LibGuides: CCNY OER: Subject-Specific

Finding OER: Subject-Specific

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Below we have compiled subject-specific resources that are freely available online, ranging from the arts, to humanities, and to science and engineering. However, since Open Educational Resources (OER) are hosted widely across the web, we highly recommend starting with tools linked on our general resource pages (Search Tools, Textbooks & Books, and Open Courses) before referencing the more specific resources below.

Art History Teaching Resources
Art History Teaching Resources (AHTR) is a peer-populated platform for art history teachers. AHTR is home to a constantly evolving and collectively authored online repository of art history teaching content including, but not limited to, lesson plans, video introductions to museums, book reviews, image clusters, and classroom and museum activities.
ArtxHistory
ArtxHistory is an education resource of commonly available images, videos, mini-lectures and scholarship of the decades which influenced or defined modern through contemporary art.
The MET Curriculum Resources
These curriculum resources from the Metropolitan Museum of New York City (MET) provide background information and ideas for engaging students with works of art in selected collections of the Museum.
Smarthistory
Smarthistory publishes and provides free digital content about a variety of subjects on histories of art.
Smarthistory Books
Smarthistory Books collects free digital content from Smarthistory into free, downloadable, printable texts.

Open Music Theory
Open Music Theory is an open-source, interactive, online “text”book for college-level music theory courses.

Education

General
Science, Engineering, & Mathematics

Encyclopedia Britannica Videos
Encyclopedia Britannica offers a catalog of both archival and recently-produced videos on a variety of subjects, including Entertainment & Pop Culture, Health & Medicine, Politics, Science, Visual Arts, and more.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. Their materials tackle math, science, computing, history, art history, economics, and more, including K-14 and test preparation (SAT, Praxis, LSAT) content.

LEARN with AGU
From the American Geophysical Union (AGU), this video series of short Earth and space science-related videos gives K-12 educators the tools to try new hands-on activities with students, complete with teacher guides and other resources.

Humanities

City College (CCNY) English Department OER Guide
This guide provides all the information needed by English instructors at City College of New York (CCNY) to create or adopt an Open Educational Resource (OER) course.
City College (CCNY) Writing Center Resources
This page offers a list of resources collected by the Writing Center at the City College of New York (CCNY), ranging from guides on essay structure, citation, and grammar.
Purdue OWL
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and provides these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue.

BlackPast
BlackPast is dedicated to providing a global audience with reliable and accurate information on the history of African America and of people of African ancestry around the world.
City College (CCNY) Latin American and Caribbean Studies OER Guide
This guide from the City College (CCNY) Libraries offers a list of OER related to Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL)
COERLL's mission is to produce and disseminate Open Educational Resources (OER) for the Internet public (e.g., online language courses, reference grammars, assessment tools, corpora, etc.). Its resources strive to represent more accurately language development and performance along dialectal and proficiency continua.
Open Language Resource Center at the University of Kansas
The language faculty at the University of Kansas (KU) have created a wide range of Open Educational Resources (OER), loosely defined as teaching and learning materials distributed to the public at little or no cost. Materials from the Language Resource Center at KU include online activities, textbooks, workbooks, and readings spanning many languages.
The Pathways Project from Boise State University
The Pathways Project, an initiative from the Boise State University Department of World Languages, is a collaborative network of open educational resources (OER) including instructional language teaching materials and professional development created by and uniquely for Idaho’s K-16 language teachers and students.
LaGuardia OER Seminar
OER resources for Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) (Tomonori Nagano)
CHN101: Elementary Mandarin I (Polley)
This OER textbook can be used for self-study, as part of an online course, or as a traditional college course.

Science, Engineering, & Mathematics

nanoHUB
nanoHUB is an open and free platform for computational research, education, and collaboration in nanotechnology, materials science, and related fields. The site hosts a collection of simulation tools, online presentations, short courses, animations, teaching materials, and more.
National Science Digital Library
The National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines—both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings.
Numerade
Numerade focuses on creating video and interactive content experiences for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education.
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
The Wolfram Demonstrations Project is an open-code resource that uses dynamic computation to illuminate concepts in science, technology, mathematics, art, finance, and a remarkable range of other fields.

American Chemical Society: Chemistry Education Resource
The American Chemical Society (ACS) Education Division is making educational resources available by topic to aid parents and teachers in student enrichment during this time of distance learning. They have bundled materials on five topics — The Earth, Water, Food, Health & Your Body, and The Periodic Table — for students in grades K–12 and beyond.
ChemCollective
The ChemCollective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials, and concept tests. The ChemCollective is organized by a group of faculty and staff at Carnegie Mellon who are interested in using, assessing, and creating engaging online activities for chemistry education.
ChemEd DL
The Chemical Education Digital Library (ChemEd DL) is a gathering place hosted by Hope College for resources and communities for those in the business of teaching or learning chemistry.
LabWrite
LabWrite is an instructional project originating from North Carolina State University and sponsored by the National Science Foundation that guides through the entire laboratory experience, from before entering the lab to after receiving a report.
Organic Structure Elucidation: A Workbook of Unknowns
This online workbook hosted by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame has been developed for senior undergraduate and graduate students learning to solve the structures of organic compounds from spectroscopic data.
PubChem
PubChem is an open chemistry database at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The database collects information on chemical structures, identifiers, chemical and physical properties, biological activities, patents, health, safety, toxicity data, and many others.
University of Illinois Chemistry Learning Center Tutorials
The Chemistry Learning Center (CLC) at the University of Illinois hosts digital chemistry tutorials developed by Dr. Sarah Sheeley at the University of Illinois to explain common sticking points for general chemistry students.

Applied Math and Science Education Repository (AMSER)
AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use.
Desmos
Desmos offers a free suite of math software tools including graphing and scientific calculators, as well as free digital classroom activities.
Engineering Technology
Engineering Technology is a website hosted by the Eastern Iowa Community Colleges (EICC) of Clinton, Muscatine, and Scott consists of a series of 3D simulations on engineering technology topics that are covered in EICC’s program.
Stanford Engineering Everywhere
Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) offers a course portfolio of one of Stanford's most popular sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science, taken by the majority of Stanford’s undergraduates, as well as more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering.

HHMI Biointeractive
From data-rich activities and case studies to high-quality videos and interactive media, HHMI Biointeractive resources are designed to connect students to big ideas in biology, promote engagement with science practices, and provide educators with planning tools to build resource playlists and storylines.
National Association of Biology Teachers: Recommended Resources
The National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) created a searchable table of online resources recommended by biology teachers.
National Center for Biotechnology Information Bookshelf
Bookshelf from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare.
National Transportation Library
The National Transportation Library (NTL) from the United States Department of Transportation (US DOT) acquires, preserves and manages a digital library of transportation information and information products and services for use by US DOT, other Federal agencies, and the public.
Royal Society of Biology: Open Educational Resources
The Royal Society of Biology's collection of Open Educational Resources (OER) aims to support teaching practical biology in Higher Education, and the resources featured on the site include lab and field work protocols, data handling exercises, videos of techniques and multimedia alternatives to wet lab work.
Scitable
Scitable by Nature Education is a free online teaching/learning portal combining high quality educational articles with technology-based community features to fuel a global exchange of scientific insights, teaching practices, and study resources.

BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos
The BIRS (Banff International Research Station) Workshop Lecture Videos, hosted by the University of British Columbia, are primary research data in the disciplines of mathematics, statistics and theoretical computer science.
Channelflow
Channelflow is a software system for numerical analysis of the incompressible Navier-Stokes flow in channel geometries, written in C++.

ComPADRE
ComPADRE is the Digital Library for the educational resources used by educators, researchers, and students in physics and astronomy. This service of the American Association of Physics Teachers is designed to help teachers and learners find, and use, high quality resources through web-based collections and services tailored to their specific needs.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom is an online, free to use physics website developed primarily for beginning physics students and their teachers.
University of Oxford Physics Department Podcasts
The Department of Physics at the University of Oxford hosts several podcast series on physics, including on general lectures, research, astronomy, and theoretical physics.

Social Sciences

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Noba Project
Noba is a free online platform that provides high-quality, flexibly structured textbooks and educational materials in the field of psychology.

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