Digital library
Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Digital Photography Basics
Politzer · CK12
Whether you just got a digital camera (or smart phone), are new to photography, or have a little experience, this course is for you. Each chapter will provide you with information, examples, opportunities to develop your skills, and time to reflect on what you've learned. Instead of a traditional end-of-course final, you'll be guided in the development of a digital photo portfolio to demonstrate your skills.
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Telling Stories to Save the World
Judith Sebesta · Sebesta Education Consulting
Explores the history and impact of the “Cli-Fi Film,” or Climate Fiction Film, a sub-genre of narrative cinema that depicts, on some level, the effects of climate change on the Earth and its inhabitants.
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FIN 4430: Professional Foundations - SIE Companion
Andrew Carr · Aurora University
This open educational resource supports FIN 4430: Professional Foundations by providing a structured, student-friendly companion to core Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) topics. The text emphasizes professional reasoning, ethical decision-making, and applied understanding of capital markets, financial products, trading mechanics, and regulation. It is designed to supplement course readings and instruction rather than replace them, and it includes career-aligned framing, learning outcomes, an
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Personal Finance for College Students
Sarah Maokosy · Fresno City College
In the contents: 10.01: Financing consumer goods- Cars education and other major purchases.
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Design for Learning - Principles, Processes, and Praxis
Jason K. McDonald & Richard E. West · Brigham Young University
Our purpose in this book is twofold. First, we introduce the basic skill set and knowledge base used by practicing instructional designers. We do this through chapters contributed by experts in the field who have either academic, research-based backgrounds, or practical, on-the-job experience (or both). Our goal is that students in introductory instructional design courses will be able to use this book as a guide for completing a basic instructional design project.
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Inequality and Interdependence
Kimberly Puttman, Kathryn Burrows, Patricia Halleran, Bethany Grace Howe, Nora Karena, Kelly Szott, and Avery Temple · LibreTexts
In the contents: 5.02: Education as a Social Problem · 5.03: Models of Education - Applying the Social Problems Process · 5.04: Education Poverty and Wealth
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Math 101: Finite Mathematics
University of St. Thomas
This textbook was compiled as an Open Educational Resource for the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN) MATH 101 "Finite Mathematics" course. The course covers topics in set theory, probability, finance, modeling with linear functions, and linear programming; it is intended for students majoring in Business, and satisfies the Quantitative Analysis requirement of the Core Curriculum. The text draws heavily from Sekhon & Bloom's "Applied Finite Mathematics" and Lippman's "Math in Society."
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Child Growth and Development
Paris, Ricardo, Rymond and Johnson · College of the Canyons
This text is a presentation of how and why children grow, develop, and learn. We will look at how we change physically over time from conception through adolescence. We examine cognitive change, or how our ability to think and remember changes over the first 20 years or so of life. And we will look at how our emotions, psychological state, and social relationships change throughout childhood and adolescence.
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Environmental Toxicology
Sylvia Moes, Kees van Gestel, & Gerco van Beek · LibreTexts
This textbook on Environmental Toxicology aims at covering the field in its full width, including aspects of environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, toxicology and risk assessment. This contributes to improving the quality, continuity and transparency of the education in environmental toxicology. We make sure that fundamental insights on fate and effects of chemicals gained in the past are combined with recent approaches of effect assessment and molecular analysis of mechanisms causing toxicity.
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Digital Accessibility as a Business Practice
Digital Education Strategies · The Chang School
This book provides business leaders with the tools and knowledge needed to effectively enable digital accessibility in an organization through cultural change, raising awareness of its importance, and equipping employees with the specific tools and knowledge they need to address digital accessibility as part of their everyday work.
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Global Women's Issues Women in the World Today
LibreTexts
In the contents: 1.02: Women and Education
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Applied Fluid Mechanics Lab Manual
Habib Ahmari and Shah Md Imran Kabir · University of Texas at Arlington
This lab manual provides students with the theory, practical applications, objectives, and laboratory procedure of ten experiments. The manual also includes educational videos showing how student should run each experiment and a workbook for organizing data collected in the lab and preparing result tables and charts.
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A Different Road To College - A Guide For Transitioning To College For Non-traditional Students
Alise Lamoreaux · Lane Community College
A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning Non-Traditional Students is designed to introduce students to the contextual issues of college. Non-traditional students have an ever-growing presence on college campuses, especially community colleges. This open educational resource is designed to engage students in seeing themselves as college students and understanding the complexity of what that means to their lives.
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United States Government
El Paso Independent School District · LibreTexts
El Paso Independent School District in El Paso, Texas created this US Government text for its high school course using OER, CC, and public domain content from a variety of sources curated by educators in the district. The course is aligned to the Texas TEKS and is usually taken in Grade 10.
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Information Governance Modern OER Textbook
Gregory Hess · Baker College
Information Governance in the Age of AI (2026 Practices) is an Open Educational Resource (OER) designed for undergraduate students in business, information systems, cybersecurity, and law. Modernizing traditional governance frameworks for the realities of the zettabyte data deluge, this text prepares students to navigate the complexities of Generative AI, global privacy regulations (such as the EU AI Act and GDPR), and zero-trust architectures. Through practical case studies and modern framework
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The Politics of Sports
Anna Carroll and Eleanor Wakefield · University of Oregon
This Open Educational Resource is a collection of texts and materials that team together students’ familiarity with sports and critical inquiry skills. The Politics of Sports has the potential to capture the interest of college students in order to excite them to begin a research journey with a sense of authority and investment in a topic that is at once familiar and complex enough to yield a wide range of inquiry.
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Engineering: An Introduction for High School
Dale Baker, Ed.D., Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Ph.D., Stephen Krause, Darryl Morrell, Chell Roberts, & Janel White-Taylor · CK-12
Introduces engineering techniques and practices to high school students. This book is designed for a broad range of student abilities and does not require significant math or science prerequisites.
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ECE: Field Experience 1
Autumn Gill · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
In the contents: 08: Ethics and Professional Responsibilities in Early Childhood Education
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Mathematics Methods for Early Childhood
Janet Stramel · Fort Hays State University
Most people agree that early childhood includes the period from infancy until eight years of age, characterized by rapid and complex growth in physical, cognitive, and social domains. Math skills must be taught in early childhood. Children should be provided a foundation to succeed in elementary school and beyond. Teachers should focus lessons in early childhood around the basic skills that will help to advance future mathematics.
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Introduction to Arabic II
Hanaa Alkassas, Layla Bahar Al-Aloom, and Samira Murtada · ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative
Arabic OER II and the associated books in the Arabic OER program are designed to allow a comprehensive teaching of the Arabic language, including the geography and culture of Arabic-speaking countries. This resource consists of 5 thematic chapters, which cover a variety of themes stretching from talking about oneself and one's family, to one's daily routine.