Open Educational Resources
Spanning multiple subjects, high-quality educational resources like OERs are often available. Here are a few that I have experience with:
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- NASA Systems Engineering Handbook
- Stanford d.school Library
- Delft University of Technology OpenCourseWare
You could incorporate this with AI tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok, Gemini, Claude, and so on while fact-checking along the way.
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Other OERs that can be useful include:
- MIT Teaching Resources Library, example: business case studies
- Library of Congress, example: engineering books, business books
- edX, example: colleges and organizational partners and could audit
- Directory of Open Access Books, example: overall OERs (peer-reviewed)
- Directory of Open Access Journals, example: overall OERs (peer-reviewed)
- IntechOpen Books, example: overall OERs (peer-reviewed)
- OpenStax nonprofit, example: overall OERs
- OAPEN Foundation nonprofit, example: engineering, business
- HathiTrust Digital Library, example: engineering, business
- Springer Nature Open Access, example: engineering, business
- CORE (COnnecting REpositories) nonprofit, example: engineering, business
- arXiv nonprofit, example: engineering, business
- SSRN eLibrary, example: overall, engineering, business
- SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online), example: overall OERs
- Open Book Publishers, example: business books
- University of Michigan Press Open Access, example: business books, engineering books
- MERLOT, example: business case studies, engineering books
- Digital Commons Network, example: engineering articles, business articles
- University of Florida’s Digital Collections, example: business books, engineering books
- University of Southern Florida’s Digital Commons, example: engineering, business
- University System of Georgia’s Galileo, example: overall OERs
- Virginia Tech Open Textbooks, example: business textbooks, engineering textbooks
- Purdue University School of Engineering OERs, example: overall OERs
- George Mason University’s Metafinder, example: university libraries search
- Plattner Institute’s OpenHPI, example: overall OERs
- UM-Twin Cities’s Open Textbook Library, example: business textbooks
- Concord Consortium, example: engineering OERs
- Skills Commons OERs, example: open textbooks
- eCampusOntario Open Library, example: business books, engineering books
- BCcampus OpenEd, example: business textbooks, engineering textbooks, open collection
- Milne Open Textbooks, example: overall OERs, engineering textbooks
- PressBooks Directory, example: business books, engineering books
- LibreTexts Commons, example: collections, catalogue
- OpenEd CUNY, example: overall OERs
- OpenOregon, example: overall OERs
- Open Education Global, example: map of institutions, about
- SUNY Geneseo’s OASIS, example: overall OERs
- UNI Scholar Works, example: business books
- PennState University’s ROAM, example: business
- Florida Tech’s LibGuides, example: engineering textbooks
- SaskOER, example: business books
- AU Press, example: overall OERs (peer-reviewed)
- TCC LibGuides OERs, example: overall OERs, open education groups, open journals & textbooks
- Teaching Commons, example: engineering OERs, business OERs
And likely many more college libraries may have a level of accessibility to browse what is available, such as the UC Library Search. Another example includes eScholarship from the University of California with a list of ways readers find their materials that includes several other OER-like tools (as does Penn State), in addition to California Digital Library’s list of projects. There are likely more on an international scale with English translations or dual option of course/textbook materials in English. For example, as noted earlier, Delft University of Technology has an OpenCourseWare too. One organization that overviews a list of these includes Open Education Consortium (now OE Global).
I support experts and their work, while recognizing that a level of accessibility (perhaps more so at introductory levels) exist through OERs that people could use.
