Open Educational Resources: Courses

Boundless
Over 70 OER courses managed by Lumen Learning.

MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity. Includes materials from 2400 courses.

Ohio Open Ed Collaborative - Available Courses
In June, 2017, North Central State College, in collaboration with Ohio State and Ohio Dominican universities, and 15 other community colleges, received an Ohio Department of Higher Education Innovation Grant in the amount of $1,300,000. The grant was awarded to support the development of open educational resources (OER) and other materials in an effort to reduce the cost of textbooks for students.  Search the OhioLINK Open Course Content Library

Open Course Library
From the Open Course Library website: "The Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts. Some of our materials (also called open educational resources, or OER) are paired with low cost textbooks ($30 or less). Many of the courses can be taught at no cost to students. Unless otherwise noted, all materials are shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY) license."

Open.Ed@PSU
Launched in 2007, the PennState's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' OER initiative enables departments and individual faculty to provide resources free-of-charge under a Creative Commons license. As long as they adhere to the license, teachers and learners around the world are free to download, remix, translate, localize, and make these materials their own. Includes 80 courses.

Open Yale Courses
Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences. Includes 40 courses.

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