SDCC Library: Open Educational Resources (OER): Open Courseware

What is Open Courseware?

Open Courseware refers to classes created and then offered for free in the virtual environment. See how others teach concepts online! Open Courseware can act as an inspiration for your own teaching.

From Open Educational Resources (OER) libguide by Heather Blicher

Canvas Commons

Looking for built-out modules or courses, ready to adapt to your needs? Try looking in the Canvas Commons. You can access it within your course shell from the left navigation menu:

Modules can be downloaded directly into your course. Watch a short video by Dave Giberson on that here.

Courses can also be downloaded BUT BEWARE you will need to do so into a NEW course shell otherwise you risk overwriting your existing course shell. Call Instructure's Canvas Faculty Support and ask them to create a new shell for you, THEN import the course cartridge it into that shell. See directions below:

Directions from the SDCCD Online Learning Pathways web site:

REQUEST A CANVAS DEVELOPMENT SHELL

Faculty are recommended to create content in a development shell as opposed to their "teaching" shell
Call Canvas Faculty Support 1-844-612-7422
Make sure you have your 10-digit Employee ID available
During the verification process state that you are from the San Diego Community College District
Make sure you specifically ask for a “Canvas Development Shell

Open Courseware Collections

Academic Earth
This website acts as a gateway to online courses and content offered by universities such as MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale.
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Subjects included: Accounting, Art History, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Education, Engineering, Finance, Healthcare Administration, Management, Mathematics, Marketing, Physics, Psychology, Social Work, and Sociology.
Carnegie Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative
Created by Carnegie Mellon University, this Open CourseWare service offers courses that you can enroll in, "peek at", or adopt for your own use in online teaching. Some require small fees, but most are free.
Johns Hopkins University Open Courseware
Khan Academy
Sign up for a free account and you will have access to practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard in many subject areas.
MIT Open CourseWare
MIT is credited with being the original Open CourseWare creator. Classes that have been created and taught for MIT are offered free of charge online for those interested in self-directed study. 2,000 courses with topics that include: Engineering, Health Sciences & Technology, Management, Humanities, & More!
Open Course Library
This site contains 41 courses developed specifically for community colleges over the last two years in Washington State - 39 more are being developed over the next year. Faculty can take these courses and modify them as appropriate, then incorporate them into Blackboard.
Open Education Consortium Search
Searches across 80 providers of open courseware.
OpenLearn
These classes are offered free of charge through the Open University of the United Kingdom. Topics range from "Music Theory" to "An Introduction to Sustainable Energy", "Psychology in the 21st Century" to "Products, Services, and Branding".
Open Yale Courses
The Saylor Foundation
This Open CourseWare includes topics such as: General Education, Art History, Computer Science, English Literature, and More! The foundation lays out a course of study for each subject that includes multiple classes at various levels.
Serendipity Semantic Course Search
Guided open resources and courseware search.

From Open Educational Resources (OER) libguide by Heather Blicher

University Sponsored Courseware

Several universities have made available the educational course materials developed by their faculty.

The educational materials for each course may include syllabi, lectures, notes, powerpoint presentations, readings, assignments, and video or audio lectures, depending on the course, the semester, and the professor.