Open Educational Resources (OER)

• BASE: Computer Science Resources

  BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 150 million documents from more than 7,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
• Directory of Open Access Books--Computer Studies

  List of open access eBooks on computer studies.
• InTech

  InTech is a pioneer and world's largest multidisciplinary open access publisher of books covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. Since 2004, InTech has collaborated with more than 86180 authors and published 2355 books and 6 journals with the aim of providing free online access to high-quality research and helping leading academics to make their work visible and accessible to diverse new audiences around the world.
• J-Stage

  J-STAGE allows you to easily search, browse, and cite the latest journals articles published by academic societies in Japan and you can access documents using the reference linking or cited-by linking. Some open access and some paid.
• MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)--Computer Engineering Collection

  Free and open collection of peer-reviewed online learning materials for higher education.
• OER Commons--Computer Science Collection

  Resources that are free to use with Creative Commons licensing (check terms of use for each resource before making modifications). Use the filters to limit by education level.
• QUBES

  The QUBES platform hosts hundreds of STEM teaching materials, reference materials, and cloud-based software free to use and adapt using open Creative Commons licenses.

• eCampusOntario: Computing & IT
• Open Textbook Library--Computer Science and Information Systems Collection

• Web Design Primer (eCampusOntario)

  This book was written for a one-semester course in web design for students in Ryerson’s Faculty of Communication and Design (FCAD) and may also be useful for high school, community college, or training center courses on beginning web design — or for anyone who wants to read the book and complete the tutorials on their own.
• Intro to Microsoft Office

  This course will introduce the student to Microsoft windows, Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint.

• OER Commons: Activity/Lab
• OER Commons: Case Studies
• OER Commons: Games, Simulations
• OER Commons: Lesson Plans, Lectures, Modules

• Computer Hardware: General Categories

  An open access video on the subject of computer hardware. Other videos exist by the same author detailing computer storage, computer processors, input devices and output devices, as well as removable storage.
• Introduction to Modern Database Systems

  An entire open access course on the subject of Modern Database Systems, made available through Saylor Academy. Units include: Database Architecture and Date Languages; The History of Databases; The Entity-Relationship Model; The Relational Database Module; Relational Algebra; Introduction to Data Normalization; Introduction to SQL; Basic Select Statements; and The Joint Statement.
• MIT App Inventor

  MIT App Inventor is "an intuitive, visual programming environment that allows everyone – even children – to build fully functional apps for smartphones and tablets."