Open Education

Open Education Resource Course Initiative at Carl Sandburg College (started Fall 2014)

The purpose of OER is to provide support and opportunities for Carl Sandburg College faculty to use OERs in their courses, and save students money by reducing textbook requirements and increasing the number of textbook-free courses.

Select links below for current information on OER initiative.

• OER savings
• OER offerings

OER resources (all links current as of Spring 2022)

• Bookshare
• FlatWorld
• Lumen Learning
• MERLOT
• OER Commons
• Open Assembly
• Open Course Library
• OpenStax (site continually updated)
• Open Textbook Library
• OpenTextBookStore
• myOpenMath