Research Guides: Open Educational Resources and Zero Textbook Cost: Enhancing Pedagogy with OER

Enhancing Pedagogy via Open Educational Practices

Recommended Repositories for Open Educational Resources

OpenEd CUNY
OpenEd CUNY is a curated digital library of open educational resources. Join a network of CUNY educators who are dedicated to using high quality, openly-licensed educational resources.
Open Textbook Library
The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks. They are usually formatted like traditional print textbooks.
MERLOT
The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.
CUNY Academic Works
The Open Educational Resources series collects instructional materials -- from textbooks to syllabi -- created by the CUNY community. Browsable by college, school, or center.
BCCampus OpenEd
Includes almost 400 different textbooks developed following the 2012 OpenEd conference in Vancouver, BC. These resources can be sorted by subject as well as by faculty review status, adoption, accessibility, and availability of ancillary resources
Pressbooks
This directory provides an index of 3,305 books published across 113 Pressbooks networks. Also a great tool for creating OER!
OpenStax
Peer-reviewed textbooks specializing in math and sciences.

Teaching with OER

L4: Living Lab Learning Library
A resource exchange for innovative teaching practices from City Tech. Find activities that "worked for us" organized by discipline.

Open Pedagogy Notebook
Browse through the examples of open pedagogy, which include both classroom-tested practices and budding ideas, and to consider contributing examples of your own experiments with open pedagogy.

Teaching with OER
This site showcases OER teaching artifacts and OER materials created and used by college professors at the City University of New York.

Create OER

If you've checked the OER repositories but haven't found anything that meets your needs, you still have options!

Adapt an existing OER: The licenses used to designate open educational resources give you the right to take as much or as little as you need, to edit or adapt the materials, and to update them as they become out-of-date. For more information about these licenses, see the Copyright and Creative Commons guide.
Create an OER: Do you have lecture notes, videos, or other resources that you've used to supplement textbook materials in the past? These can often be expanded or paired with an existing OER to create materials that suit the particular needs of your classroom.
Develop an OER with your students: As students create valuable resources for others, they learn the material themselves and develop an understanding of how knowledge is produced and disseminated. For more specific ideas, see A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students.

Have you developed an open educational resource, whether a textbook, assignment, or syllabus? Be sure to submit it to CUNY Academic Works so your colleagues can benefit from your knowledge, and contact me so I can shower you with praise!