Free, Openly Licensed, Customizable Instructional Resources

Interested in incorporating open educational resources (OER) into your course? Check out the following links to find OER. Please note that you will need to assess the accessibility of the OER you include in your course.

OER & Textbook Affordability at GCC

OER Guide: Find Open Educational Resources

Find OER through the following aggregators & more:

ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative: OER vetted by California CC discipline leads and mapped to course identification numbers (C-ID)
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS): Search for open content from 115 different sources.
Open Textbook Library: Find in-depth, public, post-publication peer reviews by faculty in this smaller library of open textbooks.
Mason OER Metafinder: Broader search across OASIS, Open Textbook Library, Merlot, and more. Includes results from repositories of older works in the public domain alongside OER.

Go to the OER & Textbook Affordability at GCC Guide for more OER options!

Need help finding OER or understanding open licensing?

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The CVC-OEI Course Design Resources by CVC-OEI is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Development of this course was funded by a grant from the California Community Colleges' Chancellor's Office.