Open courseware sites offer educators access to a wide variety of course materials including, but not limited to, syllabi, reading lists, lecture notes, assignments, and exams. Each site below also includes the licenses and permissions that accompany the courseware.
- MIT Open Courseware Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the forerunners in open courseware, making "virtually all MIT course content" available online for public access. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiatives Carnegie Mellon offers courseware online, in addition to complete courses as well. Its mission is to improve higher education by offering such resources online. CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
- Open Education Consortium The Open Education Consortium in collaboration with MERLOT offers a search engine on OER (Open Educational Resources). OER are openly licensed online educational materials that allow teachers and students to freely use, share, and modify. Licenses vary. Verify individual items.
- Open Course Library The Open Course Library (OCL) is a collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts. CC BY 3.0
- Saylor Academy Saylor Academy is a nonprofit organization that offers nearly 100 full-length, free and open courses at the college and professional levels. CC BY 3.0
*This content was copied from Furman's OER General Collections LibGuide page with permission.