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Open educational resources & free learning platformsThis University of Rhode Island ITS article introduces open educational resources and summarizes five free platforms instructors can use to replace or supplement commercial course materials. It covers LibreTexts, OpenStax, OER Commons, MIT OpenCourseWare, and the Open Textbook Library, with notes on content types, disciplines, licensing, customization, and LMS-related support.
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Open educational resources & free learning platformsLibreTexts is a nonprofit platform for finding, adapting, and publishing open educational materials. It hosts subject-based textbook libraries, supports remixing chapters into custom course texts, and connects those materials with interactive elements such as homework questions, notebooks, videos, and visualizations.
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Open educational resources & free learning platformsBethel University Library’s LibGuide organizes open educational resources, open access books, and related learning materials by subject area. It points instructors and students to major OER repositories, textbook collections, media sources, and search tools, with companion pages on evaluating, licensing, accessibility, and publishing OER.
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Open educational resources & free learning platformsOpen Textbook Library is a University of Minnesota–based directory of open textbooks that can be used, downloaded, modified, and redistributed at no cost. The collection covers a wide range of academic subjects and lists more than 1,800 textbooks, with search, subject browsing, new releases, and forthcoming titles from Open Education Network members.
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Open educational resources & free learning platformsOpenStax provides free college-level textbooks across a range of academic subjects. The site is aimed at reducing course-material costs by making textbook access available online through a subject-based catalog.
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Open educational resources & free learning platformsOpen Culture collects and organizes free educational and cultural material from around the web, including online courses, audiobooks, ebooks, films, language lessons, podcasts, and textbooks. The site combines large resource lists with regularly updated articles that highlight notable videos, archival finds, lectures, music, and humanities-related media.
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Open educational resources & free learning platformsUIC Library’s guide gathers major open textbook libraries, OER repositories, and cross-repository search tools in one place. It is designed to help instructors and students locate freely usable course materials, with links to related guidance on evaluating, adopting, or creating open textbooks.
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