The growing OER movement is developing textbooks, commentaries, question banks and other useful resources for education. Most of these resources are free to use, and many allow faculty to edit and redesign them to fit their particular needs. Below are some useful starting points for learning more about open educational resources and discovering ones for the courses you are teaching.
In addition, wikipedia is a free, openly licensed encyclopedia, and the digitization of legacy texts has made it easier to share materials now in the public domain.
Open Educational Resources
- OER Handbook for Educators: wikieducator's step-by-step guide to understanding the different kinds of open educational resources and locating the large repositories in which they are held.
- OpenStax: Rice University's collection of free and flexible textbooks and resources.
- The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM): George Mason University's real-time search engine of 22 different OER depositories.
Wikipedia
- Teach with wikipedia: wikiedu's guide to using wikipedia in the classroom.
- Content Assessment: standards used by wikipedia editors to evaluate the quality and status of current wikipedia articles.
- Wikipedia Meetup: lists and links to current projects, user groups, and events for improving specific areas of wikipedia
Public Domain Texts
- Project Guttenberg: a library of over 70000 free ebooks.
- Librivox: free public domain audiobooks read by volunteers from around the world.