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Open Educational Resources (OER)

This guide provides resources and tools for faculty wishing to implement open educational resources (OER) in their courses.

Open Textbook Examples

Additional Course Materials for ESL

Below are OER collections containing a variety of ESL/ELL related course materials (e.g., readings, quizzes, simulations, assignments, and more).

Search OER Commons for Political Science course materials
Search OER Commons for Adult ESL materials
Link: http://tinyurl.com/hxmf6wv

 

Search MERLOT for Accounting OER
Search MERLOT for Adult ESL materials
Link: http://tinyurl.com/h9qsakd

SEARCH TIP: OER Commons and Merlot allow you to further limit results by sub-disciplines and material type. 

 


Adult Learning Zone: A Designers for Learning Project
Link: 
www.oercommons.org/groups/adult-learning-zone-a-designers-for-learning-proje/626/information/
This group's purpose is to repurpose and create open educational resources (OER) for adult basic education instructors and learners. The OER shared in this group were designed by volunteers contributing on service projects facilitated by Designers for Learning, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the US. Designers for Learning coordinates volunteer instructional design service-learning opportunities with those who seek to gain experience creating instruction and other types of performance improvement solutions for nonprofits and other social causes. (Group Description)