LibGuides: CTL Faculty Development: A&OER, Subject Specific OER

Getting Started with OER, A Quick Start Guide
This brief guide provides an introduction to understanding, finding, and using Open Educational Resources (OER).
Affordable & Open Educational Resources (A&OER)
For additional information on A&OER, visit this guide.

Join the CCCOER Community

CCCOER’s community of practice email group.
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources. Are you interested in discussions about open education at community and technical colleges? Sign up to join. The email group is hosted by GoogleGroups so you can search the archive for past discussion topics.
CCCOER Webinars
Community College Consortium for OER. Webinars from CCCOER's community of practice.

Search for OER by Discipline or Subject

Canvas Commons
Commons is a learning object repository that enables educators to find, import, and share resources. A digital library full of educational content, Commons allows Canvas users to share learning resources with other users as well as import learning resources into a Canvas course.
CCCOER Subject-Specific list, Community College Consortium for OER
OER by Discipline Directory, BCcampus
A reference of OER listed by subject area and discipline. The BCcampus Open Education OER by Discipline Directory lists a wide range of open educational resources organized by discipline. This directory is updated as new resources are identified.
Teaching Commons, Browse Authors and Works by Discipline
The Teaching Commons showcases high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities and makes them available to educators and students around the world.
Open Educational Resources (OER) in the Music Theory Classroom: Open Educational Resources (OER) in the Music Theory Classroom: A Curricular Redesign Travelogue
Includes a link to Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy, vol. 5.
For additional information, refer to A&OER guide
Includes subject boxes for Economics, English, Mathematics, Nursing, Psychology, and the Sciences, STEM

Library Resources

Integrate affordable STLCC Libraries resources in your courses

In addition to strictly OER resources, there are a number of ways classroom faculty can supplement or replace costly course materials with resources from STLCC Libraries. Instruction librarians are available to help you find, vet, and curate resources available to all registered STLCC students through our Libraries and other institutions.

Below you'll find a few examples that are easily implemented.

Discipline-specific Library Research Guides are automatically linked in your Blackboard course. Select the Libraries/Resources folder to view them. In the Libraries/Resources folder, you'll also find a link to create a reading list for your students directly from the Libraries' discovery tool, Search It! If you are in the Blackboard edit mode, look for the hidden folder housing this tool.
Faculty may place direct links to resources such as library instruction videos, a favorite database for an assignment, select ebooks, articles, or to a full text run of a journal title. Use Ask a Librarian to contact an instruction librarian for assistance.
Some of our ebooks allow for unlimited simultaneous users, making these texts perfect for affordable course textbooks. The databases listed below provide collections of books allowing unlimited simultaneous users.

Credo Reference
Online reference library that provides access to a growing selection of reference books.

Online reference library that provides access to a growing selection of reference books. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, and a range of subject-specific titles from art to accountancy and literature to law. Credo Reference generates a network of cross-references that provide an easy-to-follow trail to related information contained anywhere within the library.

Help Videos
Gale eBooks
Encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources.

Gale eBooks is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.

Help videos
O’Reilly for Higher Education (OHE)
Provides unlimited access to over 45,000 ebooks in computer programming, information technology, business, math, science, and engineering. Includes streaming videos, case studies, expert playlists, and more. Need help?

Support at https://www.oreilly.com/online-learning/support/

• Download apps, sync all your devices, and never lose your place.
• Learn even when there’s no signal with offline access.
Sage Knowledge
Reference books including social science, green issues, and criminal justice.

SAGE Knowledge provides an interface to search SAGE Book, Business Case, Reference, and Video titles in the social sciences. Links to SAGE Journals and SAGE Research Methods are provided through a "SAGE Recommends" widget.

PDF Guide
Salem Press
Salem Press titles in literature, history, science, and health.

Salem Press titles in literature, history, science, and health. Includes Magill's Literary Annual 1977-current, Masterplots, Magill's Medical Guide, the Great Events and Great Lives from History reference series, and several science encyclopedias.

PDF Guide

Library Help for Faculty