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Tunxis Going Open: Open Educational Resources And Open Pedagogy

Information about Open Educational Resources (OER) – what they are, what they might become and how Tunxis can get in on the action!

GoOpenCT

GoOpen Connecticut

NEW! GoOpen CT, the State of Connecticut’s public digital library of open educational resources by and for teachers, professors, students, and education leaders.

Get Your Toes Wet

Find Open Textbooks Related to a Book Enter textbook ISBN to get OER options from MERLOT collections. Site includes links to major OER sources. From California State Universities.

Saylor Guides by Subject: OER guides by subject/class created for instructors building open courses.

Open Pedagogy Notebook

Complete Textbooks
    Open Textbook Library: Hundreds of complete, open college-level textbooks. Many include peer-reviews.
    Open Stax: Rice Connexions is providing peer reviewed, quality open textbooks.

Complete Courses
    Saylor.org: Offers full courses online. Though they charge students to enroll, they have composed their courses using   mostly open materials that can be copied, adapted, etc.
    Open Course Library: This WA project offers 81 of Washington's most enrolled courses. There are a lot of great readings in these course files. Great community college content.

Large Repositories
    OER Commons: Offers a variety of OER at a variety of levels and subjects. Use limiters on left side of results page.
    OASIS: Openly Available Sources Integrated Search: A Freely available web-based OER Seach Tool that searches 100 reputable sources of open content
    MERLOT: One of the biggest OER repositories, but a bit unwieldy and difficult to search. Use limiting options on the left side of results page.

 

Dig deeper using the OER Big List