LibGuides: Small Business Management & Entrepreneurship: Open Educational Resources

What is Open educational Resources?

According to UNESCO, Open Educational Resources (OER) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them. These materials can take any of the following formats:

Text Books
Curricula
Videos
Teaching notes
Lecture notes
Animination
Tests
Assignments
Projects
Audio

Search Engine for finding free university courses

OCW Search
Is a search engine dedicated to helping you find the best free university courses online

Student Networks

Open Study
Free community where you can meet students and get assistance
Nixty
Is a global learning platform connecting students, educators, and institutions

Open Educational Resources for Business

MIT Open Courseware -Business
Is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world

Below is a list of OER's providing free courses and training material on various aspects of Business, Finance & Economics.

Investopedia Financial Investing Tutorials
Tutorials that Investopedia has created covering Active Trading, Forex, Personal Finance, Investing and more
Videolectures.net-Business
Free and open access educational video lectures repository
UC Irvine Open Courseware-Business
Is a web-based repository of various UC Irvine courses, video lectures, seminars and other learning resources.
Directed at working adults seeking continuing education.
MERLOT Business Portal
Is a free and open peer reviewed collection of online teaching and learning materials and faculty-developed services contributed and used by an international education community
Academic Earth-Business
Free online college courses
OER Commons-Business
Saylor-Business Administration
Free courses to provide students with a general knowledge of business
Open Tapestry- Business Administration
Delivery free courses online
US Small Business Learning Center
Courses to start, build and grow businesses.
Regenesys Foundation - Free Business Education
Regenesys Business School provides free learning material covering business education from a Higher Certificate to MBA. One needs to register.

Multidisciplinary Open Educational Resources

Connexions
Content Commons of free, open-licensed educational materials mostly at the college level
Khan Academy
Is a non-profit educational website providing free world-class education for everyone.
iUNIV-Free Flow Education
Is a service and platform that formulates social learning by using visual and auditory content provided online by institutions such as universities and other organizations
Saylor
Free courses
TED Talks
Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world
Wikiversity
Project devoted to learning resources, learning projects, and research for use in all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning
YouTube EDU
Collects all the great educational content being uploaded to YouTube by colleges and universities
Coursera
Coursera is a for-profit educational technology company offering massive open online courses
Opencourseware Consortium
A worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education
Utah State OpenCourseware
Is a collection of educational material used in our formal campus courses, and seeks to provide people around the world with an opportunity to access high quality learning opportunities.
Notre Dame OpenCourseware
Free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world

Small Business Management & Entrepreneurship: Open Educational Resources

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What is Open educational Resources?

Search Engine for finding free university courses

Student Networks

Open Educational Resources for Business

Multidisciplinary Open Educational Resources