Additional OER Offerings
Beyond what’s already hosted inside the Lumen platform, many OER collections contain useful material for Developmental English courses. If you have suggestions to add here, please share on the Lumen Community Slack Channel.
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Complete Courses
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Reading 100
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Maricopa Millions Project
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CC BY
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- complete course in Canvas
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Pre-College English
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Open Course Library WA SBCTC
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CC BY
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- complete course in Google Drive
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English: Skills for Learning
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OpenLearn
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CC BY NC SA
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Open Texts
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Reading, Writing, and Communication Skills
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Bunda College of Agriculture, OER Africa
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CC BY
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- textbook in individual PDF chapters
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Writing Hub
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Boundless
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CC BY SA
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Research, Analysis, and Writing
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American Public University
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CC BY NC SA
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Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence
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Open SUNY Textbooks
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CC BY NC SA
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Writing Spaces Vols. 1 & 2
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Writing Spaces
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CC BY NC SA or CC BY NC ND
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- instructional essays about the craft of writing
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Writing in College
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The University of Chicago
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CC BY NC ND
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Writing Commons
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Writing Commons
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CC BY NC ND
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- online text
- an update to the website in summer 2016 makes it appear as if all pages are copyrighted. However, they are all still openly licensed, according to the FAQs
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Reading Material
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LibriVox
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LibriVox
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Public Domain
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- audio recordings of works of literature
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Project Gutenberg
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Project Gutenberg
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Public Domain
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- text files of works of literature and nonfiction
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Project Gutenberg Australia
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Project Gutenberg Australia
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Public Domain (Australian)
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- similar to the original Project Gutenberg, PGA offers public domain literature and nonfiction
- due to different copyright laws, they have different options available from Project Gutenberg; however, make sure your selections are legally useable in the US
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Lit2Go
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University of South Florida
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Special Terms of Use
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- literature MP3s and PDFs
- supplemental instructional material
- “A maximum of twenty-five (25) MP3 and/or text files may be used in any non-commercial, educational project (report, presentation, display, website, etc.) without special permission. The use of more than twenty-five MP3 and/or text files in a single project requires written permission from the Florida Center for Instructional Technology (FCIT) at USF.”
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Grammar
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Polysyllabic
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Karl Hagen
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CC BY NC SA
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Resources
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Improve Your Writing
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University of British Columbia Writing Commons
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CC BY
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- articles, blog, and toolkits from writing center
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The Five Features of Effective Writing
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Learn NC
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CC BY NC SA
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- article series, written for instructors
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Reading / Writing / Vocabulary
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TV411
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CC BY NC SA
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- videos and print materials are openly licensed. Other instructional material online is free, but not open
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Writing Fellows
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City University of New York, School of Professional Studies
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CC BY NC SA
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- articles for students and instructors
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Walden University Writing Center
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Walden University
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CC BY NC ND
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- blog written by instructors and editors
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