Finding Open Educational Resources (OER) for the courses you teach can be as simple as conducting a single search -- or it can be a real adventure in sleuthing. Make a copy of the OER Beginner's Search Worksheet to help you through the process!
Before you get started, check whether anybody is already creating lists of OER on your subject! There's no harm in Googling "OER + Your Discipline."
We recommend Tacoma Community College's OER by Subject guides. Choose a subject, then click into the "OER starting points" tab to see the collected OER recommendations.
Try searching these open textbook repositories in this order - we've listed smaller collections of high-quality OER at the top of the list in hope you'll find a great textbook fast!
You've found some great OER. Now what? Meet with an instructional designer at the ITRC for help determining the accessibility of the OER you locate, incorporating OER into your course, and/or editing or remixing OER to work for your course.
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