MERLOT Materials

A need to reduce course material costs sparked a project fueled by two epiphanies: students need access to free content,... see more

While the rapid growth of Open Access has seen an expansion in the availability of scholarly articles, it has also... see more

Open At The Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education is a pertinent book on Open Education, "containing 38... see more

This 21-minute presentation helps you find out what OER’s are, how they work, benefits and considerations in using OER’s... see more

This is a graphic that can be used in a workshop on OERs. It explains what OERs are and how they are used at Northern... see more

This is a policy document concerned with using OER at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (Alberta, CA). This... see more

This site is an indexed collection of conversations from the CCCOER listserve where questions have been asked about OER... see more

This is a presentation explaining the need to use more open educational resources in the classroom as opposed to... see more

Open Pedagogy is a collection of open practices in the classroom made possible by replacing commercial textbooks with... see more

These are the guidelines suggested by BC Campus for evaluating online textbooks.

This Pressbooks Guide does not replicate information provided by the Pressbooks Userguide published by Pressbooks.com.... see more

The Print-on-Demand Guide is a practical manual on the what, why, and how of creating a bound, printed copy of any openly... see more

This handout provides three reasons to use OERs: Improve student learning Increase access to teaching and learning... see more

This is a blog post written by David Wiley. "Last week I promised I would write a few posts about reducing friction with... see more

These rubrics come from Achieve, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit education reform organization dedicated to... see more

These rubrics come from Achieve, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit education reform organization dedicated to... see more

This video was recorded at OCWC Global Conference, Ljubljana 2014. The OCW Consortium global conference is the annual... see more

This report looks at the current state of the textbook affordability issue from the perspective of 238 academic... see more

This handout reports the findings of the 2018 Textbook and Course Materials Survey of 21, 400 students from all of... see more

This OER Research Hub webinar "The Impact of Open Textbooks in the USA and South Africa: When? Why? How?" was held on 28... see more

Open educational practices enable new ways for students to learn and create knowledge. In this video, you will hear from... see more

A three-part training guide for bringing higher education instructors up to speed with Open Educational Resources (OER).... see more

This is an interview with Kelly Winter of Reedley College. She talks about using OERs in her Mathematics classes.

This is an infographic created by BCCampus that can be used (with some editing) to help promote use of OERs.