External Resources – WHEA Pathways

WHEA Pathways External Resources

Additional External Resources

The primary resources in this curated learning repository have been created or curated by WHSC educators, for WHSC educators.

We wanted to also draw your attention to additional external websites that host open education resources (OERs) that you can incorporate in your work. OERs are “Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain or released with intellectual property licenses that facilitate the free use, adaptation and distribution of resources.” (Source: https://en.unesco.org/themes/ict-education/oer)

BC Campus

``The B.C. Open Textbook Collection is home to a growing selection of open textbooks for a variety of subjects and specialties. Discover open textbooks that have been reviewed by faculty, meet our accessibility requirements, and/or include ancillary materials (quizzes, test banks, slides, videos, etc.).``

Open Textbook Library

``Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.`` (Based at University of Minnesota)

Teaching Tools

Teaching tools for educators

LibreTexts

``The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.``

OpenStax

``We publish high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print. Seriously. We've also developed a low-cost, research-based courseware that gives students the tools they need to complete their course the first time around, and a new online math homework system with step-level feedback.`` (From Rice University)

Cross Academy

Handbook for college faculty

MERLOT

``The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.``

PhET Interactive Simulations

``Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.``

OER Commons

``OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.``

The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)

George Mason University Libraries also offers The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM), a real-time federated search for OER content, that can be used to search OER-specific sites (such as those listed above) for resources.