Faculty of Science

Faculty Organization in OER by Discipline Guide

The Faculty of Science has been organized alphabetically into the departments identified on the faculty website.

Individual Open Educational Resources (OER) are organized alphabetically by title.

Suggested Repositories for the Faculty of Science

General

  • Assayer: An online catalogue and reviews of books that have been made available for free by the author with a focus on books about math, science, and computers.

Biology

  • iBiology: Their mission is to convey, in the form of open-access free videos, the excitement of modern biology and the process by which scientific discoveries are made (Taken from website).

Chemistry

  • ChemCollective: is a collection of open access curriculum materials for instructors and students including virtual labs, scenario-based activities, tutorials, and concept tests.

Computer Science

  • Assayer: An online catalogue and reviews of books that have been made available for free by the author with a focus on books about math, science, and computers.

Earth, Energy and Environment

  • Open Geography Education: Provides free and open textbooks and other online resources in the areas of geography and geospatial technology.

Mathematics and Statistics

  • American Institute of Mathematics: This institute encourages the adoption of open source and open access mathematics textbooks. The AIM Editorial Board has developed evaluation criteria to identify open textbooks suitable for university courses and they maintain an Approved Textbooks list that meets this criteria.

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