Hartnell College is committed to enhancing student achievement. Student success is compromised when students are unable to access required textbooks and course materials.

To assist faculty with the selection and adoption of affordable materials, below are compilations of open educational resources (OER) which are free online.

Instructors: click for courses using OER.

Open Textbooks: Below are websites that feature open textbooks searchable by discipline/subject matter

• College Open Textbooks
• MERLOT
• Flat World Knowledge
• Connexions (also contains learning modules)
• OER Commons
• Wikibooks
• Questia
• The Orange Grove
• Global Text Project
• Saylor Foundation
• 20 Million Minds
• OpenStax
• The Assayer
• Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources

Other Resources: Below are websites that feature open resources other than textbooks

• Khan Academy
• Librivox