Finding OER For Your Class

Finding the right open educational resources (OER) is the most challenging part of using OER in your classroom. These resources are a great place to start.

New OER

Below is a collection of new resources, published within the past six months and curated for Emory class offerings. For even more, please visit our guide to Open Educational Resources.

    Arts Administration

    The Creative Social Entrepreneur’s Field Guide is for artists, creative workers, and cultural organizers who want to treat their practice as a vehicle for social, environmental, and community change. It walks readers step-by-step from early idea to minimum viable project, blending clear concepts with prompts, worksheets, and real-world tools. Organized around mapping, listening, shaping, resourcing, innovating, and adapting, it supports learners in building creative social ventures that are grounded and ethical. (7/2026)

    English

    Writing and Rhetoric: First Semester Composition. This curriculum bridges the gap between personal expression and academic inquiry. This course focuses on using research-driven exploration to shape informed perspectives. (6/2026)

    Writing and Rhetoric: Second Semester Composition. This course builds upon the foundation established in the Writing and Rhetoric: First Semester Composition course, continuing the trajectory from personal to academic writing. While Writing and Rhetoric: First Semester Composition introduced students to academic writing contexts and taught them how to use research to explore topics before forming perspectives, Second Semester Composition advances these skills by focusing on developing well-researched academic arguments. (6/2026)

    Data and Decision Sciences

    Introduction to Data Science: A Structured Methodology covers data science fundamentals, examining core principles, methodologies, and applications that organizations use to extract insights from datasets. Topics include data types, preparation techniques, analytical methods, and communication strategies. (7/2026)

    Economics

    Principles of Macroeconomics This textbook helps students understand macroeconomic activity measures such as Gross Domestic Product, Unemployment, and Inflation. It discusses the factors that result in growth in the economy and uses data and graphs for students to see the implications of these theories on our economy. The textbook uses economic models to determine equilibrium in an economy and explain what causes fluctuations in economic activity. It also describes fiscal and monetary policy tools and evaluates their relative effectiveness on the USA economy, outlining the Government’s and Federal Reserve Bank’s roles in stabilizing the economy. (8/2026)

    Film and Media

    Images in Motion: Exploring Visual Storytelling will expose undergraduate students and instructors to the ways in which we may explore visual storytelling in a critical, academic sensibility beyond our common (think entertainment) interactions with the texts. It is designed to serve students and instructors of any university-level course with a concentration on or inclusion of visual literatures in the course content. (10/2026)

    History

    Western Civilization I This textbook follows the contours of the basic Western Civilization narrative in terms of chronology and, to an extent, geography because it was written to be compatible with most Western Civilization courses as they exist today. It deliberately breaks, however, from the “triumphalist” narrative that describes Western Civilization as the most successful, rational, and enlightened form of civilization in human history. It casts a wider geographical view than do traditional Western Civilization textbooks, focusing in many cases on the critical historical role of the Middle East, not just Europe. It also abandons the pretense that the history of Western Civilization was generally progressive, with the conditions of life and understanding of the natural world of most people improving over time (as a matter of fact, they did not). (10/2026)

    Health Sciences

    Foundations of Radiation Safety & Radiobiology is designed to introduce the principles of radiation safety and radiobiology in medical imaging and radiation therapy. The content within this resource was developed in alignment with the content specifications established by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) for medical imaging modalities that use ionizing radiation.  (8/2026)

    Anesthesia Crisis Resource Management is rooted in evidence synthesis and designed to enhance ACRM education and training. It reviews topics such as patient safety and human factors in anesthesia, system-based error management, human behavior, human factors science, and non-technical skills, communication, task management, leadership, and stress management, and diversity within complex adaptive systems. Together, the ACRM OER chapters provide anesthesia professionals with evidence-based tools and frameworks to strengthen individual and team performance during crises, promoting safer, more effective anesthesia care. (10/2026)

    Languages

    Advanced Indonesian addresses the dearth of advanced Indonesian language resources by delving into current topics and events related to gender, lifestyle, human rights, environment, economy, and language preservation. The authors utilize authentic materials sourced from online newspapers, editorials, blogs, vlogs, journals, and YouTube, ensuring that learners engage with real-world language contexts. (7/2026)

    Basic Bangla is a theme based, interactive, open-source online textbook designed for beginning level learners of Bangla language. By using this book, a learner will learn Bangla vowel and consonant sounds and letters, basic grammar of the language, important vocabulary, useful expressions, and—most importantly—communicative skill. (7/2026)

    Basic Punjabi is an online interactive theme-based textbook for the true beginner of the Punjabi language. It promotes communicative, linguistic, and cultural competence. It has a mixture of pedagogical approaches to fit all types of learning and teaching philosophies/styles to achieve intermediate low to mid-ACTFL proficiency levels within a semester. (7/2026)

    Basic Tibetan is a first-of-its-kind, multimedia interactive online textbook designed for learners of Tibetan in higher education. Learners are encouraged to listen, repeat, and internalize the sounds of Tibetan through audio recordings. To support vocabulary and sentence structure acquisition, the book offers a wide range of interactive exercises, making learning both effective and enjoyable. (7/2026)

    Elementary Chinese 2 Workbook is designed to help beginning learners lay a solid foundation for the natural development of the Chinese language skills necessary to excel in their learning journey. At the heart of this method lies a focus on Chinese receptive skills that are essential for the development of communicative competences: listening and reading, seamlessly integrated with typing. This unique combination, unlike the traditional handwriting approach, not only fosters accuracy in listening and reading comprehension but also enhances accurate pronunciation and typing in Chinese communication. (7/2026)

    Intermediate Arabic I is designed for undergraduate students who are taking Arabic in their third semester. It addresses language structures in theme-based modules that cover the four language skills. The book can be used as a self-study resource or as the main textbook in intermediate Arabic classes. (7/2026)

    Intermediate Persian is an online, interactive theme-based textbook for intermediate students in the Persian language that promotes communicative, linguistic, and cultural competence. It has a mixture of pedagogical approaches to fit all types of learning and teaching philosophies and styles to achieve the Intermediate High ACTFL proficiency level within a two sequence semester. (7/2026)

    Por Nuestras Manos: Un recetario de la clase Español para Hablantes de Herencia: This cookbook, the second in a series, was produced in the class Spanish for Heritage Speakers in the Department of Languages & Literatures at the University of Northern Iowa. In this class, students dedicated themselves to strengthening their writing abilities and expanding their use of Spanish. We hope readers find a new recipe to try and the project serves as a model for other Spanish classes.  (7/2026)

    ¡Tengo Hambre! Un Recetario de la Clase Español para Hablantes de Herencia: This cookbook, third in a series, was produced in the class Spanish for Heritage Speakers in the Department of Languages & Literatures at the University of Northern Iowa. In this class, students dedicated themselves to strengthening their writing abilities and expanding their use of Spanish. We hope readers find a new recipe to try and the project serves as a model for other Spanish classes.  (7/2026)

    Library Science

    Quick-Start Guide for New Managers in Academic Libraries This short, practical guide covers concepts that are essential for any new manager in an an academic library. Topics covered include the role of the manager, change management, managing teams and individuals, human resources, and management styles. It is meant as a primer to be built upon with external readings, mentorship, and further training. (10/2026)

    Mathematics

    Essentials of Mathematics This book was written with one clear goal: to help you build confidence and competence in the mathematics you need for college, work, and everyday life. Mathematics is not about memorizing disconnected rules. Rather, it is about recognizing patterns, making sense of relationships, and developing logical thinking skills that transfer beyond the classroom. (8/2026)

    Nursing

    Be Prepared for Your Nurse Practitioner Clinical Readiness Exam contains case studies and review questions for nurse practitioner students; focusing on the 3Ps of nurse practitioner education (Pharmacology, Pathophysiology, and Physical (Health) Assessment) to help NP students prepare for their clinical courses and pass their clinical readiness exam. (6/2026)

    Be Prepared for Your Nurse Practitioner Clinical Readiness Exam This resource provides an overview of population health concepts along with health promotion strategies utilized by advanced practice nurses. Resources are intended to be exemplary, but not exhaustive and introduce the reader to strategies that can be practiced while in graduate school as well as in healthcare settings. (10/2026)

    Interdisciplinary Textbook Collections

    Start here to find resources for all subjects:

    • Mason OER Metafinder: Searches across dozens of sites for OER and other openly licensed scholarly materials

    • OpenStax: Affiliated with Rice University and publisher of some of the most widely used OER focused on lower division, general education courses

    • Open Textbook Library: Free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks for higher education

    • OER Commons: Public digital library of OER

    • MERLOT: Free, international, and open peer-reviewed collection of OER

    • BCcampus: Resources curated and developed by higher education experts in British Columbia, Canada

    • Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS): developed by SUNY Geneseo, OASIS is a search platform that aims to make discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 117 different sources and contains more than 440,000 records. 

    • GALILEO Open Learning Materials: Resources created by Georgia educators, some with grants from Affordable Learning Georgia

    • OpenOregon: Resources curated and developed by higher education experts in Oregon

    • Open Michigan: Collection of OER and ancillary resources from University of Michigan

    • Milne Open Textbooks: (previously called Open SUNY Textbooks) is a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by State University of New York (SUNY) faculty and staff.

    Course Materials and Ancillaries

    • MIT OpenCourseware: Open, web-based publication of MIT courses

    • Saylor Academy: Open textbooks and open courses

    • LibreTexts: OER in a range of subjects plus ancillary materials such as laboratory experiments, case studies, simulations, demonstrations and techniques, and interactive fossils.

     

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    • Internet Archive: Millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more

    • HathiTrust: Collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world

    • Project Gutenberg: 56,000 free eBooks

    • Pressbooks Directory: Provides an index of thousands of titles published across almost 100 PressbooksEDU networks

    Evaluating OER

    Unsure if an OER is the right fit? Not all OER are created equal. Use the Affordable Learning Georgia guide to Selecting Textbooks to help you find the right match.

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