Where to find Open Education Resources, Tools, and Support: Faculty of Science

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  • Chemistry for Engineers

    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.

  • InTech Open

    Available at: InTech Open Books.

    Open access books published in a variety of disciplines with a focus on physical sciences, engineering, and technology. Focused on books broadly, so the content may not be structured to suit 1:1 textbook replacement.  

  • LibreTexts

    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.

  • National Science Digital Library (NSDL)

    Available at: National Science Digital Library (NSDL)

    As described on the NSDL website, "The National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines—both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings. The NSDL collection contains structured descriptive information (metadata) about web-based educational resources held on other sites by their providers. These providers have contribute this metadata to NSDL for organized search and open access to educational resources via this website and its services.

    Most resources in the library adhere to principles of Open Educational Resource (OER) access, although some resources are restricted to provider site membership, or may have a cost associated with them (indicated in the full record of the resource)."

  • NCBI Bookshelf

    Available at: NCBI Bookshelf.

    Bookshelf by the National Centre for Biotechnology Information with free online books and documents in life science and healthcare.

  • PHET - Interactive Simulations for Science and Math

    Available at: PHET – Interactive Simulations for Science and Math.

    Gamified and interactive math and science simulations to engage students. Includes accessible sims made to work with assistive technology. Grade levels range from elementary to university-level programs.