Open Educational Resources (OER)

The Faculty OER Toolkit is an information resource about and guide to adapting and adopting Open Educational Resources. Included are definitions and examples, information about Creative Commons licensing, and tips on how to adapt and/or adopt OER for classroom use.

Create Open Educational Resources (OER) with the CC publishing tool, Open Author. Open Author helps you build Open Educational Resources, lesson plans, and courses (on your own, or with others) — and then publish them, to the benefit of educators and learners everywhere.

By Judy Baker

Browse a listing of favorite community-created resources for OER Commons, including lessons titled, "How to Search OER Commons,"How to Use the OER Commons LTI Tool," and "OER Evaluation Tool."

Questions about Open Educational Resources that faculty frequently ask.

Algonquin College

This handbook is designed to help educators find, use, develop and share OER to enhance their effectiveness online and in the classroom. WikiEducator.org

Provides instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of OER. The text is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER. This kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education. Digital Press, Iowa State University.

The Learning Portal, College Libraries Ontario. This toolkit provides information and tools to help faculty and library staff across all publicly funded colleges in Ontario to understand, engage with, and sustain OER in their work and practice.

Create free, high-quality, and effective lessons/quizzes in math, statistics, computing, science, humanities, languages, and social science with the help of educators from around the world, Oppia aims to provide students with quality education — regardless of where they are or what traditional resources they have access to.

An animation illustrating the steps involved in embedding open licenses in educational resources, and some of the associated Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues.

Lumen Learning

Open Washington

Downloadable eBook from BCcampus

UDL on Campus

SPARC