Research Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Find it @ WVU Library

eScholarship at West Virginia University

WVU Library Open Textbooks
Open Access Textbooks is an open access textbook project created through West Virginia University with the goal of producing cost-effective and high quality products that engage authors, faculty, and students. This project is supported by the Digital Publishing Institute and West Virginia University Libraries and is available in HTML, PDF, and EPub formats.
Digital Publishing Institute
The Digital Publishing Institute (DPI) is an international institute for digitally-oriented research that focuses on publishing open-access (OA) scholarship. The DPI is housed within the West Virginia University (WVU) Libraries and supports faculty, staff, and student production of publishing projects that require digital and media-rich components. As a new institute within WVU Libraries, the DPI is part of an organization experiencing rapid change. Over the next few years, we will be working to establish an innovative hub for scholarly communications within the WVU community that will provide a growing number of hosted research projects and OA journal hosting as well as classes, presentations, workshops, and summer institutes highlighting the publishing capacity of scholars using digital tools and technologies.
WVU Libraries Open Access Author Fund
The WVU Libraries are committed to providing open access to research for anyone anywhere. We have established an Open Access Author Fund (OAAF) for scholarly content published by WVU authors.
WVU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Digital Libraries

HathiTrust
HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.
Digital Public Library of America
Since its launch in 2013, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has developed into a free, open and accessible national digital resource. During this time, DPLA has brought together over sixteen million items from more than 2,300 institutions, expanded its content and service hub network, and led national conversations and initiatives around ebook access.

Books on Open

Open Education: from OERs to MOOCs by Mohamed Jemni (Editor); Kinshuk (Editor); Mohamed Koutheair Khribi (Editor)
ISBN: 9783662529256
Publication Date: 2016-11-25
This book focuses on the emerging phenomenon of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which are changing the fundamental underpinning of educational systems worldwide and forcing educators and other stakeholders to re-think the way instruction is currently conducted. It examines the origins of MOOCs within the context of the open education movement, and reviews current policies, guidelines and initiatives to promote the use of ICT in education through the development and use of open educational resources from international practices, including implementation and licensing issues. With a particular focus on new trends in MOOCs, the book explores the potential of this emerging paradigm, its rise and its impact on openness in education. Various new initiatives are also presented, including more global examples and those that are more geared to certain regional contexts. The book is intended as a stepping stone for both researchers and practitioners who are looking to approach MOOCs from a holistic perspective.
Open Education by Patrick Blessinger (Editor); Tj Bliss (Editor)
ISBN: 9781783742783
Publication Date: 2016-12-19
The Pedagogy of the Open Society by Michael A. Peters; Tze-Chang Liu; David Ondercin
ISBN: 9789460919664
Publication Date: 2012-10-01
This book examines the interface between learning, pedagogy and economy in terms of the potential of open institutions to transform and revitalize education in the name of the public good.
Open Data for Education by Dmitry Mouromtsev (Editor); Mathieu D Aquin (Editor)
ISBN: 9783319304922
Publication Date: 2016-03-19
This volume comprises a collection of papers presented at an Open Data in Education Seminar and the LILE workshops during 2014-2015. In the first part of the book, two chapters give different perspectives on the current use of linked and open data in education, including the use of technology and the topics that are being covered. The second part of the book focuses on the specific, practical applications that are being put in place to exploit open and linked data in education today. The goal of this book is to provide a snapshot of current activities, and to share and disseminate the growing collective experience on open and linked data in education. This volume brings together research results, studies, and practical endeavors from initiatives spread across several countries around the world. These initiatives are laying the foundations of open and linked data in the education movement and leading the way through innovative applications.