Open Educational Resources (OER)

Find OER "from leading colleges and universities" in disciplines including Arts & Humanities, Business, Education, Engineering, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Mathematics, and Social & Behavioral Sciences. From UMass Amherst.

A collection of eight ECE course textbooks available in both English and Spanish. College of the Canyons in California provided the English textbooks used for translation and shared as a Spanish collection on this site.

Ed Tech Books is a site that provides free access to textbooks for topics in Education, "because knowledge should be free, and educational technology should lead the way!"

A collection of readings on Learning Environments Design. Created by EDUC/HCI-603: Advanced Learning Environments Design graduate course at Iowa State University.

Communication, Affect, & Learning in the Classroom was original published by Virginia Richmond and Joan Gorham in 1992 and then updated a decade later by Virginia Richmond, Jason S. Wrench, and Joan Gorham in 2001. The purpose of the third edition of this handbook is to synthesize the first three decades of research in instructional communication into a single volume that can help both researchers and instructors understand the value of communication in the instruction process.

Our goal is that students in introductory instructional design courses will be able to use this book as a guide for completing a basic instructional design project. We also hope the book is useful as a ready resource for more advanced students or others seeking to develop their instructional design knowledge and skills.

Instruction in Functional Assessment introduces learners to functional assessment (FA), which includes a variety of assessment approaches for identifying the cause of an individual’s challenging behavior for the purpose of designing effective treatments.

Instructional Design provides a proven framework to design all types of instruction and these principles can be used to design a “Flipped” course.

This online textbook addresses the population of individuals with disabilities that experience complex lifelong needs across multiple areas in their lives. Drs. Sennott and Loman drafted this book (along with the help from some friends) with the hope of providing pertinent, practical, and current resources to future special educators who plan to serve individuals with complex disabilities.

The Changing Story gives you assignments, resources, and examples to use in your teaching and learning. It will also help you think of ways digital stories can be used in your teaching, and help students harness the power of visual storytelling.

This collection of essays explores the authors’ work in, inquiry into, and critique of online learning, educational technology, and the trends, techniques, hopes, fears, and possibilities of digital pedagogy.

The book examines the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age when all of us, and in particular the students we are teaching, are using technology. A framework for making decisions about your teaching is provided.

This book is about teachers who care about students’ learning and are motivated to take risks and actively reflect on how to best facilitate that learning. What is most resonant for me after reading “Innovative Learning and Teaching” is how important relationships and communities are to effective higher education.

Education for a Digital World contains a comprehensive collection of proven strategies and tools for effective online teaching, based on the principles of learning as a social process. It offers practical, contemporary guidance to support e-learning decision-making, instructional choices, as well as program and course planning, and development.

This collection is everything hopeful about open. It’s the entangled voices that gather in our shared spaces to talk about what’s wrong, and what could be better. We don’t have to agree on what open is. We don’t need a particular license or a common set of resources. What we need is the courage to walk into conversation.

This book represents a starting point towards curating and centering marginal voices and non-dominant epistemic stances in open education. It includes the work of 43 diverse authors whose perspectives challenge the dominant hegemony.

The book supports a speaking-intensive course that introduces you to key concepts in the study of childhood from multidisciplinary perspectives. Your reading and listening will allow you to examine the historical and socio-cultural constructions of “the child” and childhood, exploring topics such as child development, cultural notions of adolescence, children as social agents, children’s rights, and challenges facing children in both local and global contexts. In the Libretexts interface, you can download a full pdf of the book or remix the content.

Welcome to learning about how to effectively plan curriculum for young children. This textbook will address developing curriculum through the planning cycle, theories that inform what we know about how children learn and the best ways for teachers to support learning, the three components of developmentally appropriate practice, and more!

Guided by cultural beliefs and principles, families select experiences, convey attitudes, and impart knowledge to their children to prepare them for adulthood. Accordingly, it is important for program staff to learn to collaborate effectively with families. To develop a partnership and to tap into the family as a primary resource, early childhood educators must reach out to, learn about, and develop strong partnerships with families.

A book about writing (and reading) nonfiction with children in the elementary grades.

This text compiles six case studies from this model to illustrate how teaching challenges were improved. Appropriate for practiced educators as well as educators in training, this text provides a real world look into applying Learning Standards in early childhood classrooms.

This open textbook was revised in 2018 under a Round Eleven University of Georgia Mini-Grant and explores the topic of various fine arts integrations within elementary curricula. Topics include: Music, Visual Arts, Literary Arts, Performing Arts, and Physical Education and Movement.

This is book is fairly comprehensive and I feel could be used by most foundational courses in elementary mathematics. The structure and writing provide a good foundation for students learning the "why" behind the mathematics and becoming mathematical thinkers.

This text is a compilation of essays from Canadian graduate students that reflect their growing knowledge about English as an Additional Language (EAL). Most students enrolled in the online course ECUR 415 are practicing teachers who are working toward a Post-Degree Certificate in EAL Education (PDCEAL), while continuing to live and work in various locations both within and outside of the province.

The book provides a window into the vast storehouse of innovations and technologies of the Indigenous peoples who live in Northwestern North America. It is our hope that the Indigenous Science examples, research and curriculum models will inspire deep reflection regarding the under-representation of Aboriginal students in the sciences.

The ability to recognise and understand your own cultural context is a prerequisite to understanding and interacting with people from different cultural backgrounds. An intercultural learning approach encourages us to develop an understanding of culture and cultural difference, through reflecting on our own context and experience.

This book provides approaches anyone can use to explore their communities and write about them first-hand. The methods presented can be used for a single assignment in a larger course or to guide an entire semester through many levels and varieties of informed personal writing.

Larysa Nadolny, Associate Professor in the School of Education and Human Computer Interaction, created three modules on fair use and copyright for educators thanks to funding from a 2018 Miller Open Education M-ni-Grant.

This book provides a comprehensive historical and contemporary overview of issues related to copyright scholarship, legal implications, and pedagogy in the context of changing political and technological landscapes.

The materials within this guide are intended to support multidisciplinary teams in or during the pre-production phase of serious game design as they collaborate in a facilitated workshop. It is critical that the workshop facilitators are familiar with the conceptual framework and proposed methodology in order to better support participants as they collaborate in the game design brainstorming and protoyping steps.