OER
„Die Informationsstelle OER (OERinfo) ist ein themenspezifisches Online-Portal, das für die Öffentlichkeit und fachliche Zielgruppen umfassende Informationen zum Thema OER [Open Educational Resources] zur Verfügung stellt. Ziel ist die breite Sichtbarmachung von OER und die Ansprache von neuen Zielgruppen. Der aktuelle Kenntnisstand soll für die Praxis aufbereitet, Informationen zu Best-Practice-Beispielen gebündelt und die Vielfalt vorhandener Initiativen abgebildet werden.“
„Resources for finding open and sustainable teaching and learning materials in psychology.“ Anbieterin: Cal Poly Humboldt State University.
GUTE LINKS! ERLEDIGT
Links zu Open Educational Resoures(OER) zur Psychologie: u. a. Einführungen in OER; kostenfrei zugängliche Bücher und Lehrveranstaltungen sowie Lehr- und Lernmaterialien. Anbieterin: The City University of New York- ERLEDIGT
Derzeit 169 Angebote zu kostenfreien Büchern und Lehrveranstaltungen; Filtermöglichkeiten: Education Standards, Subject Area, Education Level, Material Type, Language, Providers. Angeboten von: ISKME
„These links will take you directly to the portions of databases that contain materials relevant to psychology.“
Open Educational Resources, zusammengestellt von der Uni-Bibliothek der Ohio State Uiversität; Repositorium, einführende Lehrbücher und Ressourcen zu folgenden Teilbereichen der Psychologie: Sozialpsychologie, psychische Störungen, Forschungsmethoden und Statistik. Anbieterin: Iowa State University. University Library
Open Educational Resources zur Psychologie: u. a. Lehrbücher, Einführungen, Pädagogische Psychologie, E-Books; Anbieter: Brevard College
Open Educational Resources zur Psychologie: u.a. Videomitschnitte von Lehrveranstaltungen. Anbieter: Eastern Washington University Libraries
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Statistics in Psychosocial Research
Statistics in Psychosocial Research (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Open Courseware) CC BY NC SA -
New Psychology of Depression (University of Oxford) CC BY NC SA
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Open Yale Courses provides access to introductory courses and materials used by instructors at Yale.
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MIT Open Courseware houses virtually all MIT course content, including online textbooks, lectures and supplemental resources.
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The University of Oxford provides access to OER and online materials selected and created by tutors.
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OER Courseware at Penn State provides modules from participating courses online.
Lehrbücher und Veranstaltungsmaterialien; Anbieter: Skyline College
General Collections
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Searches across notable OER collections including MERLOT, OASIS, and OER Commons
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Searches 90,000+ records with the option to search other OER collections and the web
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Searches 380,000+ records from 90+ reputable OER sites
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Searches 50,000+ records of curated, high-quality OERs
Textbooks
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Books in the science, technology and medicine fields
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Next-generation textbook for postsecondary education
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OpenStax Textbooks: Social Sciences
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Teaching Commons: Social & Behavioral Sciences
Textbooks, course sites, syllabi, course materials, lectures and more -
Open Textbook Library: Psychology
Textbooks used at higher education institutions
Books and Journals
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Multidisciplinary open access journals serving the psychology community
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E-Books Directory: Psychology and Counseling
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Freebookcentre.net: Psychology
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Teach and learn psychology for free
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
Directory of academic, peer-reviewed books
Courses and Related Materials
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MIT OpenCourseWare: Psychology
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High-quality, free-to-use courses that you can download from Google docs
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Courses at college and professional levels
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Courseware focused on holistic courses with easy customization
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Courseware with personalized learning tools, digital homework systems, and more
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Courseware with tools that drives engagement and collaboration
Video and Audio
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Images under creative commons licenses from museums and other sites (Wikimedia Commons, Flickr)
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Search for images licensed for reuse by clicking Tools under the search box then Usage Rights
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Search for videos under Creative Commons licenses by clicking Filter then Creative Commons (under Features)
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TED Talks from experts on various topics
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Search the whole Internet’s podcasts; Podcasts are free to students but usually not under CC licenses
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Information on Psychology studies, as well as instructions for 50 psychology studies.
Primary Sources
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Search across thousands of data repositories across the Web
„This guide is a resource for instructors looking for open course materials in psychology topics. We would love to hear from you to add to and improve this guide! Don’t hesitate to reach out to us with feedback or questions.“
Open access (free online) textbook sources
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American Institute of Math’s Open Textbooks
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Connexions – Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities
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MERLOT is a California State University initiative where a search of the academic discipline or subfield will yield many OA learning materials. Under „materials“ a searcher may restrict results to „open textbooks.“
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OER Commons offers a comprehensive infrastructure for curriculum experts and instructors at all levels to identify high-quality OER and collaborate around their adaptation, evaluation, and use to address the needs of teachers and learners. Diving into OER Commons is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with other educators and learners, at the forefront of a new educational era.
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Free and openly licensed textbooks in use by some universities; see psychology example at https://openstax.org/details/psychology
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You can ensure that ALL of your students will have access to your course textbook content. In addition, you can edit the textbooks to fit your courses and best meet the needs of your students. Open textbooks are real, complete textbooks licensed so teachers and students can freely use, adapt, and distribute the material. Open textbooks can be downloaded for no cost, or printed inexpensively. This library is a tool to help instructors find affordable, quality textbook solutions. All textbooks in this library are complete and openly licensed. Partner: U. Minnesota
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The Open Textbook Network (OTN) helps higher education institutions and systems advance the use of open textbooks and practices on their campuses.
We maintain the Open Textbook Library, the premiere resource for peer-reviewed academic textbooks. All of our textbooks are free, openly licensed, and complete; their adoption creates a measurable, positive impact on student success.
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Open Textbooks for Social Work (and for psychology)
Open Social Work
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Open Textbooks: Links to sources of texts
Use this list of sources for free textbooks in teaching courses or for background reasing
Open Textbooks and Open Courses: Psychology
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Knowledge Evolved (NOBA) OA Psychology Textbooks
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 13, 2014) — Open access to information is the goal of higher education, and several members of the University of Kentucky Department of Psychology faculty are participants in an innovative project designed to bring free, up-to-date texts to students. Headed by University of Illinois professors Ed and Carol Diener, the website Nobaproject.com gives instructors and their students access to customized psychology content written by top experts in the field. 120 authors, including seven members of the UK faculty, put together more than 80 chapters in 11 psychology topic areas. All content is completely free, and allows instructors to customize texts by selecting only those chapters pertinent to the goals of the class. See: http://uknow.uky.edu/content/uk-psychology-faculty-participate-open-source-textbook-project -
Free Online Course Materials | Brain and Cognitive Sciences | MIT OpenCourseWare
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Good source of peer-reviewed content, including open textbooks and other scholarly materials
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zudem im linken Menü
This is a large clearinghouse for open access courses
An Open Textbook Adoption Story
An Open Textbook Adoption Story (Oregon, August 2015) by Adam Privitera, Psychology Program Chair
Psychology
On this page you will find several openly licensed Psychology textbooks along with supplemental material, interactive simulations, and other resources.
Discipline-specific pages are not intended to be exhaustive, but to showcase content that may be of interest to faculty considering adopting open educational resources for use in their classes.
For more information about Creative Commons including license descriptions, please see the Creative Commons tab.
Featured Resources
Jhangiani, R., & Dastur, F. (2014, Oct.). Opening up psychology: Adopting open textbooks, open pedagogy, and an open philosophy in the classroom. Symposium at the 2014 Annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, Atlanta, GA. Resource List
NOBA Project Psychology Textbooks (Follow the license terms: CC BY NC SA 4.0) Read about the NOBA Project
Introduction to Psychology „wikibook“
Introduction to Psychology (Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative) CC BY NC SA 3.0
Principles of Psychology by Steven E. Wisecarver (email the author) (Follow the license terms: CC BY 4.0)
OpenStax Psychology includes ancillary resources (Follow the license terms: CC BY)\
Psychology as a Biological Science (Noba) http://noba.to/cv4ktxnq (Follow the license terms: CC BY NC SA)
Open course Lifespan Development (Saylor Foundation) Licence terms: CC BY Note: Needs updating. See also Lifespan Development
eBooks on developmental psychology from University Libraries (no-additional-cost to students/faculty, but not openly licensed or editable. Downloading privileges vary by vendor platform.)
Open course Theories of Personality (Saylor Foundation) Licence terms: CC BY Note: Needs updating.
Personality & Pedagogy resource page
Open course: Psychology of Learning & Behavior (Saylor Foundation) Licence terms: CC BY Note: Needs updating.
eBooks on Learning and Behavior; Springer eBooks on Learning and Behavior. from University Libraries (no-additional-cost to students/faculty, but not openly licensed or editable. Downloading privileges vary by vendor platform.)
Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (BCCampus.ca) Terms: CC BY SA
Principles of Social Psychology (1st International Edition) (BC Campus.ca) Terms: CC BY NC SA (See the author’s keynote presentation at the Open Textbook Summit – May 2015 Vancouver BC)
Principles of Social Psychology (original edition/Maryland) CC BY NC SA
eBooks on Social Psychology from University Libraries (no-additional-cost to students/faculty, but not openly licensed or editable. Downloading privileges vary by vendor platform.)
Abnormal Psychology: An e-text! (Dr. Caleb Lack, UCentral Oklahoma and Arkansas Tech University) (Terms: CC BY NC SA) The entire site, with the exception of DSM criteria is CC-licensed.
Abnormal Psychology – from Washington State University
Abnormal Psychology – from Northwestern Michigan College
eBooks on Abnormal Psychology from University Libraries (no-additional-cost to students/faculty, but not openly licensed or editable. Downloading privileges vary by vendor platform.)
Open Course Industrial/Organizational Psychology (Saylor Foundation) Licence terms: CC BY Note: Needs updating.
BioInformatics/Neuroinformatics Course: CC BY ND (verbatim copying only; no changes allowed)
Open Course Neuropsychology (Saylor Foundation) Licence terms: CC BY Note: Needs updating.
Open Textbooks
Edited chapters from many different institutions are available from OpenStax CNX.
Search for additional textbooks from the University of Minnesota Open Textbook Library
See CollegeOpenTextbooks for a wider variety of Lower-Division Undergraduate psychology open textbooks
Saylor Academy Open Courses (GitHub)
Course materials: Modules, Lecture Videos, Interactive Simulations etc.
Lectures:
Statistics in Psychosocial Research (Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Open Courseware) CC BY NC SA
New Psychology of Depression (University of Oxford) CC BY NC SA
Modules from CNX.org (Rice University) [Advanced search]
Psychology (higher ed level) resources from OER Commons
Robinson-Keilig, Rachael. (2017). A Primer on Open Educational Resources (OER) for Psychology Instructors: Background, Resources, and Materials. Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology.
„This 31-page resource defines and describes the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, distinguishes between important terminology, and provides a concise summary of appropriate search tools and resources specifically for psychology faculty. Supported by a 2016 Instructional Resource Award, Division 2, American Psychological Association.“
More generic repositories
You can also return to the more generic platforms and repositories.
If you are having trouble finding (suitable) resources, ask your librarian!
We are happy to join forces to identify open educational resources (OERs) based on your needs.
Workshop on finding-reusing-sharing OER
The libray provided a workshop on Open Educational Resources – creating, sharing and reusing material during the UM Education Days: 1 June.
In this workshop, we walk you through the process of finding suitable OER for your course and provide some guidelines to take into account when creating and sharing material yourselves. Topics we address: repositories with useful open resources, information on copyright and licenses, making your material digital accessible for students with sensory or cognitive disabilities, platforms for sharing, good practices of UM colleagues. Interested in a workshop for your faculty? Contact us!
OER in Psychology
Open Educational Resources in Psychology
OER books come from many sources. Some are developed by the author specifically to teach a course, some are new textbooks from a commercial publisher, some are older textbooks where the copyright has reverted to the author. Below are some examples of the variety of OER books you can find.
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This open textbook is designed to meet scope and sequence requirements for the single-semester introduction to psychology course. The book offers a comprehensive treatment of core concepts, grounded in both classic studies and current and emerging research. The text also includes coverage of the DSM-5 in examinations of psychological disorders. Psychology incorporates discussions that reflect the diversity within the discipline, as well as the diversity of cultures and communities across the globe.
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The Psychology of Magic and the Magic of Psychology
Magicians have dazzled audiences for many centuries; however, few researchers have studied how, let alone why, most tricks work. The psychology of magic is a nascent field of research that examines the underlying mechanisms that conjurers use to achieve enchanting phenomena, including sensory illusions, misdirection of attention, and the appearance of mind-control and nuanced persuasion. In this research topic we sketch out the symbiotic relationship between psychological science and the art of magic. -
Contemporary Perspective on Child Psychology and Education
In contemporary understanding, the working areas of children’s psychology are expanding considerably. The mental health of the children ensures that they are able to use their developmental abilities, cope with difficulties in life, be productive and be creative, and demonstrate cognitive, emotional, and behavioral characteristics appropriate to their developmental turn. This book presents an overview of the approaches in the departments of child education and psychology, with the hope of them growing up as happy, peaceful, balanced, thoughtful confident and successful individuals. -
Corporate Social Responsibility and Organizational Psychology: Quid Pro Quo
A focus on stakeholder well-being has long been integral to CSR scholarship. Only recently, however, have researchers devoted sustained attention to understanding how employees — both current and prospective — perceive, engage in, and react to CSR initiatives directed at themselves and other stakeholders external to the firm.
OER Search Engines & Finding Aids
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DOAB : Directory of Open Access Books
All books listed in DOAB are freely accessible and therefore free to read, but this does not mean readers are free to do anything they like with these books. The usage rights of the books in DOAB are determined by the license. -
Mason OER Metafinder (James Mason University)
The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources. Unlike other OER discovery sites (e.g, OER Commons, OASIS, MERLOT, OpenStax, etc.), OER Metafinder is not a single database. Instead it is a federated search across 21 different sources of open educational materials. -
OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
Open Access Books at Commercial Publishers
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Thousands of Open Access ebooks are available from top scholarly publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press.
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The National Academies Press (NAP)
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Springer offers authors the option to publish open access books in a wide range of areas in science, technology, medicine and in the humanities and social sciences. Their books are available to download free of charge from SpringerLink (HTML, PDF, ePub) or Amazon (MOBI).
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Taylor & Francis Open Access Books & Chapters
Taylor & Francis publish books and chapters across all subjects covered by Routledge, CRC Press and other imprints in the humanities, social sciences and behavioral sciences. Currently, over 1000 books are published open access.
Prints, Open AI database
AI database
- Semantic Scholar Open Research CorpusSemantic Scholar’s records for research papers published in all fields provided as an easy-to-use JSON archive.
Open Textbooks
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A free and open peer reviewed collection of online Psychology teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed services contributed and used by an international education community.
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A collection of open textbooks on a variety of Psychology subjects.
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Open access Psychology textbooks.
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Psychology Textbook (OpenStax)
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Freely accessible videos on a variety of topics in the area of Psychology.
Risse, S., Krügel, A. & Backhaus, D. (2022). Open Education in der Methodenausbildung. Vorstellung eines digitalen Lehrkonzepts für computergestütztes wissenschaftliches Arbeiten. Psychologische Rundschau 73 (3). S. 206-208. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000602
Vetter, A.-S. (2021). Digital teaching: opportunity or challenge? idw – Pressemitteilung
Gärtner, A., Gollwitzer, M., König, L. M., Tibubos, A. T. (2021). Chancen und Herausforderungen digitaler Lehre. Psychologische Rundschau 72 (4), S. 273-275. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000555 .
„Das Seminar „Leistungs- und Gesundheitssport aus psychologischer Perspektive“ fand im Sommersemester 2020 statt. Angewandte sportpsychologische Inhalte beziehen sich beispielsweise auf das Erlernen psychologischer Fertigkeiten sowie auf Maßnahmen mit Gruppen oder individuelle Sitzungen mit Athlet:innen. Im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung wurden diese sportpsychologischen Ansätze hinsichtlich ihrer Anwendbarkeit in der Praxis diskutiert. Grundlage war dafür ein gegenseitiger Austausch. Der Moodle-Kurs diente der Bereitstellung der Materialien. Der Kurs wurde in drei Themenbereiche eingeteilt: Gesundheitspsychologie. Schulpsychologie, Leistungspsychologie.“ Anbieter: Ruhr-Universität Bochum
„Ein Podcast über Greenwashing von Studierenden der Fakultät für Psychologie sowie vom Lehrstuhl für Arbeits-, Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie [Ruhr-Universität Bochum]. Sie betrachten das Thema Greenwashing aus sozialpsychologischer Sicht.“
„Egal, ob Video, Podcast oder Seminar – hier finden Studierende und Lehrende das OER-Angebot der hessischen Hochschulen. OER steht für „Open Educational Resources“. Damit werden Lehr- und Lernmaterialien bezeichnet, die eine freie Lizenz besitzen und daher von jeder Nutzerin und jedem Nutzer weiterverwendet und bei Bedarf verändert werden können. Das HessenHub-Webportal ist kostenfrei, ohne Registrierung nutzbar und rund um die Uhr verfügbar.“
„Psychology 2e is designed to meet scope and sequence requirements for the single-semester introduction to psychology course. The book offers a comprehensive treatment of core concepts, grounded in both classic studies and current and emerging research. The text also includes coverage of the DSM-5 in examinations of psychological disorders. Psychology incorporates discussions that reflect the diversity within the discipline, as well as the diversity of cultures and communities across the globe.
The second edition contains detailed updates to address comments and suggestions from users. Significant improvements and additions were made in the areas of research currency, diversity and representation, and the relevance and recency of the examples. Many concepts were expanded or clarified, particularly through the judicious addition of detail and further explanation where necessary. Finally, the authors addressed the replication issues in the psychology discipline, both in the research chapter and where appropriate throughout the book.“