Open Educational Resources (OER): STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math)

Saylor Legacy Course

Teach Astronomy is an astronomy learning tool, intended either as a supplement for classroom instruction or for informal learners.

Wikibooks is a Web site where this and other free textbooks are developed. In addition to this book, Wikibooks is the host of related textbook projects

MIT Open Courseware

Search or Browse all NASA funded articles in PubMed Central.

"Free open source planetarium for your computer."

Biology 101A Packet from Open Oregon

Digital Commons Network

Susan Burran
Dalton State College, sburran@daltonstate.edu
David DesRochers
Dalton State College, ddesrochers@daltonstate.edu

The Atlas of Marine Invertebrates is a photographic collection that aims to represent the range of morphological diversity found within marine invertebrate phyla. It is also the only Open Educational Resource (OER) of its kind and holds a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Users should feel free to share, adapt and reuse this atlas as needed except for commercial use. It should be noted that future editions will add missing phyla, anatomical drawings, labeling exercises and expand existing phyla and captions.

Susan Burran, David DesRochers

AdiChemistry is an educational website covering general, inorganic, organic, physical and interdisciplinary areas of chemical sciences.

a reference text for General Chemistry
Stephen Lower
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 General Chemistry Virtual Textbook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Resources to Teach and Learn Chemistry
The ChemCollective is a collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials, and concept tests.

Free Online Textbook.
Dickerson, Richard E. and Gray, Harry B. and Haight, Gilbert P. (1979) Chemical principles. Third edition. The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc. , Menlo Park, CA. ISBN 0805323988. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1979.001

A video-based instructional series in chemistry with accompanying web site for high school and college classes. 13 half-hour programs, online text, course guide, interactive lessons, historical timeline and periodic table.

The LibreTexts libraries are Powered by MindTouch® and are supported by the Department of Education Open Textbook Pilot Project, the UC Davis Office of the Provost, the UC Davis Library, the California State University Affordable Learning Solutions Program, and Merlot.

Introductory Chemistry - 1st Canadian Edition by Jessie A. Key, Vancouver Island University, David W Ball, Cleveland State University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

General Chemistry lectures covering concepts with example problems. These lectures are part of an online CHM 111 and CHM 112 courses at Germanna Community College in Fredericksburg, VA.

© Nov 13, 2018 OpenStax Chemistry: Atom First. Textbook content produced by OpenStax Chemistry: Atom First is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 license.

A complete organic chemistry lab techniques textbook can be downloaded for free from this website on the "Download" tab. The textbook is in PDF format and uses hyperlinks.

PubChem is the world's largest collection of freely accessible chemical information. Search chemicals by name, molecular formula, structure, and other identifiers. Find chemical and physical properties, biological activities, safety and toxicity information, patents, literature citations and more.

Derived from Biology by OpenStax.
Dec 19, 2016 Adrienne Correa. Textbook content produced by Adrienne Correa is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 license.

Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial.
This book was written by undergraduate students at The Ohio State University (OSU) who were enrolled in the class Introduction to Environmental Science. The chapters describe some of Earth's major environmental challenges and discuss ways that humans are using cutting-edge science and engineering to provide sustainable solutions to these problems.

The Habitable Planet is a multimedia course for high school teachers and adult learners interested in studying environmental science. The Web site provides access to course content and activities developed by leading scientists and researchers in the field.

© Aug 10, 2015 David Cole. Textbook content produced by David Cole is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 license.

Andrew Millison. Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial.

Derived from Concepts of Biology by OpenStax.
Jan 30, 2017 matt covill. Textbook content produced by matt covill is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 license.

Materials from the TAACCCT grant with many courses related to sustainability and a few certificate and degree programs.

Open textbook on BC Campus.
Author: Tom Theis, University of Illinois, Jonathan Tomkin, University of Illinois.
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

May 13, 2019 OpenStax. Textbook content produced by OpenStax is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 license.

The MIT Physics Department is one of the largest in the nation, in part because it includes astronomy and astrophysics

ComPADRE is the Digital Library for the educational resources used by educators, researchers, and students in physics and astronomy.
Free to use. Licences vary.

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.

Open access to 1,545,774 e-prints in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Submissions to arXiv should conform to Cornell University academic standards. arXiv is owned and operated by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution. arXiv is funded by Cornell University, the Simons Foundation and by the member institutions.

IntechOpen in a large online Open Access publishing platform with a sciences focus.

This playlist discusses DC circuit analysis techniques.

OER resources in Electro-Mechanical engineering

Original source: CK12; Licensing: CC-BY-NC

LibreText

Intech is a leading publisher of Open Access books on STEM subjects.

This free electrical engineering textbook provides a series of volumes covering electricity and electronics. The information provided is great for students, makers, and professionals who are looking to refresh or expand their knowledge in this field. These textbooks were written by Tony R. Kuphaldt and released under the Design Science License.

PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. We extensively test and evaluate each simulation to ensure educational effectiveness. These tests include student interviews and observation of simulation use in classrooms. The simulations are written in Java, Flash or HTML5, and can be run online or downloaded to your computer. All simulations are open source (see our source code). Multiple sponsors support the PhET project, enabling these resources to be free to all students and teachers.

7th edition, 2016
CC BY NC SA license
Multiple formats available, also includes source code downloads.

CC BY license

Site includes source code, assignments, and notes

CC BY NC SA license

“The text assumes the student will be using the BlueJ development environment and provides some introductory BlueJ material.”

CC BY NC SA license

“The text assumes the student will be using the BlueJ development environment and provides some introductory BlueJ material.”

CC BY license
Additional formats and code available on Open BC Campus site.

Programming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++ is written by Kenneth Leroy Busbee, a faculty member at Houston Community College in Houston, Texas. The materials used in this textbook/collection were developed by the author and others as independent modules for publication within the Connexions environment. Programming fundamentals are often divided into three college courses: Modular/Structured, Object Oriented and Data Structures. This textbook/collection covers the first of those three courses.

CC BY NC SA license
Links to a PDF version

Dozens of additional Open Textbooks in CS, many with user reviews.

(Sedgewick and Wayne). All rights reserved but free to access and use for educational use. Can request an instructor copy of the text and lecture slides.

OpenDSA license (open-source software that is free to use)
“Infrastructure and materials to support courses in a wide variety of Computer Science-related topics such as Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA), Formal Languages, Finite Automata, and Programming Languages.OpenDSA materials include many visualizations and interactive exercises.”

Includes instructor guides for how to import into a course, including Canvas, eTextbooks, and more

Online book, CC BY NC SA license

“What’s New in Java 8 is a short introduction to Java 8, the only publicly supported version. The book aims to offer a basic understanding of the new features and be ready to start using it. You’ll need a good understanding of Java the language and the JVM to reap the full benefits of the book. The author helps you understand Java 8, including Project Lambda, the new Date-Time API, Streams, Nashorn, and more.”

Article form OSS Blog, 2017

(MIT open course, 2010)
This course primarily uses the “Think Java” text -- additional Java resources under the “Related Resources” link
CC BY NC SA license
Click the “Assignments” for assignment files and supporting code files

Gregory Hartman, Virginia Military Institute
Department of Mathematics, University of North Dakota. Creative Commons License.

An Open Textbook
Lyryx Learning, based on original textbook by D. Guichard

Marsden, Jerrold E. and Weinstein, Alan J. (1985) Calculus I. Springer-Verlag , New York. ISBN 0387909745. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:1985.001

This set of Calculus 1 Lecture Notes and Worksheets was created under a Round Thirteen Mini-Grant for Ancillary Materials Creation and Revision. These materials were created to supplement the Lyrix version of Calculus: Early Transcendentals (https://lyryx.com/calculus-early-transcendentals/).

“GeoGebra is dynamic mathematics software for all levels of education that brings together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package.” GeoGebra can be embedded in MyOpenMath with parameters passed between them. You are free to copy, distribute and transmit GeoGebra for non-commercial purposes.

UK site that provides ancillary materials for a variety of math classes and topics. The site is browsable by classes, math topic, or resource type. You can also filter topics by audience: staff or students, or both. The materials on mathcentre are licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND (Attribution - Non-Commerical - No Derivates) License.

MyOpenMath is designed for mathematics, providing delivery of homework, quizzes, and tests with rich mathematical content. MyOpenMath can be used to web-enhance an on-campus course, as part of hybrid course, or to run a fully online course. There’s a video link provided to see how other instructors use MyOpenMath, plus a list of textbooks aligned for the pre-built courses. Links together specific chapters with related videos, homework, quizzes, etc.

A list of open and sharable resources and tools utilized by the SCC Math Department (organized by class).

“The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) seeks to encourage the adoption of open source and open access mathematics textbooks. The AIM Editorial Board has developed evaluation criteria to identify the books that are suitable for use in traditional university courses. The Editorial Board maintains a list of Approved Textbooks which have been judged to meet these criteria.” Click on the Approved Textbooks link to view multiple textbooks in many different math categories, from Liberal Arts Math to Statistics.

List of open textbooks for mathematics, in the areas of: Arithmetic, Pre-algebra, Algebra, Precalculus, Calculus, Math in Liberal Arts, Statistics, and Higher Math. Brief reviews and openness ratings for each book. Provides a link for each resource to “homepage,” which redirects you to the original source (and files) for the open textbook, plus a link to “order,” where you can order a print-on-demand copy of the textbook.

Faculty have written four math textbooks and final exam reviews and made them available for download.

"An initiative of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement,Engaging Mathematics applies the well-established SENCER method to college-level mathematics courses, with the goal of using civic issues to make math more relevant to students." Different CC licenses on various textbooks, available to download as Word, PDF, or e-book formats.

The Five College (MA) Calculus Course.

Links and info about a combination of free-to-use and OER online math resources for lesson plans, games, videos, and more.

WeBWorK is an open-source online homework system for math and sciences courses. WeBWorK is supported by the MAA and the NSF and comes with a National Problem Library (NPL) of over 20,000 homework problems.