UTEP Library Research Guides: Open Education Resources @ UTEP: Find OER

Find It!

BCcampus OpenEd
BCcampus OpenEd- British Columbia’s OER initiative page. A collection of open textbooks openly licensed using a Creative Commons license, and offered in various e-book formats free of charge or as print on demand books available at cost.
California Open Online Library for Education (COOL 4 ED)
The three State of California Higher Education Systems are working together to provide you easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks that everyone and anyone can use for teaching and learning
GALILEO Open Learning Materials
The State of Georgia's OER Repository of recommended and vetted materials.
Milne Open Textbooks
An open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries, and launched in 2012.
OpenALG: Affordable Learning Georgia
All of ALG's open textbooks, made to cover the scope and sequence of a University System of Georgia course. Ancillary materials for these are included on the textbook's front page.
Open FL
Florida’s guide for instructional resources from across the state.
OpenStax
High -quality, peer reviewed textbooks available in electronic and print forms, also with supporting works such as study guides and tests. Mostly books for large survey classes on the freshman level. Project supported by Rice University and several large foundations including the Gates Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation.
Open Textbook Library
A repository of peer-reviewed, openly licensed academic textbooks
Open Culture
A meta list of 200 free textbooks

MIT OpenCourseWare
Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT.
Teaching Commons
The Teaching Commons brings together high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.
Open Michigan
OER created by University of Michigan authors. Browse by subject.
Open Course Library
A collection of high quality, free-to-use courses that you can download and use for teaching. All content is stored in Google docs making it easy to access, browse and download.

Mason OER Metafinder
Search across multiple OER repositories for resources.
MERLOT
An expansive collection from California State University of learning materials for all education levels, and one of the world’s largest collections of open textbooks.
OASIS
Pros: Searches content from over 60 different sources, you can sort by license type and type of resource. Cons: Can't sort by education level.
OER Commons
A platform to find OER, but also a platform to create and distribute your own OER; An open digital commons hub offering OER support, materials, tools, training, and roadmaps.
Teaching Commons
The Teaching Commons brings together high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.
GALILEO Open Learning Materials
The State of Georgia's OER Repository of recommended and vetted materials.
California Open Online Library for Education (COOL 4 ED)
The three State of California Higher Education Systems are working together to provide you easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks that everyone and anyone can use for teaching and learning
OERTX Repository
OERTX Repository is a public digital library of open educational resources for higher education. Search collections or create and collaborate to improve instruction.

Search for Similar Materials by ISBN- The California State University
This textbook finder offers users the ability to search for free online materials that are similar in content to many popular textbooks. Just enter a book's ISBN number to find matches.
MERLOT II’s ISBN Search
If you're interested in finding open materials that might be relevant to a text you're teaching, try using MERLOT II's ISBN search function. Just input the ISBN of the text you're currently using to see what materials could be supplemental.

Evaluate What You Find

The decision of whether to adopt an OER as-is is yours. Use these tools and rubrics to help you evaluate the open educational resources you find to judge both their quality and how adaptable they are.

Open Education Resources Evaluation Rubric
Rubric created by Achieve.org
Open Textbook Adoption Worksheet
Created by Judy Baker, director of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources.
Faculty Guide for Evaluating Open Educational Resources
Created by BCCampus, a group in British Columbia that supports OERs for BC academic institutions.

Request an OER Search

Finding OER can be challenging. Let an expert search for it for you.

Complete the form below, and a librarian will reach out to consult how how best to incorporate OER for your course.

[Service currently only for UTEP faculty and instructors.]