EMS Program: OER

Discover how other community colleges are adopting and creating OER via 20 minute webinars.

Free e-books on OER

"7 Things You Should Know About Open Educational Resources"

An Open Educational Resources Policy Development
Guidebook for Community College Governance Officials

"Given the potential of OER to improve higher education systems, UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) have developed these Guidelines, after broad consultations with stakeholders in all regions of the world, to support governments, higher education institutions/providers, academic staff, student bodies and quality assurance/accreditation and recognition bodies."

Mike Caulfield of Keene State College thinks and writes regularly about OER.

An online course taught by Judy Baker.

"Welcome to the world of Open Educational Resources (OER). This handbook is designed to help educators find, use, develop and share OER to enhance their effectiveness online and in the classroom."

Online journal of open distance and e-learning.

"...features the open source Pressbook platform for adapting or authoring open textbooks."

Baker, J., Thierstein, J., Fletcher, K., Kaur, M., & Emmons, J. (2009). Open Textbook Proof-of-Concept via Connexions. The International Review Of Research In Open And Distance Learning, 10(5). Retrieved from http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/
article/view/633/1390

Paper from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

From Lumen Learning -- check the calculator to see how OER can increase student success!

At this link, you will find over two dozen textbooks that can be used in community college - level courses. These include -
** Anatomy & Physiology
** Biology
** Human Physiology

This link goes to Merlot's open textbook options related to the health sciences, including -
** First Aid
** Medical Knowledge Base
** Occupational Health

This online text is provided by Lumen Learning.

FOAM – Free Open Access Meducation – Medical education for anyone, anywhere, anytime.

The Health Education Assets Library offers 22,000 freely available digital materials for health sciences education. Mostly images and videos.

OCW offers open materials and images from more than a hundred courses developed by the faculty of JHSPH, the world’s foremost institution of public health education and research.

The MERLOT Health Sciences Portal is an educational resource for teaching and learning. Use this portal to discover online learning materials, MERLOT members, journals, professional organizations, and news in the health sciences and related disciplines.

The MERLOT Technical Allied Health Portal is an educational resource for teaching and learning. Use this portal to discover online learning materials, MERLOT members, journals, professional organizations, and news in the allied health sciences and related disciplines.

A list of over 100 MIT open courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels on the subject of health and medicine.

This link goes to over 200 open resources in the medical field, including lesson plans, images, case studies, full courses, etc.

Find free, open, and online educational and training resources and recommendations for the field of nursing.

The mission of the U-M Medical School is to educate students, physicians, and biomedical scholars and to provide a spectrum of comprehensive knowledge, research, patient care and service of the highest quality to the people of the State of Michigan and beyond.

Links to over 3000 open courses from 70+ providers in a wide range of health sciences.

The US Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program has created a free and open online library called SkillsCommons containing free and open learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development. The Open Educational Resources (OER) are produced by community colleges across the nation and can be found, reused, revised, retained, redistributed and remixed by individuals, institutions, and industry.

The Wisconsin Technical College System offers a series of EMT/EMS patient scenarios.

"Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools."

Free online workshop.