The Open/Alternative Textbook Initiative encourages faculty experimentation and innovation in finding new, better and less costly ways to deliver learning materials to students. Here are some examples of open textbooks used at other institutions.
Through grant funding, Open Stax College is producing free open textbooks for high enrollment college courses using the Connexions platform. Currently available are: College Physics, Introduction to Sociology, Biology, Concepts of Biology, and Anatomy and Physiology.
The University of Minnesota Open Education Initiative
UM created a catalog of open textbooks and is providing $500-$1000 stipends for faculty members to review and adopt these resources.
The American Institute of Mathematic Open Textbook Initiative
Contains links to open textbooks that meet AIM’s evaluation criteria.
Florida’s digital repository, contains links to a variety of open textbooks.
Textbooks, syllabi, assessments, in 81 high-enrollment college courses created by a Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges (SBCTC) grant.
A collection of open-content textbooks built on a Wikipedia like platform.
Open Educational Resources Repositories
Both of these repositories contain open textbooks along with a wealth of other open educational resources.
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)
