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Open Educational Resources: BUSINESS/MANAGEMENT

How to find, adopt, adapt, and create open educational resources.

OERs

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

This guide includes collections of OERs and other freely available online educational resources. Quality, accessibility, and copyright of the materials may vary.

Try the California State University: Course Materials Finder Tool  - Enter a book's ISBN to search for freely available related materials related to the book.

Featured Resources: Business OER

Finding OERs by Discipline

Open Textbooks

B.C. Open Collection (BCcampus): Business

  • a curated selection of open educational resources (OER) textbooks from British Columbia

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB):  Business & Management - discovery service for peer reviewed open access books and book publishers 
  • discovery service for peer reviewed open access books and book publishers

eCampus Ontario:

  • Ontario’s post-secondary educators collection of open textbooks

InTech Book Series: Business, Management and Economics

  • peer reviewed, open access books

LibreTexts: Business

  • “a multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access texts to improve
    postsecondary education at all levels of higher learning.”

MERLOT Open Access Textbooks: Business

  • open online textbooks offered by its author(s) with Creative Commons, public domain, or other public use license agreement

Milne Open Textbooks: Business

  • a catalog of open textbooks authored and peer-reviewed by SUNY faculty and staff

MIT Sloan School of Management Learning Edge Case Studies

  • “Some of the case studies in this collection highlight the decision-making process in a business or management setting. Other cases are descriptive or demonstrative in nature.”

OAPEN: Business & Management

  • quality-controlled collection of open access books and publishing services

OER Commons Textbooks: Business & Communications

  • open textbooks for higher education

OpenStax: Business

  • Peer-reviewed. Openly licensed. 100% free textbooks from professional content developers

Open TextBook Library: Business

  • a referatory that points to open textbooks by a variety of authors and publishers; from the University of Minnesota's Open Textbook Library

PressBooks Directory: Business & Management

  • an index of open books published across 144 Pressbooks networks

Saylor Academy Open Textbooks: General Business

  • open textbooks available to use, keep, revise, and share under open licenses

Teaching Commons: Business

  • open textbooks and high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities

Open Courseware

Open Courseware

Academic Earth: Business

  • free online lectures and courses for business 

B.C. Open Collection (BCcampus)

  • a curated collection which includes courses and textbooks from British Columbia

Cool4Ed Course Materials Showcase: Business

  • 5 business courses with materials, from California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California

Cool4Ed Faculty Showcase: Business

  • selected course materials and textbooks from California universities

Enduring Legacies Native Cases: Business and Management

  • case studies from The Evergreen State College, Northwest Indian College, Salish Kootenai College, Grays Harbor College, The University of Alaska-Anchorage, and the University of Alaska-Fairbanks

globalEDGE Online Modules

  • Online Course Modules Doing Business In: Africa, Brazil, China, India, Japan, Latin America, Russia, South Korea, European Union, and Middle East
  • from Michigan State University

Lumen Learning/Boundless Courseware: Business

  • Boundless courses are licensed under a CC BY-SA license

Lumen Learning: Business Courses

  • some, but not all, course content is open

MERLOT Materials: Business

  • textbooks, lesson plans, activities, learning objects, assessments & more

MIT Open Courseware from the Sloan School of Management

  • courses, materials & teaching resources

OER Commons: Business and Communications Textbooks and Full Courses

  • a curated collection from OER Commons digital public library and collaboration platform

Open Course Library: Business

  •  courses and materials; free to download, edit and use; from Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

Open Yale - Economics Studies

  • from the Department of Economics at Yale;  offers a wide spectrum of courses for undergraduates and graduate level

Pressbooks BCcampus OER by Discipline Directory: Business

  • from the BCcampus Open Education Collection, this resource lists a wide range of open educational resources, including textbooks and courses

Saylor Academy: Business Administration

  • Collection of PDF versions of textbooks and courseware, much is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license

SUNY OER Ready-To-Adopt Courses: Business

  • “ready-to-adopt courses, facilitating the seamless integration of  openly-licensed content into learning management systems, the remixing of openly-licensed content from various sources, the offline (print) production of learning materials …”

Teaching Commons: Business

  • textbooks, course sites, syllabi, lectures and other course materials

General Business-related OER

General Business-related OER

MERLOT Business Community Portal

  •  provides OER resources for business; the focus is on accounting, economics, management, and marketing, but other business disciplines are included

OER Commons: Business & Communication

  • OER resources across a wide spectrum of material types from teaching modules to simulations and games to case studies and lesson plans

PressBooks: Open Educational Resources (OER) Directory: Business & Management

  • listing of open books, case studies, courses, videos and more

Lab manuals, Interactive materials & simulations

Lab manuals, Interactive materials & simulations

             *many of the simulations and videos are view/use only (i.e. not adaptable)

eCampusOntario H5P Studio: Business & Management

  • catalog of open publishing tools, using H5P, an open source plugin, to allow content authors to easily create interactive content for their courses or other instructional projects
  • developed by the Wilfrid Laurier University Library

LibreStudio: Business & Management

  • H5P embeddable interactive content; openly-licensed

OER Commons: Business & Communication

  • interactive activities and modules

Open Learn - Money and Busines

  • a variety of video courses covering topics such as "Preparing a project", "Understanding different research perspectives", "Different types of business", Estimating the cost of equity", and "An introduction to business cultures."

MIT Sloan: Management Simulations

  • “These innovative and interactive games create a virtual world in which students explore and participate in the critical management issues facing a range of industries and organizations.”

OpenStax Business Video Series:
  • “These videos are part of the OpenStax Business series, which showcases entrepreneurs and businesses with a focus on purpose, principles, and best business practices.” [CC BY license]

Talks at GS

  • Goldman Sachs showcases interviews with thought leaders on current affairs, the arts, science and business

University of Oxford Podcasts: Saïd Business School

  • open content podcast series from one of Europe's youngest and most entrepreneurial business schools

Wall Street Journal Video

  • short video clips covering topics in the news, business, management, tech and more