OpenED CUNY is a curated digital library of open educational resources (OER), zero textbook cost (ZTC) materials. It’s an excellent resource to discover CUNY OER/ZTC by format/type, subject collections as well as creator/provider. Most of the OER/ZTC created by Brooklyn College faculty has been added to the repository.

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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..

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A collaborative effort by the University System of Georgia (USG) and California State University to replace high cost textbooks across the Georgia system. The site features a list of the top 50 enrolled classes along with approved open textbooks for those classes..

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Art History Teaching Resources is a peer-curated and populated site where instructors share lesson plans and resourcesrelated to art history. You will find a rich array of detailed syllabi, assignments, exams, image clusters, and video tours of important museum collections. This site also provides an excellent space for instructors outside the field of art history to find art that this thematically linked to their course content.

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This site includes texts written specifically for the University of British Columbia OpenTextbook initiative, as well as books from other sources..

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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 available for use without restriction and can be downloaded or printed from their web sites and repositories.Image result for college open textbooks.

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The Open Educational Resources series collects instructional materials -- from textbooks to syllabi -- by the faculty of the City University of New York. To find works from a specific college or school, you may browse by Colleges, Schools, Centers..

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This site is a clearinghouse of links to books hosted in various locations, and includes a large selection of international textbooks..

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Equality Archive is a multimedia open educational resource that documents the history of sex and gender equality in the United States.contains multimodal (text/image/video) entries about feminist histories, people, and issues. Each entry contains references, links to film, video, speeches, or music relevant to its topic..

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is a gateway to European cultural assets, through this one site you can search for artworks, cultural items, archival collections from participating institutions all around Europe. This site is a gateway, and once you have selected the items you want you will be redirected to the website of the institution that owns the item, and often these sites will not have English translations..

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Located in Washington D.C., The Folger Shakespeare Library’s website hosts many useful resources geared toward teaching and learning the Bard’s work. There are full teaching modules that focus on commonly-taught Shakespeare plays. These modules contain lesson ideas, homework assignments, and assessments.

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A free library of thousands of texts for students in a range of topics covered in a university undergraduate program. Individual book chapters can be opened and modified to fit your own needs. GTP is a joint venture between the Terry College of Business of the University of Georgia and the Daniels College of Business of the University of Denver..

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HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

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HERB is a highly curated database of primary sources, assignments, and other teaching materials related to the social history of the United States. Most resources are designed to give an account of what life was like for “ordinary” people during important moments in US history. It is run by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the Graduate Center. One of the strengths of this site is that it offers highly edited resources designed for teachers to use in their classrooms; you will find resources organized by collection, era, theme, and assignment type.

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A multidisciplinary Open Access publisher of books and journals covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. InTech has published more than 850 Open Access books, and provides support services for faculty who wish to publish a book or journal and make it available via Open Access.

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Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

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The Living Lab Learning Library is an assignment repository and resources exchange developed by NY City Tech, CUNY. The site allows educators to upload and share innovative teaching practices, assignments, and classroom exercises..

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A community of volunteers from all over the world who record public domain texts: poetry, short stories, whole books, even dramatic works, in many different languages. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain in the USA and available as free downloads on the internet.

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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 packages (Candela, Waymaker, and OHM) where instructors can house their OER material and also manage/run their classes..

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MERLOT II (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is an online database of open educational resources from across the web. The platform contains everything from full text books, to references guides, full courses, case studies, online collections, and more..

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MIT OpenCourseware is an online repository with course materials for over 2340 courses developed for MIT’s online learning outlets. Courses are listed by topic, instructional approach, and materials..

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OER Commons aggregates and organizes OER materials ranging from labs to textbooks to full courses by subject area, grade levels, and type of material. The robust search and and filtering functionalities make it easy to find materials that might be of use in for courses in many disciplines.

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The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. OAPEN has books in multiple languages and covering a large variety of topics. There is a range of licensing for the books, but each books is clearly marked with the license.

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Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community.

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Produced by Rice University, this resource provides free professional grade, peer reviewed textbooks that meet the scope and sequence of most courses. Online versions are free, and print versions only cost the price of production.

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Open SUNY Textbooks is an open access textbook publishing initiative established by State University of New York libraries and supported by SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grants. This initiative publishes high-quality, cost-effective resources by engaging faculty as authors and peer-reviewers, and libraries as publishing service and infrastructure.

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From their site: "The Open Syllabus Project (OSP) is building the first large-scale online database of university course syllabi as a platform for new research, teaching, and administrative tools."

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A volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works. Most items in this collection are digitized works from the public domain, making it a rich source for those in the Humanities.

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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..

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Smarthistory is a OER textbook created by two professors who wanted to bring the artifacts of museums to students who couldn’t easily access them. Smarthistory provides a comprehensive collection of videos, images, and essays organized around themes and approaches relevant to the study of art.

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The Teaching Commons compiles and organizes by subject open access materials from higher ed institutional repositories. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.

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Words Without Border Campus is the educational sister site to Words Without Borders, the online magazine for international literature. The Campus site, geared primarily toward high school and college classrooms, draws from Words Without Borders’ rich archive of literature-in-translation and organizes it into national and thematic units, customizable to a range of courses and interests. Educators will find an array of resources to accompany each unit and reading, including contextual resources, background information, teaching ideas, and author and translator interviews. The site also houses a blog with news, updates, and reports from classrooms around the world.

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Writing Commons offers a repository of webtexts for college-level courses across the disciplines that require writing and research. Resources include materials on information literacy, ethical citation practices, style and usage, genre and audience, new media, and research and writing processes and methods.

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