LibGuides: Public Health: Open Educational Resources

What are Open Educational Resources?

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that can be freely used, including full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and grading rubrics.

OER at CUNY

Brooklyn College: Health & Nutrition Sciences OER
CCNY Libraries OER Resource Guide
CUNY Academic Commons
CUNY Libraries OER Page
CUNY Library Services Accessibility Toolkit for OER
OpenEd CUNY
Searchable digital library of OER, curated by CUNY librarians. OpenEd CUNY is a community for producing, sharing, and discussing OER.
TeachOER
Guide to Open Educational Resource across the web. Created by Baruch College Center for Teaching and Learning.
Teach Open Tools
Database of openly licensed tools that are especially useful in educational settings to help students and faculty build engagement and collaboration in and out of the classroom space. Created by the Center for Teaching & Learning at Baruch College.

Exploring OER

Community College Consortium for OER
Contains an overview of OER, search strategies and links to large OER repositories.
Directory of Open Access Books
A discovery service for peer reviewed open access books and book publishers that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books.
LibreText
An easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources.
Mason OER Metfinder
MOM conducts real-time, simultaneous searches across twenty-two sources of OER. Creators advise searchers to double-check rights of any item before using.
MERLOT
Searchable collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services for use by higher education instructional faculty and staff. Created by the California State University System.
MIT OpenCourseWare
A free and open searchable collection of material from thousands of courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum.
OASIS
OASIS currently searches open content from 115 different sources and contains over 400,00 records. Developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library.
OER & Accessibility
Resources for finding accessible OER.
OER Commons
Easily search for OER by subject area, material types, licenses, content & more.
OpenMichigan
U of Michigan's searchable collection of OER.
Open Pedagogy Notebook
A good starting place for learning about educational uses of OER.
Springer Link OA Books
Search for open access books from Springer Link.
Teaching Commons
The Teaching Commons showcases high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities and makes them available to educators and students around the world.

Creating OER

CollectionBuilder
An open source framework for creating digital collection and exhibit websites. Designed and Maintained by librarians at the University of Idaho.
Creative Commons Licenses List
CC is the nonprofit behind the open licenses and other free legal tools that allow creators to share their work.
LibreText
An easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources.
OER & Accessibility
Resources for authoring accessible OER.
The OER Starter Kit for Program Managers
This OA book brings attention to the work that is involved in building and managing an OER program, from learning about open educational practices and soliciting team members to collecting and reporting data on your program’s outcomes. Chapter 18 contains tools & techniques for OER creation.
OER Tools: Documentation for Instructors
Find links to documentation for different tools which can be used in the creation of open educational resources (OER) and/or the implementation of open educational practices (OEP).