User:Enggexp/STEM OER

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes, specifically focusing on STEM subjects related to higher education curriculum.

The key highlights of this Wiki STEM OER page are:


 * For Educators: You will be guided to several sites for free accessible STEM Open educational resources (OER).
 * For Learners: You will be guided to free e-books, resource sites, virtual labs and simulation sites.
 * For Researchers: You will be guided to open source software & tools, open access journals and publishing sites.

STEM OER Sites:
OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search) is a search tool that aims to make the discovery of open content easier. OASIS currently searches open content from 59 different sources and contains 160,690 records.

Real-time federated search for OER  content. OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button.

OER Commons is a freely accessible online library that allows teachers and others to search and discover open educational resources and other freely available instructional materials.

The Teaching Commons brings together high-quality open educational resources from leading colleges and universities. Curated by librarians and their institutions, the Teaching Commons includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.

Open educational resources for teacher education and to support interactive teaching. ORBIT shares existing expertise on teacher education and classroom teaching that supports active learning in mathematics and science.

The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a virtual repository of learning resources which is not just a repository with search/browse facilities but provides a host of services for the learner community.

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world. Through OCW, educators improve courses and curricula, making their schools more effective; students find additional resources to help them succeed; and independent learners enrich their lives and use the content to tackle some of our world’s most difficult challenges, including sustainable development, climate change, and cancer eradication.

MIT BLOSSOMS lessons engage students in observation, experiment and discussion. Problem solving activities stimulate students to think critically and to make connections that lead to “Aha!” moments. As students develop a deeper and richer understanding and intuition—what we sometimes call a gut feel for a concept—they gain the confidence and inspiration they need to continue their math and science education beyond high school. BLOSSOMS is not alone in this effort. It is part of a movement called STEM Education - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education. STEM is a new way of thinking about how to best prepare high school students for post-secondary education and participation in the modern economy, which more and more often requires people to think critically, work independently, and apply a wide set of sophisticated skills. BLOSSOMS aims to improve these in-demand skills and to increase student interest in careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Open Michigan enables the University of Michigan community to make the products of its research, teaching, and creative work available to the world beyond campus. We are the home for all things open at the University of Michigan—including expertise and services for open educational resources, open data, and open publications. #GoOpen Michigan is a community of educators and learners who access and contribute free, openly licensed, high-quality digital resources to enable equitable transformative learning experiences.

The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is a grant-funded organization that offers innovative online courses to anyone who wants to learn or teach. The goal is to create high-quality courses and contribute original research to improve learning and transform higher education. The Simon Initiative harnesses a cross-disciplinary learning engineering ecosystem that has developed over several decades at Carnegie Mellon University.

Scootle - a national repository that provides Australian schools with digital resources aligned to the Australian Curriculum.

AMSER (the Applied Math and Science Education Repository) is a portal of educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use. AMSER is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library, and is being created by a team of project partners led by Internet Scout.

UCI offers nearly 50 massive open, online courses at Coursera in a variety of formats: on-demand (anytime) or cohort-based. UCI was an early adopter of MOOCs and a number of these offerings are based on open educational resources also available on this site.

HippoCampus.org is a free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animation, and simulations--on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge.

This site is a resource developed by the Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) Initiative. Led by the University System of Maryland’s William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation in partnership with MarylandOnline (MOL), the Maryland Association of Community Colleges (MACC), and the Maryland Independent College and University Association (MICUA), M.O.S.T. is increasing access, affordability, and achievement for Maryland higher education students through open educational resources.

Scholar Commons, a service of the University of South Florida Libraries, is a virtual showcase for USF's research and creative energies.

Oxford University Press (OUP) is mission-driven to facilitate the widest possible dissemination of high-quality research. We embrace both green and gold open access (OA) publishing to support this mission.

Engineering Expert OER provides links to libraries, STEM resources, Virtual labs, Simulation tools, and Open Source tools and software etc.

The National STEM Consortium (NSC), an alliance of ten community colleges.

New York State teachers can access a wealth of resources via this website: STEM Resources for Teachers, including modules for teaching and sample curriculums. This site was designed by the lead writers of the Common Core, is full of free content designed to help educators understand and implement the Common Core State Standards. It includes practical tools designed to help students and teachers see their hard work deliver results. achievethecore.org was created in the spirit of collaboration. Please steal these tools and share them with others.

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computing, history, art history, economics, and more, including K-14 and test preparation (SAT, Praxis, LSAT) content. 

Free Textbooks:
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a joint service of OAPEN, OpenEdition, CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université.

LibreTexts unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.

Bookboon provides free textbooks written by professors from the world’s top universities, covering topics from Engineering and IT to Economics and Business. It continues in the workplace.

OpenStax publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are absolutely free online and low cost in print.

The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) seeks to encourage the adoption of open source and open access mathematics textbooks.

MathVault is Free, Exquisite Linear Algebra eBooks at Your Commands. Dot product, cross product, scalar cross product, determinant, expanded matrix notation and other goodnesses.

FreeTechBooks lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet.

FlatWorld believes that the instructor is the key to a quality student education. It is our mission to empower you – and your students. We are working to put high-quality, affordable textbooks back within the reach of every student.

COOL4ED, The three State of California systems of higher education are working together to provide access to FREE and OPEN eTextbooks.

Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.

BCcampus search for quality open textbooks offered in a variety of digital formats; the first step in adopting open educational resources. Search by subject and download them to your computer.

Pressbooks directory provides an index of 2070 books published across 89 Pressbooks networks. Search and filter books by keyword, subject matter, license, and more.

MyOpenMath is an online course management and assessment system for mathematics and other quantitative fields. MyOpenMath’s focus is providing rich algorithmically generated assessment to support the use of free, open textbooks like the ones listed on OpenTextBookStore.com.

Central Michigan University (CMU) provides discipline specific OER resources and textbooks.

Thermodynamics and Chemistry Textbook

This Living Library is a principal hub of the LibreTexts project, which is a multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access texts to improve postsecondary education at all levels of higher learning. The LibreTexts approach is highly collaborative where an Open Access textbook environment is under constant revision by students, faculty, and outside experts to supplant conventional paper-based books.

NORC Project: Free & Low cost learning tools and courses.

Virtual Labs:
Virtual Labs by MERLOT, SkillsCommons, and Partners!

SkillsCommons provides FREE and OPEN Workforce Training Materials for 21st Century Employment.

Ministry of Education, India initiated Virtual lab projects to provide remote-access to Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering. These Virtual Labs would cater to students at the undergraduate level, post graduate level as well as to research scholars.

PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. We extensively test and evaluate each simulation to ensure educational effectiveness. These tests include student interviews and observation of simulation use in classrooms. The simulations are written in Java, Flash or HTML5, and can be run online or downloaded to your computer. All simulations are open source (see our source code). Multiple sponsors support the PhET project, enabling these resources to be free to all students and teachers.

OLabs is based on the idea that lab experiments can be taught using the Internet, more efficiently and less expensively. The labs can also be made available to students with no access to physical labs.

Science by Doing is an online secondary school program presenting science in an engaging, guided inquiry-based approach to lift student interest and understanding. It is free to all Australian students and teachers and comprehensively covers the Australian Curriculum for high school Science Years 7-10.

ChemCollective is an online simulation of a chemistry lab. It is designed to help students link chemical computations with authentic laboratory chemistry. The lab allows students to select from hundreds of standard reagents (aqueous) and manipulate them in a manner resembling a real lab.

LearnChemE features chemical engineering education resources prepared by faculty for use by students and instructors. The resources were produced by the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU).

Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines provides links to various simulation and virtual labs. in Engineering, Medicine and Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Mathematics.

NOVA Labs is a free digital platform that engages teens and lifelong learners in games and interactives that foster authentic scientific exploration.

As part of its mission to advance excellent teaching in American schools, Annenberg Learner funds and distributes educational video programs – with coordinated online and print materials – for the professional development of K-12 teachers.

HHMI BioInteractive brings the power of real science stories into tens of thousands of high school and undergraduate life science classrooms.

The Genetic Science Learning Center is a great place to visit to explore and learn about cells, heredity, DNA, genes, natural selection, etc. The Learn.Genetics part of the site is geared to students, teachers, and the general public. It delivers educational materials on genetics, bioscience, and health topics.

Molecular Workbench (MW) software:


 * Is a modeling tool for designing and conducting computational experiments across science.
 * Provides an authoring system for instructional designers to create and publish model and simulation-based curriculum materials.
 * Delivers an interactive learning environment that supports science inquiry.
 * Is free and open-source.

Open source software and tools:
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modelling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering, …) and graphical techniques, and is highly extensible. One of R’s strengths is the ease with which well-designed publication-quality plots can be produced, including mathematical symbols and formulae where needed. R is available as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software Foundation’s GNU General Public License in source code form. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms and similar systems (including FreeBSD and Linux), Windows and MacOS.

OpenFOAM is the leading free, open source software for computational fluid dynamics (CFD), owned by the OpenFOAM Foundation and distributed exclusively under the General Public License (GPL). The GPL gives users the freedom to modify and redistribute the software and a guarantee of continued free use, within the terms of the license.

GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. Octave has extensive tools for solving common numerical linear algebra problems, finding the roots of nonlinear equations, integrating ordinary functions, manipulating polynomials, and integrating ordinary differential and differential-algebraic equations. It is easily extensible and customizable via user-defined functions written in Octave’s own language, or using dynamically loaded modules written in C++, C, Fortran, or other languages. GNU Octave is also freely redistributable software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation.

FreeMat is a free environment for rapid engineering and scientific prototyping and data processing. It is similar to commercial systems such as MATLAB from Mathworks, and IDL from Research Systems, but is Open Source. FreeMat is available under the GPL license.

GeoGebra for Teaching and Learning Math, Free digital tools for class activities, graphing, geometry, collaborative whiteboard and more.

Explore math with Desmos! Plot functions, create tables, add sliders, animate your graphs, and more

Scilab is a free and open source software for engineers & scientists, with a long history (first release in 1994). Scilab is free and open source software for numerical computation providing a powerful computing environment for engineering and scientific applications.

SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It builds on top of many existing open-source packages: NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, Sympy, Maxima, GAP, FLINT, R and many more. Access their combined power through a common, Python-based language or directly via interfaces or wrappers.

Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, polynomials, sets, lists, vectors, matrices and tensors. Maxima yields high precision numerical results by using exact fractions, arbitrary-precision integers and variable-precision floating-point numbers. Maxima can plot functions and data in two and three dimensions. The Maxima source code can be compiled on many systems, including Windows, Linux, and MacOS X. The source code for all systems and precompiled binaries for Windows and Linux are available at the SourceForge file manager.

Euler Math Toolbox (EMT), a powerful math program combining numerical and symbolic tools (using the computer algebra system Maxima) in one free and open source package. Its idea is similar to Matlab, but the syntax is not exactly compatible. The project was started in 1987 by Rene Grothmann, professor of mathematics in Eichstätt, Germany, and became a full package for mathematical exploration and teaching over the years.

Calculus without tears: MMCC I and II focus on differential equation models because they are what scientists and engineers use to model processes involving change. Historically, this has presented a problem for science education because while the models are easy enough to create, solving the differential equations analytically usually requires advanced mathematical techniques and their clever application.

Function Explorer freely explore graphs of complex functions.

Symbolic algebra and Mathematics with Xcas.

Tulip is an information visualization framework dedicated to the analysis and visualization of relational data. Written in C++ the framework enables the development of algorithms, visual encodings, interaction techniques, data models, and domain-specific visualizations. One of the goal of Tulip is to ease the reuse of components and allows the developers to focus on programming their application. This development pipeline makes the framework efficient for research prototyping as well as the development of end-user applications.

Graph-tool is an efficient Python module for manipulation and statistical analysis of graphs (a.k.a. networks). Contrary to most other Python modules with similar functionality, the core data structures and algorithms are implemented in C++, making extensive use of template metaprogramming, based heavily on the Boost Graph Library. This confers it a level of performance that is comparable (both in memory usage and computation time) to that of a pure C/C++ library.

Gephi is a tool for data analysts and scientists keen to explore and understand graphs. Like Photoshop™ but for graph data, the user interacts with the representation, manipulate the structures, shapes and colors to reveal hidden patterns. The goal is to help data analysts to make hypothesis, intuitively discover patterns, isolate structure singularities or faults during data sourcing. It is a complementary tool to traditional statistics, as visual thinking with interactive interfaces is now recognized to facilitate reasoning. This is a software for Exploratory Data Analysis, a paradigm appeared in the Visual Analytics field of research.

Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. It has important applications in networking, bioinformatics, software engineering, database and web design, machine learning, and in visual interfaces for other technical domains.

The ADMB project supports the application of automatic differentiation (AD) for solutions to non-linear statistical modeling and optimization problems. AD Model Builder, or ADMB, is a statistical application that implements AD using C++ classes and a native template language. ADMB can be downloaded and source code is available on GitHub.

ROSSMANCHANCE INVESTIGATING STATISTICAL CONCEPTS, APPLICATIONS, AND METHODS Using simulation‐based inference for learning introductory statistics.

SimPy is a process-based discrete-event simulation framework based on standard Python. Processes in SimPy are defined by Python generator functions and can, for example, be used to model active components like customers, vehicles or agents. SimPy also provides various types of shared resources to model limited capacity congestion points (like servers, checkout counters and tunnels).

JOELib is a platform independent open source computational chemistry package written in Java.

LibreCAD is a free Open Source CAD application for Windows, Apple and Linux. Support and documentation are free from our large, dedicated community of users, contributors and developers.

FreeCAD, the open source 3D parametric modeler. 

Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline.

KiCad is an open source software suite for Electronic Design Automation (EDA). 

Fritzing is an open-source hardware initiative that makes electronics accessible as a creative material for anyone.

FlightPath is an open-source, web-based enterprise software application for academic support.

Opensource.com is a premier, daily publication focused on open source and Linux tutorials, stories, and resources.

FlightGear is an open-source flight simulator. 

Moodle is a free and open-source learning management system

Mendeley is a free reference manager that can help you store, organize, note, share and cite references and research data:


 * Automatically generate bibliographies
 * Collaborate easily with other researchers online
 * Easily import papers from other research software
 * Find relevant papers based on what you're reading
 * Access your papers from anywhere online

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.