ALM
Digital Commons
ALM/OER
Affordable learning materials provide faculty with a range of cost-effective options to support student success while reducing financial barriers to education. These materials include Open Educational Resources (OER), which are freely available and customizable, as well as low-cost textbooks offered through initiatives like Lumen Learning, which provides affordable, high-quality courseware. Additionally, many institutions offer access to digital textbooks, scholarly articles, and course materials through library subscriptions, allowing faculty to replace expensive textbooks with resources already available to students at no additional cost. By leveraging these options, faculty can create more inclusive and accessible learning experiences while maintaining academic quality.
Where Do I Start?
Open Educational Resources
MERLOT
MERLOT is a collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community. MERLOT does not house content but is a collection of links to other content.
OER Consortium
The Open Education Consortium, in collaboration with MERLOT, offers a search engine on OER.
Open Textbook Library
OER Commons
Digital public library and collaboration platform, informed by the organization's pioneering efforts in knowledge management and educational innovation
OpenStax College
- These books were developed following traditional textbook publishing methods, including peer review, editorial support, and creation of ancillary content.
- They are available in multiple formats (PDF, print on demand, on the Web) and are licensed to be revised and remixed by faculty who want to create a custom solution for a course.
OASIS
Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier
SUNY OER Services
Explore and analyze methods and approaches to finding, adopting, customizing, integrating, creating, publishing, and licensing OER