Open Educational Resources (OER)
This guide is intended to provide SNHU faculty/staff information and support in researching open educational resources and copyright/licensing.
Questions?
If you have any questions, or if you would like more information, please contact:
Ellen Phillips - Director, Open Educational Resources & Intellectual Property, e.phillips@snhu.edu (603.652.1900)
License Information
All original content in this guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 This link opens in a new window International License. 3rd-party content including, but not limited to images and linked items, are subject to their own license terms.
OER Community
- Open Education Consortium This link opens in a new windowOEC is a non-profit, global, members-based network of open education institutions and organizations and provides advocacy and leadership around advancement of open education globally.
- SPARC This link opens in a new windowThe Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication.
- Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) This link opens in a new windowCCCOER is a growing consortium of community and technical colleges committed to expanding access to education and increasing student success through adoption of open educational policy, practices, and resources. Find open and free textbooks, archived information from the active listserv, webinars, case studies, and more.
- Achieving the Dream This link opens in a new windowATD is a comprehensive non-governmental reform movement for student success, helping more than 4 million community college students have a better economic opportunity and achieve their dreams.
- International Council for Open & Distance Education This link opens in a new windowThe International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) is the leading global membership organization for open, distance, flexible and online education, including e-learning, and draws its membership from institutions, educational authorities, commercial actors, and individuals.
- OER Digest This link opens in a new windowOER Digest is a bi-weekly newsletter for open education updates, opportunities, and reminders. The primary audience is the OER community in the United States and Canada, although subscribers come from all around the world. New editions are published every other Thursday.
- EDUCAUSE This link opens in a new windowEDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association that helps higher education elevate the impact of IT.
- Creative Commons This link opens in a new windowCreative Commons helps you legally share your knowledge and creativity to build a more equitable, accessible, and innovative world.
- NorthEast Regional Computing Program This link opens in a new windowNERCOMP is a professional society for University and Collegiate Information Technology professionals in the Northeastern United States, cultivating communities of practice around information and technology.
- Open Education Group Research Review This link opens in a new windowThe Open Education Group is an interdisciplinary group of people based at Brigham Young University and partners who are passionate about improving education.
Open Initiatives
- Open Washington This link opens in a new windowOER Repository and Toolkit managed by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
- Open Oregon This link opens in a new windowOpen Oregon Educational Resources programs and services are funded by the Community College and Workforce Development Office of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission and the Oregon State Legislature.
- Open Michigan This link opens in a new windowOpen Michigan enables the University of Michigan community to make the products of its research, teaching, and creative work available to the world beyond campus, including expertise and services for open educational resources, open data, and open publications.