LibGuides: Environmental Sciences: Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources

Coursera
Find open educational courses relating to subtopics of environmental science.
edX -- Environmental Sciences
Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy -- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"This course considers these issues and provides a tour though existing legal regimes governing pollution, water law, endangered species, toxic substances, environmental impact analyses, and environmental risk."
Introduction to Environmental Science Specialization -- Dartmouth
"To understand current environmental problems, we need to consider physical, biological & chemical processes that are often the basis of those problems. This course will give you the skills necessary to address the environmental issues we are facing today by examining scientific principles and the application of those principles to natural systems."
MERLOT -- Courses -- Environmental Science
More than 300 online, college level courses, dealing with subtopics related to environmental sciences.
MIT OpenCourseWare -- Environmental Science
"Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT. No registration required."
The Open University -- Environmental Science
500 courses dealing with varying subtopics within the environmental science field.
Alison -- Environmental Science
Environmental Science courses in the Alison.com website. Earn certificates and diplomas with Alison.com free courses.

OER Commons
"OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum."
MERLOT
"...access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers."
The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)
"A distinct feature of the Mason OER Metafinder is the scope of our discovery service. We’re searching well-known OER repositories like OpenStax, OER Commons, MERLOT but also sites like HathiTrust, DPLA, Internet Archive and NYPL Digital Collections where valuable but often overlooked (and often “open”) educational materials may be found. "

Directory of Open Access Books: Environmental Science
"DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available."
Open Textbook Library from University of Minnesota
Over 1600 textbooks available to be freely used and adapted.
Open Textbooks from OER Commons
"Free, adaptable, openly licensed textbooks and supplemental resources."