"Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge." - Hewlett Foundation
For more information or questions about Open Educational Resources, contact the Scholarly Communications Department at the Jerry Falwell Library. scholarlycommunications@liberty.edu
BCcampus OpenEd – a collection of open textbooks created by BCcampus
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) – a collection of peer reviewed open access books with Creative Commons licenses
InTech – an open access publisher of books and journals in science, technology and medicine
Libre Texts – a multi-institutional collection of higher learning textbooks
Open Textbook Library – an aggregation of openly licensed textbooks
Open TextBook Store – a catalog of open textbooks collected by educators to make open textbooks more easily adoptable in courses
OpenStax CNX– an extension of OpenStax, a repository of open access textbooks and curricular materials
OpenCourse Library - a collection of expertly developed OER courses for Washington State Community Colleges'
Creative Commons – a collection of Creative Commons licensed materials
OER Commons – a search engine that makes various OERs of different levels discoverable
Teaching Commons – a collection of OERs available through Scholars Crossing, the Digital Commons platform
Search Multiple locations
Search for OER across multiple repositories in the Mason OER Metafinder.
Mason OER Metafinder is searching well-known OER repositories like OpenStax, OER Commons, MERLOT but also sites like HathiTrust, DPLA, Internet Archive and NYPL Digital Collections where valuable but often overlooked open educational materials may be found.
Tips for Getting Started Designing for Web Accessibility: This page introduces some basic considerations to help you get started making your user interface design and visual design more accessible to people with disabilities. These tips are good practice to help you meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) requirements.
Pressbooks: The Open Book Creation Platform: Pressbooks is simple book production software, built with the web in mind. Create interactive web books, PDFs for print and ebooks, all from one place.