ACC Engineering: Open Educational Resources

"Open Educational Resources" by Ron Mader is licensed under CC BY 2.0

OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. ~ William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

For a more comprehensive overview on OER, see:

• Open Educational Resources - a guide designed to assist faculty in the exploration, identification, selection and adoption of Open Educational Resources.

• If you are interested in learning more about OER or adopting an OER in your Engineering course, please reach out to me directly at alexander.speetzen@austincc.edu. 

• For more information on OER at ACC, please visit: ACC Learn OER.

"Engineering Laboratory at NASA" by Dominic Simpson is licensed under CC BY 4.0

This is a sample of several OER Engineering textbooks and course materials available. Additional OER may be found by searching the resources listed on the ACC Libraries primary Open Educational Resources Guide.

• Sample 1: What is Engineering (OER Commons)
• Sample 2: Engineering: The Nature of Problems (OER Commons)
• Sample 3: Engineering (Open Textbook Library)
• Sample 4: Engineering Statics (OER Commons)
• Sample 5: So what is it that Engineers Do, Anyway? (OER Commons)
• Sample 6: The Engineer as a Problem-Solver (OER Commons)
• Sample 7: Engineering (OER Commons)

Manufacturing and Engineering OER Resources from Wisconsin Online