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Open Education (OE) Guide: OER Collections at Other Institutions

Guide to Open Educational Resources

OER Around the World

Open Education Global
Open Education Global collects and visualizes data on the growing number of actors and activities in the field of open education worldwide.

OER Projects at Community Colleges

Northern Virginia Community College: OER-Based General Education Project

  • "The OER-Based General Education Project is designed to allow any student at NOVA to take one or more courses that utilize free and/or open course materials and content to deliver a high quality learning experience without requiring the purchase of textbooks or other course material."

Tidewater Community College

  • "Tidewater Community College is a pioneer in the use of openly-licensed, high-quality electronic textbooks and other educational materials for the completion of an entire two-year associate degree."

LibGuides at Other Institutions

Visit other school's LibGuides to help you find OERs: 

Cal Poly Humboldt State University Campus: Open Textbook Collections. Resources for finding open and sustainable teaching and learning materials.

California Virtual Campus: The California Virtual Campus – Online Education Initiative (CVC-OEI) is a collaborative effort among California Community Colleges (CCCs) to ensure that significantly more students are able to complete their educational goals by increasing both access to and success in high-quality online courses.

Furman University: OER Collection by Subject will take you directly to the portions of databases that contain materials relevant to specific subjects. 

HACC Library: OER LibGuide

Houston Community College: OER LibGuide

Kirkwood Community College: Finding OERs 

Lansing: Finding OERs

Passaic County Community College: Discipline Specific

Rice Fondren Library: Finding OERs

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology great list!

Temple University Library: check out the OER Resource List!

Tidewater Community College – good one!

University of Houston-Victoria: Finding OERs

University of Minnesota - Open textbooks and open education resources

University of New Hampshire: OER by Subject

University of Pittsburgh: Big list of resources

Open Educational Resources at SAIT: Find An OER

OER Projects at 4 Year Colleges

Affordable Learning Georgia

"A University System of Georgia (USG) initiative to promote student success by providing affordable textbook alternatives. A one-stop service to help USG faculty and staff identify lower-cost, electronic, free, and open educational resources (OER), building on the cost-effective subscription resources provided by GALILEO and the USG libraries." Check out the Find Textbooks page.

Temple University's Alternate Textbook Project

"The goal of the Project is to encourage faculty experimentation and innovation in finding new, better and less costly ways to deliver learning materials to their students. Through the Project faculty can receive a funding award to develop an alternate to the traditional textbook. That could be anything from a customized set of instructional content to an existing open textbook. There is no expectation that faculty will author complete open textbooks, but that would certainly qualify as an acceptable project proposal."