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Open Educational Resources: Open Textbooks & Materials
Open educational resources (OER) are any resources available at little or no cost that can be used for teaching, learning, or research.
Find a Textbook
- Use the links below to locate textbooks and/or resources on your subject. If you have trouble locating what you want, contact OER@ncc.edu or OER@suny.edu
Adopt a Textbook
- New to Open Educational Resources?- adopt the textbook for the first year. Find a textbook that covers your topic and teach with it for a few semesters.
- How do you adopt a textbook? Contact OER@ncc.edu and we will help you.
Adapt a Textbook
- Once you've taught with your OER textbook for a few years, you might realize that you don't need certain chapters, or that you might like to add your own information to the textbook. That's when we will adapt your textbook.
Sources for Open Textbooks
- BC CampusSearch for quality open textbooks offered in a variety of digital formats; the first step in adopting open educational resources. Search by subject and download them to your computer.
- Carnegie Mellon University Open Learning InitiativeThe Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is a grant-funded group at Carnegie Mellon University, offering innovative online courses to anyone who wants to learn or teach. Our aim is to create high-quality courses and contribute original research to improve learning and transform higher education.
- MerlotThe 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
- Openstax College"Their free textbooks are developed and peer-reviewed by educators to ensure they are readable, accurate, and meet the scope and sequence requirements of your course."
- Milne Open TextbooksMilne Library Publishing at SUNY Geneseo manages and maintains Milne Open Textbooks, a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff..
- Open Textbook Library"Open textbooks are real, complete textbooks licensed so teachers and students can freely use, adapt, and distribute the material. Open textbooks can be downloaded for no cost, or printed inexpensively."
- SUNY Ready to Adopt Catalog (with Lumen Learning)Open textbooks and courseware.
Ready-to-Adopt SUNY Courses
There are Ready-to-Adopt courses that have been tailored for SUNY faculty now available on the Lumen Learning platform.
There is currently no charge to students or faculty for using this platform - SUNY OER Services has an agreement at this time.
Searching for Open Educational Resources
Ready to start searching for OERs? Check out OASIS. Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 52 different sources and contains 155,375 records. OASIS is being developed at SUNY Geneseo's Milne Library in consultation with Alexis Clifton, SUNY OER Services Executive Director.
A. Holly Patterson Library
One Education Drive
Garden City, New York 11530
Phone: 516.572.7401
One Education Drive
Garden City, New York 11530
Phone: 516.572.7401
