OER - Discipline Specific - OER - Open Educational Resources for Faculty

OER Consultation Request with an Oakton Librarian

Request an OER Consultation with Sherrill Weaver, Oakton Librarian
Get off to a fast start with high quality OER sources! A brief consultation with Sherrill will save you time finding OER textbooks and teaching materials specific to your discipline and course.

We highly recommend you fill out this Oakton Library OER Consultation Form (it only takes moments) as a start to your OER journey. We are here to assist you every step of the way!

Open Educational Resources (OER) have increased in popularity for various, viable reasons, including the repositioning to remote learning. OER Repositories are comprehensive, searchable and numerous. Our goal is to offer a few options within this guide, not to include everything available.

OER - Discipline Specific Sources

MathWorld
Features a number of innovative interactive elements including LiveGraphics3D applets for interactive three-dimensional geometry. MathWorld is heavily based on Mathematica.
ATE Central (Advanced Technological Education)
The ATE Central resource collection and archive contain curriculum, professional development materials, videos and other valuable resources. Resource Collections include Advanced Manufacturing Technologies, Engineering Technologies, General Advanced Technological Education, and Information and Security Technologies.
Applied Computer Science
African Virtual University: Applied Computer Science En. Includes: Administration Resources En, Computer Science Resources En, Informatics Resources En, Linguistics Resources En, & Mathematics Resources En
Economics Network - Online Learning and Teaching Materials
The Economics Network aims to enhance the quality and status of university economics education as well as the wider understanding of economics.
Bookboon
Free textbooks written by professors from the world’s top universities, covering topics from Engineering and IT to Economics and Business.
Business Commons (Digital Network Commons)
Business Commons includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

Project Guttenberg
Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks supported by the mission to preserve literary and other intellectual works.
Writing Commons
A global, award-winning, peer-reviewed Open Education resource for writers to help people communicate more effectively in school and work contexts; help people improve their cognitive, intrapersonal competencies, and interpersonal competencies; and help people understand 21st century literacies, including digital literacy, visual literacy, and Information Literacy.
NEH Digital Humanities and Online Education Media Resources
EDSITEment provides access to NEH-funded media resources including videos, podcasts, lectures, interactives for the classroom, and film projects. Each resource includes questions to prompt analysis, connections to other NEH-related resources, and links to related EDSITEment lessons and materials.
Digital Public Library of America: Primary Source Sets
Primary source collections exploring topics in history, literature, and culture developed by educators — complete with teaching guides for class use.
The National Archives Catalog
Provides public access to Federal Government records in our custody and control. Public access to government records strengthens democracy by allowing Americans to claim their rights of citizenship, hold their government accountable, and understand their history so they can participate more effectively in their government.

Open RN Nursing OER Project
The Open RN project is funded by a $2.5 million dollar grant from the Department of Education to create 5 OER Nursing Textbooks with 25 associated Virtual Reality scenarios.
Nursing Pharmacology (Published Fall 2020)
Nursing Fundamentals and Skills (Fall 2021)
Mental Health & Community Concepts (Fall 2022)
Management & Professional Concepts (Fall 2022)
Nursing Pharmacology (OER Textbook Published Fall 2020)
Nursing Pharmacology (Download Printable PDF)
https://share.hsforms.com/410422/4a11b500-04ce-49a2-bbaa-f3feeadabd9b

Open RN Textbooks Descriptions
Open RN Textbooks Learning Objectives

Open RN YouTube Channel
This channel contains OER media with a CC 4.0 license being used by the Open RN project. The Open RN project includes 25 Virtual Reality scenarios to accompany 5 OER textbooks..
InTech Science, Technology and Medicine
Over 5,100 Open Access Books from the Physical, Life and Health Sciences plus peer-reviewed research papers by scientists for scientists.
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science
Promotes the development and dissemination of materials and practices for case teaching in the sciences by providing access to an award-winning collection of peer-reviewed case studies.
NSF National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education (ATE Central)
Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Central resource collection and archive contain curriculum, professional development materials, videos and other valuable resources.
PhET Interactive Simulations
Interactive math and science simulations with lesson plans and activities.
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. Through OCW, educators improve courses and curricula; students find additional resources to help them succeed; and independent learners enrich their lives and use the content to tackle some of our world’s most difficult challenges, including sustainable development, climate change, and cancer eradication. (Source: ocw.mit.edu)
Discover the Cosmos Repository: Astronomy and Astrophysics Tutorials
The Discover the COSMOS Repository includes numerous educational materials (educational scenarios and lesson plans, students projects, animations, online tools and laboratories guidelines for interactive experiences with Astronomy and High Energy Physics -HEP Resources).
EU Science Hub
The Science Hub brings together scientific knowledge produced by the Joint Research Centre, the science and knowledge service of the European Commission. It is the platform for information and exchange about all scientific activities carried out by the JRC and by our institutes across Europe.