Guides @ UF: Engineering Education &amp; Research: Open Education Resources (OER)

Open Education Resources (OER)

Are freely available curricular materials. Below is a listing of various repositories. You can also search MOM (Mason OER Metafinder) which runs a simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button.

Engineering Libraries Division's Open Textbooks for Engineering
The Engineering Libraries Division of ASEE list of high-quality open textbooks.
OER Commons - Engineering
OER initiatives aim to grow a sustainable culture of sharing and continuous improvement among educators at all levels. These are their engineering resources.
MIT Open Courseware - Engineering
Makes the materials used in the teaching of MIT's subjects available on the Web.
Khan Academy - Sciences
Videos across multiple STEM disciplines.
MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder webpages, together with associated comments, and bookmark collections, all intended to enhance the teaching experience of using a learning material.
OpenStax
OpenStax is a nonprofit based at Rice University, specializing in open textbooks for the largest undergraduate courses.
Open Textbook Library
The Open Textbook Library provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.
PhET Interactive Simulations project
Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.
Flickr Creative Commons
Images with for open use via Creative Commons license.