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Open Educational Resources or OERs (including open textbooks) are any content which is:

  • openly available (can be readily found or discovered)
  • openly accessible (exists in a form which others can readily use)
  • openly reusable (faculty can easily modify if license allows)

For links to major collections, subject collections, open courses, textbooks, and more, see NWTC's Open Educational Resources Guide.

A great place to search for Open Educational Resources is through the Creative Commons site.

NWTC also has several custom OER textbooks in the various libraries from LibreTexts. This site makes it easy to find OER content! Contact Kim LaPlante if you would like her to create a custom textbook for you from chapters found on LibreTexts.

For more information, see Spokane Community College's guide to open textbooks and other open educational resources.