LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Education

Education Resources

Textbooks
Courses

This is a selection of openly licensed course material that has been created for free use in courses. These resources may be adopted for use as classroom text, modified to create new texts, or used as a supplemental learning tool to aid in understanding key concepts.

Arts Education

Arts Integration in Elementary Curriculum: 2nd Edition by Molly Zhou; David Brown

This open textbook was created with the support of an ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Topics include art integration, music integration, physical education / dance integration, and the theoretical foundations of arts integration in education. Licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 International.
Music and the Child by Natalie Sarrazin

This book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. Licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA.

Educational Psychology

Educational Learning Theories: 2nd Edition

This open textbook was the result of a remix of pre-existing open materials collected and reviewed by Molly Zhou and David Brown. Learning theories covered include the theories of Piaget, Bandura, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, Dewey, Bronfenbrenner, Eriksen, Gardner, Bloom, and Maslow. Licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 International.
Educational Psychology: 2nd Edition by Kevin Sifert; Rosemary Sutton
In general the first half of this open textbook focuses on broader questions and principles taken from psychology per se, and the second half focuses on somewhat more practical issues of teaching. But the division between “theory” and “practice” is only approximate; all parts of the book draw on research, theory, and practical wisdom wherever appropriate. Licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY.

Educational Technology

Teaching Crowds by Jon Dron; Terry Anderson
In Teaching Crowds, Dron and Anderson introduce a new model for understanding and exploiting the pedagogical potential of Web-based technologies, one that rests on connections -- on networks and collectives -- rather than on separations. Licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND.
Teaching in a Digital Age - Second Edition by Tony Bates

The book examines the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age when all of us, and in particular the students we are teaching, are using technology. A framework for making decisions about your teaching is provided, while understanding that every subject is different, and every instructor has something unique and special to bring to their teaching. Licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC.

Education Courses

UCI Open
The University of California-Irvine has a large collection of open courses, containing full lecture videos. Each course is openly licensed under individual Creative Commons licenses.
- Cognition and Learning in Educational Settings, by Michael Martinez
- Language and Literacy, by Prof. Penelope Collins
- Teaching PE and Health, Elementary Education, by Jeff Johnston

K-12 Resources for Students to Create Mock Lesson Plans

Databases

cK-12 Database - cK-12 is a free resource database containing a library of standards-aligned online textbooks, videos, exercises, flashcards, and applications for more than 5,000 K-12 concepts.
Curriki - Curriki is an online database of educator-vetted open educational resources for use in K-12 classrooms, created and shared by teachers, educators, and professionals worldwide.
Go Open Michigan - A library of open educational resources created by Michigan educators and funded by the State of Michigan. #goopenmichigan
Khan Academy - Khan Academy provides free access to practice exercises, instructional videos, and other educational content in order to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
Michigan Open Book Project - Founded and funded as part of the Technology Readiness Infrastructure Grant (TRIG), this online library contains a collection of open textbooks for use in classrooms around Michigan. The books are licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA.
WikiJunior - A project produced in conjunction with WikiBooks, WikiJunior is a site containing age-appropriate, community-produced non-fiction books for children age 0-12 years. The books have all been published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license.

Video Resources

HippoCampus - Hippocampus is a video library containing more than 7,000 free videos in 13 subject areas.
MIT Blossoms - MIT Blossoms is an online library of math and science video lessons for use in high-school classes.

Read-Aloud Texts

(Note: Many of these resources are freely available for access and viewing, but are not truly open-licensed. Always check to make sure you are allowed to use a work in the way you intend to.)

Indianapolis Public Library - A curated list of 100+ read-aloud videos.
Storyline Online
Brightly Storytime (Penguin Random House)
Story Time From Space
World Book Day - Share a Story Corner
Radio New Zealand - Storytime by RNZ
The Official Robert Munsch Site
Mem Fox
Oxford OWL - Storyteller Videos

Resources for Lessons, Lesson Plans, and Curriculum

BetterLesson - BeterLesson is a teaching project devoted to building an online body of knowledge around authentic instructional practice. It includes a collection of lesson plans designed to meet discipline standards.
EDSITEment - An online library from the National Endowment for the Humanities that includes lesson plans and study activities for students.
Mathematics Vision Project - The Mathematics Vision Project (MVP) provides curriculum for students in mathematics classrooms ranging from Secondary Math 1 through Algebra 2.
Share My Lesson - an online repository of k-12 lesson plans, created by teachers for teachers.
TeacherTube - a resource that allows teachers to upload and view video recordings of lessons taught in their classroom, to aid others in forming lesson plans
TED Ed - TED Ed is a site created by the founders of the TED Talk series, in which faculty can create customized lessons for thier students based on TED talks and any other YouTube videos.