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OER by Discipline: Open Access Textbooks

How to Use this Guide

This guide highlights OER resources by discipline, tailored to LAVC faculty. If you do not see your discipline here and would like to work with OERs, please get in touch. Or, if you would like recommend resources for inclusion, send an email.

To get back to LAVC's general OER guide, which includes tools for adoption, integration and more, click here.

OER Resources

As previously noted, OER are basically anything you can utilize in a course that are open to use - from full courses to textbooks, from individual modules to media components.  Unfortunately, there isn't a single tool that harvests everything for us, so below are some general resources that you can use to help identify OER materials.

TEXTBOOKS COURSE OUTLINES & MODULES MEDIA & OTHER RESOURCES
OpenStax Merlot Pixabay
Merlot OEConsortium Wikimedia Commons
California Open Education Resources Council Showcase Serendipity CreativeCommons
University of MN Open Textbooks SkillsCommons ccMixter
Open SUNY EdX Wiley Journals
BC Campus MIT OpenCourseWare Springer Open Journals
Directory of Open Access Books Lumen Learning TEDTalks
Saylor Academy OER Commons Crash Course
Noba Project Saylor Course Resource Guides  
College of the Canyons ZTC textbooks Open Yale  
Cornell Open Khan Academy  
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