LSC-Tomball: Library Research Guides: Open Educational Resources: Open Courseware

What is Open Courseware?

Interested in seeing how others teach concepts online?

Open Courseware can act as an inspiration for your own teaching. Open Courseware are classes created and then offered for free in the virtual environment.

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Search Open Courseware:

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.

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.
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.