LibGuides: Mathematics & Statistics and Applied Probability: Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources in Mathematics, Statistics & Probability

American Institute of Mathematics Open Textbook Initiative
Open access mathematics textbooks from the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM). AIM Editorial Board has developed evaluation criteria to identify these textbooks that are suitable for use in university courses.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) - Mathematics & Statistics
An International initiative by OAPEN Foundation dedicated to Open Access monograph publishing.
MIT OpenCourseWare Online Textbooks - Mathematics
Open textbooks from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Some are open-licensed electronic versions of print books. Others are self-published online books, or course notes which serve as an alternative to a conventional textbook.
OpenStax - Mathematics
Rice University's open access initiative. All open textbooks are written by professional content developers and peer-reviewed to ensure they meet standard scope and sequence requirements.
Open Textbook Library - Mathematics (Pure & Applied)
Supported by the Center for Open Education and the Open Textbook Network. Open textbooks have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost.
USF Scholar Commons Open Access Textbooks - Mathematics
Open access textbooks by University of South Florida.
Mathematics Commons
The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
Statistics & Probability Commons
The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.

Coursera partners top universities and organizations to offer free courses online.

An online OER platform providing open courses, textbooks, homework exercises and ancillary materials such as visualization and simulation.

MERLOT - Mathematics

Multimedia Educational Resource for Online Teaching (MERLOT) developed by the California State University Center Distributed Learning offers access to open educational materials.

MIT OpenCourseWare - Mathematics, Statistics & Probability

Open courses conducted in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Courseware provided with lecture notes, reading and course materials.

OER Commons - Mathematics

A public digital library of open educational resources with learning and teaching materials freely available for everyone to use/reuse.

phET Interactive Simulations - Mathematics Concepts & Applications
Founded by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.
MathsCasts
Produced by the mathematics support centres at Swinburne University of Technology, the University of Limerick (Ireland) and Loughborough University (UK). They are part of an ongoing collaborative research project to develop high quality resources and investigate the effectiveness of MathsCasts to support mathematics learning.
StatsCasts
StatsCasts are narrated screen video recordings of explanations of statistical concepts. They are produced by Swinburne University of Technology, the University of the Sunshine Coast, and the University of Southern Queensland. They are part of an ongoing collaborative research project to develop high quality resources and investigate the effectiveness of StatsCasts to support statistics learning.
GeoGebra Graphing
Free online math tools such as graphing, geometry, 3D, and so on

OER Search Tool

The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
Real-time federated search across different sources of open educational materials at one go

NUS Libraries Subject Guide on OER

Open Educational Resources (OER)
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