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Open Educational Resources

A guide for instructor basic understanding of Open Educational Resources (OER), including how to find, evaluate, use and adapt OER materials for their own curriculum.

Library Resources!

Please remember you can always link library resources to your courses. We have already paid for you to have access. Physical materials can be put on reserve at Main Circulation, but we also offer digital reserve.

To put items on reserve fill out this form!

More information about adding library materials to courses can be found here.

Or contact your library liaison!

Find out more about OER and Open Access here and here!

 

Here are Unlimited Access Ebooks available through the library:

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OER - Kinesiology

Open Textbook Examples

Concepts of Fitness and Wellness

Full text: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/concepts-of-fitness-and-wellness

Disease Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles
Full Text: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-monroecc-hed110/  

Health Now
Full Text: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/742922/Health+Now

Introduction to Health
Full Text: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g4OYMjgg7ISQeITbqjoWIAd_f5PoXZB_JAIsoQxKfyg/edit#

Introduction to Nutrition

Full Text: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/an-introduction-to-nutrition

Lifetime Fitness and Wellness
Full Text: http://courses.candelalearning.com/fitness1xmaster/
Full Text: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/fitness/

Personal Health
Full Text: https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/14221-he-250-personal-health-portland-community-college/view

Yoga
Full Text: https://www.textbookequity.org/tbq-patanjalis-yoga/

Other OER Resources

Community Public Health OER Resources
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oOuw5fqzLkF7XcfBXLvFR4hpwO5o34Y-F8VjNGy2K7I/edit

Current Topics in Public Health
https://www.intechopen.com/books/current-topics-in-public-health

Environmental Health - Emerging Issues and Practice
https://www.intechopen.com/books/
environmental-health-emerging-issues-and-practice

Public Health - Methodology, Environmental and Systems Issues
https://www.intechopen.com/books/public-health-methodology-environmental-and-systems-issues

Public Health - Social and Behavioral Health
Full Text: https://www.intechopen.com/books/public-health-social-and-behavioral-health

Topics in Public Health
https://www.intechopen.com/books/topics-in-public-health

Additional Health OER Textbooks and Resources
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/textbook-listings/textbooks-by-subject/healthandnursing

 

Not finding what you’re looking for?

Open Access Websites: http://libguides.mssu.edu/open-access

 

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