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Open Educational Resources (OER)

Find out what open educational resources are, where to find them, and how to use open licenses

Textbooks

An open book

Most OER textbooks can be fully downloaded immediately. Depending on the Creative Commons license, they can be revised or remixed depending on the needs of the classroom. 

Datasets

Data and binary

These are a few examples of open datasets available online. For a more extensive guide, as well as links to Bentley exclusive dataset and statistic sets, please visit our Data & Statistics page.

Case Studies

Case Study sign

A collection of case studies that are openly accessible to the public

Images and Media

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A collection of images, videos, and sounds that are openly accessible to the public. Be sure to check the license before using the work. 

Open Images

Video and Sounds

OER / OA Repositories

A fictional magazine

An OER Repository is a website that houses a vast amount of OER or OA to search through. Since the collection is large, finding particular material requires precise searches and filtering.  

Literature

A stack of books

A collection of ebooks that are openly accessible to the public. 

Courseware

A white chair

Open Courseware, or OCW, is fully designed courses that are free towards the public via the internet. These may include lecture notes, course outlines, homework, additional resources, and more.  

Assignments & Assessments

A collection of checkboxes

A collection of question banks and interactive materials that can be used directly or exported elsewhere.  

News Articles

A newspaper

Current and relevant news articles that are published with open licenses

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