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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, curated for Emory class offerings.

    Business and Finance

    Corporate Finance. This open textbook is a comprehensive guide covering the three fundamental topics in Corporate Finance, including Capital Budgeting under Certainty, Capital Structure Theory, and Short-term Financial Management and Operating Leverage. This text will be continually updated in order to provide novel information and enhance students’ experiences.

    Foreign Language

    Comunidades. This is a textbook for first-semester Spanish with a focus on the cultural products, practices and perspectives of Spanish-speaking communities in the world today. Each chapter includes interactive activities focused on each of the three modes of communication (interpretive, interpersonal and presentational), at least one Integrated Performance Assessment, exercises with automated feedback and prompts that promote cross-cultural comparisons through research and reflection.

    Medicine & Public Health

    Ultrasound Physics and its Application in Medicine. This textbook covers general aspects of diagnostic ultrasound providing an excellent reference for both beginners and professionals. In addition, this textbook has end-of-the-chapter experiments that will help educators conduct labs for students and any other learners to enhance their learning and solidify the practical skills.

    Epidemiology. This book aims to provide students with the basics of epidemiology terms and concepts and is intended to guide medical school students as they prepare for the USMLE Step 1 Exam and to transition from student to clinician.

     

    Music

    Unlocking the Digital Age: The Musician's Guide to Research, Copyright, and Publishing is based on coursework developed at the Peabody Conservatory, and serves as a crucial resource for early career musicians navigating the complexities of the digital era. This guide bridges the gap between creative practice and scholarly research, empowering musicians to confidently share and protect their work as they expand their performing lives beyond the concert stage as citizen artists. It offers a plain language resource that helps early career musicians see where creative practice and creative research intersect and how to traverse information systems to share their work. As professional musicians and researchers, the authors’ experiences on stage and in academia makes this guide an indispensable tool for musicians aiming to thrive in the digital landscape.

    Multimodal Musicianship is an open educational resource for learning music theory and ear training. The content engages concepts related to tonal harmony, suitable for a two- or three-semester music theory and ear training curriculum in a liberal arts college or other higher education setting. This collection of materials offers multiple modes of engaging content—with text, musical examples, audio examples, video content, application activities, and links to supplemental content—designed for users to learn and reinforce their knowledge according to their learning styles and needs.

    Nursing

    Optimizing Population Health: Strategies for Advanced Level Nurses. 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.

    Social Determinants of Health in Nursing Education: Integrating Into Curriculum and Practice. This workbook was established with nurse educators and nursing students in mind to provide knowledge, guidance, and support for integrating social determinants of health (SDOH) across the nursing education spectrum. Contents from this workbook are applicable to pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing programs, RN-to-BSN programs, and graduate education.

    Simulation Scenarios for Nurse Practitioner Educators: A Faculty Guide. This text provides 15 complete simulation scenarios in a template format for the following populations: pediatric, women, and adult. Also included in this text are how to conduct pre-briefing and debriefing sessions, faculty planning for pre- and postsimulation, faculty and student evaluation tools, and incorporating simulated patient actors (SPAs). It is the intent of the authors that those using this text will be able to incorporate the simulation scenarios and other content into their NP programs to help students meet learning objectives and practice clinical and communication skills using a variety of patient situations.

    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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    OER-Related Information and Resources

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    Open Books

    • 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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