Here you will find a variety of topics and subject matter covered in open educational resources (OER). Please note that new content is being placed into the open everyday. Online collections of textbooks and educational materials are available to Sunshine State students and faculty for free! Find free, open textbooks for a range of courses from Algebra to English Composition to Precalculus to Oceanography to Zoology. Some colleges and universities also provide free textbooks and content to their students directly through the learning management system. These state and national repositories are filled with open educational resources for you to discover and explore.
Florida Open Academic Library (FOAL)
FL Guides and Resources
HBCU Affordable Learning Community Portal
BC Campus Open Ed Collection
LibreTexts
Mason OER Metafinder
Merlot
OASIS
OER Commons
OpenStax
Open Textbook Library
Open Course Library
Saylor Academy
OpenTextbookStore (Math Only)
SOL*R
Creative Commons Search
Project Gutenberg
University Presses and Library Publishing
MIT OpenCourseware
PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder
National Science Digital Library
Pressbooks Directory
Wikibooks
Teaching Commons
Jstor Open Community Collections
Skills Commons
The following are just a couple of examples of what an open textbook may look like that were developed by Florida faculty:
Florida Open Academic Library (FOAL)
The Florida Open Academic Library (FOAL), Openlib.flvc.org, provides an online portal to Florida’s treasure of digital archives and collections housed at public colleges and universities, discovery of over 1.25 million digital collections and archives across the state. Over 150 repository sites searched in one location.
Canvas Course Shells
Faculty looking for Canvas Course Shells, in select subjects, please log-in to Canvas. Go to Canvas Commons in sidebar and search: CCC, OEI, OpenStax, OER. Note: your administrator must have Canvas Commons turned on for faculty to access.
PressBooks Directory
There area few active institutions in Florida using PressBooks. You can find Florida institution created content indexed on the PressBooks Directory.