Finding Open Educational Resources | Encontrar Recursos Educativos de Acceso Libre - Spanish Studies

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Open Educational Resources (OER) are free and openly licensed educational materials that can be used by educators and students. Anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share these materials.

Los recursos de acceso libre (OER por sus siglas en inglés) son materiales educativos gratuitos y con licencia abierta que pueden ser utilizados por educadores y estudiantes. Cualquier persona puede de forma gratuita y legal copiar, usar, adaptar, y compartir estos materiales.

ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative This space is intended to provide faculty in Spanish with a collection of resources that have been subject to a peer-review process and/or that have been selected for use by faculty in the California community colleges. The collection focuses on elementary and intermediate Spanish courses and resources for heritage speakers.
LibreTexts It is an adaptable, user-friendly open education resource platform
OASIS Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool for finding open content, including textbooks, courses, course modules, audiobooks, video and more.
OER Commons From a single point of access in OER Commons, you can search, browse, and evaluate resources in OER Commons' growing collection of over 50,000 high-quality Open Educational Resources (OER).
Open Textbook Library Textbooks that have been reviewed by a variety of college and university faculty, and can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.
OpenStax High-quality, peer-reviewed, open textbooks on introductory topics.

ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative Este espacio pretende proporcionar al profesorado de español una colección de recursos que han sido sometidos a un proceso de revisión por pares y/o han sido seleccionados para su uso por el profesorado en los centros formativos superiores de California. La colección se centra en los cursos elementales e intermedios de español, e incluye recursos para hablantes de herencia. 
LibreTexts Es una plataforma de recursos educativos libres, adaptable y fácil de usar 
OASIS Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) es una herramienta de búsqueda para encontrar contenido de acceso libre, incluyendo libros de texto, cursos, módulos de cursos, audiolibros y vídeo, entre otros.
OER Commons From a single point of access in OER Commons, you can search, browse, and evaluate resources in OER Commons' growing collection of over 50,000 high-quality Open Educational Resources (OER).
Open Textbook Library Desde un único punto de acceso en OER Commons, puede buscar, navegar y evaluar los recursos en la colección de OER Commons que sigue desarrollándose con ya más de 50.000 recursos de acceso libre de alta calidad.  
OpenStax Libros de texto que han sido revisados por profesorado universitario y de educación superior, y que pueden descargarse gratis o imprimirse a precio reducido. Todos los libros de texto se utilizan en varias instituciones de educación superior o están afiliados a una institución, sociedad académica u organización profesional.

Spanish Studies OER | OER para el Estudio del Español

Acceso
Complete curriculum for intermediate-level learners of Spanish but it can certainly be used as a foundational text or as a supplement to other intermediate and advanced curricula
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The University of Kansas Collaborative Digital Spanish Project (Acceso) is an open-access, digital learning environment designed to promote the acquisition of Spanish and the development of cultural understanding of the varied groups of people who share Spanish as a common language.
Beginning Spanish ¡Empecemos por aquí!
Open Access Textbook
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Beginning Spanish ¡Empecemos por aquí! focuses on the development of communication skills in interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational modes while centering student voices. Activities engage learners in real exchanges of information on topics that are relevant to adult students. In addition to language-acquisition learning outcomes, this text supports learning outcomes in diversity, equity, inclusion, cultural sustainability, and social justice.
Culturas hispanas a través de la pantalla / Hispanic Cultures Through the Screen
Open Access Textbook
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Este libro de texto busca fomentar el visionado crítico de productos audiovisuales contemporáneos y el reflexionar sobre la representación de las culturas hispanas en webseries y vídeos musicales. This textbook aims to promote critical viewing of contemporary audiovisual products and thinking about the representation of Hispanic cultures in web series and music videos.
Home Bookshelves Languages Spanish Manual de gramática básica y avanzada del español (Thomas and McAlister) Manual de gramática básica y avanzada del español
Open Access textbook
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Libro de texto para el análisis intermedio y/o avanzado
Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español - Segunda edición
Open Access Textbook
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Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español is an introduction to nineteenth-century Spanish literature with a thematic focus on legends and archetypes. It presents Romanticism in the context of nineteenth-century literary and social movements. It is designed as a first anthology for intermediate Spanish students at American universities. Although brief, it includes poetry, drama in verse and short story. The works have been selected for their literary interest and the social importance of their themes. They are all by canonical authors.
Libro Libre: Beginning Spanish
Open Access Textbook
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One of the most important things we can do to hold ourselves accountable for our learning is to engage in goal setting and metacognition—a fancy term for thinking about the way we think and learn. The goals we set should be specific and achievable. Something like “Speak Spanish” is too broad, we need to focus on the steps we need to take to get there and the signs that we will see as proof of our progress.
Manual de Redacción
Open Access Textbook
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This textbook is for advanced Spanish composition students. The textbook includes topics on grammar and syntax, as well as exercises and readings providing the students a more personalized and effective learning experience adjusted to the specific challenges they encounter in today’s global world.
Palabras propias
Open Access Textbook
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The goal of this project is to provide high-quality, accessible primary sources to those teaching and studying the histories and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world and the indigenous peoples of Latin America. Our modules cover a wide range of topics, but all consist of the same essential parts:

A brief introduction that provides socio-historical context for the primary document.
The text itself, often glossed for improved comprehension by non-native speakers of Spanish.
A set of activities that range from comprehension to analysis, from using new vocabulary to answering creative writing and essay prompts.
Para vivir con salud
Open Access Textbook
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We have developed this open access book for universities and colleges responding to the needs and interests of students preparing for careers in health or even seeking to add a “health track” to their majors or minors. Para vivir offers an introduction to reading different literary and cultural texts from the Spanish-speaking world with a thematic focus on health. It can be used as an alternative to the standard Introduction to Hispanic Literature course texts, as it also teaches techniques of close reading. It incorporates authors from seventeen counties, has an almost even representation of male and female authors and diverse communities in the Hispanic world (European, Creole, Afro Hispanic, Latinx, Indigenous, Jewish). In addition to introductions to reading different genres (narrative, poetry, theater, and film) we have scaffolded supporting material such as biographies, notes on the historical contexts, pre and post-reading questions.
Salón de Clase: Intermediate Spanish for Education Professionals
Open Access Textbook
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Salón de clase, Intermediate Spanish for Education Professionals is a comprehensive intermediate Spanish open access textbook with reading, listening, speaking, and writing practice for students who have an interest and/or intend to pursue a career in the field of Education (teachers, administrators, counselors, psychologists, social workers, support staff members, paraprofessionals, among others). This Open Education Resource (OER) aims to explore the role of Spanish language and Spanish speakers in the American education system, as well as to improve student communicative abilities in Spanish. Salón de clase integrates interactive activities (h5p), video interviews with Spanish speakers to present authentic materials, and topics related to education. Grammar is not presented as a standalone topic, but it is seemly integrated into all parts of this book.
Spanish I: Beginning Spanish Language and Culture
Open Access Textbook
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This peer-reviewed textbook is designed for the true beginner with U.S. college students in mind. It contains themed chapters, which are divided into 8 sections. Each section has its own set of learning objectives, and is further separated into three types of assignments, Para estudiar en casa (with detailed explanations), Para practicar en casa (homework exercises), and Para practicar en clase (paired and group classwork activities). The explanations and primary input are written to be easily comprehensible. The individual exercises are geared towards acquisition of form and function, and the communicative classwork exercises promote interpersonal exchanges between students. The digital copy includes some embedded audio files, and we are developing a website to house many more resources.
Spanish Materials - The Center for OER and Language Learning
Many Open Access Textbooks

OER At UF | OER en UF

Affordable UF (UF Asequible )

Expensive textbooks place a substantial burden on students’ budgets and negatively affect student success. When they can’t afford a textbook, students often struggle through without purchasing it, or drop the class entirely. The University of Florida created the Affordable UF Initiative, a wide-ranging effort that brings together partners across campus to tackle the affordability challenge from multiple perspectives.

El coste de ciertos libros de texto supone una elevada carga para los presupuestos de los estudiantes que puede tener un efecto negativo en sus carreras. Cuando los estudiantes no se pueden permitir la compra de un libro de texto, o bien lidian con las dificultades que conlleva no disponer del libro, o simplemente abandonan el curso. La Universidad de Florida creó la Iniciativa UF Asequible (Affordable UF), un esfuerzo de amplio alcance que reúne a entidades de todo el campus para abordar el desafío de la asequibilidad desde múltiples perspectivas. 