Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources (OER) are materials for learning, teaching, and research that are freely available and can be reused, adapted, and shared under an open license (Unesco 2019).

Advantages of Using Open Educational Resources in Education.

Students can study at their own pace, allowing them to pause and review as needed.
Teachers have the opportunity to experiment with new teaching methods and techniques.
Reusing others' materials and knowledge saves time and resources, with Creative Commons licenses clearly indicating how the material can be used.

A Selection of Open Educational Resources

Elements of AI is a course that teaches the basics of artificial intelligence.
Writing in English at University offers videos about academic writing from Lund University.
Academic Phrasebank is a general resource for academic writers from The University of Manchester, with an enhanced and expanded version available in PDF.

Platforms for Searching Open Educational Resources

International Platforms

OER Commons: A digital library with open educational resources. You can filter your search to find the type of material you are interested in.
MERLOT: Provides collections of peer-reviewed online learning materials.
Teaching Commons: Collects open textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, and multimedia from colleges and universities worldwide.
Mason OER Metafinder (MOM): Simultaneously searches multiple repositories and platforms for OER. Due to the many metadata standards within OER, it cannot be guaranteed that every item is 'open' in the strict sense.

Tip! If you want to find materials in Swedish, you can try filtering by language.

Nordic and European Platforms

Library of Open Educational Resources (Finland)
edusources (Netherlands)
Europeana (Europe)

Search for recorded lectures

MIT Open Learning Library is a collection of educational resources from MITx and MIT OpenCourseWare.
EdX offers interactive online courses (MOOCs) in subjects such as law, history, science, technology, business, social sciences, computer science, public health, and AI.
TED Talks share short lectures (around 18 minutes) on education, economics, science, technology, and more.

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Open Textbooks

There are numerous freely available textbooks published as Open Access. These open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers, allowing them to be freely used and adapted. Utilizing open textbooks offers many benefits.

The video below is based on the article Open Educational Resources and College Textbook Choices: A Review of Research on Efficacy and Perceptions by Hilton, J highlights several advantages of open textbooks.

A Review of the Effectiveness & Perceptions of Open Educational Resources As Compared to Textbooks (04:40)

You can find open textbooks through various platforms, search services, and publishers' websites.

Open Textbooks - Nationally

Several universities in Sweden publish literature Open Access. Here are some examples:

LiU Electronic Press publishes course material and learning resources openly and freely available to everyone.

Open Books at Lunds University is a platform for publishing open access e- books produced within Lund University. The platform is operated by the Libraries at Lund University.

Malmö University Press is an Open Access publisher and strives to disseminate high quality research results to a wide audience. We are non-profit, and work in a spirit of collaboration and openness - with close ties to researchers and academia.

Stockholm University Press is an open access publisher of peer reviewed academic journals and books.

In Sweden, there is also Kriterium.

Kriterium is a platform for the review, publication and dissemination of high-quality academic books, in accordance with the principles for open access.

In Libris you can search for open educational resources

by combining your subject with the search string (“öppna lärresurser” OR “öppna läromedel” OR OER OR “open educational resources”) in the subject search field.
For example, pedagogy (“öppna lärresurser” OR “öppna läromedel” OR OER OR “open educational resources”)

You can also use the Free online filter in combination with your subject.

If you need more help using Libris, there is also a quick guide and help section on Libris website.

Open Textbooks - Internationally

InTech Open Access Books contains openly accessible monographs, mainly in the field of physical sciences, engineering and technology, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.

Open Textbook Library offers free access to open textbooks in various subjects such as business, computer science, education, engineering, science, law, humanities, and journalism.

DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books. The service covers several different subject areas.

Open Access eBooks on JSTOR (JSTOR Journal Storage) is a digital library that offers access to a comprehensive collection of scholarly articles and books, among other things, in the humanities and social sciences, as well as in several other disciplines.

OpenStax texbooks provides free, open-source textbooks for various subjects and levels of education.

OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) is a repository for Open Access books containing academic titles mostly in humanities and social sciences.

Open Textbooks - OER Commons ISKME's digital librarians have curated collections of Open Textbooks and full courses to help leverage OER in your classroom.

Open Research Library (ORL) is a portal that plans to gather all open textbooks from around the world. Here, books are available in various subject categories, and books are made accessible once they have received sufficient cost coverage from libraries or institutions.

Through this link, you will find publishers offering Open Textbooks. Publishers of OA books