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Create Open Educational Resources

How to find and create open educational resources.

What are Open Educational Resources?

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain or released with intellectual property licenses that facilitate the free use, adaptation and distribution of resources.

Colorado is leading the way in OER adoption, which has been shown to foster innovation, reduce costs and boost student success. Colorado Mesa University aims to encourage the adoption, adaptation, and creation of open educational resources at CMU in order to support our students and join other institutions using OER in Colorado. Learn more here

For a short introduction on how to find OER, watch this video "How can I find OER?"

OER Search Tools

OASIS

Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool that searches content from 114 different sources and contains 440,452 records. Developed by SUNY Geneseo"s Milne Library. 

OER Commons

This resource seeks to collect and distribute a variety of OER at a variety of levels and subjects. 

MOM

The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) is a real-time federated search for OER content across 21 resources. 

MERLOT

This repository is on the largest and more popular places to find and share teaching resources. 

OER Collections

Looking for Open Educational Resources you can use in your classroom? Visit the CMU More Open Educational Resources webpage.