Where to find Open Education Resources, Tools, and Support: full courses

Available at: Chemistry for Engineers. 

This course is designed to provide engineering students with a fundamental knowledge of physical chemistry and to demonstrate the relevance of that knowledge to the practise of a variety of engineering disciplines. Some of the topics are: states of matter, equilibrium in non-reactive systems, and equilibrium in electrochemical systems.

Available at: eCampusOntario Open Library. 

eCampusOntario offers open courses and textbooks in a variety of disciplines. 

Available at: JHSPH OpenCourseWare.

Offers over 90 courses from the John Hopkins University (Bloomberg School of Public Health), complete with lectures and course material. License allows for free and open use, reuse, adaptation and redistribution of material, provided the source (JHSPH) is attributed and material is shared alike.

Available at: LibreTexts.

LibreTexts hosts open courses and textbooks developed by a number of institutions. LibreTexts is an organization that was initiated by the University of California, Davis, and has since received support from the U.S. Government, as well as from a number of universities across the U.S. In particular, LibreTexts Engineering and Chemistry have been highlighted as containing particularly good resources.

Available at: masonOER Metafinder.

Mason OER Metafinder is a federated search tool and searches several OER repositories simultaneously, including BC Campus, College Open Textbooks, HathiTrust, JSTOR Open books, Merlot, MIT Open Courseware, NYPL Digital Collections, OER Commons, Project Gutenburg. Search by OER specific sites.

Available at: MERLOT. 

The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

Available at: MITOpenCourseware. 

Contains several open courses (with course materials) for undergraduate and graduate students. Information given includes a summary of the course, instructor(s), academic level, and features (ie. lecture notes, assignments, exams, etc.). Subject areas include business, energy, engineering, fine arts, health & medicine, humanities, mathematics, science, social science, society, and teaching & education.

Available at: Oasis. 

OASIS (Openly available sources integrated search) is a search tool for OERs that searches open content from 98 sources and contains over 350,000 records. It is developed by SUNY Geneseo’s Milne Library. Results may be filtered by object type, subject, source, and CC license.

Available at: OER Commons.

This is for those who are just starting out with OERs. OER Commons is easy to use, contains newer content, and results can be filtered by material type. OER Commons contains “Open Author” which helps creators build OERs and publish them. Formats include media rich documents, lesson builders and module builders. It can also build microsites for organizations to index their own unique content library.

Available at: OERu.

OERu, coordinated by the OER Foundation, is an independent Australian not-for-profit network that offers free online courses for students. Courses are developed by recognized universities and colleges and designed for formal academic credit. Several international organizations are partners, including ecampus Ontario, Ryerson, Penn State, and Athabasca University. Offers micro-open online courses which takes 2-3 weeks and is a small portion of a larger full course.

Available at: Open Waterloo. 

This site showcases a collection of open online resources for learning and knowledge creation/dissemination at the University of Waterloo. Open resources are freely available to users online, accessible by anyone from anywhere without discrimination and can be found in many formats from text and data, to audio, video and multi-media. 

Available at: Open.Ed@PSU.

Created by the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences faculty at Penn State, over 70 courses and course materials are available for use, reuse, revise, remix and redistribute. Topics include GIS, environment, energy, sustainability and more.