Open Educational Resources: Finding OERs

OASIS “is a freely available web-based OER [Open Educational Resource] search tool that seeks to enable the discovery of open content,” wrote Robert Flatley and Daniel Stafford for ccAdvisor. It is currently set up to search almost 100 reputable sources of open content, including Cornell Open, OpenStax, and MIT Open Courseware, with new content added regularly. Users even have the option to submit additional potential sources using the Suggest a Source function and can “search for and find open textbooks, courses, course materials, simulations, books, audiobooks, modules, videos, podcasts, learning objects, and primary sources,” Flatley and Stafford added, noting that “librarians, other faculty, and independent learners seeking to identify open educational resources will find the site to be a powerful and user-friendly search tool.”

Find a comparable OER by entering the ISBN from your current textbook. Also searchable by subject or keyword