the Open University (UK).

OpenStax College offers students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers.

Open SUNY Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants.

The Open Textbook Library is supported by the Center for Open Education and the Open Textbook Network.

Open Educational Resources Network's goal is to provide easy pathways for faculty to learn, find, use and apply OER.

PRIMO is a means to promote and share peer-reviewed instructional materials created by librarians to teach people about discovering, accessing and evaluating information in networked environments. The Committee hopes that publicizing selective, high quality resources will help librarians to respond to the educational challenges posed by still emerging digital technologies.

Collection of PDF versions of textbooks on various topics. HTML versions are also available.

Build a lesson around any TED-Ed Original, TED Talk or YouTube video

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