89 Open Educational Resource Repositories and Guides
Open educational resources (OER) are dependent on the idea of community and knowledge-sharing. For this reason, we’ve compiled a list of resources to help you find what you need in order to make OER or use OER. Read on for:
Pressbooks Guides and Documentation
- Pressbooks User Guide: The always-growing guide to using Pressbooks. Most general questions about getting started, using specific features, and customizing your text will be answered here.
- Pressbooks Network Manager’s Guide: The guide to running and administering a PressbooksEDU network. This guide should answer general questions you have about how to manage your network.
- Pressbooks YouTube Channel: For those who prefer to watch and learn, check out the Pressbooks YouTube channel for video tutorials on a wide range of features in Pressbooks.
OER Resources
Resources for resources? We’ve got you covered. Many people have created guides for how to publish open educational resources, or OER, using Pressbooks as a platform. We recommend the following to any educator looking to learn more about how to build and publish open textbooks.
Guides
- BCcampus Open Education Accessibility Toolkit, Amanda Coolidge, Sue Doner, and Tara Robertson, BCcampus
- Importing Open Content With Pressbooks, Steel Wagstaff, UW-Madison
- Self-Publishing Guide, Lauri Aesoph, BCcampus
- Authoring Open Textbooks, Melissa Falldin & Karen Lauritsen, Open Textbook Network
- Modifying an Open Textbook: What You Need to Know, Cheryl Cuillier, Amy Hofer, Annie Johnson, Kathleen Labadorf, et al., Open Textbook Network
- A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students, Robin DeRosa, Rajiv Jhangiani, Timothy Robbins, David Squires, et al., Rebus Community
- The Evolution of Affordable Content Efforts in the Higher Education Environment: Programs, Case Studies, and Examples, Kristi Jensen and Shane Nackerud, Editors, University of Minnesota
- UH OER Training, William Meinke, UH OER
- Faculty OER Toolkit, Shannon Moist, BCcampus Open Education
- Print-on-Demand Guide, Lauri Aesoph, BCcampus Open Education
- Publishing in Pressbooks, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far), Rebus Community
Studies, Toolkits, and More
- The Impact of Open Educational Resources on Various Student Success Metrics (2018), International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
- The OER Toolkit, The Learning Portal — College Libraries Ontario
- Rebus Office Hours, a monthly webinar on OER led by the Rebus Community and the Open Textbook Network
OER Repositories and Directories
- BCcampus OpenEd
- Open SUNY Textbooks
- OASIS
- Open Textbook Library
- OER Commons
- The Orange Grove
- OpenStax
- MERLOT
- The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
This list is always growing. Know about a resource or repository that isn’t here yet? Let us know by emailing our support desk.