Open education resources are teaching, learning and research materials that are freely available to use, adapt and share.
Our librarians have curated platforms that are especially useful for Malawian students, teachers and researchers. No membership fee is required to browse these collections.
Recommended OER platforms
- Open Textbook Library — openly licensed textbooks that can be downloaded and adapted at no cost.
- EBSCO Open Dissertations — a discovery service for electronic theses and dissertations.
- OER Commons — tens of thousands of open resources for teaching and learning.
- Free Book Centre — links to free online technical and computer science books.
- OpenEdition Books — humanities and social science books, many in open access.
- MERLOT — curated online learning and support materials.
- OpenStax — free, peer-reviewed textbooks for university and school subjects.
- Open Michigan — open educational resources, data and publications from the University of Michigan.
Using OER in the classroom
Teachers can adapt these materials to local curricula. Contact us for help finding resources for a specific subject or level.