Open Educational Resources (OER) | English Discipline: OER by Discipline: English & Writing

The following is a curated list of OER materials available in your particular subject area. The items you see here are generally well-developed, effectively structured, and are used and recommended by faculty in the SUNY system.

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Humanitites - Literature, Rhetoric, and Poetry

From Lansing Community College Library

From Northwestern Michigan College

From the University of Oklahoma Libraries

From Humboldt State University

From Virginia Tech University Libraries

From Auburn University

By Dallas County Community College District
DCCCD Open Education Resource(OER). A collection of resources provided by Dallas TeleLearning, a part of the Dallas County Community College District. Dallas TeleLearning has been producing distance learning courses since 1972. Our dynamic content features some of the most prominent voices in education from colleges and universities around the globe.

In this course, students learn about critical thinking, analysis, argumentation, reflection, and making sound rhetorical choices to write effective academic essays. Students also learn techniques for reading, interpreting, and utilizing a variety of sources in their writing. The course content covers key grammatical concepts, multimodal writing, collaboration, research skills, and proper documentation.
The course focuses on the rhetorical content and strategies that are the baseline of effective college writing. This course allows students a way to master these concepts and skills in small bites, through engaging practice activities and frequent questioning with targeted feedback.
The course was developed by Lumen Learning, with contributions from English faculty from various institutions, including faculty from the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi.

Available courses include: Business Communication, English Composition I, English Composition I Corequisite, Public Speaking, Writing Skills Lab...

"Literature has been a central experience for the majority of MIT's undergraduates for more than 25 years: over that time approximately 75 percent of all undergraduates have studied the subject.
Designed to serve students majoring, minoring, and concentrating in Literature ... the Literature curriculum at MIT offers a wide range of undergraduate classes at Introductory, Intermediate, and Advanced levels... Many classes focus on literature written in English, though we offer many others covering works in translation from antiquity to yesterday.
Notable for its interdisciplinary variety and for its openness to film and other forms of popular culture, the Literature program is also strong in traditional areas and historical periods such as Renaissance and the 19th Century... Staffed by well-published, influential scholars and creative writers, the Literature faculty is recognized for its superior and committed teaching."

Available courses include: Adaptation, American Theatre, Contemporary Performance, European Theatre, Gender & Performance, Introduction to Theatre, Performance Art, Race & Performance, Rehearsal Process, Social & Emotional Learning, Technical Theatre, World Theatre...

CommonLit is a nonprofit education technology organization dedicated to ensuring that all students, especially students in Title I schools, graduate with the reading, writing, communication, and problem-solving skills they need to be successful in college and beyond.
We believe in providing teachers with all the resources they need to set their students up for success, while also encouraging best practices in the classroom. That’s why the CommonLit Literacy Model is built on a foundation of over 2,000 high-quality free reading passages for grades 3-12, complemented by aligned interim assessments, growth-oriented data, and expert-led teacher development.

"Add your particular expertise to the wider community. Create Open Educational Resources (OER) with our publishing tool, Open Author. Open Author helps you build Open Educational Resources, lesson plans, and courses (on your own, or with others) — and then publish them, to the benefit of educators and learners everywhere. Learn more about creating on OER Commons and get started."

The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative:
- Planning of education projects linked with the development of free content
- Development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning
- Work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs
- Networking on funding proposals developed as free content

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