Many instructors have a goal of moving to less costly and even free educational resources for their students, including open source textbooks, online simulations, videos, etc. These Open Educational Resources (OER) are remarkably diverse and range from effective and valuable to nascent and sometimes of poor quality. One of the primary barriers for instructors is simply finding these resources. Here, we’ve assembled a growing list of resources that we hope will be of value to our instructors. Inclusion on this list of Open Educational Resources does not indicate endorsement by SPH of a particular resource; each instructor should assess the value of these resources in light of their teaching needs.
Please submit OER that you find that can be added to this site (email sroth1@umd.edu). Below, the OER are tentatively categorized within “themes” and where a resource crosses themes, an attempt has been made to post it in multiple themes. Those that don’t easily fall within a theme are in the General Public Health list.
General OER Resources
- Open Educational Resources at UMD - a central site for UMD OER resources and related information: http://oer.umd.edu/
- Open Educational Resources (Library Guide) - a range of searchable OER sources: http://lib.guides.umd.edu/c.php?g=327271&p=2195735
- MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT provides collections of peer reviewed online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. Most, but not all, Merlot resources are Creative Commons licensed.
- OER Commons - OER Commons helps educators, students, and lifelong learners avoid time-consuming searches and find exactly the right materials. With a single point of access from which they can search, browse, and evaluate resources in OER Commons’ growing collection of over 50,000 high-quality OER everyone can more efficiently find what they need: https://www.oercommons.org/
- YouTube - The best way to find a video that is licensed under the Creative Commons license on YouTube is to use the CC Search tool described above in the General Search and Photo/Image Search sections. In addition if you are the YouTube home page http://youtube.com and type in your search term followed by a comma and then “creativecommons” the videos returned are CC licensed: http://YouTube.com
- TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. On TED.com, the best talks and performances from TED and partners are made available to the world, for free. More than 900 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week.
General Public Health
- Johns Hopkins’ Public Health courses - syllabi, readings, assignments, and other course materials available for many courses across the spectrum of public health topics. http://ocw.jhsph.edu/index.cfm/go/find.browse#courses
- Johns Hopkins Ethical Issues in Public Health course - syllabus and materials available: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/index.cfm/go/viewCourse/course/EthicalIssuesPublicHealth/coursePage/index/
- Johns Hopkins History of Public Health course - syllabus and materials available: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/index.cfm/go/viewCourse/course/HistoryPublicHealth/coursePage/index/
- CDC Public Health 101 Series: http://www.cdc.gov/publichealth101/public-health.html
Behavioral and Community Health
- Johns Hopkins Entertainment Education for Behavior Change course - syllabus and other materials available: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/index.cfm/go/viewCourse/course/entertainmenteducation/coursePage/index/
- Johns Hopkins Health Behavior Change at the Individual, Household and Community Levels course - syllabus and other materials available: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/index.cfm/go/viewCourse/course/healthbehaviorchange/coursePage/index/
- NIH: The Science of Sex and Gender in Human Health - Online Courses. The site currently offers three courses: The Basic Science and the Biological Basis for Sex- and Gender-Related Differences; Sex and Gender Differences in Health and Behavior; The Influence of Sex and Gender on Disease Expression and Treatment: https://sexandgendercourse.od.nih.gov/
Environmental Health
- Johns Hopkins Environmental Health course - syllabus and other materials available: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/index.cfm/go/viewCourse/course/EnvironmentalHealth/coursePage/index/
- Framing Environmental Health ToolKit—a collection of framing research, recommendations, and sample communications: http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/toolkits/environmentalhealth/
- Yale’s Environmental Science and Law undergraduate course - syllabus and other materials available: http://oyc.yale.edu/environmental-studies/evst-255#sessions
- GreenFacts - website with brief documents with facts on various environmental health topics: http://www.oercommons.org/courses/greenfacts/view
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- Various public health resources listed on the department website: http://sph.umd.edu/department/epib/public-health-resources
- Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Lecture Series - course modules include different biostatistics topics: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/index.cfm/go/viewCourse/course/BiostatisticsLectureSeries05/coursePage/index/
- Johns Hopkins Exploratory Data Analysis course - syllabus and materials available: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/index.cfm/go/viewCourse/course/exdata/coursePage/index/
- Johns Hopkins Fundamentals of Epidemiology 1 course - syllabus and course materials available: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/index.cfm/go/viewCourse/course/FundEpi/coursePage/index/
- Johns Hopkins Fundamentals of Epidemiology 2 course - syllabus and course materials available: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/index.cfm/go/viewCourse/course/fundepiii/coursePage/index/
- Emory University Activepi Interactive resource to learn the foundations of Epidemiology: textbook, lessons, homework, and quizzes available: http://activepi.com
- Outbreak at Water’s Edge: A public health discovery game- interactive epidemiology game available: http://www.mclph.umn.edu/watersedge/index.html
Family Science
Resource list in development
Health Services Administration
Johns Hopkins Approaches to Managing Health Services Organizations course - course materials available: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/index.cfm/go/viewCourse/course/AMHSO/coursePage/index/
Kinesiology
- Texas A&M University The Health and Kinesiology Distinguished Lecture Series is supported by the Department of Health & Kinesology and the College of Education & Human Development at Texas A&M: https://www.youtube.com/user/hlkntamu/videos?sort=dd&shelf_id=0&view=0
- Kansas State University Human Nutrition Flexbook provides students access through Google Docs, can download the flexbook as an .odt, .pdf, .rtf, .doc, text, or html file giving them flexibility to use the document how they would like. Students can also choose whether they would like to read flexbook digitally or print and read on paper- course textbook and various presentation material available: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByOHn1XKLsxbNWM2MGE3M2UtOTc4MC00N2RlLTgxY2UtYjY1NzExYTU3Y2I3&usp=drive_web&ddrp=1&hl=en
- NIH: The Science of Sex and Gender in Human Health - Online Courses. The site currently offers three courses: The Basic Science and the Biological Basis for Sex- and Gender-Related Differences; Sex and Gender Differences in Health and Behavior; The Influence of Sex and Gender on Disease Expression and Treatment: https://sexandgendercourse.od.nih.gov/