Open Educational Resources

A free and open, online, not-for-profit art history textbook with complete multimedia content from Khan Academy.

A peer-populated platform for art history teachers. Has a few museum videos in connection with specific classes, mostly teaching materials. Very well curated.

An astronomy learning tool, created by University of Arizona Astronomy professor Chris Impey, intended either as a supplement for classroom instruction or for informal learners wanting to know more about the subject.

A textbook on entrepreneurship published by the Edwards School of Business at the University of Saskatchewan.

A textbook on developing business plans published by the Edwards School of Business at the University of Saskatchewan.

Developed by Professor Steve Margulis at UCLA, this free textbook provides a broad foundation in the topics of hydrologic science including: mass balance, basic atmospheric thermodynamics, radiation, atmospheric circulation, precipitation, snow, evapotranspiration, unsaturated flow and infiltration, groundwater, and runoff.

Open access textbook on construction management written by Professors in Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (CEE) at Carnegie Mellon University.

Open access textbook on construction management written by Professors in Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (CEE) at Carnegie Mellon University.

Open access textbook on construction management written by Professors in Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (CEE) at Carnegie Mellon University.

Open access textbook on construction management written by Professors in Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (CEE) at Carnegie Mellon University.

Adapted from a work produced and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA) in 2011 by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative.

A textbook from the Public Speaking Project, a project by speech professionals who are dedicated to providing free and low cost original instructional materials.

In collaboration with Boundless team, Lumen Learning imported this OER course to the Lumen Platform, to ensure they remain freely available to the education community after Boundless ceased operations. Lumen maintains the Boundless content in the same condition it was provided to them. Courses may contain issues with formatting, accessibility, and the degree to which content remains current, accurate, and complete.

This text was adapted by The Saylor Foundation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License without attribution as requested by the work’s original creator or licensee.

A workbook that proposes seven ways to guide conversations in directions that are more satisfying for both conversation partners. The author has solicited suggestions from the work of a wide range of communication teachers, therapists and researchers in many fields.

This text was adapted by The Saylor Foundation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License without attribution as requested by the work’s original creator or licensee.

Written by Jasmine Roberts, a strategic communication lecturer in the School of Communication at The Ohio State University. Roberts teaches classes in public communication campaigns, writing for strategic communication, persuasive communication, and public speaking.

An open economics textbook that attempts to "teach students about alternative schools of economic thought but also to deepen their understanding of the dominant, neoclassical approach to economics. Written by Daniel E. Saros, Associate Professor of Economics at Valparaiso University. Prof. Saros has published two books with Routledge, including Information Technology and Socialist Construction: The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism (2014) and Labor, Industry, and Regulation during the Progressive Era (2009).

A free, collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for college-level history courses.

A federally funded collection of OER based at the University of Texas that offers primarily foreign language educational resources.

A collection of U.S. Government created public domain language eBooks and a/v resources for almost every language.

A collection of Creative Commons licensed eBooks on a variety of legal topics.

A collection of open and/or free/low cost law casebooks and course readers.

An open algebra textbook for one or two-semester undergraduate course in abstract algebra. Written by Thomas W. Judson, Robert A. Beezer of the University of Puget Sound.

An activity-driven text in a format that is freely accessible to students by Matthew Boelkins, David Austin, & Steven Schlicker of Grand Valley State University. Updated in August 2017.

A list of open textbooks that meet the evaluation criteria set by the AIM editorial board.

An introductory web-textbook on discrete mathematics by Richard Hammack.

An open access, peer-reviewed textbook intended for undergraduate as well as first-year graduate level courses on the subject. Written by UMass Amherst's own Hossein Pishro-Nik.

An open source online textbook for college-level music theory courses developed by the Digital Pedagogy Lab

OER textbook on classical mechanics that compiles 15 years of lecture notes by Prof. Douglas Cline, from the Physics Department at the University of Rochester.

A collection of openly licensed psychology textbooks.

An open Psychology textbook created by Saylor Academy.