Teaching Resources: Open Educational Resources

"Textbooks in the Open Textbook Library are considered open because they are free to use and distribute, and are licensed to be freely adapted or changed with proper attribution." Source: The Open Education Network at the Center for Open Education, University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development.

"Based at Rice University, OpenStax is one of the world’s largest nonprofit digital learning platforms and publisher of free, open education resources."

"OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network." See especially the Higher Education Open Textbooks hub.

"The MOBIUS OER Hub was created to support the affordability and OER initiatives of our member institutions, promote collaboration between members on issues related to OER, and develop a consortium-wide repository of high quality OER content for faculty use, increasing academic success and reducing costs for students across the consortium."

Sources included:

University of Texas Libraries

MIT Libraries

The American College of Physicians has made the journal articles and other ACP resources on COVID-19 available.

Journal articles and books freely available from Taylor & Francis.

EBSCO provides trending COVID-19 trending topics, maps and data visualizations, CDC, UN & WHO news, journals, national and global news.

The research hub is available for the duration of the outbreak.