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Open Educational Resources (OER) for Faculty

The nuts and bolts of OER-- what it is, how to use it, and why.

OER Courseware and Class Material Resources

MIT Open Courseware: Courseware

Freely available material from thousands of courses, covering the MIT curriculum.

OER Commons

Features full courses, activities, labs, assessments, games, assignments, lectures, and many more materials for a wide variety of disciplines.

Open Course Library

Shareable course material for a variety of college classes available in a Google Drive library. Note: latest update is 2018.

Open Courseware, University of Massachusetts at Boston

Free courses for multiple disciplines

Open Michigan: Courseware

Course materials from multiple disciplines provided by the University of Michigan.

Open Yale Courses

An array of liberal arts courses and material. Many include video. Note: latest upload is 2011.

Stanford Engineering Everywhere

Open courses in engineering, including a computer science course taken by most undergraduates.

More OER Courseware and Class Materials

Community of Online Research Assignments (CORA)

An open educational resource (OER) for librarians, faculty, and other educators. The site contains multiple, reliable and reproducible research assignments that do not live as isolated entities, but are enhanced by user feedback in order to build a rich corpus of best practices. Also offers a Teachers' Toolkit featuring a wide range of resource types including pedagogy/theory, assessment, classroom activities, technology tips, subject guides, citation tools, and information literacy tutorials.

Lumen Learning

Courses and materials are not free, but they provide interactive homework help, Canvas integration, and are low cost to students.