Open Education Resources (OER)

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UNESCO is to dedicated Open Education Resources (OER) program. The term “Open Education Resource” was first coined in 2002 by UNESCO on Open Courseware in Higher Education. Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning and research materials that can be found in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. OERs a type of open access material, and open access materials such as OA journal articles, OA textbooks, and other scholarly materials may support OER lesson plans.

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OER Commons is such a Platform supported in part by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, ISKME, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education from a single point of access. OER Commons enables users to search, browse, and evaluate resources in OER Commons' growing collection of over 50,000 high-quality OER. Some of them are: 
  • Full university courses 
  • Interactive mini-lessons and simulations
  • Adaptations of existing open work
  • Open Textbooks
  • K-12 Lesson Plans, worksheets, and activities

The link for OER Commons is https://www.oercommons.org/

Openly Available e-book websites: 

1. Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. You can choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. 


2. Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. The library currently includes 742 textbooks, with more being added all the time. The Open Textbook Library is supported by the Center for Open Education and the Open Textbook Network. 


3. For over 10 years, Lyryx Learning partnered with top publishers of post-secondary Business textbooks in Canada to provide an online homework platform that is a proven, high-quality component in these areas of study. In recent years, Lyryx has formed strategic partnerships with post-secondary institutions in Canada to develop and enhance Open Educational Resources for Business courses. More subject areas are in progress as we continue to expand our library. 


4. IntechOpen is where academia and industry create content with global impact. Content is accessible for free, on all electronic devices - no matter where it’s downloaded and read. 


5. Online Mathematics Textbooks contains 77 books on mathematics. 


6. Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. 


7. The open textbooks on Saylor page include several titles published through Saylor Academy’s Open Textbook Challenge. These books are available for you to use, keep, revise, and share under open licenses. Saylor Academy does not own the copyright to any books on this page. Each book’s open license is an agreement between you as the end user and the copyright holder. 


8. 2012 Book Archive is the archive of a small project by Andy Schmitz to archive Creative Commons-licensed copies of all the books which were available online from a specific publisher at the end of 2012. 

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