coursematerials

=**Places to look for free courseware, textbooks, etc.**=
 * ====American Institute of Mathematics. Approved open access mathematics textbooks for traditional university courses.====
 * ====AMSER: Applied Math and Science Educational Repository. Thousands of resources in the arts and sciences - free to use.====
 * The Assayer Catalog of books whose authors have made them available for free.


 * BCcampus OpenEd open textbooks. Also: SOL*R Shareable Online Learning Resources
 * Bookboon.com Offers free eBooks for university students, business professionals and travel guides. Also lists other sites with sources of curricula, textbooks, etc.
 * BYU (Brigham Young University)  Open Courses


 * California Open Online Library for Education COOL for Ed ( The three State of California Higher Education Systems are working together to provide you easy access to quality FREE and OPEN eTextbooks )
 * Capilano University (Canada) OpenCourseWare (no longer available?)
 * Carnegie Mellon University OLI (Open Learning Initiative) (For faculty - Review their courses @http://oli.cmu.edu/teach-with-oli/review-our-free-open-courses/)
 * Chemistry: OER from Clint Lalonde. A collection of quality chemistry OER
 * China Quality Open Courseware. CORE. Over 400 courses have been available to institutions part of the China Open Resources for Education (CORE) consortium. Some courses are in English. (?)
 * CLRN Digital Textbook Initiative. (California Learning Resource Network) No longer available
 * CK12 Flexbooks
 * Collegeopentextbooks.org Provides a catalog of open textbooks appropriate for community college classes. Includes [|textbooks by subject]
 * ====Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) Free and open textbooks. ====
 * ====Computer Science Open Educational Resources (OER).====
 * Connexions Includes links to OpenStax textbooks. Shared modular educational material
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Content Without Borders An open repository service to help with discovery of resources from academic and other institutions. (Managed by Pearson using Equella)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">CosmoLearning.org A collection of courses, documentaries and other learning materials from a variety of sites.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Curriki K-12 Open Curricula Community Covers some college level material


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Flat World Knowledge Textbooks were free in the past. There are now fees for using books on this site. Early versions of Flatworld Knowledge can still be found at Saylor.org @https://www.saylor.org/books/
 * [|FLOSS Manuals] is more than a collection of manuals about free and open source software, it is also the community. Anyone can contribute to a manual – to fix a spelling mistake, add a more detailed explanation, write a new chapter, or start a whole new manual on a topic.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Free High School Science Texts (FHSST) "Setting science education free in South Africa." Now part of @http://www.siyavula.com/
 * Free Science
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Freetechbooks.com This site lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Global Text Project Free textbooks for subjects such as business, computing, education, health, science, social science.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Green Tea Press C omputer science books with open licenses by the publisher of //Think Python//, //Think Bayes//, and other books by Allen Downey.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|HippoCampus] Study materials for some higher education courses middle school through college including videos. Partners with other sites for educational material.

> More than 850 scientific books available along with a few open access journals in engineering, technology, life sciences, health sciences and a few books for social sciences and the humanities.
 * Intech Open Books for science, technology, health sciences.
 * Internet Archive Open Educational Resources. Includes links to lectures, math, environment science materials, etc.
 * InTech. Books in science, technology, health sciences.
 * iTunes U. Requires use of Apple products, but these courses will be accessible to some.
 * ====Intute Archive of a database of resources for higher ed, each reviewed by an academic specialist====


 * Japan OpenCourseWare Consortium. JOCW.
 * JORUM. Find, share learning and teaching UK resources. Now available at @https://www.jisc.ac.uk/content


 * KFUPM Open Courseware (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals) Open courseware.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Khan Academy Videos for math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.


 * Lecturefox. Indexes some free university lectures.
 * MedEdPortall. from the Association of American Medical Colleges
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|MERLOT II] A curated collection of learning objects for higher education
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">MIT OpenCourseWare MIT's OCW project. Extensive site of courses from MIT


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">NobaProject Psychology - open textbook, open modules which can be customized. (Low cost print versions are available)
 * NPTEL National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning. Courses related to engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, etc. put together by seven institutions in India. This site provides access to course lectures on video. (In some cases only the syllabus is available.) Faculty are encouraged to use these materials to develop courses for their own institions. Users may download the videos. University of the People has been given permission to provide access to these materials.


 * OAD Directory of Open Access Publishers Publishers of open access books.May provide some leads on where to look. Maintained by Simmons College.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">OCWC OpenCourseWare Consortium of higher ed institutions providing access to free and open educational materials.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">OER Commons Free to use, openly licensed resources K-12 to college courses
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">OnlineProgrammingBooks.com "We publish details about books which are provided by publishers or authors on their websites legally and free of charge."
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Open Textbook Library (Housed at University of Minnesota) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #323232; font-family: 'PT Serif',serif; font-size: 16px;">The Open Textbook Library is supported by the <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #c24101; font-family: 'PT Serif',serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Center for Open Education] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #323232; font-family: 'PT Serif',serif; font-size: 16px;"> and the <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #c24101; font-family: 'PT Serif',serif; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Open Textbook Network] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #323232; font-family: 'PT Serif',serif; font-size: 16px;">.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">OpenCulture. 200 Free Textbooks: A Meta Collection (Other OpenCulture lists include free courses, audio books, videos, etc.)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">OpenLearn Over 600 free online courses from The Open University (UK) [New webpage soon! December 2016]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Open.Michigan (University of Michigan) Open initiatives supposting free/open education resources.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">OpenStax. OpenStax textbooks include College Physics, Introduction to Sociology, Biology, Concepts of Biology and Anatomy and Physiology, and Introduction to Statistics. More textbooks are in the works. (Project housed at Rice University)
 * OpenTextbooks:SUNY (Open Textbooks SUNY) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">Open SUNY Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #002f87; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans',sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px;">.(Includes titles such as //Good Corporation, Bad Corporation//: //Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy//; //Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence//; //Foundations of Academic Success: Words of Wisdom//
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">OpenTextBooks (University of Minnesota). A catalog of open textbooks that will be reviewed by U of Minnesota faculty
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Orange Grove Florida's digital repository of open textbooks. Includes Open Courseware, Open Textbooks, 3d object models, learning modules, and videos. Search for higher education resources and K-12 resources.
 * Oregon: OpenOregon Education Resources. A list of OER that are used in Oregon Community Colleges


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">ParisTech OCW (France). (No longer available?)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Portland Community College. (Google docs) OER
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Public Literature Public domain literature including some information from contemporary authors.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Questia, An online library of books and journals not open, but may be worth the cost for some students. Allows for a free trial but after seven days requires a fee-based subscription which costs $20 a month. Yearly subscriptions somewhat cheaper.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Saylor.org. Bookshelf Includes the early versions of textbooks from FlatWorld Knowledge
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Saylor.org Course Resource Guides Aids for Saylor course designers
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Science Books Online
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Sofia Project Open courses launched by Foothill - De Anza Community College District
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">SUNY Open Textbooks (See OpenTextbooks: SUNY above)


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Textbook Revolution A student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials. Search for textbooks and a short list of courses.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Textbooksfree.org Lists of sites for free textbook material prepared by a Walter Antoniotti, retired professor
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px;">Textbooksgo.com
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px;">Tidewater Community College. OER by discipline


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|UC College Prep] (open access supplemental material) no longer available?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Univsersia. Provides Spanish and Portuguese open course ware (OCW) material.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">University of Minnesota Open Textbook Catalog. Now part of the Open Textbook Library. Peer reviewed, Free online, download for free.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Unversity of Oklahoma. Discipline specific OER


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Wiki books
 * ==== Writing Spaces - Writing Spaces is an open textbook project for college-level writing studies courses ====
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Yale University. Open Yale Courses. Recorded lectures available in video, audio, and text transcript form.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Links checked December 2016 IF