Resources to Find Open Textbooks

Open Stax College - Through grant funding, Open Stax College is producing free open textbooks for high enrollment college courses using the ConneXions platform. Subjects include: 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.

The Orange Grove - Florida’s digital repository, contains links to a variety of open textbooks.

Open Course Library - Textbooks, syllabi, assessments, in 81 high-enrollment college courses created by a Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges (SBCTC) grant.

Open SUNY Textbooks - A collection of Open Educational Resources (OER) adopted across SUNY.

College Open Textbooks Collaborative - A collection of twenty-nine education organizations that are focused on driving awareness and adoptions of open textbooks. They offer training for instructors adopting open resources, peer reviews of open textbooks, and mentoring online professional networks that support for authors opening their resources, and other services.

Wikibooks - A collection of open-content textbooks built on a Wikipedia-like platform.

BCcampus OpenEd - Find or adapt textbooks that are openly licensed for reuse in 40 subject areas.

Boundless Courses - This catalog contains educational content originally curated by Boundless. Subjects include: Accounting, Art, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Communication, English, History, Mathematics, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology.

BC Open Textbook Accessbility Toolkit - The Accessibility Toolkit provides the needed resources for each content creator, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open and accessible textbook -- one that is free and accessible for all students.

Courses

"Adopting Open Textbooks" Peer-to-Peer University, 2015. (Not an active course, but content is archived.) Includes the following learning outcomes:

1. Find, evaluate, modify and adopt an open textbook
2. Build your network by finding and connecting with educators interested in open education and open textbook
3. Define and describe the following terms: open education, open educational resources (OER) and open textbooks
4. Explain why open education is important
5. Identify problems that open textbooks may address
6. Correctly identify Creative Commons licenses and use them appropriately in the context of open textbooks
7. Identify common challenges for faculty who want to use open textbooks and define strategies to help mitigate those challenges.