Open Education Practices

The Open Textbook Library at the University of Minnesota was started so that faculty could find open textbooks in one place. More technically, the Open Textbook Library is a comprehensive referatory that points to open textbooks by a variety of authors and publishers.

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources maintained by ISKME, an education non-profit.

A repository of Open Textbooks and Open Course Shells.

Provides an index of thousands of open textbooks published across all Pressbooks networks

Use this database, developed by SUNY Geneseo, to find open educational resources (OERs) including textbooks, courses, modules, videos and more to use in your classes. These are free of copyright restrictions,

Compilation of OER links maintained by Open Washington.

The largest OPEN library of workforce training materials designed for 21st Century employment.

A targeted open web search is one of the best ways to find OER. Search with your topic in quotes, and add terms like OER and OPEN TEXTBOOK.
Example search: "intro to psychology" OER

Multimedia educational resources for learning and online teaching. Includes an exhaustive list of Open Access Textbooks.

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. Includes math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.