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Learning Objects

Textbooks under open license

NC Libraries & Learning Commons: OERs - per discipline 

SOL*R – some B.C.-based projects and resources funded by BCcampus.

Orange Grove Text – Florida's operational repository project of open source educational materials.

The Assayer – largest catalog of open source textbooks and place to find free books about math, science, and computers.

Digital Textbook Initiative - California Learning Resource Network, Government Schwarzenegger

College Open Textbooks (US community college open textbook site) – lists open textbooks by subject, many of which have been peer reviewed.

Connexions – Content Commons of free, open-licensed educational materials in fields such as music, electrical engineering and psychology.

Wikibooks – Wikimedia community for creating and sharing educational textbooks.

Merlot - free and open resource designed primarily for higher education.

OER Commons – worldwide learning network of shared teaching and learning materials.

CCCOER – Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources

Free Technology Academy

FLOSS Manuals – free manuals for free software

Free Book Centre – a collection of free books on the web

Global Text – open content electronic textbooks

The Saylor Foundation – a free and open collection of college-level courses.

CK-12 Flexbooks (US repository of open access textbooks) – K-12 open textbooks and resources (incl. Math & Science)

Jorum – Open Educational Repository for higher education communities in the UK

Flatworldknowledge (US Open access college textbook publisher)

Open Educational Resources (US repository of open access material including textbooks and articles on open access in education)

Smarthistory (Free and open art history textbook)

Curriki (US repository of open access educational materials, including textbooks)

Open book project (US based IT open access resources)

The Open Access Atlas of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Operative Surgery (CC-BY-NC)