Open Education Community

There are a lot of passionate people, institutions, libraries and networks out there who are active in the field of open education and open educational resources (OER).

Networks and Universities

• Deakin University: https://deakin.libguides.com/oer-drm 
• Open Textbook Library: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks 
• RMIT digital OER collections page : https://primo-direct-apac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/collectionDiscovery?vid=RMITU&collectionId=81105280870001341
• USQ the first Australian University to join Open Textbook Network: https://www.usq.edu.au/news/2017/11/otn-ernst
• Digital Commons Network: http://network.bepress.com/
• SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is a U.S.A network that works to enable the open sharing of research outputs and educational materials in order to democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and increase the return on our investment in research and education. 
• ASCILITE (Australian ed-tech society) Open Educational Practice Special Interest Group (OEP-SIG)

Websites to find free open textbooks and open educational resources (OER):

• OpenStax : https://openstax.org/ 
  • OpenStax Statement ‘We believe textbooks should be diverse and inclusive. Here’s what we are doing about it’ : https://openstax.org/blog/we-believe-textbooks-should-be-diverse-and-inclusive-heres-what-were-doing-about-it  
• OpenStax Psychology revisions crowd-sourcing project: https://opentext.wsu.edu/ospsychrevisions
• Merlot: https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
• OER Commons: https://www.oercommons.org/ 
• BC campus Open Ed: https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/
• IntechOpen: https://www.intechopen.com/books 
• UND Libraries (Nursing units): https://libguides.und.edu/c.php?g=656518&p=4649224 
• Boundless: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/catalog/boundlesscourses
• GALILEO Open Learning Materials: https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/communities.html
• LibreTexts: https://bio.libretexts.org/
• Noba Project (Psychology units): https://nobaproject.com/
• Open Text book Store (Maths units): http://www.opentextbookstore.com/catalog.php
• Saylor Academy: https://www.saylor.org/books/
• Textbook Equity: https://www.textbookequity.org/
• ZTC Textbooks- California College of the Canyons: https://www.canyons.edu/academics/onlineeducation/ztc/textbooks.php
• More Than Free: https://morethanfree.trubox.ca/2020/03/04/open-tools/