Finding OER For Your Class
Finding the right open educational resources (OER) is the most challenging part of using OER in your classroom. These resources are a great place to start.
New OER
Below is a collection of new resources, published within the past six months curated for Emory class offerings. For even more, please visit our guide to Open Educational Resources.
Quantitative Problem Solving in Natural Resources. This book is a collection of resources focused on solving quantitative problems that non-mathematicians interested in biology and environmental sciences may find compelling. It is not intended as a guide to be followed through a series of skills, but rather as a resource to support the problem-solving process and help lower conceptual and computational barriers along the way. (2/2025)
Elementary Chinese 1 Workbook. Through the power of H5P interactive activities, this workbook, employing an innovative e-writing approach, is designed to help beginning learners lay a solid foundation for the natural development of the Chinese language skills necessary to excel in their learning journey. At the heart of this method lies a focus on Chinese receptive skills that are essential for the development of communicative competences: listening and reading, seamlessly integrated with typing. This unique combination, unlike the traditional handwriting approach, not only fosters accuracy in listening and reading comprehension but also enhances their accurate pronunciation and typing in Chinese communication. (3/2025)
Functions, Trigonometry, and Systems of Equations (Second Edition). This is the second edition of a Precalculus textbook. (July 2025)
Culinary Medicine: 2025 Edition. This peer-reviewed Culinary Medicine textbook is aimed at individuals and communities seeking to implement food-based disease prevention programs. (1/2025)
Futurism, Feminism, and the Right to ‘Genius’: Mina Loy’s “The Sacred Prostitute” and Other Plays. Artist, poet, playwright, feminist, inventor, and entrepreneur Mina Loy (1882-1966) played a major role in Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, but has been marginalized in the annals of the historical avant-garde and almost completely omitted from modern theater history. Published together here for the first time, the plays of Mina Loy are full of frank expressions of female desire and satirical critiques of social hierarchies. These Futurist poetic dramas provide catalysts for conversations about issues that remain volatile today: gender identity, free speech, reproductive rights, equity, and access, and serve as a palpable reminder of the contributions of women to an avant-garde arts tradition that has historically championed white, European men. In addition to the play scripts, this book includes performance video and production and design notes. (2/2025)
Making Sense of a Global Pandemic - 2nd edition: Relationship Violence & Working Together Towards a Violence Free Society. This book provides a critical understanding of relationship violence. It is used at KPU in the BSN program, at Douglas College in Early Childhood program, Gender and Sexuality Studies at SFU and Criminology at KPU and SFU. It has chapters on the NEVR Model used for collaboration, on violence against all genders, in the workplace, in post-secondary institutions and a chapter on burnout. (1/2025)
Interdisciplinary Textbook Collections
Start here to find resources for all subjects:
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Mason OER Metafinder: Searches across dozens of sites for OER and other openly licensed scholarly materials
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OpenStax: Affiliated with Rice University and publisher of some of the most widely used OER focused on lower division, general education courses
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Open Textbook Library: Free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks for higher education
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OER Commons: Public digital library of OER
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MERLOT: Free, international, and open peer-reviewed collection of OER
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BCcampus: Resources curated and developed by higher education experts in British Columbia, Canada
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Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS): developed by SUNY Geneseo, OASIS is a search platform that aims to make discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117 different sources and contains more than 440,000 records.
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GALILEO Open Learning Materials: Resources created by Georgia educators, some with grants from Affordable Learning Georgia
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OpenOregon: Resources curated and developed by higher education experts in Oregon
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Open Michigan: Collection of OER and ancillary resources from University of Michigan
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Milne Open Textbooks: (previously called Open SUNY Textbooks) is a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by State University of New York (SUNY) faculty and staff.
Course Materials and Ancillaries
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MIT OpenCourseware: Open, web-based publication of MIT courses
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Saylor Academy: Open textbooks and open courses
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LibreTexts: OER in a range of subjects plus ancillary materials such as laboratory experiments, case studies, simulations, demonstrations and techniques, and interactive fossils.
Not finding what you need? Here are more places to search:
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American Institute of Mathematics Open Textbook Initiative: Open textbooks approved by the American Institute of Mathematics Editorial Board
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Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL): OERs for foreign languages
OER-Related Information and Resources
Find more specific resources
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Community of Online Research Assignments (CORA): Open access research assignments for your class
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OPEN Washington: Pathway to learn, find, use, and apply OER
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Wikiversity’s Portal for Tertiary Education: A Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research
Open Books
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Internet Archive: Millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more
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HathiTrust: Collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world
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Project Gutenberg: 56,000 free eBooks
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Pressbooks Directory: Provides an index of thousands of titles published across almost 100 PressbooksEDU networks
Evaluating OER
Unsure if an OER is the right fit? Not all OER are created equal. Use the Affordable Learning Georgia guide to Selecting Textbooks to help you find the right match.
OER from the Emory Community
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ActivEpi by David Kleinbaum
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German Grammar by Hiram (Max) Maxim
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Extended Readings on Copyright by Matthew Sag