| Developed by A. Ficek, Baruch College, CUNY | OER: An interactive view of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece Interactive views of ancient sites are excellent OERS to incorporate into Survey 1 lectures. Unlike photos, or even videos, these views allow students to more actively engage with the site. These work particularly well in ‘case-study’…
Category: History
Federalists and Anti-Federalists
Developed by Elizabeth Stone, Political Science, Baruch College, CUNY Professor Stone teaches Introduction to American Government (POL1101). An Open Education Resource she uses is the Federalist Papers No. 10, 39, and 51. These essays are in the public domain and available online through Project Gutenberg. Professor Stone’s course easily incorporated OER because the course is…
Media Analysis and Criticism: Homework Activities
Developed by Rianne Subijanto, Department of Communication Studies, Baruch College, CUNY Professor Subijanto found it easiest to incorporate OER into classroom activities. Even before she was aware of OER, she had been using publicly available sources online during class. As a media historian, she was excited to have access to OER archival sources. Instead of…
College Open Textbooks
The College Open Textbooks is a collaborative of 29 educational organizations and 200 affiliated colleges in California. The project is focused on promoting awareness and adoption of open textbooks. The College Open Textbooks Collaborative has peer-reviewed more than 100 open textbooks for use in community college courses throughout California and beyond. Open textbooks are freely…
Kanopy
Kanopy is a video streaming service (much like Netflix) with films that range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, to must-see classics and blockbuster movies. The bulk of the moives offered are documentaries or other educationl films that would be good for use in a variety of courses. Kanopy is free if you institution or…
Lumen Learning
Lumen Learning is a learning management system (LMS) specifically designed for OER courses. The platform offers a course catalog that hosts content for courses across several disciplines and even contains some fully designed courses complete with assessments and evaluations. course content and a few fully designed courses. For a fee, the Lumen platform also offers courseware…
Open Textbook Library
The Open Textbook Library provides access to free, openly-licensed textbooks that have been reviewed by faculty from various colleges and universities to assess their quality. The textbooks offered on the site are used at multiple higher education institutions throughout the country and many affiliated with an institution or professional organization. All textbooks can be adapted…
Active Learning Strategies
The Active Learning Strategies website presents background information on Active Learning and details various strategies to incorporate active learning into your classroom. Strategies are divided into categories depending on how they can might be employed in your classroom. Visit Active Learning Strategies
MIT OpenCourseware
MIT OpenCourseware is an online repository with course materials for over 2340 courses developed for MIT’s online learning outlets. MIT OCW is widely used by educators and students both for developing/assembling course content and finding additional course materials to supplement learning. Courses are listed by topic, instructional approach, and materials. The OCW Educator helps users…
Equality Archive
Equality Archive is a multimedia open educational resource that documenta the history of sex and gender equality in the United States. Drawing on the Equal Rights Amendment (and its lack of success in Congress) as source of inspiration, Equality Archive contains multimodal (text/image/video) entries about feminist histories, people, and issues. You can search these issues,…
Saylor Academy
Saylor Academy offers course content for over 100 courses in various disciplines. Browse the course catalog to find lecture content, readings, and activities. Saylor’s curated materials come from various free and open online resources that are developed by expert educators. Most courses and resources focus on introductory and general education courses. Visit Saylor Academy
Merlot II
MERLOT II (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is an online database of open educational resources from across the web. Search functionality allows educators to filter the resources by keyword, discipline, ISBN number, material type, and more. The MERLOT II platform contains everything from full text books, to references guides, full courses, case…