Faculty Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER)

OER Commons: Agriculture: Free courses, modules, and materials.

Agriculture Materials: OER course modules, textbooks, simulations, assessments, and other learning objects. From MERLOT

Sustainable Agriculture Resources: OER course modules, textbooks, simulations, assessments, and other learning objects. From MERLOT

Animal Structure & Function: License:Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Agricultural Business: Students will learn about agricultural business operation and management. Topics will include accounting, finance, economics, business organization, marketing, and sales.

Agricultural Science

• Thousands of lecture videos OERs (open educational resources) and PDF notes sourced from various free online content and MOOCs (massive open online course) for extended learning. These educational resources are carefully reviewed by AfricLearn in-house subject matter experts before listing them under AfricLearn OERs page. These videos have been added to enable better understanding of concepts and knowledge applications.

The Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets

• The Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets is written for applied intermediate microeconomics courses. The book showcases the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, agribusiness, international trade, and natural resource sectors. The field of agricultural economics is relevant, important and interesting. The study of market structures, also called industrial organization, provides powerful, timely, and useful tools for any individual or group making personal choices, business decisions, or public policies in food and agriculture industries.

Environmental Literacy and Sustainability Resources: WISELEarn OER Resources

Environmental Technology Certificate Courses - Skills Commons: Courses include Intro to Environmental Science, Intro to Water Resources, and Environmental Compliance

National Science Foundation: Environmental Research & Education: Projects, research, grant information, media, classroom resources, and much more.

Renewable Energy Resources: WISELEarn OER Resources

Earth Sciences OER Textbooks: From the Open Textbook Library

Ag Data Commons: Ag Data Commons (ADC) provides access to a wide variety of open data relevant to agricultural research. (Check licensing information)

Open Soil Science: Photos, automations, and a soils laboratory manual