LibGuides: Gender Studies: Open Educational Resources

What are Open Educational Resources?

Open Educational Resources - OERs - are educational materials that are available under an open license. This means you can freely use, adapt and distribute these resources.

Read our guide for information on how to find and use OERs.

Open Educational Resources for Gender Studies

Below are a selection of quality OERs for Gender Studies.

MIT OpenCourseWare - find Gender Studies related course material through MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) which is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

Gender Studies textbooks through Open Education at BC campus. They use open technologies to facilitate, evaluate, and create open educational resources to share all around the world.

Priority Gender Equality via UNESCO and other relevant material via the UNESCO Digital Library.

Open Textbook Library - Access text books like Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Employment Discrimination through the Open Textbook Library which is funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed.These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.