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Open Education Resources from Physics Today ► The Open Education Network, https://open.umn.edu/oen, works to make higher education more accessible. It hosts the Open Textbook Library, https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks, which currently offers more than 1200 open textbooks.
► In addition to providing open licensing, Creative Commons runs programs to train and spread the word about sharing knowledge, https://creativecommons.org.
► “Twenty years of Open Educational Resources: Building robust networks for innovation,” by Angela DeBarger and Cathy Casserly for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 7 October 2021, https://hewlett.org/twenty-years-of-open-educational-resources-building-robust-networks-for-innovation.
► The Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources provides materials and support, https://www.cccoer.org.
► The Mason OER Metafinder conducts real-time searches across many sources, https://oer.deepwebaccess.com.
► The multi-institutional LibreTexts project produces open textbooks, including in physics, https://phys.libretexts.org.
► MIT offers lectures and course materials for thousands of its undergraduate and graduate classes at OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu.
► PhET offers a large selection of free, interactive math and science simulations, https://phet.colorado.edu.
► Walter Lewin’s lectures on YouTube claim they’ll make viewers ♥ physics, https://www.youtube.com/@lecturesbywalterlewin.they9259.
► HyperPhysics explores many physics concepts, http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu.
► Crash Course posts freely available educational videos for high school and college levels on YouTube, https://thecrashcourse.com.
► The oPhysics site offers a collection of interactive physics simulations, https://ophysics.com.
► Some 250 libraries and academic organizations in North America belong to SPARC, a nonprofit advocacy organization that supports open educational resources. It tracks US state policies at https://sparcopen.org/our-work/state-policy-tracking.